Civil War
Though The Morining Call Girl today still carries many stories from yesterday’s edition, they do not include the one about Lehigh County Executive Don Cunningham and his abuse of campaign funds in buying a luxury car for his official and personal use from Deichman-Walker Chevrolet.
Whatever pressure he brought to bear on the Call Girl wouldn’t have taken much. Indeed, it wouldn’t have taken any at all: She’s always more than happy to spread her pages for political johns like Cunningham.
Besides, she puts out for pay, which includes continuous access to the johns in their seats of power to record their self-serving “news releases” for passing on to a gullible public readership.
More damining than the Chevrolet story, however, is the meeting attended recently in the Waldorf-Astoria with other pols from the Eastern Seaboard states, especially Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.
New York Governor George Pataki has long been convening such meetings for the purpose of establihsing a political agenda separate from that of the other states - in other words, a revival of South Carolina Senator John Calhoun’s doctrines of Nullification and Secession from theC, doctrines that tore apart the very fabric of the
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Billy Givens said,
December 13, 2006 @ 2:53 pm
Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party is grooming Cunningham to run for governor in 2010. He would replace Governor Ed “Fast Eddie” Rendell, who plucked Cunningham from his mayorship of Bethlehem in a passion and transported him to the commonwealth’s capitol, Harrisburg, where he was given the cabinet-level position in charge of the state’s procurement.
Then, in 2006, when Lehigh County Executive Jane Irvin was up for re-election, Rendell transported Cunningham back to the so-called Lehigh Valley to challenge her. (Cunningham is a resident of West Bethlehem, which lies geographically within Lehigh County, with the rest of the city lying within Northampton County.)
That makes Cunningham the logical lynchpin in the Brookings Institute scheme to stitch both counties together in a regional government, an illegal political subdivision violative of Pennsylvania’s 1873 Constitution.
Within Northampton County itself, the Brookings Institute, RenewPA.com, and NEU (New Easton Urbanists), with the support of the county’s politicans, are trying to meld the county’s 37 municipalities into a sub-regional political jurisdiction, not by creating a municipal government through annexation with voter approval, but by legislating various “Congresses of Government,” or COG’s, that bypass voter referendums.
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Billy Givens said,
December 13, 2006 @ 4:37 pm
The corrupt bully Ed Rendell must be stopped. He has now appointed State Sen. Joe Conti, who won’t be seeking re-election, to the commonwealth’s Liquor Control Board (LCB), where he will join the corrupt LCB member former Easton Mayor Tom Goldsmith.
Rendell through his landlord of the state’s real estate, the corrupt former Northampton County Admiistrator Jim Hickey, rents a stall in the Theordore Kheel & Peter Koehler Livery Stable at 400 Northampton Street in Easton, where the fat old nag all day guzzles grain (after the corn has been distilled into the sour-mash whiskey that he as an LCB member imports from Tennessee and Kentucky.
Chardonnay, his choice of wine, he imports from the vinyards of California.
The K&K LIvery Stable also rents a mare’s nest to College Hill resident and City of Easton Councilwoman Carol Hefley and her groom Jim Hicks, as well as stalls to The Morning Call Girl, Koehler himself and his executive assistant Rachel Hogan, and owner and staff members of The Elucidator.
Like Cunningham, Rendell plucked Goldsmith from his Easton mayor’s office in the same Rapture as Cunningham and Hickey and swept all three to their more exalted positions in Harrisburg.
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Billy Givens said,
December 14, 2006 @ 11:29 am
Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli, a Bethlehem resident, will test the political waters in 2008 when he runs for the position of Attorney General. He will need millions of dollars for his campaign, and he anticipates that money coming from a Las Vegas Sands casino constructed on the grounds of the defunce fomrer Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
That is why Morganelli supports a hand-shake agreement in the form of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between BethWorks LLC principal Michael Perrucci and Bethlehem City Councilman Robert Donchez that would allow the casino to police itself. Imagine how effective he would be in prosecuting casino-related crimes - which would increase - if he were elected Attorney General.
Morganielli has demonstrated in the past that he accepts money from developers. For example, he accepted $5000 from Whitehall Township real estate developer Abraham Atiyeh as payback for the letter on official Northampton County District Attorney letterhead to Easton officials essentially dictating their support of Keystone Opportunity Zone/Keystone Opertunity Expansion Zone (KOZ/KOEZ) tax exemptions for Atiyeh’s Cinema Paradiso building on S. 3rd St. and the building on S. 4th St. that he leases to the federal General Services Administration (GSA) for sub-lease to the Social Security Administration.
Morganelli’s First Assistant Prosecutor Paula A. Roscioli took $11,000 of contributions from Atiyeh in her campaign for a seat on the Northampton County Court of Common Pleas.
Easton City Councilman Michael Fleck, the bod’s president, and former City Councilman Dan Corpora, who opposed each other in the last Easton mayoral contest, also accepted contributions from Atiyeh.
When I attempted to obtain a copy of Morganelli’s letter from Easton City Clerk Tom Hess, a retired Easton police captain, I was charged with harrassment and required to appear in District Court, where the charges were dismissed.
So who was harrassed, Hess or me?
Morganelli is a racist who is prosecuting the county’s Hispanic Community and who, in an effort to seat Northampton County President Judge Robert Freeberg on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, mounted a national campaign urging district attorneys and chiefs of police all across the country to lobby the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to reject Philadelphia County Judge Frederica Massiha-Jackson, an African-American female and President Clinton nominee to the Third Circuit.
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Billy Givens said,
December 15, 2006 @ 3:20 am
My wife, Kathy Parker, and I have just returned from Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Hospital for a another medical procedure related to the treatment of my colon cancer.
I mention the cancer only because I had announced my candidacy of governor challenging incumbent Ed “Fast Eddie” Rendell in February. The cecal cancer was disagnosed in April and I was forced to terminate my challenge.
As I said when announcing, I knew it would be a daunting task - runnning against Rendell, that is - but I felt that it was a long-shot possibility utilizing my www.billybytes.com Website, http://www.billybytes.com/blog/, and email, BGivens@www.billybytes.com.
But in April, when diagnosed, I realized I faced an even greater challenge, just trying to stay alive. Thank God, and the prayers of loved ones and friends, I am surviving and strong enough to resume my “Civil War” against Rendell and the Pennsylvania legislature - especially on the issue of Act 71, “Legalized” casino-racino gambline, and its corollary, Act 72, the specious “back-end” referendum with its false promise replacing public school property taxes with gambling revenue.
As I waited for the doctors, I picked up a copy of the free Philadelphia newspaper, the Metro,and saw this article, in an article, “Late push for slots delay,” which I new report to my readers:
“With only a week left before the state’s Gaming Control Board decides where to put two city casinos, neighborhood groups and and gaming opponents joined city Councilman Frank DiCicco yesterday in demanding a six month delay.
“‘This is being done in reverse order,’ DiCicco said. ‘It’s a decision the state has made [that] we’re going to get something. It is done ass-backwards. We should hve the opportunity to comments on the revised plans.’
“State Rep. John Taylor, R-Phil., said yesterday that he would support DiCiccio’s position. Taylor said he would like to see the board delay its decision so he state can get better answers from PennDOT on what one or two casinos on the Delaware Riverfront would mean for traffic.
“Daniel Hunter of Casino Free Philadelphia said, “I really do think we have a shot at this. I go back to the stadium in Chinatown. Done deal, everyone was on board. Community groups came on and said no and began slowing down the process.’”
The “civil war” between supporters and opponents of casinos rages because of the remark of Governor Rendell quoted by Metro reporter Josh Cornfield’s article:
“There have been an infinite amount of hearings. I thinkit’s time to get this over with.”
Because of this remark, I am challenging Governor Rendell again. The Pennsylvani Gaming Control Board’s meeting have been marred - indeed, scarred - by flagrant violations of Pennsylvania’s Open Public Meetings statute, or “Sunshine Law.”
There are also conflicts of interest: The PGCB’s chairman, Tad Decker, until Rendell appointed him to the board, was the managing partner of Cozy O’Connor, the Philadelphia law firm representing the Delaware-Lenni Lenape Native-Amercan Tribe in its lawsuit against Northampton County and the Binney & Smith Crayola Crayon Corporation, real-estate developer Nic Zawarsky & Sons, and other corporate as well as private plaintiffs.
The relief the suit seeks is the reclamation of 315 acres in Forks Township that the Native Americans allege were acquired through a land fraud known to history as the “Walking Purchase of 1737.”
The fraud, which included forgerty, was named for the fact that after the Native-Americans agreed to convey to Thomas Penn, William Penn’s sone, as much land as a person could walk over in a day, he hired professional relay runners to acquire more land area than its owners intended.
Through the polticical influence of Rendell with the Lehigh Valley’s federal district court and Philadelphia’s Third Circuit Court of Appeals - the court on which sits Rendell’s wife, Pennsylvania’s former attorney general Mike Fisher and former Lehigh Valley federal district judge Franklin VanAntwerpen - the Delaware-Lenape’s lost its case to reclaim its land at both levels.
Recently, the U.S. Supreme Court, on which sits former Third Circuit Judge Sam Alito, President George W. Bush’s latest appointment, refused to hear the Third Circuit’s decision.
Rendell, who possessed the constitutional power to grant the Delaware-Lenape the relief it sought, he refused. He had already made up his mind soon after his election in 2002, and probably even before, who would be awarded casino licenses.
And he didn’t want any competition from any source that he and his political handlers had not anointed.
Because of scandals swirling around “Casino” Jack Abramoff involving Native-Americans, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Department of Interior, Gale Norton, and others, I contacted my sister Patsy who lives in Arizona and asked her to contact her Senator John McCain, who at the time as chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee was conducting public hearings on Abramoff’s fleecing of Native Americans - the precedence for which had been set 269 years earlier by the Walking Purchase of 1737.
My sister did in fact contact Senator McCain and she will testify to that fact under oath.
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