Although the annual Puerto Rican Day Parade in Allentown was cancelled this year because of the coronavirus, a short notice, alternative event was organized for this past Sunday. Billed as Puerto Rican Day March and Gathering, it started at 10th and Hamilton and proceeded to center square.
Among the event's co-hosts was Enid Santiago, pictured above wearing the black tee-shirt in the center. She was featured in yesterday's post on the contested state representative race. While I was initially disturbed to see nobody wearing a mask for the group photo, promotion for the event did encourage masks.
While the Lehigh County Election Board formally considers her complaint about election fraud this morning, Santiago has organized a corresponding demonstration in front of the government center. She is not going gently away.
The photograph above was taken by the photographer/videographer Director Hitman VSF, and shared on several facebook pages.
Blogger Bernie O'Hare also has a related post this morning.
Allentown reminds us of Chicago "Back in the Day".Hope Enid is able to steal this election fair and square!
ReplyDeleteThis is likely a preview of the elections of future, they will not be over until the desired results are achieved. Some earlier primaries that occurred months ago have not yet been concluded. I suspect that it is an organized effort to delegitimize the elections themselves.
ReplyDeleteWe are seeing an effort to make our election process unworkable. Flood the procedure with confusion and conflict, making any result possible.
ReplyDeleteDelayed results, no real accountability, all due to a system that is not standardized across the nation. All to be "officially" decided at some later date by (possibly) compromised and biased State and Federal Judges. As we seen already, they're out there.
Just a reminder. No one is against typical Absentee Voting used for American citizens currently living outside the country, like military and retirees. This scheme goes well beyond, using the cover of health concerns due to Covid-19.
So, if facemasks and social distancing actually protect us well enough to go to the supermarket, drug store, etc. there can be no valid reason why we can't also go vote in-person on Election Day.
This really is about unfairly influencing the final outcome. Be wary.