Deb Hunter, a Northampton High School history teacher with three children of her own, simply explains why she's running."The reason I want to be on county council is ... I do believe in public service, especially because I am a teacher. One of the things I deal with a lot are Children, Youth and Families. Some of my children are served by Children, Youth and Families in Human Services by the County. Quite frankly, these kids, if they are not served well and if their families are not served well, we'll be building a bigger prison, which is also part of what the county does. I look at them both as being well balanced and, hopefully, serving our community for the future."
It's hard to fault someone who thinks we need to look after our greatest asset - our children.
We already have enough teachers on council. What was her reacord as a member of the Nazareteh school board? THAT is what her role would entail on County COuncil. Just being a teacher qualifies you for nothing but, well...teaching (most of the time).
ReplyDeleteLook at her legislative record such that it is
Although I'd agree w/ you about there being too many teachers, I'll be voting for her. She's bright, articulate and independent.
ReplyDeleteNo more teachers! No teacher can be impartial. Their job depends upon it.
ReplyDeleteBethlehem's council member Dolan,
according to Morning Call, claims surprise that the board
disbanded her favorite school program after she leveled criticism at board decisions.
Surprised! Really?
Children are great, but they're no more important than the rest of us. Those with responsibility for others, including children, are our most important asset. I'm tired of hollow "for the children" rhetoric. I'm going to bet she also strongly supports mom and apple pie. Does she have a plan for the rest of us?
ReplyDelete"Children are great, but they're no more important than the rest of us."
ReplyDeleteWrong! They have very few legal rights. if I am wronged, I have legal recourse, or at the every least, I can vote. If a child is wrong, he/she doesn't have legal recourse and she/he can't vote. Our obligation as a society is to protect our children b/c they have no way of protecting themselves. They are the voiceless so we have to be their voice.
It bugs the crap out of me when I hear people proclaim loudly that life begins at conception and therefore abortion is wrong. Fine, but life doesn't end at birth either. Our obligations carry all the way through the life of a child until he/she can fend. Until then, given they will run the show in the future, they are the most important assets we have.
"For the children"
ReplyDeleteThey are starving and dying don't ya know.
Yawn
Please not another teacher. Our children deserve better government.
ReplyDelete"They are starving and dying don't ya know.
ReplyDeleteYawn."
What an incredibly insensitive and selfish thing to say.
Are there really too many teachers in office? I never really thought about it and I am not sure I will give it much thought. It seems like a non issue to me.
ReplyDeleteArticulate?
ReplyDeleteArticulate?
I didn't quite get that from the posted quote.
She pretends not to be one of Boss Longs ordained candidates so ohare loves her.
ReplyDeleteInstead of you and BS Angle attacking Detinger all night did either of you rocket scientists ask what her record on Nazareth School Board is? Did she ever vote for taxes? How many and how much? How can she hold a school board and Council position at the same time? It is illegal.
Many great questions for this one but you won't get any meaningful answers on this blog.
Ohare has already enshrined her and she is a woman no less, unusual for ohare.
Any elected official universally opposed to tax increases at all times is no leader, but just pandering.
ReplyDeleteNah, opposing taxes at every possible opportunity is more in line with the Constitution than raising them, and I think the people who put that document together were leaders of the highest order.
ReplyDeleteWell, I hate to break it to you, but our Founding Fathers imposed a few unpopular taxes of their own. Ms. Hunter, who teaches history, could probably give you some lessons in an area where you are obviously deficient.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Washingtom inposed a tax on whiskey to pay off the national debt, which sparked a rebellion right her in Pa. Washingtom imposed martial law.
Frie's rebellion was the result of a real estate tax imposed by John Adams in contempation of a war with the French. The resistance to that tax originated in Lehigh County. Fries was nearly hanged.
Yes, out founding fathers teach that taxes are a necessary evil. I suggest you read your history a little more and comment a little less.
I wonder if she's ever crossed a picket line, or if she would ever take a pledge to do so if her union went on strike because they have such crummy pay, benefits and pensions? I wonder if she would do that, because if she is really for the Chirren, she would never use the Chirren as pawns in a tug-of-war for personal gain, would she?
ReplyDeleteIt's little wonder you have no respect for teachers. You obviously don't know anything, not even about our own history. Also, I have no respect for assholes who make fun of children.
ReplyDeleteTeaching is an honorable profession. Sniping at someone anonymously on a blog is just cowardly.
I know plenty about the whiskey rebellion and the history of taxation, the revenue act, the 16th amendment, etc., and you've made my point, a necessary evil, indeed.
ReplyDeleteThere is a vast difference between funding for the common defense/promoting (not providing) the general welfare and funding giant bureacracies filled with employees who believe they are entitled to whatever, whenever, despite the condition of those who are required by law to fund them.
Do you believe those kids in Saucon Valley deserved to be out even one day, and those parents who are struggling - they aren't all rich in that district - deserved to be shit on like the union did them?
Finally, not once, not once did I make fun of children. The cynicism is directed at those who use "the children" as a means to an end. How you got from that to me making fun of kids is beyond me.
Maybe you think me and 12:50 one and the same, not the case.
Anon 7:57 "How can she hold a school board and Council position at the same time? It is illegal."
ReplyDeleteShe hasn't been on the Nazareth School Board for a number of years now. While not comparing apples to apples, I do think her record as a School Board member is a valid question. However, the above statement shows that you are taking a shotgun approach hoping that you hit something without really knowing anything.
If you read thru the comments, you will see how children, our most precious commodity are villified. You may not have made that specific remark, but it was clear enough to me that somebody did and I felt compelled to respond.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like being lumped in w/ other anons, I'd suggest you give yourself a name. Don't blame me for confusing one person afraid to identify himself with another.
And if you know plenty about our history, you never would have made the ridiculous and false comment that our founding fathers were against them. They imposed them and dealt harshly with people who resisted. Instead of reading some Libertarian Bible, read the actual history.
Lighthouse, School Board and couty Council are compatible positions. It has already been ruled that a person can sit on borough and couny council simultaneously. The school board presents no conflict. In the case of a matter involving a school, the council member can simply recuse herself. But as you point out, Hunter is NOT on the school board at this time.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing that we may have to agree to disagree about is that I understand that she called our Constitution a "living document". Very bad news there. That alone disqualifies her for me, especially if that is what she is teaching our youth.
ReplyDeleteBullshit ohare and you know it. Judge Zito, whom you revere, made it clear that you can't sit on a school board and County Council. The only reason you repeat your bullshit is because Angle wants to do both.
ReplyDeleteIf he does, County Council will go to Court and he will lose. Once again you and/or Angle will cost the Taxpayers of the County money.
Zito said nothing of the sort. The only ones who will be wasting money will be those council members who insist on depriving the people of their choice and engaging in gov't by litigation.
ReplyDeleteAnon 1:39 is correct.
ReplyDeleteGo ahead. Go to court and try to depriove the people of the right to determine who they want in office. See how far you'll get.
ReplyDeleteShe is a tax and spend liberal like Stoffa, they will work well together.
ReplyDeleteI still would like each candidate to answer the bais question, Do you support the Stoffa Tax Increase, yes or no.
Had you attended the debate, you would already know how each candidate answered. You would also kmow how Angle feels. Call your buddy Charles. You need new material.
ReplyDeleteHad you attended the debate, you would already know how each candidate answered. You would also kmow how Angle feels. Call your buddy Charles. You need new material.
ReplyDeleteThere is not one County Council person in their right mind that would vote for that crazy budget. Hey lets raise taxes and just sit on $45 million. What is Stoffa drinking.
ReplyDeleteAgreed, I doubt Stoffa's BFF Angle will even support it.
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