PRESIDENT TRUMP PACKS THEM IN
Say what you want about him, (and I have!) but President Trump can bring a crowd to its feet. More than 11,000 people showed up at the Mohegan Sun Arena tonight to see the President go through an almost hour and a half speech.
Here's a photo from Doug Miller of Trump watching as Lou Barletta gave his speech.
Sue Henry took this photo.
Both Henry and Kathleen Smith made Fox News coverage of the event.
TRUMP RALLY MAKES NATIONAL NEWS
Donald Trump came to Wilkes Barre and as I predicted on TV earlier in the afternoon, spoke his greatest hits. Immigration, terrorism, the wall and of course fake news. Of course when he attacked news organizations, some of the lemmings of Luzerne County jumped right on board. Like good little toadies, some booed on cue. Ironic for a region that has been blessed with more forms of media (since the inception of both radio and TV) than the size of this region deserves. Here's a link to the AP where some us of looked like morons again.
https://www.apnews.com/e22532b2312547a2a1aa3fef5d1fa995/Trump-trashes-media-as-'fake,-fake-disgusting-news'-at-rally?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=AP_Politics&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
SCOTT WAGNER COMES TO TOWN
Republican candidate for Governor Scott Wagner was hosted by the Fighting' 120th District yesterday. It was an intimate get together where Wagner met with prospective candidates and political heavy weights shortly before the Trump/Barletta rally. Here are a few photos.
Wagner came with cut outs of himself at Mariancci's Restaurant in West Wyoming. You can bet they will be strategically placed during the campaign. Here is political icon Pat Salano with Wagner and his stand ins.
GOP candidate for State Representative in the 119th also got in on the action. Here's Justin Berhens with Wagner.
Was Sue Henry seeing double here? Nope, just attending and taking a break from her relentless campaign for State Representative.
Here are P.J. Pribula, his wife Lisa and Wagner at the event. (Photos: Facebook)
TONY AND ERIKA
Having transferred to a new job and department, (dealing with what all that entails) I was pretty much unaware of the controversy regarding a remark made by Tony Brooks, Chairman of Wilkes Barre City Council to a woman associated with the NAACP at an event in June. It was a comment about tanning, and from what Tony Brooks said was not intended to harm.
This is awkward for me because I have had dealings with both parties. I have watched Tony Brooks give his heart and soul to the City of Wilkes Barre. I’ll bet dollars to donuts that the event he made the comment at was not attended by many other city officials.
As a member of the NAACP and my interactions with my blogsite, I have had nothing but cooperation and professionalism with Erika Petrole, the woman identified in the newspaper as the person Tony offended. She accepted his apology. But the original comment did not set well.
So she decided to go public, (without consulting the local President of the NAACP Chapter according to the papers) after speaking with a friend afterwards about her feelings.
Petrole said she wanted guidelines for how all elected city officials should speak in public. I get the intent but the application of that is not practical. As a person who has followed Wilkes Barre politics since I was 12, covered City Council meetings for radio stations in the 70s and even played in the City Softball League in the 80s, Brooks’ comment was innocuous compared to what I heard through the years. That said, Petrole is entitled to her feelings.
Brooks apologized. How much more can he do? Petrole makes a good point that all of us should be mindful of what we say, even in a clumsy manner .
I agree there should be an ongoing conversation about race. But it should begin about people flying Confederate Flags on their front porches, those who decorate their Ford 150s with a license plate of the old south and citizens who are blatantly racist.
God knows there are enough of them around here who need that conversation but Tony Brooks isn’t one of them.
Tony and Erika…..love ya both. Let’s get on with what you both are working so hard for in your respective positions to achieve…a better life for ALL!
CASEY SNUBBED
The White House may well be the people's house, but on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., apparently fell victim to a bit of good, old-fashioned election year politics.
At least that's what some close to the Scranton Democrat are claiming after Pennsylvania's senior United States senator was apparently left off the invite list for White House signing ceremony for a bill reauthorizing a critical career and technical education program.
Casey was the lead Senate sponsor of to the first update to the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act since 2006, his office said. The reauthorized bill was the product of years of bipartisan negotiations between Casey, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., and Senate Education Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.
According to an official White House schedule, Trump was set to sign the revamped "The Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act," during an 11:15 a.m. event in the Oval Office
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