With Regard to Tuesday’s Election in Coatesville and Residency.

I'm not sure if the lawsuit contesting the Vincent Supervisor Barry DiLibero brought by Joe Carroll will have an effect on other disputes of this kind. Unless the person involved acquiesces, it is a near impossibility to successfully challenge residency for political purposes. I hope that because of District Attorney Joe Carroll’s efforts it becomes easier to remove public officials who are required to live in a municipality or district and do not live in that area.

One example is the residency of James Clark. He is still running for District Justice in Coatesville’s District Court 15-1-03. The residency requirements for Coatesville’s District Court 15-1-03 is in part of Coatesville and South Coatesville. Mr. Clark lives in Thorndale. In a court document in Chester County President Judge Ott’s court Clark gives his address as 3401 Sylvan Dr., Thorndale, PA 19372. He claims a rental property in Coatesville as his address.

Clark was not on the ticket but ran an extensive and expensive write in campaign in the Primary Election and again in yesterday’s General Election. He got very few votes. But that is not the issue. I believe there are several people holding or that have held public offices in Coatesville and around Chester County that do not live where they say they do. No one challenges them because they understand the possibility of winning in court is almost non-existent. I believe that there are many people holding public offices all across Chester County that do not live where they claim to live.

I believe that every instance of claiming to live where you do not is an instance of public corruption. It is very hard to set a price on that kind of public corruption but I believe the total cost to the public countywide could be in the millions of dollars.

I attached James Clark’s most recent campaign document for the General Election. I believe it contains several outrageous statements:
http://www.box.net/shared/emq2jbzcyo

Below are my notes from a hearing in Judge Ott’s courtroom on Friday April 20, 2009:

“I thought that Democratic Attorney John Carnes presented overwhelming evidence including several court documents and Clark’s drivers license that Magistrate Judge candidate James Clark lives in Thorndale. Clark had two relatives that claimed he lived at the address in Coatesville’s Second Ward that he listed on his petition. Clark said that even though a court document from October has Thorndale as his residence and driver’s license residence as Thorndale, he lives in Coatesville.

I understood Clark to have said that his driver’s license and his court documents residence is really his business address and his real residence is in Coatesville. Hmmm.

Even at the place he said he lives in Coatesville, he was only there a few months. State Law says that candidates for Magistrate Judge needs to reside at least a year at the residence on the ballot. The proceedings concerning James Clark were a little confusing to me but I believe that one of Clark’s relatives who is a Republican collected most of his signatures on both Republican and Democratic sides. Clark might not be on the ticket for multiple reasons.

I wondered why Andrew Lehr was sitting right in front of me in the first spectator row. I found out when Lehr conferred with Clark and a woman named as his daughter, Shania London in the hallway. Is Clark a spoiler to Greg Hines? Lehr left when Clarks hearing was over.”
See Clark’s court document here:
http://www.box.net/shared/ahgxgq2hj3

Concerning the residency case in West Vincent Supervisor Barry DiLibero:
Married politicos share a residency problem
Published: Monday, July 20, 2009
http://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2009/07/concerning-residency-case-in-west.html


Also see:
Friday, July 31, 2009
I am posting this for District Attorney Joe Carroll.
For some reason his comment to did not go through. It is in reference to my posting "Concerning the residency case in West Vincent Supervisor Barry DiLibero"
Married politicos share a residency problem.
http://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-am-posting-this-for-district-attorney.html

Prosecutor: Official playing a 'shell game'
Published: Wednesday, October 21, 2009
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/10/21/news/srv0000006661035.txt

Linda Lavender is running for District Magistrate Judge in Coatesville, AGAIN!

 

Lavender is the Legislative Assistant for Tim Hennessy in his Coatesville office.

Although Lavender claimed to not be a Commonwealth of Pennsylvania employee, when she was asked by Chester County Common Pleas Court President Judge Paula Francisco Ott; “What does it say at the top of your paycheck?” Lavender replied, “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”. In order to comply with Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Law Linda Lavender needs to quit her job as Hennessey’s Legislative Assistant.

But this is Coatesville, Chester County, North America; Commonwealth and USA law does not always apply here.

Lavender had the full support of Representative Tim Hennessey in the Spring Primary Election; I wonder if he will come out again this Election Day to encourage voters to vote for Linda Lavender.

You gotta be kidding!

When I was reading the Daily Local article about the Coatesville City Council Elections one thing popped out at me; it was Eric Lacerte’s statement that Coatesville “has no plans for future growth”. I almost dropped the paper.

Coatesville is internationally recognized for its redevelopment plans. Our plans attracted the Knight School of Architecture of Miami University to select Coatesville as the municipality for the 2003 Knight Program in Community Building Design Charrette. Coatesville was selected in a nationwide competition. Chester County’s 2020 plan for preserving open space includes utilizing existing urban areas in lieu of paving farms and forests.

Coatesville is famous worldwide for its plans for future growth among city planning architects. It is also famous among those same architects for its plans being shot down by property rights extremists.

We have the infrastructure place in Coatesville for 20,000 residents. We have about 12,000 now. Housing is beginning to be driven by “baby boomers”. The youngest “baby boomers” are 62 years old. They are not looking for single family homes for 4 or more people. They are looking for townhomes and condominiums, access by foot to restaurants, train, shopping and entertainment. That is exactly what the previous Coatesville Administration planned for.

One million dollar and up family estate homes may be “white elephants” in about 10 years. About the only thing keeping a market for one million dollar + family homes are the entrepreneurs in Chester County’s immigrant population.

We need City Council members that at the very least read news articles about Coatesville.

I would recommend that the Coatesville City Council members take advantage of the many training programs for local government officials. Some members of the Coatesville Planning Commission have taken part in those training programs. Very few Coatesville City Council members have ever taken advantage of the training that is available and it shows.

The Pennsylvania Local Government Training Partnership:
http://www.palocalgovtraining.org/

The Knight School of Architecture of the Miami University School of Architecture:
http://www.coatesville.org/forms/charrettereport.pdf

Managing Change in Chester County Comprehensive Plan (2020)
http://dsf.chesco.org/planning/lib/planning/landscapes_document/toc.html

From the Daily Local News:

“Lacerte said the biggest problem facing the city is that there is no plan for future growth. He said the city moves from one budget crisis to another. "There's no vision to solve the city's problems," he said.”

Read the article here:
http://www.dailylocal.com/article/DL/20091101/NEWS/311019986 

Ingrid Jones the Democratic Candidate for Coatesville's 2 Ward

Ingrid Jones walked door to door in Coatesville's 2 Ward. She stopped at every voter's door. Not an easy thing for a 68 year old woman with arthritis.

She finished today.

We will see on Tuesday whether talking face to face with voters or Campos' money means more in Coatesville elections.

Campaign Finiance Reports Coatesville Unity Committee, Patsy Ray and Jarrell Brazzle

Patsy Ray's campaign finance report for October 23, 2009 says "Coatesville Unity Committee" at the top margin. The Coatesville Unity Committee paid for her campaign documents in the Primary Election.

• Jarrell Brazzle's October 23, 2009 campaign finance report has nothing about the Coatesville Unity Committee on it.

• Brazzle's June 18, 2009 campaign finance report also has nothing about the Coatesville Unity Committee on it. The Coatesville Unity Committee paid for his campaign documents in the Primary Election.

Amexicom LLC is also a large contributor to the Coatesville Unity Committee in the General Election.

Look at the Notary seal. All the documents are notarized by Ruth Ann Russell at Coatesville City Hall.

• Patsy and the Coatesville Unity Committee's campaign finance reports are notarized at Coatesville City Hall on October 22, 2009. Jarrell Brazzle's are notarized at Coatesville City Hall on October 11, 2009 and October 23, 2009.

The Documents are from Chester County Voter Services. Blank pages were not included.

We will not know if the Coatesville Unity Committee is supporting Jarrell Brazzle until Election Day or even afterward.

Coatesville Unity Committee Campaign Finance Documents:
http://www.box.net/shared/4ooclmufpp

Patsy Ray Campaign Finance Documents:
http://www.box.net/shared/ke3ib3cycf
Jarrell Brazzle Campaign Finance Documents:
http://www.box.net/shared/axpb3mu97j

Voters “simply want to be affiliated with a party which better represents their values”

Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck and a few others represent the views of the Republican “Base”.

A Republican elected official who tries to distance themselves from that “base” is quickly cut off from party support.

The problem is that most Republican voters and most voters of any party do not go along with Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck. It is a quagmire that the Republican Party is not able to free itself from.
There is a post on the Chester County Democratic Committee’s website titled “The New Chester County Democratic Party”.

There is a prescient statement in that document:

“Fueling that early growth were many voters changing their party registrations from Republican or independent. Republicans claim they will get many of these voters back, but we came to know many of these people through door-to-door calls and at the polls. With few exceptions, we found they simply want to be affiliated with a party which better represents their values.”

Chester County is not exceptional; a switch from Republican to Democratic Party because the voters “simply want to be affiliated with a party which better represents their values” is taking place nationwide.
"The New Democratic Party" can be found here:
http://chescodems.org/?p=570#more-570

Does the “Troika” have an election strategy?

How does this scenario look?

The only person on the ballot for the Coatesville City Council Second Ward is Ingrid Jones.

Ingrid might not be supportive of the alleged Campos-Walker-Lehr “Troika”.

It looks like the “Troika” is not taking a chance on how Ms. Jones will vote.

The rumor is that Jarrell Brazzle will run for election two ways:

1.He is on the ballot for one of the two Coatesville City Council At Large seats.

2.Mr. Brazzle is also rumored to run as a write-in Candidate for Coatesville’s Second Ward Seat.

Coatesville City Council’s Second Ward seat is now occupied by Miss Patsy Ray.

Miss Ray is unpopular in Coatesville’s Second Ward. In spite of an enormous expenditure of cash and multiple paid Election Day workers Miss Patsy lost the election to Ingrid Jones.

Ms. Jones spent a total of about $65.00 on her Election.

Miss Ray is expected to run as a write in for Coatesville’s Second Ward but because she is allegedly extremely unpopular is not expected to win.

However Jarrell Brazzle will probably again have large numbers of paid Election Day workers and extensive advertising (paid in the primary mostly by AMEXICOM, LLC - Ernie Campos). Mr. Brazzle’s real views are unknown to the general public. With all that money help Jarrell Brazzle could, even as a write in, win more votes than Ingrid Jones for Coatesville’ Second Ward. Miss Ray would also run At Large. That is rumored to be the alleged Troika’s plan.

As in the Spring Primary Election thousands of dollars will probably go towards the election of the alleged "Troika’s" candidates. Jarrell Brazzle is expected win one of the Coatesville At Large seats. If all the money and paid Election Day workers should win him the write in vote for the Second Ward; he could keep the Second Ward win and appoint Miss Ray to his At Large win.

In this manner Patsy Ray remains on the Coatesville City Council and Jarrell Brazzle wins her old Second Ward seat. Walker is assured to stay on as Coatesville City Manager.

In case you are wondering, none of the above is, to my knowledge, illegal.

Take notice that nearly all of Jarrell Brazzle’s “Coatesville Unity Committee” support comes from Republicans:

See Campaign Finance report for The Coatesville Unity Committee AMEXICOM, LLC invoice for Patsy Ray:
http://www.box.net/shared/guu0338ub8/1/29616980/307537950

See the Campaign Finance report for The Coatesville Unity Committee AMEXICOM, LLC invoice for Jarrell Brazzle:
http://www.box.net/shared/guu0338ub8/1/29616980/307537970

See page 8 of the Campaign Finance report for The Coatesville Unity Committee:
http://www.box.net/shared/guu0338ub8/1/29616980/307537978

Some info for anyone involved in politics in the City of Coatesville

Politics can be a noble pursuit. It can also be riddled with nastiness. That nasty part of politics takes a quantum leap in the City of Coatesville, PA. Politics here can be riddled with bullets.

If you are involved in the “War on Drugs”, no matter where you fit in, or what side you are on, it is a world where paranoia is napping with one eye open in somewhere in your mind.

You will find drug users and drug user-sellers anywhere in Chester County. Drug use is a National pandemic disease in the USA and Chester County, PA is infected.

Coatesville is ground zero for drug trafficking in Chester County. Coatesville or a location very near to Coatesville is the depot where most of the drugs used in Chester County usually make their first appearance in Chester County. The large “packages” get opened here and redistributed around the County. The big traffickers are well dug in and have been politically connected for decades.

Some of the same reasons that Bart Blatstein, Carl Chetty and Don Pulver see Coatesville as a natural place for development make it a natural place for drug trafficking. Coatesville is a central hub for several kinds of transportation; easy quick transportation from any large port city in the Middle Atlantic States.

Coatesville is where most of the violence over the extremely large profits in selling illegal drugs is contained. I think that the violence is contained here by design. And that public officials participated in that design.

Bart Blatstein’s, Carl Chetty’s and Don Pulver’s redevelopment plans for Coatesville are incompatible with drug distribution in Coatesville. I believe that some public officials involved and profiting from drug trafficking in Chester County want to make sure that redevelopment does not happen in Coatesville. That is, the redevelopment foreseen by Blatstein, Chetty, Pulver, former City Manager Paul Janssen and the people at the University of Miami.

Beware of politicians that talk about supermarkets, jobs, filling police ranks with long time Coatesville residents, moving more poor and disadvantaged people into Coatesville and the perils of gentrification.

There is room, there is infrastructure already in place in the City of Coatesville for 9,000 new Coatesville residents; 20,000 residents in total. No gentrification with poor people moved out to make room for middle class or upper class residents needs to happen for Coatesville to be redeveloped. A city made up of one type or class of people is a lifeless city. The dream of Bart Blatstein and Paul Janssen was a vibrant cosmopolitan city.

Too many murders here happen right in front of several people who “didn’t see anything”. The drug trafficker/public officials in Chester County are down with more section 8, more slumlords and more poor people moving in here. On the other hand, middle class; white, black or whatever people don’t easily put up with drug traffickers. And, for the most part, the traffickers don’t know the family members of the new residents that have moved into Coatesville and can’t threaten them.

The reign of terror the drug traffickers have over many citizens of Coatesville will be over if we get real redevelopment with additional residents moving in. I mean new residents without the long time family roots that most Coatesville residents have. The USDoJ understands that fact very well. As former Assistant United States Attorney Tom Hogan told me, “Coatesville was ready to turn over, and then these new guys came in”.

It is very hard, maybe impossible, to be involved in politics in the City of Coatesville and stay outside of the “War on Drugs”. If you do not understand that fact or play it down you will be working with blinders and ear plugs on. If you do not understand drug trafficking and how public officials work with it and profit from it you can be used by the traffickers and not know it.

If you do know and do understand the playing field here, paranoia is napping with one eye open in the back of your brain. If you have an automatic response to it you will be eaten up by the paranoia and you not last in Coatesville’s political world. It is a world where trust is earned and you “check out” everyone in a quasi-scientific way.

You have to trust someone. You work with people you trust and you trust them because you thoroughly checked them out. But there is always that paranoia bug that sleeps with one eye open and can wake up with a warning at any moment. It has to be there waiting and watching, because in Coatesville you life could depend in it.

A very
good and easy read primer on Politics and Corruption in Pennsylvania is one written by former Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank McKetta:

Police, politics, corruption : the mixture dangerous to freedom and justice / Frank McKetta.
McKetta, Frank.
Camp Hill, Pa. : Polis Publishing, c2000.

It is in all of our libraries.

BYE BYE MISS PATSY! SHEEES OUTTA HERE!

Did Ernie Campos pull the chute on Patsy Ray?

Jarrell Brazzle is running as a write in for Coatesville City Councilperson 2nd Ward.

Brazzle is still on the ballot for Coatesville City Council at Large running as a Democrat.

Ingrid W. Jones is on the ballot as a Democrat for Coatesville’s 2nd Ward.

I do not yet know if Brazzle changed his registration to Republican.

I guess Ernie wasted his money on a looser, see campaign finance statement- Patsy Ray:
http://www.box.net/shared/3kyky2v776

Ernie can now put more money into a winner, see campaign finance statement- Jarrell Brazzle:

http://www.box.net/shared/hgrdrhapot

I believe that Matt Baker’s request for a forensic audit of Coatesville’s government is just one step.

I believe that something much more inclusive than a forensic audit in regards to the City of Coatesville will be announced soon.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted on Sat, Aug. 22, 2009
Coatesville confronts financial woes
By Kathleen Brady Shea
Inquirer Staff Writer
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/54074937.html

New comment about Residency of W Vincent Supervisor Barry DiLiberto

I received another comment today about my post:

Concerning the residency case in West Vincent Supervisor Barry DiLibero:
Married politicos share a residency problem
Published: Monday, July 20, 2009
http://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2009/07/concerning-residency-case-in-west.html


Also see:
Friday, July 31, 2009
I am posting this for District Attorney Joe Carroll.
For some reason his comment to did not go through. It is in reference to my posting "Concerning the residency case in West Vincent Supervisor Barry DiLibero"
Married politicos share a residency problem.
http://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2009/07/i-am-posting-this-for-district-attorney.html

Today I received this comment:

"Anonymous said...
Jim,
Next time you are talking to Joe Carroll...could you ask him how much this case is costing the taxpayers?

I find it hard to believe that it takes this long to determine residency. It seems that it should be easy to ascertain. Does he meet the residency requirement or not?

Should we really have expected Mr. Dilibero or Voters Services to do over a years worth of research and study case law to find a case from the 1950's to cite, that say's a man's residency is determined by his wife's. Are they asking us to believe that married people cannot live apart? I surely hope not!

So while you are at it, ask Joe why this is taking so long!"
August 5, 2009 8:37 AM

My answer:

Unless the person involved acquiesces, it is a near impossibility to successfully challenge residency for political purposes.

One example is the residency of James Clark. He ran and possibly still is running for District Justice in Coatesville’s District Court 15-1-03. The residency requirements for Coatesville’s District Court 15-1-03 is in part of Coatesville and South Coatesville. Mr. Clark lives in Thorndale. In a court document in Chester County President Judge Ott’s court Clark gives his address as 3401 Sylvan Dr., Thorndale, PA 19372. He claims a rental property in Coatesville as his address.

Below are my notes from a hearing in Judge Ott’s courtroom on Friday April 20, 2009:

“I thought that Democratic Attorney John Carnes presented overwhelming evidence including several court documents and Clark’s drivers license that Magistrate Judge candidate James Clark lives in Thorndale. Clark had two relatives that claimed he lived at the address in Coatesville’s Second Ward that he listed on his petition. Clark said that even though a court document from October has Thorndale as his residence and driver’s license residence as Thorndale, he lives in Coatesville.

I understood Clark to have said that his driver’s license and his court documents residence is really his business address and his real residence is in Coatesville. Hmmm.

Even at the place he said he lives in Coatesville, he was only there a few months. State Law says that candidates for Magistrate Judge needs to reside at least a year at the residence on the ballot. The proceedings concerning James Clark were a little confusing to me but I believe that one of Clark’s relatives who is a Republican collected most of his signatures on both Republican and Democratic sides. Clark might not be on the ticket for multiple reasons.

I wondered why Andrew Lehr was sitting right in front of me in the first spectator row. I found out when Lehr conferred with Clark and a woman named as his daughter, Shania London in the hallway. Is Clark a spoiler to Greg Hines? Lehr left when Clarks hearing was over.”
See Clark’s court document here:
http://www.box.net/shared/ahgxgq2hj3

Clark was not on the ticket but ran an extensive and expensive write in campaign. He got very few votes. But that is not the issue. I believe there are several people holding or that have held public offices in Coatesville that do not live here. No one challenges them because they understand the possibility of winning in court is almost non-existent. I believe that there are many people holding public offices all across Chester County that do not live where they claim to live.

Joe Carroll’s action could set a president for future efforts to remove persons that are allegedly illegally holding office. I believe that every instance of claiming to live where you do not is an instance of public corruption. It is very hard to set a price on that kind of public corruption but I believe the cost to the public is in the millions of dollars.

Read Karl Marking's comments on the warning letter that Coatesville's government received from the Commonwealth

You can find it at:
http://www.karlmarking.com/

Scroll down to "Spotlight on City Hall"

Commonwealth Warns City of Coatesville Administration in letter

I agree with City Councilperson Ed Simpson’s statements in this article.

I would go a further my criticism of Lehr and Walker. I believe the potential for criminal activity exists. But that is up to the USDoJ to ferret out.

State criticizes Coatesville in letter
Pennsylvania official outlines 11 of the city's problems as well as offering recommendations to move municipality forward
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
By JENNIFER MILLER, Staff Writer

http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/07/29/news/srv0000005966001.txt


A more clear copy of the letter is here:
http://www.box.net/shared/mh2q6tjhel



See Matt Baker's blog for more information:
http://bakerforcoatesville.com/matts-blog/

We need Health Care for small companies

I have excellent health care. I am in a an excellent government run system called Medicare. My children are stuck with needing to choose whatever their employers can get.

I had worked as a dental technologist. It is a very small field and every dental laboratory is a small company there are a handful of dental laboratories with 100 employees. Most are dental laboratory companies have 3 or less employees. The work requires extensive training. The major expense of dental laboratories is health care.

Every company now competes in the world market. I believe that our lack of a unified health care system in the USA is a severe drag on our economy and keeps US companies non-competitive in the world market.

Blame It

I “blame It” the drug trafficking here on the local Republican Party but that’s just me and my opinion. What does a Democrat’s opinion mean in Republican controlled Chester County?

Richard Legree

I believe the real reason that led to Richard Legree Sr. leaving the Republican Party for the Democratic Party was that the Republican Party would not permit him to run for District Justice. They had someone else in mind. If not for that he might have died a Republican.

Richard had several jobs. He was a State Constable in Coatesville’s 3rd Ward. He was employed by the Laborers’-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust as an administrator. The Labor Union job took Richard all over the USA.

I didn’t like everything he did but like many others I enjoyed being around him. I think Richard Legree was a congenial person, that he had excellent salesmanship abilities. I believe that Richard had extremely good managerial abilities. They may not ever have been a more “connected” person than Richard Legree. I don’t believe that everything he did was legal. He had an alleged “retail” business and I believe that one key to solving some of our unsolved murders died with Richard Legree.

During the time that former Chief Matthews was Chief of Police in Coatesville I frequently saw Richard in conversation with City Manager Harry Walker. I believe that Richard Legree exerted what leverage he could over the Coatesville Police Department while Matthews was Chief.

You might ask why I am writing about a dead man. It is not so much because of Richard Legree’s official jobs but because of his alleged extra curricular activities. I believe that people have stepped up to fill in for some of Legree’s alleged extra curricular activities. I think there is a very strong possibility that they will “get caught”. I do not think they have the abilities of Richard Legree. I think he was an extraordinary man.

See, Constable Legree Sr. dies
A controversial figure in Coatesville political circles, he served as city councilman and Valley police officer
Monday, December 22, 2008 6:37 AM EST
Daily Local News
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2008/12/22/news/srv0000004329654.prt

The "C Street House" is apparently not just a downtown place to bring girls.

They have a "code of silence or “Omertà “the organization is called "The Family” or "La Cosa Nostra". And get this the Republican Senators and Congressmen swear Omerta or “silence to the government” and burn a picture of Ronald Reagan in their hand.

The list of Republicans that use the C Street House includes our own Congressman Joe Pitts.

OK, I made up “The Family” members burning a picture of Ronald Reagan in their hand but everything else about “The Family” fits a description of “The Mafia”.

There is a book on what you might call America’s answer to the Sicilian Mafia; “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” by Jeff Sharlet, contributing editor at Harper’s magazine. “Sharlet’s book describes The Family as a kind of shadow multi-national government, operating in secret through small prayer groups called “cells” and modeled after the organization of mafia and terrorist groups. Doug Coe, the leader of the group, frequently refers to the leadership lessons of Hitler and the example of the mafia as a model for how the group operates.

How far-reaching is The Family’s influence? David Kuo, a high-ranking official in the Bush administration who oversaw the White House’s office of faith-based initiatives, wrote in a recent book: “The Fellowship’s reach into governments around the world is almost impossible to overstate or even grasp.”
Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction (Hardcover)
by David Kuo (Author)

See:
http://michiganmessenger.com/23484/stupak-denies-knowledge-of-connections-to-mysterious-c-street-house

I already know a formidable amount about the Sicilian and Calabrese versions of the Mafia. I need to know more about our own home grown version of the Mafia. I’ll pick up a copy of “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” it looks like a primer on the “American Mafia”.

I guess that honest hard working Americans will have to wait for a Republican Party version of Joseph Valachi to rat out the high ranking “Family” members.

See also:
Republican sex scandal meets spirituality on C Street

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25139.html#ixzz0MBTnO7LN

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_%28Christian_political_organization%29

Concerning the residency case in West Vincent Supervisor Barry DiLibero:

Married politicos share a residency problem
Published: Monday, July 20, 2009
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/07/20/news/srv0000005878857.txt


I don’t know the underlying part of this residency of a public official case in West Vincent Township; the part that really matters but is unmentioned in newspaper articles.

I do know something about “voters” in Coatesville.

There may be about 50 “voters” that are the same persons registered to vote in Coatesville multiple times under variations of the same name. Some people have addresses of non-existent properties or churches or barbershops. Some are registered under slightly different names in multiple precincts. The answer is yes, some of those people are under investigation.

I have a feeling that many people are called on to purposefully falsely register to vote for political reasons. That is to be called on to vote in close local elections where one vote can sometimes be a deciding factor. This may be an endemic problem in some areas of Chester County.

There are also are public officials serving at positions that require residency that are registered to vote in Coatesville at apartments they own. But they have families in West Chester, or elsewhere. I believe that they are falsely registered in Coatesville for political reasons.

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.

As far as complaints about booking instead of serving a politico in Modena; I think that the summons might not ever leave the trunk of the constable’s car. Richard Legree Jr’s summons once got lost in Constable Clayton Ayers’ trunk and Clayton Ayers Jr’s summons once got lost in Constable Richard Legree’s trunk.

This case could turn out to be a test of proof of residency. If it turns out on the District Attorney’s side it could have far reaching effects in our own corruption riddled Chester County.

Missing Campaign Finance Statement

Apparently this 30 day post-primary Campaign Finance Statement is the only Campaign Finance Statement filed by Jarrell Brazzle:
http://www.box.net/shared/nc8c80ofy2

There was no 2nd Friday Campaign Finance Statement as of 10:00 am Monday, July 13, 2009. The fine must be quite a lot by now.

Coatesville Victory Gardens in the News

 
 
 

The Daily Local (dailylocal.com), Serving Chester County, PA
Fresh to you, from Coatesville
City organization draws on its Victory Gardens heritage to provide nutritious food
Monday, July 13, 2009
By JESSICA CORRY, Staff Writer
COATESVILLE — Vegetables are not the only thing growing in the Coatesville Victory Gardens this season.

Among the tomatoes, beans and lettuce of the community plot, gardening knowledge and camaraderie have also sprouted among members of Coatesville Victory Gardens.

Local green thumbs, and a few brown ones, joined forces earlier this year to establish a community garden aimed at providing fresh, organic and nutritious food to city residents.

"I have always been impressed with the CSAs (community-supported agriculture) in downtown Philadelphia and I was interested in trying the same thing here in Coatesville," said Keith Gargus, one of the founding members of the organization.
MORE AT:
http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/07/13/news/srv0000005814048.txt


Coatesville Victory Gardens Blog:
http://coatesvillevictorygardens.blogspot.com/