From the BCCT.
They're against deadbeat government. You should be too.
Q: How many conflicts of interest can Morrisville contain?
A: No one knows. We haven't reached a limit yet where good people rise up and say "enough!"
Your chance to do that is Tuesday. Morrisville's registered Republicans and Democrats get to make the choice for the future.
Unpaid but unbowed
By: GUY PETROZIELLO
Bucks County Courier Times
Voters should think twice about candidates who can't keep up with their own tax bills.
People who flunked math shouldn't apply for accounting jobs. And people who don't pay their taxes shouldn't run for public office.
We have in mind two Morrisville Council members running in Tuesday's primary, one of them for mayor; and an incumbent Morrisville school board member, who formerly served on the town council. All three candidates owe a total of $9,600 in outstanding tax, sanitation, water and sewer bills.
The three candidates are incumbent Council members Eileen Dreisbach and Rita Lidge, who's running for mayor; and school board member Jack Buckman. Explaining why they're in arrears, the three candidates cited financial hardships brought on by family and health problems.
While we are not unsympathetic to people experiencing hard times, especially now, it's difficult to muster confidence in candidates for public office whose personal affairs are askew. After all, these are the folks who want to determine everybody else's tax bills, yet are unable to pay their own; who want to manage town and school district affairs, but can't effectively manage domestic affairs.
Letter writer Cynthia Dee Wilson perhaps captured the sentiments of a lot of folks with this sentence: "If their personal lives are so overwhelming at this point in time that they cannot keep their own house in order, why would they add the additional responsibility of running for public office? If they cannot keep their own houses in order, why would they expect the voters to believe they can keep + Morrisville Borough and the Morrisville School District in order?"
Good question.
Look, we're not knocking the candidates' records. They might have done a good job despite personal difficulties. Maybe that says a lot about character. In the end, voters will have to decide what it says to them.
Sunday, May 17, 2009
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Is Rita Lidge married to Phillies closer Brad Lidge? Nah, can't be. At least he saves a few every now and then.
P.S. It's Rita Ledger. I don't think she keeps one, though.
All right, I'll stop.
After a certain High Public Official lost over $100,000.00 in a slander per se lawsuit to former Morrisville Schools Superintendent Dr. John Gould, he claimed the loss would have a chilling effect on fiscal watchdogs.
Man, was he ever right! These fiscal shenanigans were happening right under his very nose, and he never smelled them.
Apparently, he's the kind of watchdog that only has one functioning nostril that can only sense unproven allegations against political opponents.
The other nostril can't smell a thing, even his buddies' proven stinkers.
My condolences to your wife, as she's busy keeping you. I guess your computer must be a threat to her, since you must spend every available minute getting your yah-yahs off, typing away. Your definetly a man's man, your comment implies you are abusive. I know you have some skeletons in that closet of yours,comparable to deliquent taxes, WRONG IS WRONG, and 2 wrongs won't make it right! Why don't you do something to help this town improve and stop adding insult to injury.Everyone in Morrisville is a few paychecks from the street,and if your not, God bless you, but you sure qualify as class-less with the thug-type statements that you've made to people.
I know, this must be hard for you, what with all your buddies lookin' real bad and hypocritical and conflict-of-interesty and all, and you not watchdoggin' it worth a darn. Wrong is wrong, and you should denounce them with the ferocity you unleashed on Dr. Gould. But I wouldn't wish that on anyone, even proven wrongdoers. Plus, you can't afford it, they can't either, and neither can Morrisville.
If certain high officials are not denouncing their tax dodging buddies with the same level of anger and hate that was shown to Mr. Frankenfield, then those certain high officials are nothing more than hypocrites filled with hot air.
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