I call attention to two articles appearing in today’s Morning Call:

First,, “Easton mayor is LVEDC finalist,” reports that Mayor Phil Mitman is a finalist in the competition to become the next full-time executive director of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation.

The LVEDC is the granddaddy of the tax-exempt non-profit organizations like Lehigh Valley Industrial Parks (LVIP) that I exposed in my last post as “shadow governments.”

Mitman has used his position as Easton’s mayor and the political influence-peddling of developers like Richard Thulin, the CEO of Arcadia Properties, the developer of Riverwalk; Lou Pektor, developer of the Majestic and the Pomroy buildings; Abraham Atiyeh, developer of the Social Security Administration building as stepping stones to the LVEDC.

Second, The Morning Call  reports that Northampton County’s General Purpose Authority is bailing out the Easton’s Jacob Bachmann Tavern in the article “County to take over Easton’s oldest edifice.”
The GPA has stepped in to save the tavern from foreclosure on the $500,000 loan that Mitman, the Easton Heritage Alliance, the GPA, and Northampton County imposed on county taxpayers.

This bail-out is the latest move of the GPA that since its creation by the Glenn Reibman administration and county council in 1998 the www.billybytes.com website and www.billybytes.com/blog/ blog have exposed as illegal.