Archive for October, 2009
If you are looking for a political contest that pits a crude political animal against a person of good intention the contest for Lehigh County executive is for you. Don Cunningham the incumbent, a career politician, is seeking re-election with a campaign based on half truths, distortions and exaggerations. All this is delivered to the voters through a completely phony Bethlehem Gomer Pyle persona. Running against Don is Scott Ott, a man of many talents who until recently never thought of running for public office. Scott, a family man and a person of deep faith feels the time is right for a candidacy that proclaims individual liberty over continued government expansion. To concentrate on the campaign Mr. Ott left his job as the director of a church affiliated camp. Apparently, as part of a severance package, his former employer allows Scott and his family to remain in the house he was renting from the church rent free. Now Don Cunningham has decided to
label Scott’s family’s living arrangement a violation of non-profit tax codes and has asked the IRS to investigate.
IRS scrutiny can make even an honest person or institution’s life a nightmare. This is an agency where one must prove innocence and that effort can take time and money.
Don Cunningham must think he is so clever, but in fact this act has revealed him as a man so consumed with himself that he seeks an IRS investigation into a church merely because they allow his election opponent to stay in a building they own.
There are plenty of unsavory facts about Don’s life that have remained out of public purview. Scott Ott has never attacked Mr. Cunningham’s personally or involved his family life in the campaign. That is the mark of his decency. Conversely, Don Cunningham’s actions speak for themselves. By this action he has proven himself unworthy of any public office.
Scott Armstrong
What can one say about those who actually place an Ed Pawlowski yard sign on their property? Are they utter fools (Democrat straight party voters) or are they getting, or hoping to get something in return for their effort? Simply said, it has to be one or the other for there is no logical reason to give the mayor another four year opportunity to inflict more damage on the city.
I, for one, would love to hear a Pawlowski yard sign person explain their rational for placing one of his signs in their front yard. What message do they think they are communicating to the rest of the city? Are they actually proud to sport the sign or are they hoping their neighbors will understand it is something “they must do”?
In his first term Ed has fired or forced out some of the most talented employees and directors. He has balanced the city’s books with borrowed money and refinanced debt. He lies through his phony smile that crime is down while claiming to have brought big money developments to the downtown. Readers, have you been to the downtown recently? Does it look like anything positive is happening there?
I say, resist the urge to angrily maul any Pawlowski yard sign in your neighborhood but keep a careful record of the Judas who put it there. They are in fact collaborators to our city’s destruction; they should be ashamed. I, for one, won’t soon forget their betrayal of our better interests.
Scott Armstrong
I’m Offended
If the NFL believes Rush Limbaugh is not suitable for their league then why should I believe they don’t hold Rush listeners in the same contempt? I and millions of other conservatives have tuned into the Rush Limbaugh show since it came on the air in the late eighties. In all this time I have never heard him say anything that is offensive to the mainstream point of view. The perspective he does offend is that of the left and because they cannot respect or tolerate opposing points of view they have always been out to destroy him. They have tried slander, belittlement, boycotts, threats of new FCC rules that would allow the government to regulate what is on the air, and even quasi-government funded competition such as Air America. None of this has worked to curb the influence and audience of the man who speaks for those who see the values of the country threatened by big government progressives.
Those who listen to the Rush Limbaugh show know of his love for the game of football. He has talked about the game for years from the perspective of an informed fan. He often engages his football player friends in playoff discussions on the air and provides insight on management and ownership issues through his longstanding friendships with various club owners. Rush Limbaugh’s NFL enthusiasm has made the game of football interesting to his vast audience. For this the NFL should be thankful; instead they have given him and, by inference, his fans the backs of their hands. They have now made it official that he/we are not up to their standards, apparently his/our perspective is too “polarizing.”
Apparently, the NFL finds Rush Limbaugh “objectionable” because of the slanderous lies being spread about him by his liberal/progressive critics (some of them in the media). It is curious and troubling that they apparently don’t find the slander objectionable. As a born and bred Pittsburgh Steeler fan I now see the NFL in an entirely new light. As a Rush fan I find their actions towards him to be “objectionable” and I think it is safe to write that my fondness for the league has been profoundly diminished. I think this Sunday I will do something other than watch or even care about football; I also think during the week I will skip the radio sports shows I had until now enjoyed. Not out of spite but because now I know the league doesn’t respect conservatives.
They have made it clear they don’t need us.