An organized faction of the local tea party calling themselves the Republican Action Team (RAT) have failed in a Bethlehem Township attempted takeover. The three candidates they fielded - Robert Birk, Wayne Buller and Fran Blatz - fell short.
In the at-large race, incumbent Marty Zawarski grabbed 393 GOP votes, compared to Birk's 323 and another 242 that went to Paul Weiss, who played the role of spoiler. In Ward 1, incumbent Tom Nolan (188 votes) crushed RAT Wayne Buller (52 votes) and rt Murphy (76 votes).. In Ward 3, incumbent Phil Barnard (140 votes) easily overcame a challenge by RAT Fran Blatz (73 votes).
The RATs refused to appear at a debate concerning this race, hosted by Republicans.
Zawarski is likely to face Democrat Jack Glogola, who waged a write-in campaign, in the Fall. Democrats cast 235 write-in votes, and my guess is that most went to Glagola, a transparency advocate opposed to a development next to wetlands called Green Pond Marsh. Another Democrat, Kim Jenkins, will face Phil Barnard.
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015
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Rs know how to win elections. They've rejected RATs each time they had a chance.
ReplyDeleteRight on Bernie, Spoiler is the perfect term for Weiss, he should have pulled out of the race. Now maybe he will realize what people think of him and get lost! Would love to know where those votes he took would have ended up, something tells me the Silver Heron Birk would have won!
ReplyDelete@2:31,
ReplyDeleteIt was an advantage for Mr. Weiss to be the spoiler. Birk is about as useful as a condom machine in a convent.
Dietz won in District four. He will win in November.
ReplyDeleteGotta love your negativity towards the conservative groups, Bernie. Sometimes I think I am reading an MSNBC blog when I read your blog....
ReplyDeleteThis is not a conservative group. These are mostly whack jobs.
ReplyDeleteOh. I take back my previous statement. Good day to you sir.
ReplyDeleteGo John Glagola!!!
ReplyDeleteYou mean there are conservative groups that aren't whack jobs? Where are they hiding?
ReplyDeleteYou mean NIMBY Glagola.
ReplyDeleteit's funny. his house is actually closer then any of the planned homes in that development !
I guess he's special.
he should just crawl back to NY where he came from or should I say was driven out of