Please refer to Lafayette College Magazine Fall 2004 Issue, “Revitalizing Easton, State Grant will Improve Lafayette’s Downtown Gateway.”

Shown are the rogues who are overturning the Constitutional governments of Pennsylvania and the United States, represented at the federal level by Arthur J. Rothkopf, and at the state level by Governor Ed Rendell and 136th Legislative District State Representative Robert Freeman

At the Northampton County level is Executive Glenn Reibman, and at the municipal level of the county’s seat Easton current Mayor Philip Mitman and fomer mayors Mike McFadden and Tom Goldsmith, all three Republicans, the last of these a corrupt member of the corrupt Liquor Control board appointed by Rendell, and whose support of Democrat Rendell helped Fast Eddie into office in the last two gubernatorial elections.

Rothkopf was President George H.W. Bush’s general counsel and deputy secretary of transportation.  When Bush I lost the the Presidency to Bill Clinton in 1988, he dispatched Rothkopf to Easton and Lafayette College to work for the Republican Party Presidential nominee in 1992.

Northampton County Executive Republican Bill Brackbill appointed Rothkopf to the Lehigh Valley International Airport because of his transporation savvy, and there went to work transferring Lafayette College-owned land in Forks Township to the authority.

Rothkopf continued the college’s policy of not building classrooms, labs, and domitories on the land so that it could that as an excuse to development in Easton whose officials like Mitman, McFadden, Goldsmith, Reibman, and Freeman the college owned and controlled.

Upon Rothkopf’s retirement from Lafayette, President Bush’s influence landed him a job as general counsel and vice-president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., from which he directs the Lehigh Valley Greater Chamber of Commerce and its president and vice president Tony Iannelli and Marta Boulos Gabriel, respectively,  in the massive transfer of public wealth to private ownership.

Rothkopf’s succesor at Lafayette, Dan Weiss, continues Rothkopf’s policies through the artsy-fartsy crowd led by the likes of Jeff Parks of the Banana Factory, Christlmarkt, Musikfest, and ArtsQuest, which are nothng but camouflages for selling the Las Vegas Sands Casino through silly, wasteful boondoggles like “SteelStax.”