(From the League's Website)
187th DISTRICT
Lehigh County: townships of Heidelberg, Lowhill, Lynn, North Whitehall, Weisenberg, Upper Macungie (Districts 1, 2, 3). Parts of Berks County.
DEMOCRAT
Vote for one
John R. Ritter
Neffs
D.O.B.: 1950
EDUCATION: 1977, East Stroudsburg University BS, Summa cum Laude 1988, MAE Kutztown
OCCUPATION: English Teacher
QUALIFICATIONS: PEA President, 2 yrs; Vice President, 4 yrs; Representative Council Member Chair, Grievance and CBC Committees; Parkland Strategic Planning Committee, Elected by Colleagues; Blue Heron Lake Hunting and Fishing Club, Board Member, Membership and Bylaws Chair
RESPONSE: The healthcare system is broken. Hardworking people cannot afford healthcare and are forced to choose among shelter, food, gas, other necessities and medical care. Anyone reading this knows relatives or friends, even ones with coverage, unable or struggling to pay for healthcare. Federal and state governments must find common ground and work toward reducing administrative costs, encouraging preventative medicine, and assuring access to all citizens. The current system is economically unsustainable and causes unnecessary suffering.
Richard A. Stine
Fogelsville
www.richardastine.com
D.O.B.: 1985
EDUCATION: 2008, Kutztown, B.A. Political Science
OCCUPATION: Server/Bartender
QUALIFICATIONS: NCC Political Science Club President, 2004-2006; NCC Student Senate Treasurer, 2005-2006; Kutztown College Democrats Vice President, 2006-2007, President 2007-2008
RESPONSE: I believe the federal government should adopt the health care plan outlined by Senator Barack Obama. This type of voluntary system would not force those not wanting the help of the federal government to accept it and such a plan would not offer punitive measures such as wage garnishment against those that still could not afford it, measures that would be exacted under other proposed plans.
REPUBLICAN
Vote for one
Gary Day
Germansville
No response
Allen R. Cerullo
Fogelsville
www.electcerullo.com
D.O.B.: 1956
EDUCATION: BS Computer Science, DeSales University, 1989
OCCUPATION: PPL, Information Services Department
QUALIFICATIONS: Weisenberg Township Judge of Election, Thirty-four years of experience in private industry, working for PPL for the last thirty years.
RESPONSE: Private industry is more effective at providing health insurance than any government agency. I favor the immediate and thorough evaluation of our entire health system to promote an educated and informed discussion to address issues of spiraling costs, malpractice litigation and the medical malpractice insurance dilemma. Pennsylvanians deserve affordable and effective health care choices which can only be achieved by creative solutions based on accurate facts.
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This AFTER he Ducks their Debate on Berks TV
It gets better...
I spoke with both Allen Cerullo and Rich Stine today and their signs have been mysteriously disappearing along the road ways and there have been Gary Day signs springing up in their place...right over their wire holders. John Ritter Signs have also in many instances been place deliberatly in front of Cerullo signs, blocking them from view.
Come on John. You're a teacher, not a student.
Gary...well with Severson as your campaign consultant I wouldn't expect anything different.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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their signs have been mysteriously disappearing along the road ways and there have been Gary Day signs springing up in their place
When will the maddness end?
In the last East Penn School Board election, Seth Flanders' signs usually disappeared within a day or two of being put up. Francee Fuller wrote a letter to the editor complaining about it. A comment on the Morning Call web site, posted under Julian's name, said something to the effect of "hey, that's politics--get over it."
Why was it "just politics" in that race but worthy of mention in a blog post in this one?
Ned Flanders ran for School board? Well goodily doodily! I think next year I will run under the Homer Simpson Lardboy donut party banner! free Donuts at every meeting!
Alan,
I posted this as an aside on a blog. I didn't write several letters to both the Morning Call and the East Penn Press whining about it.
Obama’s Race Against Race
By Nicolas Powers
From the April 25, 2008 issue
A black man runs from a howling crowd. If he’s caught he’ll be torn apart. If he reaches sanctuary he’ll be loved. This ritual is the Sacred Lynching. It’s a scene from Olaf Stapledon’s science fiction book, The First and Last Men. Set in the future, humanity has mixed and few people are “white” or “black,” and the ritual is a nostalgic celebration of racism in a post-racial world. It resembles our own supposed post-racial politics, and I see Senator Barack Obama as that last black man on earth trying to outrun our media mob.
TO READ FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.indypendent.org/2008/04/25/obama%e2%80%99s-race-against-race/
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