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| Rob Melosky (left) and Shawn Martell (right) |
Martell, a Becahi (2003) and Moravian College (2007), has deep Bethlehem roots. For one thing, his great grandparents operated Matz's Confectionary on East Broad Street. Most of us can remember the smell of those roasted peanuts, wafting in the air. As you could probably guess, I always felt right at home in a nut hut.
That alone should get him elected. People in Bethlehem love nuts. Look at City Council.
Martell's dad has dedicated his career to the Bethlehem Boys and Girls' Club, where my son was once a member. Martell's mother has taught at both Donegon and Sacred Heart Schools.
Martell became a teacher at Nazareth High School. American Government. He was also one of Melosky's assistant coaches.
Why is he running? According to his statement,
"Shawn is running on the fundamental premise that all Bethlehem citizens deserve to be heard so as to preserve our shared past and to ensure all benefit from our future. With this in mind, Mr. Martell promises to put Bethlehem citizens first by promoting transparency, smart economic development, safe and livable neighborhoods, and fiscal responsibility."He seems like a great candidate and one who will continue making Bethlehem the best City n the Lehigh Valley. I will certainly do my best to follow his campaign and, for once, to be fair.
Updated 10:39 am: Martell is a Democrat. As a result of a typo, I listed him as R in my photo. Also, I mistakenly referred to him as Shartell. I apologize for the error.
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hmmm...a teacher, running fr city council? how unusual.
It's funny isn't it. When it's contract time all you hear from the teachers is how they are at home grading papers until midnight every night yet somehow all these teachers find time to run for City Council.
What's in the closet?
Reynolds lite.
Coach OJ and his mini-me?
If they really love Bethlehem, they should go teach there.
But the trough is much deeper, the buildings much nicer, the school board more enabling and the prey more plentiful in the burbs.
Maybe you don't really want this candidate to win. If you did, you wouldn't have tied him to the Parkland Pariah. Your updated opinion notwithstanding, any competent opponent will exploit "the company he keeps".
Then, again, to the extent that character matters in latte land...
-Clem
Confusing picture caption. He's running as a Democrat? Shouldn't there be a "D" in parentheses after his name or should Melosky have an "L" for pictured to the left??
doesn't the past and present teachers on council lack of vision bother bethlehemites. No - because they are nothing but lever pulling sheep.
this election will be different day, same old crap
Growing up in Bedlum, we used to always stop at Matz's Peanut Shop after Sunday church services to buy a bag of hot roasted nuts. Allentown had the "Nut Hut", we had Matz's. There is no way either of those legendary shops could compete with the nuttiness of today's political atmosphere in Northampton County.
Did you write "Shartell" on purpose or was that just an honest mistake? Also as someone else pointed out, he's running as a Democrat (according to the Express-Times anyway). Why the "R" next to his name?
The reference to Martell as Shartell is simply a mistake. Also, I have him with Melosky in my picture and meant to ID him as being on the right. But I wrote Dem instead of Left next to Melosky,and hence created some confusion. I have corrected these errors and apologize for any confusion.
I also deleted a personal attack at Melosky. The trolls who want to do that need to ID themselves, but are too cowardly to do so.
"Confusing picture caption." Corrected.
Do you know how difficult it is to get a teaching job or how even more difficult it was to get a teaching job back in 2008 when Martell started? Believe me, if he were offered a job in Bethlehem before Nazareth, he would be teaching there.
- Nolan Paul
I am awarethat it is tough to get a job, and the job security is not great in the beginning years. I know teachers who have been laid off and know teachers who can only get hired as subs.
As a life long city resident I think we need to clean house in City Council. Id like to see some fresh faces, new ideas and true concern for this great CITY! Had Bernie not called out Karen Dolan she would still have her seat
Too much of the foxes watching the HEN HOUSE in my opinion
Clean House? Fresh faces? They are all fresh faced with new ideas. 5 of the 7 members are in their first term! Only Evans and Reynolds have been there more than one term, and each of them are only in their second term. Tracy, you would have loved City Council in the 70s-early 90s, when it was routine for members to serve 12-20 years. Heck, Donchez served 18 years.
Clean House?? That's a laugh. As long as you were born went to high School, college you are not to be a Bethlehem official.
Inbreeding is the word in Bedlam. You won't get any new ideas based on age, as long as the only people elected can trace their great-great granddaddy back to their Bedlam roots.
More Bedlam clones and teachers. That is sure a great formula for Bethlehem.
He was handpick3d by Reynolds and Rechutti. Are there any adults in the city. Or at least some people who don't live with their parents?
@5:12 What in the heck are you talking about?
That comment, posted by an anonymous coward to make personal attacks in violation of my rules, has been deleted several times.
Wish Dana Grubb was running, Be nice to have one adult non teacher in the mix.
Gees this is hostile territory! LOL!!!! Maybe I didn't SAY what I meant…
Seems to me although there are fresh faces they still towing the same BS line. They always seem to be a friend of a friend, a teacher and so on. I’m not knocking teachers or generations of council people. It seems to me support will not be throw behind a true voice for the city & for anyone not willing to tow the council line and fall in nicely with the CITY COUNCIL.
I do recall Delgrosso, Donchez and some others who held their seats forever. Again, this should not be a popularity contest to have bobble heads & yes men & woman. Diversity is what I am asking for.
City Council is a clique…
End of the day it’s supposed to be what is best for the city not personal agendas as we saw with Ms. Dolan and several others
It takes courage to put yourself out there to run and I commend the efforts, but they need to be free thinkers & what is best for the city!
Please don’t beat me up too bad for stating the obvious!
Sorry, why do you think they call it Bedlam.
Bernie does Martell really live with his parents, LOL
that can't be true...is it?
I really don't know.
I don't think Recchutti is a teacher.
He's not. He's an attorney. Waldron is a painter. Callahan is some kind of phys ed or driver ed teacher or something. Evans and Willie are teachers. Reuscher is some kind of activist but I don't think she's running.
This guy was recruited by Reynolds. he will be part of the new Reynolds regime on city council.
Grubb's campaign slogan could be "I'll fight for you"
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