While discussing this rumored resignation ballet with some friends, two interesting points were brought up. Realizing that this is all speculation:
1) If either Mr. Radosti or Mrs. Heater are resigning, could they be accused of having run false campaigns, thereby defrauding the voting public, or
2) If they take the oath of office and then resign, could they be accused of taking a false oath?
I mean, if the accursed one, Sandy Gibson, were going to be doing something like this, wouldn't the NSNs already be sharpening up the pitchforks and lighting the torches for the midnight raid to drive the infidel from our midst?
Saturday, November 17, 2007
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Right on all counts. Hypocrisy reigns supreme with the NSN's. I remember when Jack Buckman ripped into Johanny Manning at a board mtg last year, because another recently-appointed board member who lived on her street was moving out of the district - of course, she had to have known this (don't you know everything about everyone on your street?), and how could she in good conscience have allowed this person to be a candidate a for board appointment? Well, it turns out that board member Peter Eisengrein was just moving around the corner. Buckman didn't stick around for the explanation though -his grandstanding mission was accomplished. I'm actually kind of sorry Buckman lost his boro council seat in the 4th ward. The victor, David Rivella, is no friend of the schools, and no friend of democracy either.
No need for the NSN's to sharpen their pitchfolks (are they ever dull?), & they can put their bics back in their pockets. A for sale sign is up at the Gibson residence. Might as well get it out there now. I can hear it already: "Just like (insert name of other excoriated ex-Morrisvillian who diasgreed with the NSN's - Ken Junkins comes to mind), she moved into town just long enough to mess things up, then left town with us holding the bag." Translation in non-NSN language: "She tried to do something that, although difficult and unpopular, might have turned out to be a good thing for Morrisville. But because we disagreed with her decision and approach, and felt betrayed because we initially thought we owned her, went about making things so unpleasant for her and her family that they decided to move elsewhere, probably to a community that cares much more about public education both in thought and in deed."
And speaking of hypocrisy, the guest opinion in this morning's Courier Times is from Gloria DelVecchio, who urges people to not be so quick to blame Yardley flood victims. She says she bought her house in Yardley around 1965, only 10 yrs after the devastating floods of 1955. She then speaks authoritatively about various factors effecting flooding over the next 3 or 4 decades (the Vietnam War took funding away, the Point Pleasant Pump wasn't built, the Iraq War took funding away, Global Warming making weather more intense, greedy corporations & developers running amok, etc.), all the while living in that Yardley house, until the floods of 1996 drove her out.
She, who appears to trust no one and has referred to relative newcomers to Morrisville (except herself and her daughter) as "alien yuppie vegetation", will also have you believe that she bought her house in the 60's based on assurances from politicians and realtors that the flooding problems were a thing of the past.
I ain't buyin' it! I don't blame her or anyone else living in Yardley for the floods or their damage. I'm sorry it happened to her and everyone else. What I don't like is the hypocrisy of speaking like you know so much about all these mistrustful societal forces that came together to cause the flooding, yet also claiming you're a hapless victim of trusting bad advice from politicians & realtors (representatives of the same forces you're blasting for your predicament). You crapped all over the idea of building a new school, but now you've got you hand out for a bigger gov't buyout of your ruined property. That gov't bailout comes from the same place Social Security, Medicare, Disability Payments, Prescription Drug Benefits, Food Stamps, etc. come from, you know. That's right, the Morrisville Money TreeTM. Everybody grab what you can for yourself, don't worry about anybody else!
I, too, have just recently discovered your blog. Kudos! Not only does it take guts to speak your mind, but a true commitment to you values to keep at it when you are uncertain that anyone else is paying attention.
As of this posting I will be retro-commenting on several of your past blog entries.
Let me state this first: I believe that you are dwelling on the current events as an ends, rather than a means, and missing the MUCH MUCH larger picture of what is happening in Morrisville.
Consider the political history of the Boro (burro?) over the past 15 or so years. I'll let you think on that a bit. Those of you who have been around that long should begin to get a clearer picture of what I mean (if you haven't already done so for yourselves).
I hear a lot of people who've lived here longer than I have say "you don't know this town, you don't know Morrisville". It always seems to be said in a way that, to me, implies "you don't understand how bogged down, xenophobic, and change-resistant people are here. You don't understand how we reject just about everything, even good ideas." Well, that may be true, but why does the future have to be the same as the past? I'd love for someone to explain the history to me. I've heard a good bit of it already, so I hope it's something new. By that I mean I care about who did what to whom 20 yrs ago only from the standpoint of it helping me understand some of what I think are some absolutely short-sighted and awful decisions of late.
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