This www.billybytes.com/blog post refers readers to the www.billybytes.com website article published April 17, 2005, titled “Fast Eddie.”

One year later, the billybytes publications’ creater and editor, Easton resident Billy Givens, was diagnosed in the U.S. Veterans Hospital in Wilkes-Barre with colon cancer with serious complications that imperiled - and still imperils - his life.
This diagnosis forced him to abandon his independent candidacy challenging incumbent Pennsylvania Governor Edward “Fast Eddie” Rendell in the November 2006 general election - a candidacy that he had announced the preceding February.

That announcement was published in The Express-Times, a leading mainstream newspapers with circulation in the Lehigh Valley and much of neighboring Warren County, New Jersey.

Though his challenge to Fast Eddie died in 2006 with his diagnosis of cancer, he has persevered in his challenge to what is arguably the most corrupt governor in the history of Pennsylvania - most notably in opposing his and the state legislature’s Act 71 “legalizing” slot machine gambling casinos and creating the corruption-ridden Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB).

This opposition began on January 3, 2005, when Givens
asked Northampton County Council, meeting in the historic Jacob Bachmann Publick House in Easton, the county’s seat, to hold public hearings on the rumored siting of a Las Vegas Sands-owned Casino in the South Side neighborhood of Bethlehem.

The rest is history, well documented on both the www.billybytes.com website and the Billy Bytes blog (http://www.billybytes.com/blog/).