Saturday, October 20, 2018

So cool, Mike!

If the name Mike Suley sounds familiar, it is because he spoke many times before the Mt. Lebanon commission concerning the "Newcomers Tax." Mike, a former Mt. Lebanon resident, was the former manager of Allegheny County's Office of Property Assessments and wrote letters to the editor about the unfair practice. But his impactful letter writing began as early as 1969, when he wrote to President Richard Nixon, then-U.S. Sens. Richard Schweiker and Hugh Scott, and Astronaut Neil Armstrong. Suley felt that the Apollo 11 crew should plant an American flag on the moon. Neil Armstrong agreed and the rest is history!