tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post7272915742899665401..comments2024-03-28T17:07:56.753-04:00Comments on Lehigh Valley Ramblings: The O'Connell Formula: Strong Neighborhood + Strong School = Strong CityBernie O'Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-61541670131293987832017-05-07T20:12:19.670-04:002017-05-07T20:12:19.670-04:00Don't be scared to vote for KING ALLENTOWN (or...Don't be scared to vote for KING ALLENTOWN (or hook him up with your wife) the STRONGEST candidate, ever!!!King Allentown the legend / icon / full time sex machinehttp://kingallentown.bandcamp.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-34347201655138032832017-04-26T21:19:19.027-04:002017-04-26T21:19:19.027-04:00Bernie, how can you even let some of the names be ...Bernie, how can you even let some of the names be put to print on your blog, I know your a bottom feeding blogger but some of them names are on a lower level than whale shit could sink! You being who and what you are are way far above that shit as we all float above those floaters yet to be treated and sent down river. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-89515081945150478582017-04-26T18:36:27.007-04:002017-04-26T18:36:27.007-04:006:23, your comment is completely off topic.6:23, your comment is completely off topic.Bernie O'Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-36368386531939172182017-04-26T18:31:20.176-04:002017-04-26T18:31:20.176-04:00Right on. Ray O'Connell is a gentleman. Everyo...Right on. Ray O'Connell is a gentleman. Everyone knows who is playing dirty politics. The Fast Eddy protégée from the limousine liberal class is playing hard an nasty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-19587050696849333142017-04-26T18:23:18.384-04:002017-04-26T18:23:18.384-04:00http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ss...http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/allentown/index.ssf/2017/04/pas_tallest_building_outside_o.html#incart_river_home<br /><br />How does this square with descriptions of a deserted-after-dark Potemkin city?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-88113035629938566452017-04-26T17:15:53.121-04:002017-04-26T17:15:53.121-04:00No surprise at all the cheap shots being taken at ...No surprise at all the cheap shots being taken at Mr. O'Connell. People are well aware of the campaign that is attacking. They feel entitled and are lashing out as they are realizing that people do not want to vote for self-serving candidates. The real personal attacks are on Ray. No other candidate can claim any real accomplishments that are close to his life of work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-83268019214110156082017-04-26T17:00:33.319-04:002017-04-26T17:00:33.319-04:00 I think Ray would be better suited for a township... I think Ray would be better suited for a township manager rather than a mayor Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-33319085221599011412017-04-26T16:08:50.177-04:002017-04-26T16:08:50.177-04:00I believe Ray was blindsided by Ed, truly. But he...I believe Ray was blindsided by Ed, truly. But he has also been part of the problem not the solution. He's not applying for Superintendent of Schools but Mayor. It requires way more in the way of innovative thinking than a school administator is capable of.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-30656931794547537282017-04-26T15:53:03.872-04:002017-04-26T15:53:03.872-04:00I suppose many Allentown voters don't remember...I suppose many Allentown voters don't remember Mayor Bartholomew. He was the first "Strong Mayor" we had after the city charter changed in 1969. Bartholomew was principal of Wiliam Allen High School for decades, and before that he was a teacher and administrator in the ASD going back to the 1920s. <br /><br />Mayor Bartholomew was a good man, and given that many of the voters in Allentown had him as principal of the old Allentown High School, he won election almost by acclimation. However the issues confronting the mayor were very different than the issues confronting a school principal. He wasn't really good at being mayor and only served one term before being defeated by our first Mayor-For-Life, Joe Daddonna. <br /><br />Today, nearly 50 years later, we have another former principal Ray O'Connell running for mayor. Many of the students he had at Trexler are now of voting age and remember him. The difference being that O'Connell has been on City Council for many years where Bartholomew went from the principal's office at Allen to the mayor's office at city hall directly. <br /><br />Today, our second Mayor-For-Life is being challenged by another former principal, who weds the problems in the Allentown School District to the problems the municipal government faces, and you can't solve one without the other. The solution, it seems is to throw more money at the problems to make things well and good.<br /><br />Well, Mr. O'Connell, you weren't my principal at Trexler (Carroll Parks was), and you've been a part of the problem at City Hall for a decade as an elected member of City Council. You've supported Mayor Pawlowski for THREE of his terms. Where were you four, or eight years ago?<br /><br />Or are you simply an opportunist and believe that Mayor Pawlowski is a rat and are shocked, shocked that there may be corruption in city government? A city government you've been a part of for a decade. <br /><br />Spare me the crocodile tears. And your tax increases. No thanks. If you want to really help the ASD, support school vouchers and let our children go to the best school possible; not one based on the address their parents live at.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-41822695043644762072017-04-26T15:50:11.290-04:002017-04-26T15:50:11.290-04:00Jeff,
YOU are right on the MARK.
Travel down 4th a...Jeff,<br />YOU are right on the MARK.<br />Travel down 4th and Linden sts. at 8 a.m. .<br />You will see young healthy men on canes going into the Social Security office to sign up for disability.<br />When they leave the cane goes in the backseat.<br />We all are being Duped by these people.<br />Entitlements is right on JEFFAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-49757213613729189282017-04-26T15:14:25.965-04:002017-04-26T15:14:25.965-04:00With all due respect to Mr. O'Connell, I think...With all due respect to Mr. O'Connell, I think he is failing to address the central issue. The problem isn't the district per se, nor is it the state of our neighborhoods per se. The problem is that the size of Allentown's dependent class has exceeded the city's ability to support it. <br /><br />We need to definitively identify the attributes that make Allentown so very attractive to the parasitic class and take concrete steps to make it less so.<br /><br />Any system -- whether the human body of an individual or the body politic of tens or hundreds of thousands -- can only host so many non-productive parasites before it begins to break down. We in Allentown have reached and exceeded that point.Jeffrey Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204873169467648425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-14961544491021323322017-04-26T15:10:41.321-04:002017-04-26T15:10:41.321-04:00I have deleted several comments that leave huge ga...I have deleted several comments that leave huge gaps at the end. I have also deleted a few anonymous personal attacks, nit at Ray, but other candidates. There are numerous issues to discuss, and the dialogue is not helped by cheap name-calling. If you want to be a bottom-feeder like me, sign your name. Bernie O'Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-47430207628369538342017-04-26T14:46:03.888-04:002017-04-26T14:46:03.888-04:00I agree the key to Allentowns future is to improve...I agree the key to Allentowns future is to improve the school districts overall improvement. We simply have to change the school/student relationships. You can start by bringing back junior high sports to include soccer and promote votech with a return to the building trades as a focus. You can wave the flag all you want for the need for a college education but for the majority of our youth we need to be realistic with expectations especially among the middle class. I guess it boils down to thinking out side the box and their is only one candidate I know of at this time who has that as part of her playbook.Jim Molchanynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-18016869706906117322017-04-26T14:13:03.616-04:002017-04-26T14:13:03.616-04:001:27 " it doesn't matter, the D's win...1:27 " it doesn't matter, the D's win in corrupt Allentown."<br /><br />That's what happens when you have a political machine entrenched in municipal government. You get carbon copies of the same mayor, the only difference being the mayor's name. The philosophy of government however are all the same because they all come from the same well.<br /><br />I like Garcia, and I believe he would be the best choice. Perhaps he has a chance, we shall see in November. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-63184533787093229162017-04-26T14:00:49.763-04:002017-04-26T14:00:49.763-04:001:48 Ms. Bennett left town after the Properties...1:48 Ms. Bennett left town after the Properties of Merit scandal. Then she associated herself with Rendell in Washington. D.C. Comparing her with Hillary Clinton is very true, as both feel this entitlement to be elected. Not because of actual qualifications, but because she's a woman. <br /><br />Her vanity won't let her stop running, even after being rejected by the voters not once, but twice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-91983283671718329472017-04-26T13:54:21.318-04:002017-04-26T13:54:21.318-04:00" The complaint that he was a Fed Ed cheerlea..." The complaint that he was a Fed Ed cheerleader is legit and can be made against every other Democrat running, except possibly Siegel."<br /><br />Then there really isn't any difference between them. They're all Ed's cronies... who turned their backs on Ed once the FBI came to town. Suddenly Ed was worse as being a crab in a whorehouse. Also to the chagrin of many, where are the indictments? It's really not fair to the Mayor that he has this cloud over him of possible criminality, but he can't defend himself against what are, as of now, baseless allegations. After nearly two years.. what crimes are Pawlowski being charged with ?<br /><br />For being such a criminal and scum of the earth as is alleged, it appears Mayor Pawlowski appears to be running a strong campaign with the voters. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-58086541403183248852017-04-26T13:24:11.724-04:002017-04-26T13:24:11.724-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-38097438142930810512017-04-26T13:17:59.746-04:002017-04-26T13:17:59.746-04:00FED ED had everyone duped.
When they figure it out...FED ED had everyone duped.<br />When they figure it out he is deceitful and dishonest and EVIL.<br />Not only O'Connell but you can go back to D'Amore, Schweyer, Schlossberg,Glazier,Guridy, Mota, Affa, and all his Department heads.<br />HE NEEDS TO GO.<br />This city IS suffocating under his leadership or lack of it.<br />Anybody, but ED.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-47274874248089780512017-04-26T13:13:51.334-04:002017-04-26T13:13:51.334-04:00You. all need to read the Home Rule Charter.
Allen...You. all need to read the Home Rule Charter.<br />Allentown has a strong Mayor form of government.<br />City Council only can take him on at Budget time .Otherwise, he holds the TRUMP card.<br />The charter needs to be revised.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-60235216455777213092017-04-26T11:50:44.912-04:002017-04-26T11:50:44.912-04:00The anonymous attacks aimed at Ray are that he'...The anonymous attacks aimed at Ray are that he's too old, has never worked in the private sector, that he should have vouchers and that he was a Fed Ed cheerleader. <br /><br />Ray is younger than Trump or Hillary Clinton and has more energy than most candidates. As for never working in the private sector, he worked as an administrator and principal and has executive experience. As fir school vouchers, there is no way a city government has anything to do with those. That is just absurd to mention here. The complaint that he was a Fed Ed cheerleader is legit and can be made against every other Democrat running, except possibly Siegel. <br />To me, Ray is the best of the candidates and has the best ideas. He is right. If you want to fix Allentown, it has to be at the schools and neighborhoods. Bernie O'Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-28228221282418222442017-04-26T11:40:06.960-04:002017-04-26T11:40:06.960-04:00"Everything in his "platform" for M...<em>"Everything in his "platform" for Mayor are problems that he should have addressed and fixed as a long term Councilman and as a past long term school district leader."</em><br /><br />When O'Connell first ran for City Council in 2009, I thought he was running for school board. This was his platform then. He has consistently maintained that Allentown and the schools go hand in hand. Bernie O'Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-43844280505952257552017-04-26T11:28:41.659-04:002017-04-26T11:28:41.659-04:00I'm supporting Det. Garcia, but Mr. O'Conn...I'm supporting Det. Garcia, but Mr. O'Connell is a really fine man -- and a real gentleman. Allentown is lucky to have two candidates of this caliber and quality (and G-d knows we need that right about now).<br /><br />It's almost a shame they can't both win...Jeffrey Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11204873169467648425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-5511054592650702382017-04-26T11:10:19.882-04:002017-04-26T11:10:19.882-04:00Has Ray O'Connell ever worked in the private s...Has Ray O'Connell ever worked in the private sector ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-10138482565318854152017-04-26T10:30:09.515-04:002017-04-26T10:30:09.515-04:00Ray needs to retire from government, it's time...Ray needs to retire from government, it's time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-29301752593016812332017-04-26T09:50:17.733-04:002017-04-26T09:50:17.733-04:00It is Ray all the way! Only legit choice.It is Ray all the way! Only legit choice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com