I believe an unlikely mix of alleged drug trafficking related politicos and alleged white nationalist related politicos united to elect the infamous “Bloc of Four” in the abysmal voter turnout election of 2005. During their four year term the drug business was good again and white nationalists used Coatesville as an example on white supremacist websites like “Stormfront”. Strong community organization and support from law enforcement, in particular Chester County District Attorney Joseph W. Carroll has begun to turn our community around. The Chester County drug trafficking that I believe centers on Coatesville continues and I believe we still have public officials in place that profit from the drug sales. But the people here are amazing and continue to work against the odds to make Coatesville a good place to live.
My tiny little Coatesville Dems Blog was viewed by people in former Soviet countries from about July to the day before November 8, 2016. From August through November 8 the views on my Coatesville Dems Blog nearly doubled because about 1/2 came from former Soviet countries.
If you are a federal government or state government elected or appointed official you are most likely under surveillance by people in former Soviet countries. So far, ONLY Democrats care about this because:
Trump
“IN A BETTER, imaginary world, there would be no need for Thursday’s Senate hearings into whether and how the Russian government meddled in the 2016 presidential election. Instead, a combined Justice Department and congressional investigation into the subject would have started last summer and could be wrapping up right about now.
This investigation would have been successfully carried out by the government’s normal mechanisms — because in this made up universe, politicians would care more about the country they live in than getting to the studio in time for their next appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight. For the same reason, they’d defy the instinctive secrecy of the intelligence world in order to declassify whatever evidence they uncovered so Americans could judge it for themselves.
Unfortunately, on this planet we’re on a trajectory to the worst possible outcome. It’s now easy to imagine a future in which Trump and Russia become the millennials’ equivalent of the John F. Kennedy assassination: A subject where no one can honestly be sure whether there was no conspiracy or a huge conspiracy, the underlying reality concealed by the thick murk of government secrecy, and progressives exhausting themselves for decades afterwards trying to prove what really happened.”
Democrat Deborah Bookman took campaign advice from Republican Linda Lavender Norris. No matter what the signs say Deborah Bookman is not on the May 16th ballot.
FROM:
May 16, 2017 Municipal Primary Election Candidate Report for Chester County, PA Updated 3/23/2017
Linda Lavender Norris appears to be above the law, or the laws she can quietly get away with breaking. Maybe she relies on her boss PA State Representative Tim Hennessey to fix things.
Apparently stuff like traffic tickets, no problem:
How can it be that several years of Magisterial District Courts Docket Sheets misdemeanor unpaid parking tickets disappear from the The Unified JUDICIAL SYSTEM of PENNSYLVANIa WEB PORTAL? They're not expunged, their just parking tickets. And they disappeared at the Commonwealth level not the Chester County level.
But I think Linda Lavender Norris, then Linda Lavender stretched it a bit when she tried to run for District Magistrate Court:
Republicans in general believe they can break campaign laws and get away with it. Linda Lavender Norris’ campaigns are an example of an astounding disregard of campaign laws.
It's illegal to run for Pennsylvania Magistrate Judge and simultaneously work for a Pennsylvania Legislator. But some people try anyway. You would think they would stop after it's pointed out to them in a Common Pleas Courtroom:
I took notes:
It came up in Judge Ott’s courtroom on Friday March 20, 2009. Lavender has been working as Hennessey’s Legislative Aid and running for Magistrate District Justice. She made the claim to Judge Ott that she is employed by the House Republican Caucus and not Tim Hennessey. Judge Ott quizzed her further and asked what it says at the top of her paycheck. Linda Lavender replied, "Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”. Lavender stated that Tim Hennessey told her that she could run and work as a legislative aid at the same time. She told Judge Ott that Rep. Tim Hennessey would write a letter explaining it to Judge Ott. Judge Ott said that she would like to see that letter."
Magistrate Judge Robert Davis’ campaign is another example of how to run a political campaign and break laws.
Robert Davis was the Minister of the Hutchinson Church on Chestnut St. in Coatesville. He used the Hutchinson Church as his campaign headquarters. The Hutchinson Church suddenly dropped Judge Davis as their minister because they came very close to losing their tax free status. That’s not widely known, you have to ask.
Republican State Representative Harry Lewis 74th District may have come the closest to having his election win overturned.
Democrats for Harry Lewis signs only appeared
within Coatesville City Limits.
See the handwritten "Paid for by the Committee
to Elect Harry Lewis'" at the top of this handout.
Rep. Harry Lewis compounded confusion over which political party he belonged to among voters with his Democrats for Harry Lewis signs that only appeared inside of the Coatesville City Limits. I believe that deception and failure to put “Paid for by Friends of Harry Lewis” is what made Robert Brooks so very, very nervous.
If a Democrat did what the Harry Lewis Campaign did there would almost certainly be a trial and maybe the election result overturned. The point is that Democrats are held to a higher legal standard during elections in Chester County, PA than Republicans are.
Coatesville Democrats taking campaign advice in this primary election from a Coatesville Republican could possibly get them knocked off of the November ballots.
I think stuff like this is the best reason to dump all use of oil and gas in favor of wind and solar power, regardless of global warming. But if you country’s biggest industries are oil and arms… i guess how much you are into genocide is the deciding factor.
"JS: Iona, I wanted to ask you — I think a lot of people don’t understand why the United States would be supporting what amounts to the utter decimation of Yemen in this merciless, kind of scorched earth, Saudi campaign — and also the reality, as you were describing: That the United States in several concrete ways is finding itself on the side of al Qaeda in Yemen, and simultaneously, trying to kill al Qaeda in Yemen. But what does the U.S. want out of this? Like, why support the just utter pummeling of Yemen?
IC: Well, it’s good business. In the first year of the war, the U.S. sold 20 billion dollars worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, and Saudi Arabia has been buying more and more weapons as a result of this war. And the same goes for the British government as well. This is ultimately about money, really. And Saudi being an ally is obviously important, and it, you know, plays into this regional conflict that we’re already talking about between Saudi Arabia and Iran because the Saudis see the Houthis as an Iranian proxy. But really, it all boils down to financial gain. And that’s the greatest win, really, for the U.S. But it’s an extremely costly one, obviously, for the civilian population of Yemen. You’ve got 20 million people out of a population of 25 million in need of humanitarian aid now. It’s the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world. Because of the blockade that has been put on the country by the Saudi-led coalition, the country can’t import its food, and it relies on — 90 percent of its food comes from imports. At the same time, the Houthis have also been blocking access to food and to aid on the ground as well, so the two worst areas affected in Yemen by this looming famine are actually on both sides of the frontlines. So the civilians on both sides are getting completely screwed.
But yeah, at this rate, the U.S. is liable to be owning a famine in Yemen, and along with the rest of the international community, as long as they keep supplying Saudi Arabia with not just the weapons as well, but the U.S. is obviously, you know, heavily involved in the refueling of aircraft, which are carrying out all of these air raids in Yemen. And certainly, without doing that, without the logistical support, if the Americans stopped doing that today, that refueling, the Saudis would have to stop bombing tomorrow, quite literally. So they have a huge influence over what Saudi Arabia is doing in Yemen. But yeah, it all comes down to big business in the end.”
The Chester County Republican Committee moves farther right wing by the minute. Yet local Republican elected officials continue beating the long dead Moderate Eisenhower Republican horse. I find it astounding that sensible Republicans cling to a GOP that becomes more and more like a Nazi Party. An internet driven Nazi Party named Alt-Right to trick people who are not internet savvy.
“I guess I forgot to apologize for saying ‘Hail Trump! Hail Our People! Hail Victory!’ and offending some people,” Spencer wrote on Twitter. “My bad.”
The founder of Fred Malik was previously best known for to compiling a list of all the Jews who worked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics for President Richard Nixon:
As I stated previously my Coatesville Dems Blog audience included a handful of views a month from Russia over the years. I thought the Russian audience was connected to white nationalists here in the United States.
Sometime after the presidential primaries were over the Russian audience on Coatesville Dems Blog picked up. By the end of August, Russia, which on the Google stats map includes all of the former Soviet Union, was one half of the audience of my blog.
“The countries where my blog is viewed are under "Audience" in Google Stats. For about 3 months it would be something like, 1636 page views per week - United States and 1600 page views for Ukraine and Russia. The other countries would make up about 100 page views. The page views for Ukraine and Russia dropped like a switch was thrown a few weeks before the election. I’m not sure when the Eastern Bloc stuff began.”
I conclude that whomever was looking at my blog from Russia was uninterested in the Democratic Primary but exceedingly interested in the Clinton/Trump race.
It appears that the FBI investigations into the 2016 elections are divided into 2 separate investigations.
Clinton emails during the primary with Bernie Sanders.
Social media bots from sources in Russia that spread damaging information, sometimes totally false, sometimes partly true that came after the primary elections were over. And connections between Trump and Russia.
U.S. based Alt-Right computer nerds were generating their own anti-Clinton pro-Trump bots but may have had assistance from Russians.
4chan’s Pepe the Frog meme was wildly popular among ‘normies’—until white nationalists decorated him with swastikas and gave him a Trump button.
Olivia Nuzzi
05.26.16 1:00 AM ET
Since any middle school kid with computer skills could have hacked the wide open to anyone server in the Clinton's home, the only FBI investigation of significance is the Russian social media bots investigation and connections between Russia and the Trump administration.
Mr. Comey described, in fairly blistering terms, a set of email practices that left Mrs. Clinton’s systems wide open to Russian and Chinese hackers, and an array of others. She had no full-time cybersecurity professional monitoring her system. She took her BlackBerry everywhere she went, “sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.” Her use of “a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent.”
Apparently the FBI investigation is not a criminal investigation but is an investigation into the techniques used by the social media bot creators in Russia to prevent future Russian attacks using social media bots. As always if any information of criminal activity shows up the FBI will pursue a criminal investigation.
“That includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts, As with any counterintelligence investigation it will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed.“
YOUTUBE
FBI Director James Comey Full Opening Statement (C-SPAN)
"Howard said that, as an example, bots had spread links to fictional stories that accused Clinton of involvement in running a child-sex ring in the basement of a Washington pizza parlor. The posts inspired a North Carolina man to drive to Washington and fire an assault weapon in the restaurant, according to police reports."
Ok, so Howard hints that the Pizzagate story might have been propagated by Russian bots. Perhaps, but I think that people actually believed it to be true is more significant than if the Russians might have helped to distribute the Pizzagate story.
AND NOW THERE'S THIS:
"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests.
Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse."
The FBI should be looking into Russia using social media. Russia could use social media in the local and state elections coming up. And It seems that there are strong links between Russia and the Trump Administration. Did Russia help Trump win the election? Since Clinton was the most disliked and hated presidential candidate in recent years, the answer is a loud and clear NO.
Hillary Clinton lost to a carnival barker TV clown who built casino hotels with his Russian Mayfia business partners. Republicans didn't win the 2016 elections, Democrats lost them. Democrats lost nearly all the 2016 elections, federal, state and local. Under the leadership of the Clintons the Democratic Party in the states and in Washington is a minority party with 25% of voters nationwide.
On Bill Maher Real Time Show and on the Overtime Show here. The 2010 presidential election was discussed. They said Democrats need a charismatic candidate. During the entire shows the words Bernie Sanders never came up. Here Barney Frank basically says all that Democrats need to do is go to sleep and when they wake up Trump and the Republicans will have imploded.
Russia Investigation, Dodd-Frank, 2020 Candidates, SCOTUS | Overtime with Bill Maher
"The Soloist" will be on HBO a while longer. You can always get it from the library.
A minister friend of ours, Dr. John Shetler and his wife had heart breaking experiences with a daughter who struggled with schizophrenia.
We knew people with the disease, their lives destroyed by it. A pretty young woman who we know was seeing some apparition when she looked at the floor. Meeting a once productive man from West Mt. Airy on the street, a barely recognizable remnant of his former self.
The healing power of music. Sitting 10 rows back from the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music. The floor the skin of a drum that sounded a low G resonating through your soul. Transported to a spiritual place.
I looked forward to reading Steve Lopez' column from back when the Philly Inquirer had a staff.
“I am not going to defend Donald Trump—not now, not in the future,” Ryan says in the audio, obtained by Breitbart News and published here for the first time ever...
Now, on top of all of this, this new audio file raises questions as to how loyal Ryan is to Trump politically—and is asking the new president to use precious political capital to push through legislation that seems arithmetically destined for congressional failure. That could doom or at least dampen other key elements of the Trump agenda, like tax reform, immigration reform, national security efforts, budgetary reforms, building up of the U.S. military, trade renegotiation and more.
As such, as Breitbart News has previously reported, there are now rumblings among House Republicans that they may want a replacement not just of Obamacare but a replacement of Paul Ryan as Speaker. A new Speaker, some argue, would make life much easier for President Trump as he moves forward with his agenda. So the argument goes, as some House GOP members have told Breitbart News, is that if healthcare is this rocky then tax reform, immigration, trade policy and other key Trump agenda items will be worse."
Legislation advanced by the GOP included bills to terminate the EPA, repeal the Affordable Care Act, defund Planned Parenthood, and criminalize certain types of abortion.
AND THIS:
The Intercept
"When Republican Congressman John Shimkus expressed outrage during a House committee hearing Wednesday 'about men having to purchase prenatal care' in their health insurance — the video clip of which caught fire on social media as an example of misogyny and cluelessness — he wasn’t going rogue. He was just getting ahead of party leaders, who haven’t publicly announced their next steps quite yet.
In a conference call with GOP allies on Thursday, however, House Republican Conference chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers outlined the party’s “three-phase approach” to repealing the Affordable Care Act and suggested that the Essential Benefits Package, a provision of the law with sweeping consumer protections, could soon be on the chopping block. The benefits package, a core provision of the ACA, requires qualifying health insurance plans to cover a set of medical treatments, including pregnancy-related medical care."
People, voters, care about national parks, clean water, education, clean air, affordable health care, belonging to a union and women's rights. They might not care about Russia helping out Trump. Republicans are taking away those things. Democrats and the press were entranced by the bright, shinyRussian object that Trump dangled in front of them.
Steve Bannon,Michael Anton & Adolf Eichmann look alike and man who says, "The powers of our president are very substantial and will not be questioned!"; Stephen Miller.
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"As a member of the Duke Conservative Union, Miller worked closely with Richard Spencer, a Ph.D. student who would later coin the term "alt-right" and become a leading white nationalist. Spencer told me that at Duke, Miller helped him with fundraising and promotion for an on-campus debate on immigration policy that Spencer organized in 2007, featuring influential white nationalist Peter Brimelow. Miller vehemently denied to me that he had any connection to Spencer or his ideas, but another former member of the Duke Conservative Union confirmed to me that Miller and Spencer worked together on the Brimelow event. And at DCU meetings, according to another past member of the group, Miller denounced multiculturalism and expressed concerns that immigrants from non-European countries were not assimilating."
In January Ms. Hunt was elected
President of Coatesville City Council. Ms. Jones was elected Vice President of
Coatesville City Council. Allegedly acting on hearsay information by way of Coatesville City Councilperson Linda Lavender Norris, Ms. Jones was removed as Vice President of Coatesville City Council.
From Ingrid W. Jones
"On February 27, 2017 Coatesville
City Council meeting was held at Coatesville City Hall.
At item #3 Additions, Deletions and
Modifications. Council Member Joseph Hamrick (A Democrat and Member at Large)
interrupted and addressed “Madame President” I’d like to make a motion to
remove Ms. Jones as Vice President.
That motion was quickly 2nd by
Linda Lavender Norris (a Republican and former Council President) employee of
State Rep. Tim Hennessey and representative of the 5th Ward.
The four votes having passed, Mr.
Hamrick then nominated former vice president Lawson back to that position
needless to say but quickly again Linda Lavender Norris 2nd that nomination and
the two others voted quickly in favor of that stunning motion…
Seats and nameplates were rushingly
and anxiously exchanged by Marie Lawson and I was doomed to sit in the chair
between Carmen Green and Linda Lavender Norris for the rest of the meeting.
(It) was like a “horror show” with attacks on City Manager Mike Trio, who was
at the Natural Lands Trust meeting, by Carmen Green and Linda Lavender Norris.
At the historical presentation:
During my own historical
presentation near the end Lavender Norris interrupted and said that what I was
talking about wasn’t necessary." (I believe Ms. Norris is referencing the dispute over continuing Black History as a separate history *). "I politely and intelligently corrected her
about congress giving us the month of February and went on with my presentation
and received a standing ovation…
Three remaining council members
Arvilla Hunt a Democrat and President of council representing the 3rd Ward as
well as Republican Ed Simpson representing the 1st. Ward and myself, went into
our investigative mode to look for facts, information, results and rationale.
Mr. Ed Simpson called Mr. Joe Hamrick (man to man) and was told Carmen Green
came to him saying that Mrs. Jones caused an embarrassment, ruckus, created a
disturbance, at the Natural Lands trust meeting…
Carmen Green was not present at
that meeting, only Linda Lavender Norris, City Manager Trio and myself Ingrid
Jones.
So “hearsay” is the basis for this
trouble.
After Ms. Hunt became aware of the
accusations she called Ann Hutchinson of Natural Lands Trust regarding the
February 16. 2017 meeting, she was told by Ann that there was no such action on
behalf of Ms. Jones and that the meeting was very productive with Lavender
Norris and Ms. Jones stating their opinion concerning the Palmer Park Pool. She
stated there was no confusion and did not any way cause embarrassment/nor any
hold up in progress for the city."
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*There is a dispute over
whether Black History needs to be taught. Watch as President Obama discusses
race relations in the US.
"There's a second threat to our democracy - one as old as our nation itself. After my election, there was talk of a post-racial America. Such a vision, however well-intended, was never realistic. For race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society. I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were ten, or twenty, or thirty years ago - you can see it not just in statistics, but in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum."
Richard Legree coined the phrase "Ingrid
Jones is not Black enough."
Ingrid Jones ran for the Magisterial
District Court in Coatesvilleseveral times.
Richard Legree knew he wouldn't be able to
control her as he controlled other Magistrate Court judges in and near
Coatesville. Richard desperately did not want Ingrid to be a judge.
Richard didn't like Judge Bicking.
Coatesville Magisterial Judge BRENDA J. BICKING
threw him out of her courtroom. Richard allegedly claimed that he can stand
next to a magistrate and offer "advice" because he is the "chief
constable"; a non-existent position.
I witnessed Richard doing just that at a hearing
in Judge Davis's court in Coatesville. Just before a defendant appeared before
the court Richard stood next to Judge Davis and discussed something. Judge
Davis didn't use a microphone. I believe that in effect Richard not the judge
decided the outcomes of many hearings. There are more ways of making money from
illegal drugs than selling them.
Legree bought the house that the Judge Bicking rented
and had her evicted.
Richard Legree's cousin, Ronny Suber’s truck is parked
at his sister’s shopping center in Coatesville, PA.
Ingrid didn't consider running for Coatesville
City Council until then District Attorney Joe Carroll asked her to run. Ingrid
has many friends among various law enforcement officers.
When Ingrid and me went to the U.S. District
Court in Philadelphia to witness a hearing for Richard Legree Jr. the people at
the front desk knew Ingrid. After the hearing we visited with Ingrid's friend,
United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Gary Shovlin.
Gary gave us a short tour of his office.
Gary E. Shovlin
is now an executive administrator at the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
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I think that because of her many contacts among
law enforcement officers and a more detailed knowledge of the law that many
attorneys coming to the Coatesville City Council some people are afraid of
Ingrid and don't want her in Coatesville City Council executive session
meetings.
Ann Hutchinson AICPSenior Director, Municipal Planning
610-353-5587 x230
ahutchinson@natlands.org
As Senior Director of Municipal Conservation Services, Ann works with municipal officials and planners in developing ordinances and subdivision plans that enable communities to conserve their open space and natural resources as part of the development process.
Before working for Natural Lands Trust, Ann was the planning and community development director in Lower Merion Township, a lively first-ring suburb of Philadelphia.
Ann’s favorite place to spend time outdoors is on the beach in Maine. Ann earned a B.A. in English Literature from Northwestern University and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the State University of New York, Syracuse. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
