Coatesville City Councilperson Ingrid Jones attended Southern Poverty Law Center event

Richard Cohen

Morris Dees

Morris Dees and Ingrid Jones

Ingrid Jones and Richard Cohen

Legree/Trowery “crime quilt” crumbling

The Legree/Trowery family is a big one. It can be traced back more than 100 years in Chester County. Most of those family members are law-abiding citizens. But they have a reputation for criminal activity in Chester County.

What I believe is the criminal part of the Legree/Trowerys may have reached a zenith when Richard Legree held his position as Chairman of the Chester County Republican Committee Area 14.

I think that when Richard lost his Republican Party support and tried to become a Democrat that “crime family” quilt began coming apart.

Some of the panels in the quilt aren’t named Trowery or Legree. 

It’s nice to have a DA that knows about quilting. I think more panels in that quilt will become undone.

 Coatesville man charged with drug, weapons offenses 

March 26, 2014 | 

Police say arrest followed execution of search warrant 

By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times

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 MONDAY, JULY 6, 2009
 There are two political entities in Coatesville; hint it’s not Democrats and Republicans

Will Barack Obama’s and the Catholic Church’s Consistent Life Ethic come together again?

Video below

We might find out on Thursday when Pope Francis and President Obama meet.

I walked down Race St. in Philly from St. Peter & Paul's Rectory to hear Daniel Berrigan speak at the Friends Meetinghouse with my friend  sculptor Jim Victor and Jim's friend Father John McNamee. It was 1966. The Vietnam War made the Quaker City a gathering place for peace activists and the Catholic Church in Philly was no small part of that activism.  Jim and me couldn't understand most of what Dan Berrigan said but Father John was visibly moved by his talk.

Later on when John McNamee chose a parish, instead of a parish in a Philly suburb he chose St. Malachys in North Philly. John McNamee became a foot soldier in the anti-poverty and social justice that came out of the Second Vatican Council. 

John wrote a book about his experience at St. Malachys called "Diary of a City Priest" it was made into a movie. 

John McNamee has a friend across the river in Camden, NJ. Rev. John Doyle pastor of Sacred Heart Church. Sacred Heart Church underwent a restoration.

Othmar Carli was one of my teacher’s at the York Academy of Arts. As a child in Nazi controlled Austria a teacher brought his class to a destroyed synagogue as a way of teaching “this is what happens to Jews”. Othmar’s life in restoring churches and other religious buildings began at that moment.

Mr. Carli is now a world class artist and restorer. I saw him again in Elizabethtown PA at the commemoration of a small art school he opened.  John McNamee’s friend, Father Michael Doyle spoke at that commemoration.

"Beauty saves humanity," Father Doyle said. "God didn't make an ugly weed - not even one. Everything that God made is beautiful. So beauty is necessary to the development of the human spirit. I wanted the walls, ceilings and stations to speak to people and comfort them, nourish them." 

FROM: 

Church's artwork restored to former glory At Camden's Sacred Heart, century-old works have been given back their luster, and new art is being added. 

By Edward Colimore INQUIRER STAFF WRITER 

POSTED: March 31, 2002

The separate lives of Father Mac, Mr. Carli, me and my friend Jim Victor were linked together. For me it completed a circle. 

I’m wondering if the Catholic Church can complete a circle and come back to the promise of a Consistent Life Ethic.

It seems like the Vatican’s ethic drifted away from the teachings of Pope John Paul II.
Maybe now it’s drifting back. I think that President Obama and Pope Francis are birds of a feather and they will have a great time.

The New York Times
Sunday, March 22, 2014

The Catholic Roots of Obama’s Activism

"CHICAGO — In a meeting room under Holy Name Cathedral, a rapt group of black Roman Catholics listened as Barack Obama, a 25-year-old community organizer, trained them to lobby their fellow delegates to a national congress in Washington on issues like empowering lay leaders and attracting more believers. 

“He so quickly got us,” said Andrew Lyke, a participant in the meeting who is now the director of the Chicago Archdiocese’s Office for Black Catholics. The group succeeded in inserting its priorities into the congress’s plan for churches, Mr. Lyke said, and “Barack Obama was key in helping us do that.” 

By the time of that session in the spring of 1987, Mr. Obama — himself not Catholic — was already well known in Chicago’s black Catholic circles. He had arrived two years earlier to fill an organizing position paid for by a church grant, and had spent his first months here surrounded by Catholic pastors and congregations. In this often overlooked period of the president’s life, he had a desk in a South Side parish and became steeped in the social justice wing of the church, which played a powerful role in his political formation. 

This Thursday, Mr. Obama will meet with Pope Francis at the Vatican after a three-decade divergence with the church. By the late 1980s, the Catholic hierarchy had taken a conservative turn that de-emphasized social engagement and elevated the culture wars that would eventually cast Mr. Obama as an abortion-supporting enemy. Mr. Obama, who went on to find his own faith with the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.’s Trinity United Church of Christ, drifted from his youthful, church-backed activism to become a pragmatic politician and the president with a terrorist “kill list.” The meeting this week is a potential point of confluence."

MORE AT:  

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/us/the-catholic-roots-of-obamas-activism.html 

Montana Tea Partiers could do time for falsifying information. In Chester County you can provide false information and take office.

On  FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2014 I wrote this blog post:

We have "decoys" in Chester County, but in Montana they are for real. I'm talking about politics not ducks. 

This SPLC "HATEWATCH" article is about Republicans masquerading as "Democrats".

Cowgirl Blog has an update:

Posted: March 14, 2014 at 8:05 am

PRISON COULD AWAIT TEA PARTIERS FOR THEIR DIRTY SCHEME

"I realized today that  the miscreants in Bozeman–the Tea Partiers who are pretending to be Democrats, and have filed for office as Democrats–could end up in the pokey, rather than in office.  As I reported earlier this week, they appear to have used falsified residence information on their election forms.  If so, it would mean that they have probably broken numerous laws relating to false swearing, false affidavits and deceptive election practices."

MORE AT:
 http://mtcowgirl.com/2014/03/14/prison-could-await-tea-partiers-for-their-dirty-scheme/

In Chester County prison isn't a consideration for falsifying residence information on election forms.  Here in Chester County it is a near impossibility to have someone removed from office because they provided false information considering residency.

There are and have been public officials in Coatesville serving in positions that require residency in Coatesville. They live somewhere else. I’m not considering the goofy residency requirement for Coatesville City Manager.

Residency requirements for public officials in Chester County are routinely ignored. Chester County appears to “Like” “nullification” but it’s just old-fashioned political corruption in Chester County.

It can be obvious that someone does not live where they are registered to vote. But right now the court cases concerning residency are decided like criminal cases. That is, proven not to live at an address 4 days a week beyond a shadow of doubt. For someone that contests residency it is an almost impossible burden to overcome in court. The “bad guys” are very well aware of this.

SEE:

MONDAY, JULY 20, 2009

Concerning the residency case in West Vincent Supervisor Barry DiLibero:
Married politicos share a residency problem

Published: Monday, July 20, 2009

SEE:

Judge rules again in West Vincent residency dispute
COURT WILL SEE EVIDENCE ABOUT TOWNSHIP SUPERVISOR'S ELIGIBILITY

By MICAHAEL P. RELLAHAN, Staff Writer

SEE:
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Did Modena’s former Mayor Theresa DiLibero ever live in Modena?
In the investigation of Barry DiLibero’s residency it was discovered that The DiLiberos never lived at 40 North Brandywine Avenue in Modena.