Resistance is NOT Futile!

Wilkes Barre City’s leadership is no stranger to corruption, backroom deals, questionable hiring practices, and dictator like governing, or so I am told.

It has been just less than one year since a handful of concerned citizens began their quest for truth, justice, and the pursuit of a cleaner, leaner, less meaner city government.

In that short time we have seen: "Click on the links to view the stories"

• No Bid Contracts
• Parking, Leasing, or Fleecing?
• LAZ Parking Backroom Deal
• No Receipts Per Diem
• Ridiculous Spending, Outrageous Trips
• Bid Rigging
• Missing Credit Card Statements: Only available to Average Joe, never the City who owns them.
• Now can you believe the receipts for the months in question are also missing?
• Taxpayer Upgrade Private Homes, OK with AG
• City Billed Monitoring Fees
• Falsifying Documents
• Altered Documents
• Perjury by City Officials
• Million Dollar Mysteries
• Nepotism
• Intentional destruction of City Credit Rating
• Unethical Hiring of his own Kid’s
• Sold Memorial (This was the 1 Legal Action)
• Biased AG?
• Cars for Cash?

Many keep saying, and trust me folks there are many days when I and many like me feel like Resistance is Futile. 

• There just no use! 
• You can’t fight City Hall! 
• That’s just the way it is, and that just the way it will always be. 
• Your one person, you can’t change the way people think. 

But there is one among us who is always positive, who never listens to the naysayers, who keeps reminding me, and everyone else that we took up this cause just one year ago, and look at all that has come out. If this is what they released what else are they hiding.

So with that I must concede that if your reading Wake Up Wilkes Barre, PureBunkum, Grateful Hands, Firefighter Dan, or anything else for that matter where truth is not only expected but demanded then Resistance is NOT Futile!

This Blog is dedicated to my dear friend, fearless leader, and always positive grounding post. 

You know who you are, and we "the citizens" are forever grateful for all your hard work.

Thank you,

Wake Up Wilkes Barre

Bidding, not just for EBay anymore!

According to the Times Leader: W-B owes $30,000 for bid violations

Not following the Bid process! Well

• That’s just the way it is in Wilkes Barre. 

Let’s see we didn’t  ask for bids when we bought Fire Trucks, and when reporters asked, the King said we didn’t need to, we used COSTARS, a state program that includes vendors who have been pre-approved to sell items to municipalities statewide


But upon further investigation the state said Liar, Liar Pants on Fire!

Then when the King and his shyster buddy, cooked up the idea to hire him and his family, so they could sell the city’s parking authority down the river, because he can’t seem to find work in the private sector. 

We didn't put that work out for bid either, but hey the parking authority isn’t technically owned by the city so it’s all good!

Now at the cost of $30,000 to the city taxpayers, for not following the bid process, the King and Butch say things like we didn’t know!

• “When we purchase these products, it’s very difficult to know exactly where you are going to land,” Frati said.

I guess it would be too much to ask of Butch, to just look at how much we used in previous years and guess that we always go over $10.000!

• Frati said cold patch also does not have a long shelf life!

I guess the stuff is like MILK!

• Frati said the vendor in this case, American Asphalt, was approved to sell certain items under COSTARS, but asphalt was not one of them. The city mistakenly believed that product was included, Frati said.

COSTARS again? I don’t know Butch perhaps you could have looked at the COSTARS Bid sheet FIRST! Just a thought!

• “We keep as close an eye on it as we can, but if we go over it, we go over,” Frati said.

Hey it’s not like the $30,000 is coming out of Butch’s pocket, RIGHT

Wake Up Wilkes Barre