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Monday, March 20, 2017

Mike Buffer Says Hi!

Mike Buffer and his daughter
Mike Buffer is currently a news reporter at Citizens Voice up in  Scranton and Wilkes Barre. But I bumped into him last night when he was having dinner with his daughter. He tried climbing out a window in the rest room, but I was waiting on the other side.

I got to know Mike back when he was working for The Express Times, back when it was still covering county government. He had a knack for really pissing off county executives  Two of them - one a Republican and the other a Democrat - for a time insisted that all questions from Buffer had to be in writing. The more pompous a public official, the more fun Buffer had.

While we chatted, he told me a great Ron Angle story. Blue bloods hate Ron.They like to look down their noses at him. So Angle decided one year to challenge L Jack Bradt XXXVIII's nomination petition to a throne on Northampton County Council, and actually got him tossed  Much as I think voters should decide elections, I loved to see a condescending aristocrat put in his place.

What I didn't know, and what Buffer told me, is that Angle dropped in on Bradt not long after getting him tossed.

"I don't know why you did this to me," complained Bradt. "I'm a Republican."

"What do you think I am, a Whig?" was the Bulldog's answer.      
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10 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 20, 2017 at 12:35 AM

    There are many, many Angle stories. there is the one about how a family had Atty. Longenbach go after him because of the condition of the apartment their relative rented from him. There was also the time he got into an argument with Buffer's old boss Joe Owens when Owens would not push a 9/11/01 story for an Angle story. The best was when Angle attacked the late Elmer Gates and Gates sued him. Despite Ron Angle's usual multiple attorney and court delay tactics Gates had even more money and was able to win the judgment. These are all legends

    The stories are endless. I doubt those are the stories you are interested in telling. It isn't just blue bloods that are not fond of the guy.

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  2. AnonymousMarch 20, 2017 at 12:53 AM

    Back in the day people knew all about the Bradt-Angle tiff. At some point when Ron was running Bradt supposedly sent pout a mailer with a complete record of Angle's involvement with the courts. The mailer is still floating around out there.

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  3. Bernie O'HareMarch 20, 2017 at 5:54 AM

    12:26, those stories have been smeared over this blog for years.

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  4. AnonymousMarch 20, 2017 at 7:43 AM

    KL deserves to be smeared. You know the difference between a lawyer and a sack of manure? The sack.

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  5. AnonymousMarch 20, 2017 at 12:04 PM

    Who's 12:26 and who's KL?

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  6. AnonymousMarch 20, 2017 at 12:26 PM

    How about the race when a lowly steelworker defeated Bradt for the Executive position thanks to Jim Hemstreet who backed the steelworker instead of the blue blood. Rumor has it that Ron Angle also supported Seyfried in that race. Any truth to that one.

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  7. Bernie O'HareMarch 20, 2017 at 1:08 PM

    I'd have to ask Ron. I know he deeply respects Jerry, who is probably the most knowledgeable source in the Home Rule Charter and county history under the early years of home rule.

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  8. AnonymousMarch 20, 2017 at 3:03 PM

    Jerry likes and respects Ron as well. People say it was Ron who pressed Jerry to fill the Wayne Grube vacancy. Apparently Jerry is backing Angle in this county council race.

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  9. Bernie O'HareMarch 20, 2017 at 3:11 PM

    Whatever these guys do privately is one thing, but I doubt very much that Jerry will publicly support Ron.

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  10. AnonymousMarch 20, 2017 at 5:51 PM

    This should be interesting now that Angle and Merzzacappa are the face of the ere publican Party in Northampton County.

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