The head of the policeman's union has criticized Tuerk for moving protesters closer to Trump supporters than the police wanted.
Tuerk was wearing two hats on Tuesday... One as a leading Democrat in the city, the other as mayor of Allentown. Considering that presidential candidates have been visiting the city since the 1800's, that should not have been that difficult of a situation for him, but apparently it was.
I understand that as a Latino he was riled up about the distasteful comments at Madison Square Garden. However, any solidarity with those protesting against Trump should have been more thoughtfully demonstrated. Instead, Tuerk wore it like a banner, on both news and social media. YouTubes of him wanting to open up center square for voters early Tuesday morning, if a political shenanigan or not, demonstrated poor judgement. Certainly there was no way to accommodate both voters and arena attendees at the same time in the same square.
Allentown may be majority Hispanic and majority Democratic, but everybody living here pays taxes and is supposed to be represented by city hall. There are some traffic adjustments Tuerk could make. He might instruct his police chief to enforce the law against double parkers, especially on Tilghman and Linden Street.
The mayor’s adoption of his Latino heritage is 3/4 theater, a canard. He has sadly revealed himself to be a small character on a midsize stage.
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When it is all said and done Allentown remains the third largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Queen City deserves a much, much, better fate than the one that it has faced in the last generation.
It is all quite sad.