County
Controller Race:
This is
likely the most important race in the county, and don’t for one second think
that The King & Co. aren’t aware of that either, as they are already
plotting to grab control. Without a watchdog in the controller’s office the
King will have a clear path to all things CityVest, and who will stop them?
County Council, or the I’ll do as I please County Manager?
Now onto
the candidates, I’ll make this real easy for you. We have 3 Watchdogs and 1 politically
connected tourist & travel major who by the way already has questionable campaign
contributors, and won’t even call the paper back to offer an explanation. Yet
in her WILK radio ad, she says she won’t be beholden to “special interest groups”.
My guess is except for those that have already bought their way into her
campaign. One can only wonder what type of county controller she will make.
Who will
we in Luzerne County pick, you may be asking yourself, well my money is on the
“financial lady” who didn’t even know the controller seat was open until the
City Attorney and cousin of the King, Bill Vinsko told her to run.
Don’t take
my word for it look at what Attorney Vinsko’s wrote on Facebook: (With WUWB
clarifications)
Bill
wrote: "I am for Michelle Bednar because she is the most qualified.”
- WOW Bill most qualified? A tourist & travel major over a criminal justice major, or is it that you know Steve will NEVER allow the city to control his office?
- Or will she be an absent controller similar to the one the city has?
- Nah she’s running because she has been watching the county so closely, that she was oblivious to the election until you Woke Her Up!
- But will she shut up on the CityVest issue?
- RIGHT person? You mean the one who will do your bidding?
- That remains to be seen!
- There is that word again “qualified” we all know what that means, and it has NOTHING to do with education or experience.
Democrat
Choices:
Stephen A.
Urban
Bachelors
in criminal justice
Master's
degree in justice administration
UNITED
STATES ARMY COLONEL Retired
Michelle
Bednar
Associate
degree in tourist & travel management
Republican
Choices:
Karen
Ceppa-Hirko
MBA, focus
in accounting with forensic auditing
Walter L.
Griffith Jr.
The
current County controller
Wilkes
Barre Area School Board concerns
Joe Caffrey
raised more than $17,000.00 (a lot of which came from The Kings & Queens of Wilkes Barre) to run for an UNPAID position on the school board.
Now I ask
you, who is buying his vote on the school board?
I bet Mr.
Caffrey will allow the School District to be “The Cash Cow” for the city.
The name
Thomas is rearing it's head again, and one MUST wonder if this is an
attempt to return the school board to city control. For year folks complained
about the school board hiring the city elite’s kin and being the "cash cow" for
the city, paying for everything from Hawkeye to an old elementary school traded
for some free fire trucks.
I urge you
to consider for a second, the past woes the city had with the name Thomas and
ask yourself, do you really want to try that again? Remember former councilman
Tony (grab the FREE trips, and flee the city) Thomas. I can still hear his
quotes to the press when asked about going on a city junkets just weeks before
leaving office: “it’s not like I’m going anywhere” Tony said, and then the
second he was out of office he disappeared like a fart in the wind.
Now enter
his sister Denise Thomas: Although I do not know Ms. Thomas personally the name
itself should be enough to make the good taxpayers of our city quiver, and I
pray Denise is nothing like her city fleecing brother, especially if you choose
to bypass all the other candidates in favor of yet another family connection,
as I’m sure you will.
UGRENT UPDATE: Please be advised of the
comments below, by Anthony
Thomas also on the ballot for School Director. Please DO NOT leave without reading what this man has to say. As Anthony is
NOT related to the city fleecing Thomas!
Wake Up
Wilkes Barre
Source:
- Controller job now a solely watchdog
- The Kings and Queens of Wilkes-Barre
- Luzerne County Controller’s Race: Democrat Bednar outspends opponent with PAC money
I am the Anthony Thomas that is running. I have no relation to the Thomas family that has been in city politics. In fact, I go by Tony, but I chose to go by my birth name Anthony because I did not want any confusion with the former councilman.
ReplyDeleteIn stark contrast to Mr. Caffrey, I have raised no money because I feel that being that this is an unpaid position, I should not be receiving large amounts of money to run for it. I am a recent college graduate and I work full time, I haven't had the time host parties for the city elite's to donate large sums to me.
Thank you Mr. Thomas for the comment, our article has been updated to flag attention to this comment.
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