DEBATE SET IN THE 17TH
We got word from Congressman Matt Cartwright’s office that the one term incumbent will debate his Republican challenger Dr. David Moylan, the Schuylkill County Coroner, Cartwright had no opposition in the primary for the Democrats. Moylan fended off Matthew Dietz and Matthew Connonly in his effort. Moylan did very well in his home county and got just enough to edge out his two challengers.If one of those guys dropped out or moved to another office, Cartwright most likely would have had a different foe.
While Dietz and Connolly campaigned hard and were seen frequently in this area of the district, Moylan has been pretty much a mystery man to some folks in LuLac land.
But he has an interesting website dubbed Docmoylanforcongress and his slogan is “The Cure For the Congress”. While Cartwright has not shunned the Affordable Care Act altogether, Moylan says on his website that Obamacare is a double-barreled shotgun aimed at the heart of America: Not mincing any words there either.
Personally I have to give Cartwright credit because he has not run away from any of his challengers. Plus he has given them the dignity and respect they should get as candidates for this office. Cartwright serves on the House Committee on Natural Resources and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. In this debate, he will have on site experience in the Congress, something he didn’t have when he faced off against Laureen Cummings in 2012.
Since taking office, Cartwright has been a leader among his colleagues, introducing 43 pieces of legislation, being elected as a freshman class President and being named a “Moderate Democratic Leader” by the non-partisan watch-dog group, GovTrack.
The Cartwright campaign reports that a live debate will be held on Wednesday, October 29 at the WVIA Studios in Pittston Township, Luzerne County, and a second debate, which has yet to be scheduled, will be hosted by WLVT (PBS39) in Bethlehem, Northampton County.
The WVIA debates are always well run and organized. I’m thinking the second one will be too. October 29th might be a World Series night if the season goes that long but die hard politicos will be watching this.
The District, tailor made for 10 term incumbent Tim Holden who Cartwright beat in 2012 consists of Schuylkill County and portions of Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, and Northampton Counties.
Moylan appeared on the Public Access channel out of Hazleton SSPTV and I thought I’d put that video up.
BABY DIES IN CAR
Cooper and Justin Ross Harris. (Photo: HLN News).
We received a few posts on this story already and I was going to post it under the June 26th Edition. But when I reviewed the Dr. Moylan video I thought maybe we should just put the comments in this post. When host Sam Lasante asked Dr. Moylan why he is running for Congress Moylan talked about the sanctity of life. I get the belief that some people have. I am anti abortion but pro choice. I know that sounds like a conflict but it is not. But I digress.
Where I work, there is a huge common area for people to eat. A cafeteria if you will and toward the back of the room is a flat screen TV which usually has on the Headline News Channel. (HLN) Normally people just ignore it but the other day there was the story about the man, (and do I ever use that term loosely) who kept his baby in an SUV for 7 hours. The baby died. A few things here.
This happened in Georgia, one of the few Southern states which has seem to keep the moron quota down. But Justin Ross Harris left his 22 month old son in a hot car to die. He forgot about him. But he also went back to the car to retrieve something and still left the kid in the car. To die.
Wait, it gets better. At little 22 month old Cooper’s funeral, his wife Leanna took to the pulpit and said, 'Am I angry with Ross? Absolutely not. It never ever has crossed my mind. Ross is and always will be, if we have more children, a wonderful daddy, a wonderful leader for our children.'
She added: 'Cooper meant the world to him, there was not a day go by that we did not say how blessed we were to have him in our lives.” Maybe if the dumb ass husband remembered he had a child in the car, the child might have made it to kindergarten.
The crazy thing is this woman said she’d have kids with him again even though he searched on the internet how long it takes for an animal to die in a locked car in hot weather.
Sanctity of life is not just for the unborn, it is for the living children that sometimes have the unfortunate luck to be born to knuckleheads like this. Was this an accident? We’ll find out. But before we start worrying about what people do when they get pregnant and how they get pregnant and what type of birth control they use, let’s make sure dumbasses like this guy and his lovely “lady” don’t get their hands on live babies who are defenseless too.