The week has been dominated by two political missteps... Pat Browne's misinformed flyer alleging that Mark Pinsley owed taxes, which he did not, and Nat Hyman's failure to get in front of the fire story at his warehouse.
The Browne camp reported a tax lien against a different company that happens to have the same name as Pinsley's business. The error certainly provides Pinsley with ammunition. If the Democrat has enough resources to sufficiently exploit the error, remains to be seen.
The political nature of the Hyman situation is less obvious. Hyman is stating that he was indeed working on getting his building demolished, and that Ray O'Connell was trying to impugn a potential mayoral opponent. I'm not in a position to sort those assertions out, but I do know that the public hasn't much sympathy for landlords.
Browne's opponent is part of the mobilized Democratic left wing that is out to "reclaim" all government as rightly theirs. I worked a poll with him in the spring, they all had matching T-Shirts and rhetoric. While that is their right voters should understand what they are dealing with, this person is not the moderate as Pat Browne is, he is quite the opposite and if elected will govern as such.
ReplyDeleteAs well, residents of Allentown would be very foolish to support anyone but Pat Browne, he has single handedly kept the school district afloat. There is no chance his opponent would have the clout to steer so much money to the very poorly managed and distress ASD.
One wonders how many locals even know about either story. Nobody reads the newspaper anymore (me excepted), and radio new is virtually nonexistent. Channel 69 News? They do a nice job, but other than LV old-timers nobody is watching the news on tv.
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