Greetings all. After much thought and consideration, I’m going to take this opportunity to announce my candidacy to run for Allentown City Council as an INDEPENDENT candidate. Tune in tomorrow at 3pm and I will give the low down at that time. I need a barest minimum of 193 registered voters to sign my petition to get my name on the ballot as an independent candidate this November. Republican, Democrat, or unaffiliated it does not matter. Any registered Allentown voter can sign.  If anyone is interested in signing my petition, please contact me directly, or the person can either come to me,  or I can make house calls.

My platform so far, in no particular order:

1. Reform the granicus deal to include the ability for people to comment in real time, among other potential enhancements I could talk about.

2. The water has been flowing over the dam for the past 25 years and nobody has ever thought to put a hydroelectric generating station there? If this were done, not only would it generate money for Allentown directly, the electricity could be diverted for things like snow melting sidewalks AND generate enough of an income to scale back that 27% tax increase?

3. The City of Allentown paid well over a million dollars to Microsoft to remove the emotet virus, something I could have done myself for a whole lot cheaper and using the same tools they did. To this end, I want to see Microsoft removed as much as possible not just to save money down the road, but to make sure that in 20 to 50 years time any files that are created today can be opened in the future.

4. Strengthen ethics in Allentown. I like Josh Siegel’s ethics ordinance, but I think there is room for improvement up to and including a version of the American anti-corruption act.

5. Open check register for the city of Allentown, posted online. This is so that the average person can follow where the money goes and not have to wait to call somebody.

6. Since 1969, almost every single bicycle I have owned has been stolen. I recovered 1 in 1996, and another in 2001. Allentown used to have a bicycle registration program to help recover stolen bikes, but it seems to have somehow faded out over the years. I wish to bring that back, better than it was before.

7. If you want an idea of what else I am about, start from the beginning and check this out.  http://realchange.us/the-gist-of-it-all/

Thank you in advance for your consideration.

The quoted statements below I copied from a good friend’s Facebook post. I thought so much of it, I am posting it here. Thank you DD.

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FINALLY, A PRESSURE POINT TO FIGHT USPS SABOTAGE:
LOTS of calls and emails to USPS Board of Governors.
Ready, set, go. We know how to do this. Be concerned, firm, polite.
Louis DeJoy, the Postmaster General and Trump appointee who is now dismantling the USPS on behalf of Trump, “serves at the pleasure of” and reports to the 6-member USPS Board of Governors. These six men have the power & duty to #StopDeJoy & prevent Election Day chaos.
5 of the 6 are Trump appointees, but retired Harvard lawyer (CCJ, @NastyOldWomyn) contributing this info on Twitter is clear that a relentless barrage of calls, emails, and other callings-out will absolutely get their attention. She says:
· I’ve represented Boards as a lawyer, and I know “this kind of attention is not what they’ve signed up for. It’s disruptive to their day jobs, which is where they make their money.”
· “None of the members wants to suffer reputational damage from overseeing the meltdown of USPS during a pandemic. They do NOT want to be in the spotlight, so SHINE IT BRIGHT!”
· “Board members HATE being contacted, HATE having their phone mailboxes fill up with messages, HATE being inundated with emails and letters. And, oh, they would HATE being picketed at work, if someone decided to start a demonstration.”
· In contacting these 6 Board members, “I plan to be polite but firm about my fury about the recent deterioration of USPS’s service, giving personal & family examples regarding medication & veterans services, & expressing my distrust of & dissatisfaction with the performance of PG DeJoy. In my experience, rudeness NEVER helps.