When I walked inside the elections office yesterday to be nosy about candidates filing nomination petitions, the man you see above was standing there, waiting for me. I thought he was holding a warrant for my arrest again, but it was a nomination petition. Fred Lahovski, the finest police officer I ever met, is running for magisterial district judge in Northeast Bethlehem and Freemansburg. He decided to run only as a Democrat.
When I stepped outside to cool off, I ran into the guy you see above. That's Jon Whittington, who's also running for this judgeship. I asked if he was filing his papers.
"No, I have a warrant for you."
I'd ask Englesson to represent me but he knows me and knows I'm guilty as hell.
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Seems everyone is coming out of the wood work to be a Judge. Well with the money judges make in there respected county & sections of the city's or townships they represent I can see why.
Lahovsky is probably one of the nicest guys you want to meet, but he's still a police officer. That fraternity is so close knit that sometimes it's downright scary. When you appear in front of a magistrate, do you really want to be going up against a fraternity brother? I have never voted for a police officer to be a judge and I never will. That fraternity of brotherhood creates two strikes against you before your case is ever heard. It's kind of like beating up your wife and then having your mother-in-law hear the case. All that said, You're right Bernie, Lahovsky is a very nice guy.
Isn't this the guy who sued every police department he ever worked for?
Not every.
Great point anon 10:00.
Snollygoster!!!
10:00am
Yup! Might as well not have a judge at all.
Freddy: Colonial Regional - terminated; Bethlehem Township - terminated (sealed); Nazareth - terminated.
7:11,Your comment is inaccurate. Freddy was not terminated in Colonial Regional, but left there voluntarily. He was not terminated in BT, but left there voluntarily. And in Nazareth, almost everyone knows that he appealed his termination, won, then sued the borough and was paid over $440k to go away. His work history shows he's his own man. Sometimes, that gets you in trouble. In Nazareth, he once was involved in an arrest of a lush who was crawling drunk up an alley. The guy was a friend of Larry Stoudt and drank in his club, so Stoudt wanted the guy let go. Lahovski refused. From that point, Stoudt tried to get Lahovski fired. I can also count several instances in which he saved lives, including one instance in which he draped himself over a young boy who had been kidnapped and whose father was in a gun battle with PSP. He is a very good man,and that is why some people hate him. He stood up to Strye's thievery In Nazareth. You have good choices in this election, and do not do yourself any favor by trashing any of them. But if you do so, at least be honest. These are all my friends, with the exception of Will Power. But I'd even insist you be honest about him.
I am not going to allow an anonymous attack like that.
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