Read who is responsible for the illegal negative robo calls against a fellow democrat. QCD Blog outed the culprits, Allentown Fair's resident cop, and Pawlowski's sidekick and perennial supporter, Rob Hopkins.

My response:
This is just another demonstration of the contempt Pawlowski and his machine have for the public.

Vote for Dick Nepon. That is one way to put an end to these guys that think they can control your city and your politics. You are being denied access to information and fed lies. If that is what you want, then vote for Pawlowski. He must be at the heart of this. Follow the money. Pawlowski is the only one who has any. Don't wait until it is too late, vote Pawlowski out tomorrow.

I have 'tickets' for the victory celebration, at Spooner's restaurant at 921 Hamilton Street. I believe it is somewhat insulting to be saying "here you are about to vote, and you don't know who to vote for" so I just want to invite people to the party.

You can hand these out before the election in your neighborhood, or hand them out at the place you vote. I have a list of places where the vote is high if you want to be somewhere else. Let me know where and when I can get you these 'tickets'. email me

The polls open Tuesday at 7 AM and close at 8 PM. Any time you can spend greeting people and handing out invitations is great.

I can get you an official poll watcher certificate which allows you to enter the polling place to inspect the voter record. It not only allows you to see how many people have voted, but it also allows you to go in and sit down, assist people with voter issues, and most important, it allows you to use the bathroom. It is also a neat memento. Let me know if you want one.

Also, of course, you are invited to the party. It begins when the polls close at 8, and will offer some snacks and coffee.

Thanks again for your help and support. It has been my pleasure meeting all of you. I look forward to the opportunity to serve you.

Crime down?

Do you know anyone, beside the Mayor, who feels that crime has decreased? Any police who believe it?

If the numbers have gone down it is because people have stopped reporting crime since it doesn't get addressed, or investigated or solved, unless it is high profile. All you get is a report number for your insurance carrier. As if everyone was insured.

I can guarantee you that the perception of crime has not decreased. Everywhere I go people are looking for help lowering the crime rate. The Mayor claims that there are no gangs, but is happy to get funds to combat them.

The other reason crime might be down is because people are scared to go out. Downtown is empty. Even Pawlowski says you need three elements to have crime, a victim, opportunity and a criminal. We have plenty of the later, but are lacking in the former. Perhaps that is the Pawlowski Plan - if every one moves out, the rate will go down some more.

Let me know if you think that the crime rate has decreased, and you feel safer this year than last year.

PAwlowski's most successful development

Why does Pawlowski keep asking for more money? His campaign fund is already his most successful economic development.

WFMZ will be a poor replacement for real news

After spending a lot of time attacking me for an old resume that I never used to get a job or to run for Mayor, WFMZ gave me very little coverage for my campaign announcement, and then stopped running it. They have yet to cover any of my charges about Pawlowski's misrepresentations as outlined on my FACEBOOK page and BLOG.

With the loss of real news coverage from The Morning Call, I was hoping that WFMZ might become a source for real journalism, but it appears to be only interested in 'gotchya' journalism.

There are real issues I have addressed, but the news has decided that you don't need to know them.

About my qualifications-What I wrote to Renshaw

Jarrett,

I believe in our discussion that you, not I, said I was not qualified. I disagreed, pointing to my ability to do the job. I said I was not experienced or trained for the job. I talked about how many people get jobs that they have no training for. Qualification is the ability to do the job. I was qualified, and in fact performed the job to such a high degree I was promoted and paid more. My qualifications were my experience with computers, with math, with real estate, and my ability to learn quickly.

Check your notes.

But otherwise, a nice piece.

Thanks

posted on Mcall's QCD-Thanks

You can say ANYTHING you want about Dick Nepon, but you CAN'T "knock" his tenacity and hustle. He is going against all odds and making situations work for him. If nothing else, he IS a role model for those who see a goal and REFUSE to let anyone tell them that they can't obtain it !

KEEP IT MOVIN', D. !


- J. BLACK

www.5minutes2shine.blogspot.com
Posted By: J. Black | May 12, 2009 4:48:21 PM

Kick-Off

View Mcall blog TAPE of my campaign kickoff.

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.

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.

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.

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.

New Sign on Hamilton

check out my new sign on Hamilton between Fifth & Sixth.