Tuesday, May 12, 2009
notes on Antioch
I have not used the noted résumé to get any job; I did not use it to promote my candidacy for Mayor. It is an old résumé brought up as misdirection, in order to not discuss issues important to the well being of Allentown. I answered this charge months ago. It would be more appropriate to report on the many campaign issues I have addressed on my Facebook page, my Blog, or my FAQ.
I am proud of my association with Antioch-Columbia, and the education I received there. It is worth no less to me because I didn’t pay for the paper.
I am proud of my association with Antioch-Columbia, and the education I received there. It is worth no less to me because I didn’t pay for the paper.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Campaign Kick-Off
Come out to Hamilton Street tomorrow, between 5th & 6th, at 1:30m PM to hear me announce the official beginning of my campaign for Mayor.
pawlowski's latest stretch
According to his latest email, looking for volunteers, and even more cash donations, Pawlowski states:
"We've Come a Long Way Since I Came Into Office
• Taking our budget out of the red
• Rebuilding our police department, and
• Focusing on bringing new business and more
jobs into our city"
• Well he is right, we have come a long way, but in the wrong direction.
• How he can continue to proclaim that the budget is out of the red, and declare an ever growing surplus in the face of factual reporting by The Morning Call is beyond understanding. We have a large deficit, and a tremendous debt load from borrowing. We are not out of the red in an operational, cash flow sense, or any other sense.
• Our police department is being rebuilt at a snail's pace, and perhaps in the wrong direction. His latest call for volunteers to man the monitors for the cameras is a shining example. Crime spreading to all areas of the city, Graffiti, garbage in the streets, are all evidence of a lack of police presence. When you call to report a crime, all you get is a report number for your insurance company, no effort to investigate or solve the crime.
• bringing new business int0 the city has not been a success, judging by the failures, as well as the old established businesses he has chased away from the City. He counts jobs moved from one side of the city to another as new jobs (PennDOT, for example) while not counting the lost jobs. A strong community is needed to support business and industry. He has neglected the community in favor of business, giving away our money and property to his friends and political supporters. Even then, they have a tendency to leave town when the money trough runs dry (Johhny Manỹanas, for example). Downtown is arguably worse now then when he took office, or when he took over as Community and Economic Development director.
"We've Come a Long Way Since I Came Into Office
• Taking our budget out of the red
• Rebuilding our police department, and
• Focusing on bringing new business and more
jobs into our city"
• Well he is right, we have come a long way, but in the wrong direction.
• How he can continue to proclaim that the budget is out of the red, and declare an ever growing surplus in the face of factual reporting by The Morning Call is beyond understanding. We have a large deficit, and a tremendous debt load from borrowing. We are not out of the red in an operational, cash flow sense, or any other sense.
• Our police department is being rebuilt at a snail's pace, and perhaps in the wrong direction. His latest call for volunteers to man the monitors for the cameras is a shining example. Crime spreading to all areas of the city, Graffiti, garbage in the streets, are all evidence of a lack of police presence. When you call to report a crime, all you get is a report number for your insurance company, no effort to investigate or solve the crime.
• bringing new business int0 the city has not been a success, judging by the failures, as well as the old established businesses he has chased away from the City. He counts jobs moved from one side of the city to another as new jobs (PennDOT, for example) while not counting the lost jobs. A strong community is needed to support business and industry. He has neglected the community in favor of business, giving away our money and property to his friends and political supporters. Even then, they have a tendency to leave town when the money trough runs dry (Johhny Manỹanas, for example). Downtown is arguably worse now then when he took office, or when he took over as Community and Economic Development director.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Is the Chamber protecting Pawlowski?
I just heard that the Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a City Council debate to be held at Symphony Hall. They are not including a Mayoral debate, I assume because the Mayor knows he would come out on the losing end. It is no secret that the Chamber prefers Pawlowski's big business approach to contract making, but I think maybe this is going too far. As a non profit, I would expect that the Chamber needs to stay away from backing a candidate, or even appearing to favor one. Beside one of their employees being a council candidate, it seems clear to me that they are leaving the Mayoral debate out because it would make their preferred candidate, Pawlowski, look bad. He has been spreading untruths and spin, and does not want to be called on it, so he wants to avoid a debate. Write to the chamber, call Symphony Hall @ 610-432-6715, and write to the newspaper and demand that they schedule a mayoral debate.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
The cash crunch is over
According to Pawlowski, speaking last night to a crowd of constituents there to support Julio Guridy for City Council, the City currently has a $14 million dollar surplus. So, I guess the Blue Ribbon Committee can stop meeting, and we will probably have a tax refund promised before the election.
Can you believe this guy? He brags about a $5 million dollar surplus (funded by borrowing), at a state of the city meeting at Brew Works, then gets called out by the now decrepit Morning Call, and has to admit a $6 million dollar deficit. He forms a Blue Ribbon committee to ponder the problem in secret and report back after the Primary, then has the gall to proclaim an even larger surplus.
He believes his own hype, I guess, but we are not so easily fooled. It is not true just because he says it. We are not so gullible. He is still trying desperately to raise money by selling off City assets; a short term solution that leads to long term problems.
Pawlowski has not yet suggested a plan to bring Allentown back to an equitable state. He prefers to hire consultants and form committees to ponder and report back what they are told to report. There has not been an objective report from the City yet.
You have to admit you have a problem before you can solve it. Pawlowski is still in denial.
By the way, this proclamation of a massive surplus was taped. I am still trying to get a copy of it.
The only surplus is a result of Pawlowski's most successful economic development, his campaign fund.
Can you believe this guy? He brags about a $5 million dollar surplus (funded by borrowing), at a state of the city meeting at Brew Works, then gets called out by the now decrepit Morning Call, and has to admit a $6 million dollar deficit. He forms a Blue Ribbon committee to ponder the problem in secret and report back after the Primary, then has the gall to proclaim an even larger surplus.
He believes his own hype, I guess, but we are not so easily fooled. It is not true just because he says it. We are not so gullible. He is still trying desperately to raise money by selling off City assets; a short term solution that leads to long term problems.
Pawlowski has not yet suggested a plan to bring Allentown back to an equitable state. He prefers to hire consultants and form committees to ponder and report back what they are told to report. There has not been an objective report from the City yet.
You have to admit you have a problem before you can solve it. Pawlowski is still in denial.
By the way, this proclamation of a massive surplus was taped. I am still trying to get a copy of it.
The only surplus is a result of Pawlowski's most successful economic development, his campaign fund.
Friday, May 1, 2009
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