Easton City Council member Taiba Sultana announced that she is seeking re-election to her seat representing the south side yesterday and bragged that she already has 100 signatures even though candidates were unable to seek signatures before yesterday. I wonder if she got Lisa Boscola to sign again.
Her announcement was greeted far less enthusiastically at Easton's South Side Social Facebook page.
NO, NO, NO, NO THANK YOU!!! This person has done nothing for South Side, nothing!! It's her agenda to lie in your face! NO TO TAIBA SULTANA!
Vote for Susan Hartranft-Bittinger who actually cares and is a lifelong resident!
Sultana was absent when Easton's most recent budget was adopted and even missed the meeting the previous evening at which budget amendments were considered. Given that this is the most important function of a city council, her absence for a vacation in Pakistan is inexcusable.
Just last year, she mounted an ill-advised primary challenge to State Rep. Bob Freeman. I'd agree it's time for him to step aside, but not for her. Voters agreed. Freeman won by an unheard of 77.5% landslide.
In that campaign, her own children were nabbed by Pa. State police for defacing campaign signs critical of her campaign. Her adult daughter was charged with corrupting the morals of minors.
She's divisive. At one meeting she actually did attend, she claimed to be the only person there who cares about the black and brown community even though city council member "downtown" Kenny Brown is himself black and is named Brown.
Sultana fails to mention another petition. This one was filed by 250 Easton residents, asking her to resign. Here's what it says:
"In the two years that Mrs. Sultana has held her seat in office, she has done very little for the people of the city that she was entrusted to do when she was elected.
"Since 2022, Mrs. Sultana had shown very little interest in the citizens of this city ... . In 2022, she has missed out of four budget meetings. In December 2023, she missed committee meetings to protest the Menorah lighting in Bethlehem. In January 2024, she missed committee meetings to have her State Rep announcement party. In March 2024, she had her children at the dais during the Council meeting while her husband and adult child were present and were able to sit with them, then proceeded to use the footage of that meeting as a political mudsling opportunity to again disrespect her constituents. On March 27, 2024, she did not appear in person when topics such as the parking issue on Davis Street in Southside was discussed, In April 2024, she did not attend the committee meetings to discuss the quality-of-life issues of parking in the downtown.
"At the end of 2023, South Side residents came to planning to fight three pieces of development that the residents of South Side did not want in the community. She did not attend and of [those meetings] while other Council members showed and addressed the concerns we had ... ."
"She has brought more division in the City and has continuously been combative with her constituents. ... She seems more interested in making headlines addressing national and international business as a priority.
"Many issues have been raised in South Side Easton and Mrs. Sultana was involved in none of these issues by supporting the residents in finding a solution or attending meetings to object to projects. The many times you've seen Mrs. Sultana on South Side is for her benefit, Seven town homes on Coal Street taking away all green space on an already small lot; a smoke shop less than 215' from another location; selling the same items, wanting to sell synthetic opioids; and a garbage issue in your neighborhood that we reached out for your help. South Side Civisc Ass'n reached out to you about getting benches and tables for the field house about a year ago, and you came back in October to say there was no money in the budget, yet they were notified that they were already ordered and actually [are] waiting in storage to be installed.
"Mrs. Sultana has made false, derogatory statements about the City of Easton police department twice in less than a year by calling them unprofessional, racist [and] politically motivated, and yet again now with a political ad. Her unprofessional behavior and lack of respect, shown multiple times for other members of both Council and public officials, are an indication to all that she does not have the people of Easton's best interests in mind.
"Being an elected official, you are to lead by example 24/7, 365 days a year. Unfortunately, many people who agree with this petition wouldn't sign it for fear of retaliation by [Sultana].
"Again, we are demanding that Mrs. Sultana resign as a City of Easton Council member, effective immediately. This should not be a hard decision.to make since she has no respect for the city that pays her ... You've done nothing but pretty much bash everyone who disagrees with you ..."
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I’m an Easton resident, but not on Southside. However, I plan to knock doors as does the rest of the Democratic committee for Taiba’s opponent, Susan. Last weeks’ NORCO Dems meeting, was mostly used to discuss the fact that not one democrat will circulate petitions for her or her husband Nadeem. Vote NO to the Sultana Crime Family !
Vote NO to her and her husband
Bernie
You reported back in Nov ( or about) That the city had a lien on her home for not paying her taxes. Has she resolved that?
Lets add she never attended ONE Planning Commission meeting the two years she was the Planning & Codes Committee liaison to council.
Someone may challenge her petition anyway but I don't know if one can prove that signers signed before Feb. 18 unless they put the wrong date.
As bad as she is, consider the imbecility of those South Siders who originally elected her. Obama said elections have consequences. South Siders richly deserve her worst for electing her in the first place.
Admit it BO, if she gets tossed, you'll miss her.
100 signatures in one day? Lol! She won't even get 100 votes in the primary.
Does she even live in the City anymore? She had completely cleared out her house on Vista Drive and put it on the market back in November. It was taken off the market a few weeks later and hasn't sold since, but it's not clear to me whether she relocated elsewhere in the City, moved back into this house, or moved somewhere outside the City.
Every Party has a nut- She's the equivalent to the R's Mazzacrappy!
She was cited today for driving an unregistered vehicle: 2-19-2025
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