Wild Camp Tried To Spin this Blog Into Attacking Edwards

Susan Wild

NorCo John Morganelli could try to minimize his conservative stances on some issues, at least until the primary is over. But he's freely admitted these positions, even when he was booed down at a debate in Allentown. Similarly, Pastor Greg Edwards could tone down the claim of educational apartheid here in the Lehigh Valley. But he has delivered pretty much the same message I've heard from him at other venues. Love 'em or hate 'em, they've both been honest. Sue Wild is another story. While pretending to be a true progressive, her campaign was maligning them. Her Communications Director, Grigsby Crawford, even tried to spin me into an attack on Edwards.

Yesterday, I told you that Wild broke a promise she made to John Morganelli, a fellow lawyer, that she would run a clean campaign. They shook on it either late last year or early this year, although Wild warned Morganelli that Edwards would attack him. She broke her word yesterday with an attack ad aimed at Morganelli. She distorted and misrepresented his positions. She admitted to me that she signed off on the hit piece, too.

A negative campaign is nothing new. But I was and remain shocked that someone I once respected would break her word. If she lied to John, it's safe to conclude that she's lying to you as well.

Now that she has broken her promise, I feel free to tell you that her campaign tried to spin me. Grigsby Crawford, her Communications Director, contacted me on March 12 about a story written by Toronto Star columnist Emma Teitel. In it, she complains that the leaders of the American Women’s March appeared together with Nation of Islam wing nut Louis Farrakhan, who gave a speech saying he "has pulled the cover off of that Satanic Jew, and I’m here to say your time is up, your world is through.”

These #metoo advocates never took Farrakhan to task.

Crawford spun me, "The group endorsed Greg Edwards, Doctor of Divinity, and he has yet to denounce their deep ties to all this Louis Farrakhan hatred [see linked article]. With a large Jewish population in the valley, I think a post on this is timely and necessary. Thoughts?"

I refused to be spun. I think Edwards likely has no idea that the national leaders of this feminist group are chummy with an anti-Semite. Also, as I explained to Crawford, "If I wrote a piece about this, it would be quickly associated with John bc he and I are friends. Though he does not dictate what I write, there are those who think he does. So John would be attacked as anti-women."

Two days later, in an email entitled "yikes!", Crawford sent me a link to a story in a far-left political site called Crooks and Liars, taking him to task because he has spoken a few times to the local tea party, which is described as a "Trump-Loving Racist Hate Group." While this group is definitely very conservative, and some of its members are racists who are full of hate, the Lehigh Valley Tea party is no more racist or hate-filled than "Lehigh Valley For All" or any political group.

Crawford warned me that "team Edwards," as he called them, would be "going full bore on the race stuff." He added, "Edwards has raised a shit load of money off of it. That stuff gets the far left/social justice warrior crowd all tingly inside."

Instead, it is Sue Wild who is trying to profit from the "far left/social justice warrior crowd."

If you are a left leaning Democrat, you should know what Wild and her campaign really think of you.