Why does something that happened 13 years ago matter? Many of the politicians now active today’s insurrectionist QAnon Republican Party in Pennsylvania have roots in Chester County PA.
The corrupt racist extremist Republican Party takeover of the City of Coatesville a few years ago concluded in apocalyptic fire. I think what happened in the City of Coatesville is a precursor of what could happen if Doug Mastriano & Dr. Oz win in November.
“In the middle of the night, Pennsylvania’s legislators pushed through an amendment to the state Constitution removing any protection for abortion and women’s health services — along with a number of anti-democratic measures that could make it harder for minorities to vote.
There are massive issues with morality and democracy here, but the fact of the matter is that women — here in Chester County — will die if this reaches final passage and abortion is ultimately banned by the state legislature. And for that, Reps. Tim Hennessey (R-26) and John Lawrence (R-13) need to be held responsible. I’ll note Craig Williams (R-160) voted against the measure, as did every Democratic state legislator in the county.
Their votes could lead to the death of a woman you know — or maybe even love. Mothers, daughters, sisters and wives are being put at risk. If this passes, women will die. Assume that the legislature will again pass a total ban on abortion — and if elected — a Governor Doug Mastriano would sign it.”
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Lawrence, Hennessey choosing extreme politics over Chester County women’s lives
Jul 10th, 2022 · 0 Comment
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times @mikemcgannpa
I once called Tim Hennessey's Coatesville Office "City Hall East" because former Coatesville City Council President Patsy Ray spent every weekday afternoon at Tim Hennessey's Coatesville Office:
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Friday, October 1, 2010
State Rep.Tim Hennessey's Office Manager Lisa Johnson pleas GUILTY in crack trial.
Croydon New Hampshire, libertarian Ian Underwood proposed eliminating one man department. But that was only an opining salvo.
Underwood proposed and got Croydon to cut the school budged in half. The students, teachers & parents brought the community together against the libertarian invasion.
Coatesville PA libertarian John Birch Society Chapter Leader Pat Sellers hand picked city council members who hired a Chief Mathews who cut the PD in 1/2. The result was one officer on duty per 12 hour shift in a town known as a place to buy drugs with a high murder rate. Arsonists took notice of the lack of police.
“CROYDON, N.H. — The tiny New Hampshire town of Croydon fits the New England of the imagination, with its cozy general store, one-room schoolhouse and local museum open by appointment. The only thing missing is supposed to be missing: a stoplight.
But it’s not just the Rockwellian setting that makes this community of 800 seem quintessentially American. People here have just experienced a fractious come-to-Jefferson moment that has left many with a renewed appreciation for something they had taken for granted: democracy.
“Showing up. That’s the big lesson,” said Chris Prost, 37, a Croydon resident who runs a small brewery from a barn at the back of his house. “And not just showing up, but also knowing what’s going on.”
Hope Damon, 65, a dietitian who is pursuing a new career as a result of her town’s recent crisis, agreed. What happened here, she said, “could happen most anywhere.”
To understand what happened — and is happening — in Croydon, you should remember the New Hampshire motto: “Live Free or Die.” This is, after all, the only state that does not require adults to wear seatbelts.
You also should know that New Hampshire’s individual-rights vibe, along with its small population (1.38 million) and large legislature (400 representatives and 24 senators), has drawn libertarians like colonists to a tea party.
Croydon (population: 800) has, along with other parts of New Hampshire, attracted adherents of the Free State movement.John Tully for The New York Times
Croydon, incorporated in 1763, is among the New Hampshire towns with a free-state vein running through its granite hills. This was hinted at in 2020, when Ian Underwood, a town selectman aligned with the Free State, proposed eliminating the police department as a way to fire its sole employee, the longtime and somewhat controversial chief.
The three-member select board adopted the approach and instructed the chief to return his badge and gear. He promptly handed over his uniform, which he happened to be wearing, and then, in hat, boots and underwear, walked out into a February snowstorm. His wife collected him down past the general store.
This includes the Free State Project, a movement that for years has promoted a mass migration of “liberty activists” to the state so as to seed a kind of limited-government Shangri-La. The group espouses “radical personal responsibility,” “constitutional federalism” and “peaceful resistance to shine the light on the force that is the state,” its website says.
Croydon life continued, with yard sales at the museum, Halloween celebrations at the fire station and generally low turnouts at the annual town meetings — a direct-democracy tradition common in New England, when residents gather to approve, deny or amend proposed municipal budgets.
On a snowy Saturday this past March, the 2022 meeting began in the two-century-old town hall, where the walls are adorned with an 1876 American flag made by the “women of Croydon” and instructions to reset the furnace to 53 degrees before leaving.
Residents approved the town budget in the morning. Then they turned in the afternoon to the proposed $1.7 million school budget, which covers the colonial-era schoolhouse (kindergarten to fourth grade) and the cost of sending older students to nearby schools of their choice, public or private.
This is when Mr. Underwood, 60, stood up and threw a sucker punch to the body politic.
Calling the proposed budget a “ransom,” he moved to cut it by more than half — to $800,000. He argued that taxes for education had climbed while student achievement had not, and that based in part on the much lower tuition for some local private schools, about $10,000 for each of the town’s 80 or so students was sufficient — though well short of, say, the nearly $18,000 that public schools in nearby Newport charged for pupils from Croydon.
For what happened next go to:
New York Times
One Small Step for Democracy in a ‘Live Free or Die’ Town
A cautionary tale from Croydon, N.H., where one man tried to foist a change so drastic it jolted a community out of political indifference.
By Dan Barry
July 10, 2022, 3:00 a.m. ET
The result of libertarian John Birch Society interference in the City of Coatesville PA?
Bloods & Crips brought trunk loads of free guns for teens, bullets, AK-47 gunfire & murders.
“Business is good again” was the message to drug dealers from Coatesville who fled to Philly.
Drug dealers took over Coatesville, which because a Richard Legree Chair of Area 14 of the Chester County Republican Committee and State Constable in Coatesville had a reputation as a drug dealer, might have been an intended result of cutting our PD.
One not foreseen but possibly welcome since Pat Sellers is a raging racist on American Renaissance forums was the free for all for arsonists that plagued Coatesville residents.
Governor Rendell woke Coatesville City Manager Harry Walker on a Sunday morning demanding he declare an emergency and allow the Pennsylvania Fire Marshal to take over Coatesville’s fire departments.
Before he was installed by the “Bloc of Four” Harry Walker & Coatesville Solicitor to be Andrew Lehr met with high level representatives from Florida Power & Light about a gas fired electric generation station to be built on land known as “The Flats” the Coatesville Redevelopment Authority planned for commercial, residential use.” But “Commercial, Residential” is a zoning overlay. The land could be used by FPL if Walker, Lehr & Sellers could con Coatesville City Council to abolish the RDA. I think the plan Walker, Lehr & Sellers would be on the board of the public-private Coatesville Power Authority that would be needed to sell FPL electricity on PECO lines.
In other words they brought crime & arson to Coatesville for residual income from electric power. Fortunately the citizens of Coatesville came to gather and stopped them.
In 2006-07-08 we had Crips and Bloods and SUR-13 trying to get control of the action in Coatesville.
The fires saved us.
Coatesville was flooded with undercover ATF and undercover State Troopers to catch arsonists and the the Crips, Bloods and SUR-13 moved out.
I saw the graffiti, first the Crips on a barn on South Caln Road, Caln Township and in a few months Crips, Bloods and SUR-13 all over Coatesville & Valley Township.
The Coatesville PD "chief" who was a retired Baltimore Housing Authority cop was seemingly unaware of a gang problem in Coatesville. "Chief" Matthews proposed laying off 6 Coatesville officers one of them turned out to be a lieutenant, Matt Gordon:
Coatesville City Council February 22, 2007 Two hundred police officers and police officials attended that meeting.
Joe was responding to Coatesville City Councilperson Kurt Schenk. Joe Carroll is a very easy going person. Joe’s hands were shaking as he said this. I have never before or since seen Chester County Joe Carroll as angry as he was that evening:
District Attorney Joe Carroll, "I need Matt Gordon back!”
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"King’s expected appearance would mark the first time a former federal lawmaker has addressed an American Renaissance gathering since Jared Taylor, the organization’s longtime leader and a prominent ideologue on the racist right, began hosting conferences in 1994.
In 1996, Taylor invited Frank Borzellieri, who was elected to the District 24 School Board in Queens, New York, in 1993. Among Borzellieri’s campaign promises was a vow to “end taxpayer funding of anti-American multicultural books and materials in our schools and libraries,” according to a January 1996 article on American Renaissance’s website. (Queens, the borough of New York that Borzellieri represented, has been called one of the “most diverse places on Earth.”)"
FROM:
Southern Poverty Law Center
July 06, 2022
Former Lancaster/ChesCo John Birch Society Chapter Leader Pat Sellers and racist extremist Jared Taylor
American Renaissance Magazine
Vol 11, No. 7 July 2000
LETTERS FROM READERS
"Sir — Jared Taylor missed the mark completely in his article on Elian Gonzalez in the June issue. One would think that since the liberal Washington Establishment was going against one of its usual constituencies (the Cuban community), Mr. Taylor would realize that racial consciousness had little if anything to do with what is happening. By narrowly focusing on what is at most a side issue, he fails to see the big picture.
The globalists in Washington don’t give a hoot about Elian, and are probably delighted that conservatives like Mr. Taylor focus on the race issue...
Mr. Taylor also fails to realize the dangers in letting Reno and company get away with the enormous abuse of federal power their early-morning raid represents. Just because it was a Cuban household the feds smashed their way into does not make it any more acceptable to true constitutionalists."
Pat Sellers, Coatesville, Pa.
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American Renaissance archives
American Renaissance magazine
Vol 11, No. 7 July 2000- The War on White Heritage
The New York Times also did several articles about the City of Coatesville.
The New York Times wrote about the arson fires that happed after the Cheif selected by the City Council cut the PD in half.
New York Times
Fire Thought to Be Arson Damages 15 Homes in Philadelphia Suburb
By The Associated Press
Jan. 25, 2009
New York Times
A City Adds a String of Arsons to Its List of Troubles
Jan. 28, 2009
Coatesville Journal
By Ian Urbina
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