But it is Dan Remely who, clearly, is the better choice and on a variety of levels.The Trib has totally lost it. Clearly, Remely is the worst choice and on a variety of levels. How much did the good old boys pay the Trib for this one? The classic line in that editorial is:
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Legend...wait for it...ary UPDATED 2X
Last night, The Trib ran this editorial. Primary 2013: Remely in the 42nd The Trib writes:
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Accusing Dan Miller of thinking we have money to burn... that's rich from a guy that was going to keep the high school project around $90 million!
Then voted yea to a $113.4 million project.
So, now that Remely has gone negative on Miller there will be retaliation. The problem for Remely is his track record on relentless taxes is much worse than Miller's.
The Trib should have endorsed Brown, someone who you would think they would be aligned with had they done their homework. The Trib's coverage of this race is almost more ridiculous that the P-G's! The reporter didn't have his facts straight. I wouldn't spend a plug nickel on either subscription.
What a pile of c..p ! That portrayal of him is absolute fiction. Hard to believe that Colin McNickle allowed such baloney to be published. The Trib did not interview the candidates, at least not Remely's opponents Dan Miller and George Brown.
Remely is a legend in Mt. Lebanon all right...the guy who promised he would bring in his design team recommendations for the high school for a total project cost of under $95 million (the bids for construction costs alone ranged from $102 million to $122 million), he has never voted against any District budgets or spending proposals, he threatened to sue Mt. Lebanon for causing the final and revised high school design to abide by required fire safety codes and he did vote to sue Mt. Lebanon for requiring the district to abide by the zoning ordinances for parking.
"Wealth of financial experience" ? He's no longer president of H-Squared Properties, apparently relieved of command by majority shareholders, and is now unemployed and "in hiatus" as he recently explained. A real legend.
Get real, Tribune-Review, and take your blinders off McNickle.
The Trib's endorsement of Dan Remely does not surprise me in the least. The Trib is, overall, a Republican newspaper in the same way that the P-G is, overall, a vehicle for the Democrats. I'm reminded of the story - perhaps apocryphal - of FDR's choice of Harry Truman for his vice-president. When someone questioned Truman's character Roosevelt was purported to say, "He's a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch."
George Brown scares the hell out of both aforementioned newspapers and the local major party apparatchiks because he offers the polity a clear alternative to the current duopoly. I've met with George and he is logically consistent in true libertarian fashion. That would certainly be a refreshing change in Harrisburg!
I'm not sure Colin McNickle was the editor who approved this endorsement. It might have been Colin's boss who is friends with the wife of a former director of the Penna. Cyber School. You know the one who did millions of dollars of business with the school while he was on the board. That same director approached Remely to get Mark Hart not to run for school board. Remely told Hart he didn't have time to be board president and finance the Steeler's sale to new owners.
What Remely didn't know was Hart was talking with one investor with $3 billion dollars in his brokerage account and another investor who was a director of Value Line. I bet Mr. Lebowitz would like to have a school board director who could approach donors with those kinds of resources to raise the $6,000,000 for the District. Thanks to Dan Remely and his friends that resource has been lost to the District.
They weren't going to endorse Miller. Why they ignored Brown is a mystery!
I just canceled my subscription with the Trib. Told them that the Trib is really off base by endorsing Remely. I had emailed Matt Santoni a couple of weeks ago questioning Remely's employment status. Never heard back. I told customer service that I am a Republican living in Mt. Lebanon, and what does that tell them about the state of affairs here? In case anyone needs the customer service number, it is 1-800-909-8742.
Elaine
Problem here is that voters in Green Tree, Scott, Bethel, etc., don't have access to our televised school board meetings and may not have a clear picture of the "legendary" Dan Remely.
Interestingly McNickle has indicated more than once that he is in fact a Libertarian at heart.
Richard Scaife, owner of the Trib is a Libertarian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Mellon_Scaife
Elaine
Richard Scaife must be in the Caribbean!
Richard Scaife may have some libertarian leanings, but that is not surprising for the simple reason that some conservatives and Republicans subscribe to the libertarian philosophy of free markets. Conversely, many Democrats could also be called libertarians because they agree with the freedom of personal choice espoused by libertarianism and the ACLU.
As far as Wikipedia's article on Scaife is concerned it says he has contributed to libertarian causes. I seriously question whether Scaife is a libertarian in fact, and I highly doubt that he is a member of the Libertarian Party - otherwise he would have endorsed George Brown.
Ba-di-ba-di-ba-di-ba-di-ba-di...that's all, folks!
The media are a joke no matter what side of the aisle. We all know the PG is a comic book and a party tool. But the Trib has portrayed itself in radio ads as the conservative alternative. If Remely is a conservative, then I'm 18 feet tall and have laser beams for eyes. How sad and weak for the Trib to have fallen for such a human.
The Tribune-Review's coverage of last night's public meeting of candidates for Pennsylvania's 42nd District House seat was disappointing. Of the 434 words in Mr. Santoni's article, 233 were expended on telling us about the forum and that all candidates agreed that the legislature should be downsized. Perhaps Mr. Santoni's coverage was highly edited, but I think voters deserve more information that what the Trib gave them. After all, not everybody could attend the forum.
I was able to get recordings of last night's forum. I have uploaded them on lebocitizens.com. Check the 2nd update on this thread for the links.
Elaine
Once again, Elaine, your service to residents surpasses local media including the Tribune-Review and Post Gazette!
The podcast availability is real and factual, unlike the biased watered-down newspaper reporters!
Thank you, Elaine!
Campaign promises, 2 minute speeches are all well and good. Implementing them, getting one's party cohorts to join in and change their stripes is another matter.
Brown sounds knowledgable, intelligent and may be just the change the Rs and Ds keep promising, but never do!
Bold prediction:
Miller 55%
Remely 35%
Brown 7%
Others 3%
Reliable sources say the teacher arbitration is not over.
7:08 I'm apparently not too smart because I can't figure out what that has to do with this subject, unless you feel that the mainstream party candidates are afraid to even hint at being anti-teacher union? They do carry votes.
7:50 why are you trying to threaten school board candidates? You must be a teacher looking for a free lunch. Perhaps Mr. Cooper will share one of his pizzas with you.
What... $900,000/year more isn't enough?
Here's a solution to the teacher arbitration in which everybody wins, especially the kids.
We agree to give the teachers their $900,000 in pay increases.
They in turn agree to give the $900,000 back thru the fund raiser. That way the get there bump, increase their pension and keep the job they might not have gotten in the first place because there were a slew of college grads qualified and looking to start at the first level.
Taxpayers win, because 'they' raised the $6 million without PK, so we don't have to pay them $800,000 and we don't have to pay $200,000 for a fund raiser manager.
Everybody wins something!
10:05 has no understanding of what is happening in the District with the grievance and nobody can tell him because it is all executive session material. In 10:05's solution everybody wins except the kids. This grievance is not about the kids.
For the record, both major newspapers spoke to all three of us (Brown, Miller and Remely) before either endorsed a candidate. The PG called all three of us into a meeting. I was told they would do so and they did. The Trib likes to phone each candidate individually and that's what they did. Dan Miller and I spoke before the candidate forum and each of us was surprised we did not receive a second phone call from the Trib, prior to the endorsement. I ran into Dan Remely at the DQ after the forum. He told me he didn't receive a call either! I'm guessing the Trib just has its own way of doing things and that is that.
I also want to write something about the "Stuff of Legend" comment in the Trib. I jokingly told Dan Remely at the DQ that I had no idea I was running against a legend. He seemed genuinely embarrassed by what the Trib had written. He actually turned a little red, which reinforces the idea that he truly was embarrassed!
This should be a lesson to all of us readers of the PG, Trib or any other paper. Each has its own agenda. One should always read any article with a certain amount of healthy skepticism, especially when it comes from the editorial writers.
I was not at all surprised by either endorsement and I was under no illusion that I would be endorsed. The only endorsement that matters is the one on 21 May so please go out and vote.
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