Late last week, I told you that NorCo Council member Kelly Keegan, who is also employed by Easton Area School District as a nurse, had a troubling reaction to the murder of a far-right influencer named Charlie Kirk. ""He was a monster and his wife and kids are better off without him as is the rest of the world," she said. "Hopefully her next partner will respect women and children." Her remarks have landed her in hot water at the school district, which could take disciplinary action. Her position on NorCo Council, however, is more or less unassailable. The only way an elected official can be removed from office is through impeachment by the General Assembly or conviction of an infamous crime. Yes, there are recall provisions in the Home Rule Charter, but they are unconstitutional. So she should survive the firestorm that she herself ignited. But she's done no favors to Democrats running for office in November. Her remarks just might have made a GOP victory far more likely in NorCo.
In a heartfelt and moving statement, NorCo Exec Tara Zrinski made clear that she has a quality that appears to be missing from Keegan's stained soul - empathy. I also received a statement from NorCo Council candidate Jason Boulette, a Democrat running for one of the five at-large seats, condemned Keegan's remarks, stating that public figures "have a responsibility to not further enflame dangerous situations with angry rhetoric." But the damage has been done.
Sources close to Keegan tell me she's at a loss to understand why people are so upset with her. She was angry that she was asked to stay away from Forks Community Days. Will she apologize? If she does, will it be sincere or pure expediency?
What I do know is that Republicans are strongly considering a mailer that includes Keegan's "monster" statement, followed by pictures of her with various Democratic candidates. This will have no impact on hard-core Dems. It will make no difference to the GOP faithful, who would never vote Democratic anyway. But it will sway many moderate and independent voters, and it is they who decide elections.
Democrats have a fractured County Council ticket already. Because Democrat Lori Vargo Heffner has been willing to be an independent voice and resist some of a Democratic Executive's agenda, she's been blacklisted by most Democratic organizations and unions. The Republicans, in contrast, have a strong team and they are united.
Keegan's ill-considered comments might just be enough to put them over the top.
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"a heartfelt and moving statement"
Can you please share what you are smoking. That was a bullshit sandwich apology, that Zirinski probably didn't write. As to Keegan, Zilinski, McClure and the rest of team Tara knew what she was long before this incident. In fact, they are still on social media defending her. And they are still high up on the elect Zirtisnki cabal.
"heartfelt and moving" oh please!
Sources close to Keegan tell me she's at a loss to understand why people are so upset with her.
Perhaps because she said the quiet part out loud. She pulled back the veil that normally shrouds lunacy. The school admin is between a rock and an even bigger rock. Privately they agree with her but out in the open they are taking a beating. Not terminating her is supporting her horribleness. They have thrust themselves into a pickle by failing to do the right thing. Which they are incapable of.
As awful her comments are I don’t think a vast majority of independents voters even know who Kirk was or that Kelly’s affiliation to Dems would be an effective mailer. Most people look at them for about 5 seconds and discard them as is. Making one around this that would be effect is tough even tougher to an independent audience. Keegan’s stupidity doesn’t impact people’s day to day lives that issues of taxes or Gracedale etc have. I doubt this is a wedge issue worth throwing thousands at in mail. Cheap digital though might be more effective. Or perhaps Mr. Giovanni would like to bring this up at a debate with Tara, oh wait he’s too chicken to do that.
It's over, and we all know it. Keegan delivered the death nail, and some really good dem candidates now stand no chance.
Northampton County Democratic "leadership" is worthless and has done zero damage control, effectively buried any slim hopes we had left.
First, I think you are now beating a dead horse. Keegan will have her day, but rehashing the same thing for days is of no value. She either learned her lesson or tightened the rope. Second, I fail to understand why you believe Zrinski’s message was “heartfelt.” It was gibberish and, more than likely, written with the help of AI and Barron (AI in human form).
The cake is baked. Keegan being an idiot will have no affect in November. Tara will win with 53%+ of the vote and Dems take 3+ Council seats. Dems are dominating MIBs and have crushed in specials and the primary. Republicans have a turnout deficit because MAGA only votes when Trump is on the ballot.
Bernie you’re better than that. Heartfelt and moving? Please! That statement was so carefully worded, long winded, so typical of a gutless politician trying to straddle both sides of an issue. You’re usually pretty fair but it’s obvious you’re trying to help her.
She just supported the very reasons why she should resign from her job at EASD and council; namely, she doesn’t understand why people are “upset” with her. Kelly apparently has no soul and it’s “all about her”. There’s no compassion in the woman; something one needs to represent others and to care for and about others. Tara is no different, Bernie. She can’t understand either why people don’t trust her and think she’d ruin Northampton County as Executive. Giovanni for Executive . Resign Kelly.
Democrats should get backlash from this. Keegan has been lighting rod of nastiness and petty bullshit for a long time and she was a rock star for it among local dems! Now she’s gone too far and they are like oh let’s distance ourselves. Her and Tara are tight and she just said out loud what Tara Zrinski and the rest of them really think. Where is Lamont on all this? Keegan’s his girl!
I haven't seen any comments from McClure about any of this. Be interesting to see why he's hiding?
On the 6:00 PM newscast last night, 69-WFMZ gave Zrinksi a free campaign ad on their Keegan story. In fact, her brief interview statement got first billing on that news segment.
TZ "heartfelt comment was pure political bs. What she is a smarter KK. Norco is in for a very bumpy ride when the button pushers make her exec.
I could understand why. If he were to make a response, as Tara did, you would blast it as phony.
Still no comment from the exec or lvh. Very telling.
Holy shit! Kamala Harris couldn't have written a better word salad than that! I'm quite sure Bernie will be endorsing TZ for executive now, to call the "heartfelt" is an insult LOL.
Exactly right. They’ll fold their tent and circle the wagons. She won’t lose her job.
Its a little late to be sincere
Exactly, that tells you just how crazy she is. She has some kind of mental health problem obviously. She’s a very mean person to post what she posted.
This woman will not be fired by the Easton School District. Everyone they fire sues and wins.
The bigger elephant in the living room is justification of murder be cause you didn't like what they said. Name one court where a murder defendant was vindicated because his defense was that the victim is a right wing asshole ? Words are NOT violent. The democrat socialists have pushed this lie for a decade. We can carve out California from this example, as they are naming ballot measures after Luigi mangione, their hero. Keegan joins millions who think its ok to blow a person's head off because you disagree politically. That is the death of democracy. She didnt say that exactly , but word gymnastics have no place in this discussion. Either condemn it, stay silent, or justify it with your responses. Same for the other assassination attempts. The democrats are flailing and losing, badly. Murder isn't the answer. Getting away from your insane defense of illegal aliens, terrorists and endless money laundering would be a better place to start. Pay close attention to what JD Vance said last night about unity. Go listen to it and digest it because he's right.
Bernie, there are many thoughts better left unsaid.
Much like his running away from the missing money at Gracedale, he's running from this. Lamont's gonna Lamont.
"In a heartfelt and moving statement, NorCo Exec Tara Zrinski made clear that she has a quality that appears to be missing from Keegan's stained soul - empathy."
I think you are out of touch with the reaction that this statement received. By and large people thought it was complete bull. Check the comments.
Perhaps Kelly would have been well served by my mother’s advice. If you don’t have anything good to say, don’t say anything.
I surely hope there is a backlash against recent, radical Democrat/Socialist dirty politics. This includes local, state, and federal. This nation needs to crawl back to more normalcy in human behavior. That's not even debatable.
To rebuild a more respectable society, the purveyors of intimidation, underhanded trickery, lying, and sometimes promotion of illegal behaviors MUST find failure in the tactics they employ to get their way.
The way to stop a bully is to not cower in their presence, but to face them straight-up with truth and strong conviction.
Ironically, the organization created by Charlie Kirk is named TURNING POINT USA. How appropriate for these troubled times!
YES, by all means, we should all want to see political failout that could set America onto a better path. Our children deserve as much from us.
You should hear some of the vile remarks employees at the courthouse are saying about Kirk.
Such as “another shitbag dead”, “the shooter did us a favor”, and other remarks praising the shooter or laughing about the incident.
This is glorifying a school shooter. Kelly should resign from all positions.
Save the Democrats and resign. Charles did.
Bernie, are you serious? You know exactly what that word salad by Tara was espousing. Shame on you. Go back and read her statement again. No one hates better than the Lefties when they are confronted. They are ok after a drug dealer gets killed and the response leads to the destruction of businesses and cities. It was ok when a police family's information was published in town after town and the police in many towns were vilified. EASD is a nest of the same ilk as Kelly and Tara. You believe the words of someone who you have told us was charged with perjury? Kelly would have been out of a job if she had lived in the responsible school districts in other localities.
Koo Koo Kreepy Keegan must go- and her husband, who shares her beliefs can't be elected in Forks Township!
Professionally, most of us sign codes of conduct agreeing to not bring disrepute to our employers via personal conduct or social media. Keegan certainly did that. Politically, her speech should be protected and is certainly instructive. An old Irish saying applies:
May the Lord bless those who love us.
May He turn the hearts of those who don't.
May He turn the ankles of those whose hearts won't turn,
So by their limps we see them coming.
This nut said the quiet part out loud- unlike Zrinski who feigned her outrage.
This is going to have little to no effect on the election, this with or without Kelly could give republicans a small boost and encourage some of them to show up in an off year. But look at the year over year numbers Dems will still have a strong advantage, plus Tom and the gang aren’t doing much beyond going to events. Is he even going to debate Tara? Or is Glenn going to fight his battles for him?
The right is repeating the mistakes of peak woke. It won’t end well.
814. Please self reflect.
A loss to understand why people are so upset with her....... I don't know her but I'm appalled that any person who lives in this great nation would celebrate assassination and say those hurtful words. Thinking them is beyond my comprehension but she put them out on social media as a representative as a nurse, school district employee and county council person. If she doesn't understand, as apparently millions don't, it says a lot about her character and the lack of morality, judgment and patriotism. How anyone thinks it was ok is beyond me. I've struggled all week trying to understand and all I come up with is you can't understand true evil unless you are evil yourself. That goes for all who commented or find what she and others said to be ok. It is far from ok. I pray for them all and mostly for our country.
It is one thing for one misguided sick person to do harm. It is a whole other story when many people condone it. Heartbreaking
Don"t worry Bernie leaves a lot of Truth unsaid.
Bernie, I have a hard time accepting your assessment of Zrinski's comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination as heartfelt and moving.
1.Her first comment: "I had not planned on posting anything about Charlie Kirk’s assassination because I just didn’t have the words, but, I have read many posts and watched the reactions from the news, the President, talking heads on podcasts and it is all vile."
A statement where she claims she wasn't going to post yet set the tone by mentioning the President to maintain the political divide. This sets up her true feelings.
2. "I mourn not for Charlie Kirk but for human decency." - a contradictory statement. She is not mourning the human Charlie Kirk but is morning human decency. How do you mourn human decency without mourning the human: Charlie Kirk. Again, she is demonstrating her true ideological issues and political views
3. "I am bereaved by the loss of kindness in the hearts of people." but she also states, "....although none I would align myself even in polite conversation." - A kind heart would invite different views into conversations yet she already stated she would never speak with hm.
4."The goal is to break the cycle of violence, not to perpetuate it, even against those who may seem deserving of harm." - She is intimating with this comment that she felt Charlie seemed deserving of harm, which is also supported by her comment about not mourning him as a person.
The only heartfelt and moving piece of her comments, where her superfluous words to hide her true beliefs and political as she tries to distance herself to save her own political endeavors. Nothing sincere in any way.
Keegan should get backlash.
It is obviously phony since these very same people have been on her social accounts for YEARS liking, sharing and spreading all of Kelly and her husband Ed's visceral and evil rhetoric! They are all on the same page. They have shared in the hate speech!
McClure Puppet string holder
Kelly Keegan
Ed Keegan- EASD school board
Amy Blum- Forks Township Supervisor
Derek Hughes- Forks Township Supervisor
Tara Zrinski - County Exec
They are linked together! Far before Charlie Kirk's death.
As is the superintendent of the EASD! Research her and her ties to Keegan, McClure and Zrinski! And you'll understand why she continues to sweep anything she does under the carpet and "waits for things to settle down ... and for people to forget"
They are all birds of a feather.
Keegan also rejoiced with a post when Ed Reagan died. Ed constantly called her out for her stupidity and doing political work on school district time. Keegan also post her greatest day will be not when a woman is president, but when whites are the minority. She needs to be fired and resign from council. She shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near children. This woman is deranged and needs psychiatric care. She’s a big proponent of mental health, she should use it!!!!
Parents should pull their kids if she doesn’t lose her job. Children’s safety is most important.
Tzara cleans house in November. Remember when everyone said she was going to lose the controller race? Is Giovanni even campaigning?
Keegs is a brave truth warrior unafraid of the cancel culture vultures circling Kirks carcass, times up hate mongers the storm has begun and the pink pistols are mobilized
Kelly is still posting on Facebook and apparently has learned nothing.
good and so it should have the other twit had a Prayer Vigil, what an ass clown
channeling my inner Bernie..." "I think you are now beating a dead horse"...feel free to start your own blog where you can not write about keegan all you want"
Thank you, Senator Fetterman.
(That was a compliment, not sarcasm)
Kelly Keegan is far beyond a narcissist. I'd argue she is a psychopath and requires an immediate psych evaluation to continue her job as a nurse in the district. Her comment ".... I'm at a loss to understand how anyone can be upset...." over her visceral and evil comments over a loss of life attributing it to karma explains as such. Her YEARS of bashing other people with zero remorse...Celebrating the death of a Forks Township resident that was unafraid of the politics in the community and was gaining traction on outting her and her husband for what they are and the district for covering it all up. He dies in a medical procedure, and she CELEBRATES "ding dong the witch is dead". Her supporters loved and congratulated her!! People on the ballot today!!!! RIP Ed Regan!
By definition a psychopath is an individual with a psychopathic personality disorder, characterized by a persistent pattern of egocentric and antisocial behavior, a lack of empathy and remorse, and manipulative tendencies, often accompanied by impulsivity and disregard for the rights and feelings of others. While not a standalone clinical diagnosis, psychopathy is considered a severe form of Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD) and is associated with an increased likelihood of criminal behavior.
The district should demand a psych evaluation on this is vial woman before allowing her to continue working with our children!
We are putting our kids at risk in her care when she knows the families that are against her extremist beliefs.
She is anti Conservative and anti Christian and an extreme evil human begin. She believes what happened to Kirk was okay for his beliefs.... what happens to your child that she deems "wrong" and suffers at her hands in the name of Karma?
Demand the district do something about her! And DO NOT VOTE for her puppets in November!
The administration may be her political allies but the state board of nursing in PA is not! She requires an eval to stay in this role. If the school board won't do it, it's up to us to reach out to the nursing board to do it for them.
Public information: her license number is RN634665
There is a code of conduct for nurses in PA and she violates it! Report since our district is too coward to do it themselves.
""I mourn not for Charlie Kirk but for human decency."
That is definitely where she lost me. At leas say "I mourn not ONLY for Charlie Kirk..." In these situations people waffle and "mourn human decency" or "the sanctity of human life". All well and good, but they're wishy washy statements. Have some compassion to mourn for you enemies, and a spine to honor your martyrs. It is OK to name names without making it about "everyone".
Idiots seldom ever do.
Please tell me this is satire.
Thats extremely upsetting to hear. Don't let th e m get away with it in the workplace. Toxic work environment. Call HR. At least training for all
She doesn't have the mental capacity to write such a statement- McCluless or Barron wrote it for her, just like they prepare her Controller Reports every month.
McCluless, Zrinski, Barron & the Easton Area Superintendent all "liked" KooKoo Keegan & her Koo Koo husband's crazy on-line rants before- do your research!
Jeez, if Chuckie was a school shooting victim, Republicans would have already forgot about him!
Bernie, 12:24 has gone too far by listing personal info regarding someone and labeling that person with mental illness. No need to publish this comment but just review the comment above and decide. I don't think anybody would like to comment on your blog if they thought someone like 12:24 would go after them. Disagreement and discord are fine but when a person is identified and things are a little different. The victim here has no recourse because she does not know who 12:24 is other than anonymous. He may have put her in danger and is truly out of line.
Very good analogy. Broke it down paragraph by paragraph to show what a line of bullshit it is.
This comment won't go over with many who read the Blog. But, I'm convinced today's hard liberal, Democrat supporting news media has created thousands of people in the Lehigh Valley who share and promote sentiments just like expressed by Keegan and Josh Siegel from Lehigh County.
The Morning Call and TV69 (who run with the same crap political stories every day) both have dirt on their hands. Both would be better served by avoiding the Associated Press, New York Times, and a few other propaganda outlets.
you must want her job
Jeez, BOH, the fact that you hardly knew who Charlie Kirk was sez something less than complimentary about the scope of your awareness and inquisitiveness.
Frankly I am surprised.
TZ revealed herself to be a narcissist way back when she was lobbying hard to be the Pastor of the Universalist congregation in Bethlehem.
She’s a vacuous shell of a person.
When you call half the Country Fascists, all it takes is a nut who marinates in this garbage on- line to act out. Koo Koo Keegan just said the quiet part out loud! The response from the Superintendent was feckless and covered their asses!
It was probably KooKoo Keagan spewing more hate.
Complaints have been filed with PA Nurses Board. They Definitely have a code of conduct policy even if Piazza will do nothing, the state will.
No personal information has been listed. Her license number is public information.
I couldn't quite put a name to it but Scott Adams describes the lunatics as "Hitlarians". Everyone who disagrees with me is a Nazi, everyone I don't like is Hitler. KK is a surefire Hitlarian and like all of the other Hitlarians they are out of runway. People have had enough of the nonsense. If the Orange Meanie was truly as bad as the Hitlarians claim then they wouldn't be able to openly claim that he is bad. Real dictators murder dissenters openly as a way to send a clear message. I would have to believe that KK has turned down her facebook account which for a love me, want me, notice me narcissist is the greatest punishment of all. If she loses her job the machine will find another one for her. It's how one hand always washes the other. They will likely politely ask her to perhaps temper herself in public. Or not and let the lunatic be looney.
You’re getting a bit hysterical. Perhaps you need help too.
Apparently she has posted other evil garbage as well. Someone pointed out her posts regarding special needs students and use of the elevator at school. She’s an asshole.
The Superintendent is a coward and will do nothing. Do some research on her, she's a Koo Koo Keegan supporter.
Bret Bair on Fox had both our PA senators on his Common Ground segment last night. I must say I was proud to be from PA. McCormick and Fetterman seem to get along well, but most of all they respect each other. McCormick even said he has built a trusting relationship with Fetterman, even though they don’t always agree. We are one of only 3 states with senators from both sides of the aisle. We need more of this civility in politics.
Yes on both (code of conduct and public information on license). Kelly is hardly a victim here. Let’s hope no one with any type oversight of her (employer, board of nursing, county council) lets this slide. She apparently has new NFL favorite teams; namely, those four who did no tribute to Charlie. SMH. She just can’t give it up.
There's an old saying about Pennsylvania and it still holds true. You have Democrats on the left side with Pittsburgh. You have Democrats on the right with Philadelphia. In the middle, you have the Alabama Hillbillies.
Off topic but I am pleasantly surprised that Fetterman is the reasonable man in the room lately. Impressive reaching across isle as we need more of that
There is no grey area here- Koo Koo Keegan needs help!
7:50 am: Pretty defamatory. Proof of the post?
Bernie old. I'm old. We don't get our news from podcasts or youtube.
1:23 -- The post that 7:50 is referencing is circulating on social media as a screen grab.
That's because she is a phony- Zrinski doesn't have an authentic bone in her body!!
Hold your powder for a bit…TZ lost some ground and outed Keegan to the public. Along with this blog. It won’t help the Dems or Mclure on their campaigns that these community leaders eat their own and run from truth….dont forget the audit, time lines for transparency, and lack of coherent responses…the Publicans will have fresh meat this campaign season.
Only an evil person like Koo Koo Keegan can celebrate someone's death who advocated for free speech and civil debate.
Nice, but his voting record says a different thing.
Well yeah, he's democrat, so his voting record reflects that. What I like is he refuses to be bullied into spewing the party line. He's a staunch defender of Israel. He has called for the end of calling Trump "Hitler" and a "Fascist" because that kind of rhetoric devalues the real meaning of the words. It also causes people to act out, hence the two assassination attempts on Trump, and the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I lean conservative, would I vote for Fetterman now? Probably not, but I respect him. I have liberal friends and conservative friends, the world doesn't evolve around politics. Get off the social media and get on the rails to trails. You'll be much happier.
Look out folks! Another crazy, April Gabriel Ferretti, and her band of left wing crazies have taken up KKs cause. Crazy April is from Nazareth, but she wants to tell all the Easton people how to run their school district. Stay in Nazareth April!
I see Rudy Miller at LVL is again giving his fellow activist friend April Gabriel Ferretti a platform to help her fellow crazy Kelly Keegan. Rudy has his head so far up this Ferretti’s ass, it’s not even funny. He’s basically become a liberal activist masquerading as a journalist at this point. LVL is a shell of its former self, unless you like Dear Abby or Dear Eric LOL.
Can you believe Kelly Keegan has a new Facebook page? She’s at it again already. SMH she just doesn’t get it.
You notice: no riots, and BTW, Koo Koo Keegan has a new FB page!
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