A few years ago Joe Carroll had his door open to his house on 8th Avenue in Coatesville to anyone who wanted to talk to him. The hardest part of these meetings was listening to the anguish of the family members of murder victims. The violence of that moment was relived by those people. They were living victims of murder.
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Monday, February 25, 2013
FOUR ARTICLES-PUT TOGETHER THEY CAPTURE THE CITY OF COATESVILLE’S POINT IN TIME
Bunny Welsh, former Chester County Sheriff, set up a Republican table inside the vestibule at the school, and all voters had to pass through that vestibule and table en route to voting, said Wayne Braffman, with the Chester County Democratic Party.
Welsh staffed the table from 6:15 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. while interacting with voters, Braffman said, adding she rarely wore a mask.
Welsh has since tested positive for coronavirus and is being treated at Chester County Hospital.”
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Pennsbury voters urged to get tested for coronavirus
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It gets much worse. Some of those "50,000 Republican volunteers" could be armed former police and sheriffs:
In 1981, New Jersey Republicans hired county deputy sheriffs and local police outfitted with revolvers, two-way radios and armbands reading, “National Ballot Security Task Force” to patrol majority Black and Latinx precincts in the state. A New Jersey voter who was turned away from a polling place by a task force member sued, resulting in a 1982 consent decree barring the party from intimidating voters of color and deputizing off-duty police as poll watchers.
The 2020 presidential election will be the first in nearly 40 years when the Republican National Committee (RNC) won’t be bound by the terms of the 1982 decree. The RNC already is spending millions on a renewed voter suppression scheme involving thousands of poll observers targeting predominantly Black precincts in Philadelphia, for instance, where the Trump campaign is legally challenging not only the state’s mail-in ballot procedures but also a state statute that places limits on who may serve as a poll watcher.
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Trump’s Federal Police Surge Could Provoke an Election Day Constitutional Crisis
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“ CSPOA Board of Directors
Sheriffs Dean Wilson CA, John D’Agostini CA, Jon Bruce CO, Brad Rogers IN, Chuck Korzenborn KY, Donnie Smith ME, Billy McGee MS, Christopher Conley NH, Tony Demeo NV, Glenn Palmer OR, Bunny Welsh PA, David Medlin TX, Mark Gower UT, County Commissioner Cornel Rasor, ID, Chief of Police Robert Douglas FL.”
" John Fetterman
I’ve never had to kind of quote unquote “evolve” on any of my positions in that sense. You know, I was always for the $15 an hour minimum wage. I was always for marijuana legalization. Before I took over, marijuana in Pennsylvania was unheard of, this idea. And now, a majority of our state supports it, and New Jersey just legalized it. 40% of our population will be next door to a veritable candy land of legal weed. And why wouldn’t we in Pennsylvania want to capitalize on that? I risked criminal charges performing the first same sex wedding as an elected official in Pennsylvania. I championed the marginalized and police community relations — all of these things, and the party has kind of consistently moved more towards those viewpoints as opposed to gotten more conservative.
John Fetterman
"What I think I am is just somebody that sat in front of a laptop for a week making the arguments that needed to be heard, that vote by mail in Pennsylvania is 100% safe, it’s 100% secure. And it’s going to be true, and that all proved to be accurate. But I also said that we need to watch out, because Trump is going to be popular here. He is doing things that were unprecedented in Pennsylvania’s recent political history, and you can’t poll for that. And it turned out that that was accurate."
John Fetterman
And I said, the president’s team is dicking around with fracking as a wedge issue, when no one cares about it right now with the pandemic and everything going. And they’re leaving alone the bazooka of legal weed. And that would have been a supernova of publicity, of good policy. I mean, at the end of the day, you’re going to be talking about 200,000 odd votes spread over a couple of states made the difference. And if you don’t think legal weed is worth many multiples of that in terms of votes and engagement, you’re mistaken."
I believe President Trump didn't legalize weed because he's racist. Marijuana is used to re-slave Black men in for profit prisons. - James Pitcherella
"John Fetterman
He came to a town called Monesson, which is very much like Braddock. And it’s just further down the Monongahela River. And he came there in June of ‘16. And I was struck by this idea, like, why would he come to Monesson? And I said, either he’s crazy, or they’ve figured out something that we don’t know. And the latter was right — is this outreach to these marginalized places. And it turns out that that message and that presence resonated. And ultimately, as we know, he carried Pennsylvania by a slim margin. Even though I am vehemently opposed to much, if not most, if not all of Mr. Trump’s policies, you have to admire that ability to weaponize that kind of just as a political practitioner, that level of savvy. And I immediately started to warn people that it’s starting to really stick and it’s really starting to grow and put down roots.
Kara Swisher
Well, that’s one of the messages that you have a lot is this idea of powerlessness — the powerlessness of a lot of people who have been abandoned feel, and tapping into that idea, whether it’s in a hopeful way or a fearful way.
John Fetterman
Yeah, absolutely. And when you show up and you’re running for president and you promise things, you articulate a vision, just the act of showing up, it’s like, wait, Donald Trump came to Monesson? No one listens to me. Or we lost our last fill in the blank 15 years ago, but here he is? So it’s very powerful. And I think it’s unconscionable to do that to people knowing that you have no intention of actually trying to help. But that it was effective is, I think at this point, beyond question.
John Fetterman
I want to clear that up. I’m not pro-fracking. I signed that no fossil fuel pledge before the cool kids were doing it back in 2015. I don’t take money from any industry, because I would never want anyone to accuse me of having my judgment clouded by an industry paycheck. I just would never do that. And I won’t take marijuana money either when I run, simply because money does have a corrupting influence. And I want you to trust what I have to say. But this idea — I believe we can’t all work at Google or in Pittsburgh, Duolingo. I’m a 51-year-old man, and I would not respond well if someone who didn’t live in my district or live in my state said, hey, John, go learn how to code.
So I would never say that to anybody. And the fact that we still need to be a manufacturing powerhouse is something that I believe in.
Kara Swisher
So how do you reconcile those differences? Or do they need to be — because —
John Fetterman
They don’t need to be —
Kara Swisher
This is the Democratic party versus the Republican lockstep.
John Fetterman
Yeah. That’s one thing that the Republicans have always done well. They fall in line when they need to. And we could learn something in terms of that. But now is not the time to train fire on each other as a Democrat. And one of the things about Pennsylvania that reminds me of the nation is that you can be in Center City Philadelphia and have a very distinct and justifiable world view. And you can be standing in Cameron County in Pennsylvania with 5,000 people and have a very distinct and justified world view, and that doesn’t make either of them bad people or either one right or either one wrong. It’s just an idea that I don’t know if it’s fueled by social media or what, but this idea that compromise is surrender, compromise is whatever. And it’s OK to want something, but it’s also incumbent on you to provide that blueprint and the means in order to achieve it as you keep pushing. So we shouldn’t train our fire on anybody at this point. Our country needs to heal. I firmly believe that.
Kara Swisher
So when Joe Biden says he wants to be the president for all Americans and not just the folks who voted for him, do you feel like that’s going to have resonance in a state like Pennsylvania?
John Fetterman
Yeah, absolutely. Because let’s talk Pennsylvania politics. The governor and I won by 852,000 votes less than two years ago. He and I banked more votes than any governor or lieutenant governor team in the history of Pennsylvania by far — by far more than he did in 2014 when he won too. So what does that tell you about Pennsylvania? It tells you that there’s actually a lot of people that consider what they really believe in, who they want in their leaders. It’s not this monolithic, raging mass of people. It’s this idea that they have different viewpoints, different considerations based on where they live, what their experiences are. And one isn’t necessarily more valid or invalid than the other. And that’s what I always try to remember. I joke that I’ll be the first Democrat that my parents vote for, hopefully — hopefully."
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Math Lessons From Pennsylvania
Hosted by Kara Swisher
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
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Federal: The Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement Act
The Marijuana Opportunity, Reinvestment, and Expungement (MORE) Act (HR 3884 / S. 2227) is bipartisan legislation that removes marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act, thus decriminalizing the substance at the federal level and enabling states to set their own policies.
The Act would also make several other important changes. For example, it permits physicians affiliated with the Veterans Administration to make medical marijuana recommendations to qualifying veterans who reside in legal states and it incentivizes states to move ahead with expungement policies that will end the stigma and lost opportunities suffered by those with past, low-level cannabis convictions. If approved, the MORE Act also allows the Small Business Administration to support entrepreneurs and businesses as they seek to gain a foothold in this emerging industry.
Progress so far for The MORE Act in Congress:
- The bill was introduced on July 23rd, 2019
- Approved in the Judiciary Committee on November, 20th, 2019, with a bipartisan vote of 24-10
- On November 9th, 2020, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer indicated that members will vote on the MORE Act in December of this year.
Enter your information to tell your members of Congress to sign on as a cosponsor and vote for this monumental legislation.
Because POTUS did not call for domestic terrorist attacks in 1995, the Oklahoma City Bombing was a surprise.
Trump signaled his terrorist base to attack. Any government building federal, state & local is a possible target for a Timothy McVeigh type attack.
Due to the killing power & easy availability of ARs bombs are no longer required.
"A New York man has been arrested for making threats to kill prominent Democrats, protestors and law enforcement officers in retaliation for the US presidential election result, according to court papers released on Tuesday.
Prosecutors said that Brian Maiorana started making the threats after Joe Biden was declared winner of the November 3 election.
After the result was called on Saturday, 54-year-old Maiorana allegedly began to make social media posts in which he cited the novel “The Turner Diaries,” popular among neo-Nazis and cited as inspiration for numerous acts of terrorism, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. The book depicts the overthrowing of the US government and extermination of Jews and Black people.
According to reports, Maiorana said he would “blow up” an FBI building and also was said to have made a threat against the “the Jew Senator from Jew York,” an apparent reference to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The suspect referred to the “fraudulently stolen” election and called for people who agreed with him to “hit the streets while these scumbags are celebrating and start blowing them away,” presumably referring to the celebrations by Biden supporters."
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Convicted sex offender held for threats after Biden elected; also called for people to ‘start blowing away’ those celebrating Democrat’s win
By TOI staff Today, 10:50 am
“Meadows was also among those in the East Room of the White House when Trump gave remarks around 3 a.m. Wednesday to a crowd of about 150 of his top aides, donors and allies, as well as family members. During that event, Meadows worked the room extensively, without a mask, speaking to dozens. He stood near Trump campaign adviser Corey Lewandowski, one of the few people there who was wearing a mask…
‘We’re not going to control the pandemic,’ Meadows said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ on Oct. 25."
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White House chief of staff Mark Meadows tests positive for coronavirus
The President was despondent. Sensing that time was running out, he had asked his aides to draw up a list of his political options. He wasn’t especially religious, but, as daylight faded outside the rapidly emptying White House, he fell to his knees and prayed out loud, sobbing as he smashed his fist into the carpet. “What have I done?” he said. “What has happened?” When the President noted that the military could make it easy for him by leaving a pistol in a desk drawer, the chief of staff called the President’s doctors and ordered that all sleeping pills and tranquillizers be taken away from him, to insure that he wouldn’t have the means to kill himself.
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Why Trump Can’t Afford to Lose
The President has survived one impeachment, twenty-six accusations of sexual misconduct, and an estimated four thousand lawsuits. That run of good luck may well end, perhaps brutally, if Joe Biden wins.
By Jane Mayer
November 1, 2020
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Othmar Carli was taken with his 1st grade class to watch a synagogue burning in Austria. As a 6 year old he decided to devote his life to restoring places of worship. Drafted into the Hitler Youth, scars on his back bear witness to his resistance of the Nazis.
Freddy was an ordinary soldier, not SS. Before the army he was a journeyman cabinet maker.
Othmar is an artist/restorer who restored bombed buildings in Vienna. He met his American opera singer wife Peggy while restoring an opera house in Vienna. Othmar & Peggy Carli moved to her home in East Berlin PA near York.
I remember their 2 year old daughter Mary Anna painting a cow picture and asking her Dad. "Do cows wear support stockings?' Othmar stifled a laugh & said yes. I couldn't hold back a laugh. I learned something about raising children from Othmar.
Othmar taught at the York Academy of Art and created a school to train restorers.
Freddy & Othmar worked together at a furniture company. Othmar designing furniture, Freddy building it.
They didn’t get along.
I liked them both.
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Band of Brothers - Baseball Game Ending.
“All my orders have been ignored. How can I be a leader under these circumstances? It’s over. The war is lost. But if you think this means that I’ll leave Berlin, you’re wrong. I’d rather shoot a bullet through my head.”
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Hitler's death: On 30 April, as the Battle of Nuremberg and the Battle of Hamburg ended with American and British occupation, in addition to the Battle of Berlin raging above him with the Soviets surrounding the city, along with his escape route cut off by the Americans, realizing that all was lost and not wishing to suffer Mussolini's fate, German dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide in his Führerbunker along with Eva Braun, his long-term partner whom he had married less than 40 hours before their joint suicide.[12] In his will, Hitler dismissed Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, his second-in-command and Interior minister Heinrich Himmler after each of them separately tried to seize control of the crumbling Third Reich. Hitler appointed his successors as follows; Großadmiral Karl Dönitz as the new Reichspräsident ("President of Germany") and Joseph Goebbels as the new Reichskanzler (Chancellor of Germany). However, Goebbels committed suicide the following day, leaving Dönitz as the sole leader of Germany.
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The judge of elections at the Malvern PA poll was kicked out by Chester County Voter Services. He’s part of a political action committee. Don’t know yet which political action group.
UPDATE:
To the best of my knowledge he's Everett Beauregard Field Organizer at the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. I'm not sure that is a reason for his removal.I’ve seen worse:
Monday, May 17, 2010
Coatesville Judge of Elections is accused crack dealer
Lisa Johnson will preside as Judge of Elections in Coatesville’s Fifth Ward, Precinct 120 in tomorrow’s Primary Election.
Her trial for allegedly selling crack cocaine is on May 25, 2010 in the Chester County Justice Center.
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I think Malvern is a likely place for Republicans do naughty stuff. After all Theodore S.A. Rubino Memorial Park is named after the beloved Chester County Republican Committee former chairman and former Chester County Commissioner convicted criminal Teddy Rubino.
Theodore “Teddy” Rubino was Chester County Commissioner and Republican Party Chair he ran Chester County as Angelo Bruno ran the Delaware Valley. Business owners would put a “tribute” into Rubino’s desk drawer when he left the room. If a business owner did not pay “insurance” to Rubino his business could be in trouble.
"Then, in 1977, Mr. Rubino pleaded guilty to having extorted $6,400 from architects who were awarded a $130,000 contract to convert a former West Chester hospital into a county government annex….
As part of Mr. Rubino’s plea agreement, prosecutors read into the record statements that the FBI had taken from businessmen and politicians who had dealt with Mr. Rubino. They indicated that he had established set prices for those doing business with the county, ranging from milk supplies to the leases on court offices. Some of the money went to the county GOP.”
Friday, November 1, 2019