For the first time since DA Jim Martin was appointed DA in 1998, The Morning Call "newspaper" has published an article that is mildly negative and soft pedal critical of DA Martin (scour the Morning Call archives as we have; you won't find anything even remotely negative or critical about their pal Jim Martin). UpDate: Somebody other than LVS has finally stepped up to challenge DA Jim Martin: Meet Ed Koren.Visit: Ed Koren website.
Crooked and incompetent Lehigh County DA Jim Martin has not faced a political challenger at the polls since 1999.
Martin, a Republican, ran unopposed in 2003, and again in 2007.
It's high time for a change this year on election day in November 2011.
Here's why ...
THE DIRTY FACTS
ON DA JIM MARTIN
DIRTY FACTS THE MORNING CALL
"newspaper" REFUSED TO COVER
Game On.
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The story comes a day or so after Bill White takes the "courageous" stance in his column that the killer should never have been let out of prison (now that's going out on a limb, Billy Boy. Real hard-hitting journalism there). Hey Mr. White, think there's a follow-up column here about the DA? Will your populist outrage be directed at the DA? Probably not. We're aproaching the Allentown Fair and he needs to get into training for the eating columns. (Mr. White, when will the newspaper publish a collection of your award-winnng "eating my way through" columns?)
Very well said. Bill White is an under-achieving bum, a liar, and a total disgrace to journalism. Ditto Paul Carpenter.
On a happier note, I have a call in to Morning Call reporter Riley Yates, first commending him on today's article on Jim Martin, also inquiring if its publication was a mistake that got by the "editors" and expressing my hope that he's not being terminated, and finally volunteering to share w/ him all the dirt we have on DA (for now) Jim Martin.
"On Thursday, District Attorney James Martin confirmed his office received — and did not respond to — the [April 2006] letter when Ballard was first up for parole. A prosecutor's recommendation is one of several factors the board considers when deciding whether an offender should be freed."
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In April 2006, D.A. James B. Martin was busy trying to sweep another murder case under the rug.
How bout it.
Then there's this ...
"Ballard was first let out in November 2006 after serving the minimum of a 15-to-30-year sentence after pleading guilty in 1992 to third-degree murder and other charges. He stabbed and slit the throat of Donald Richard, then fled with Richard's wallet and car to Arkansas. Police said they found Ku Klux Klan literature when they arrested Ballard."
THIRD degree murder? (in Lehigh County)
For slitting someone's throat?
Check this out ...
Right down the road in Philadelphia County, Joe Levin got third degree murder for getting behind the wheel drunk knowing he was an alcoholic binge drinker and killing someone.
BTW, at his guilty-plea hearing, my daughter Sheena's chatty killer confessed to Judge Steinberg that he knew he was an alcoholic binge drinker.
I was there and literally YELLED: LEVIN. LEVIN.
Morning Call "reporter" Manny Gamiz made believe he didn't hear me.
Ditto the "prosecutor," bailiff, and Judge Steinberg.
Hey, Bill -
Got some free time to waste?
In keeping w your reachout to MC reporter Riley Yates, send a Letter To The Editor saying this is just the latest in a series of DA Jim Martin stumbles (hic) and that you'll gladly meet w any MC reporter to present a list of other examples of poor performance for the reporter to look into.
Let's all watch them ignore your Letter To The Editor, and then you can put the whole episode in the "Bill's Not Imagining All This" evidence file.
Extra fun: Let's all keep an eye out for any other Letters To The Editor responding to this story that say anything along the lines of "this is typical sub-par performance from DA Jim Martin."
"They're actually BREAKING this story, as far as I can tell--"
Yeah. And what do we make of this?
{From MC article} "Earlier this week, WFMZ-TV reported that Martin said he learned of Ballard's release in January, after the board had already decided to let him out. The station reported Martin would have opposed Ballard's release if he had known about it beforehand."
Let's repeat that ...
The "station reported that MARTIN WOULD HAVE OPPOSED BALLARD'S RELEASE IF HE HAD KNOWN ABOUT IT BEFOREHAND."
Really?
Where did the station get this info?
Because, inadvertently or intentionally, this statement is 180 degrees from what Martin himself is quoted as admitting to in The Morning Call-- i.e., that he WAS NOTIFIED BEFOREHAND ... BUT THAT HE DIDN'T ACT ON IT.
I'm trying to find the 69 News coverage that The Morning Call claims includes this huge whopper:
"MARTIN WOULD HAVE OPPOSED BALLARD'S RELEASE IF HE HAD KNOWN ABOUT IT BEFOREHAND." -69 News, Allegedly
Wait ... okay ... so maybe 69 News really BROKE this story (?)
And The Morning Call (not wanting to be scooped by them) has pre-empted it from them (more like "post-empted" it).
Stay tuned, we're diggin' ...
Found it, here it is ...
Good report. And, turns out, it was DA MARTIN himself who told 69 News Reporter Bo Koltnow that he WOULD HAVE OPPOSED BALLARD'S RELEASE IF HE HAD KNOWN ABOUT IT BEFOREHAND.
Well, that's comforting, Jim.
Okay, so ... who figured out that Martin WAS NOTIFIED BEFOREHAND ... BUT THAT HE DIDN'T ACT ON IT.
69 News? Or Morning Call?
Lemme check, be right back ...
(almost forgot)
In that clip, did'ja catch then DA (now Judge) Bob Steinberg saying how Ballard had worn gloves during his 1991 stabbing and throat slashing of Donald Richard and how "gloves" would be an indication of some pre-meditation.
Premeditated murder is murder in the first degree, no?
So ... how come this was pleaded down to THIRD degree murder?
Billy Boy, watching you play lawyer is interesting to say the least. You must be learning a lot from the other guy, Sharpie.
You seem worried.
Short memory ...
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Email, Outgoing, to Lehigh County District Attorney (for now) Jim Martin (right), cc'd to Allentown Chief of Police Roger MacLean.
On Jul 2, 2010, at 3:39:00 PM, Bill Villa wrote:
Subject Heading: Reelection Campaign Publicity
Jimbo, would you care to comment (on the record) regarding our latest blog post on you?
We'll publish your comments verbatim so please spell-check-it.
"Morning Call Lays 'Kid Glove' on DA Jim Martin"
Thanks as always for your (hiccup) consideration.
Sincerely,
Bill Villa (Sheena's Dad)
610.428.xxxx
P.S. Have a smashing 4th. Wait, make it a fifth.
Billy Boy, I worry about a lot of things...high cholesterol, Pawlowski's destruction of a great city, and Obama's destruction of a great country.
You? You I don't worry about. You remind me of the batshit crazy neighbor everyone had growing up. That's why it's always fun to say hello to you and the Missus outside your palatial security-patrolled estate on 18th Street.
Bill Villa said: "Did Dave Erdman and Mike Miorelli both schedule vacations this week (?)"
That made me laugh!
The Anon poster who always calls you "Billy Boy" (lame) has it right when he says you're good at comedy.
But I knew that already. (A good sense of humor is one of the hallmarks of a keen intellect.)
"The station reported Martin would have opposed Ballard's release if he had known about it beforehand."
Watch the very end of Bo Koltnow's excellent report.
The Morning Call skillfully omits from their coverage mentioning that Martin himself told 69 News (i.e., Martin LIED to them) that he "WOULD HAVE OPPOSED BALLARD'S RELEASE IF HE HAD KNOWN ABOUT IT BEFOREHAND."
The LIE is contained in what DA Martin DIDN'T TELL 69 NEWS:
THAT HE WAS NOTIFIED BEFOREHAND ... BUT THAT HE DIDN'T ACT ON IT.
4:19, a.k.a. attorney (for now) Dave Najarian, you come off VERY worried to me, un-HINGED even, but that's understandable, considering what's in store for you (legally & professionally) just sayin'.
"City O," that's a Debbie Garlicki trick, lying via omission. Deb-a-roo used this technique to great effect (for her now boss Jim Martin) for a decade as The Morning Call's courthouse beat reporter. Don't know who taught it to who ...
Hey Anon 4:19 - take a break from trolling and buff your head!
The Morning Call published today's "softball" take on Jim Martin's latest monumental screw-up as a preemptive measure against a hardball LVS exposé on it. You'd be surprised at how much they look over their shoulders at you. Wait, scratch that, I take that back. You shouldn't be surprised at all since you call them out on your Sitemeter dozens of times every day. 'Nuff said.
This is much more fun than Donivan just saying!
McJudas, yours is the best explanation I too can come up w/ , re: what today's MC coverage of Jumbo Jimbo was all about, i.e., "pre-empt & diffuse."
Sondra, glad you're enjoying this post (more).
Readers, from The Morning Call archives, here's a sampling of actual, verbatim Morning Call headlines (I swear) that don't show any favoritism at all (wink wink) regarding Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin:
'GENTLEMAN JIM' MARTIN SWORN IN AS LEHIGH DA. CENTER VALLEY MAN SAYS HE WILL STRIVE TO SEE THAT JUSTICE IS DONE.
By DEBBIE GARLICKI
Jan 27, 1998
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IN LEHIGH DA RACE, CLARK CHARGES MARTIN IS SOFT ON NUISANCE BARS. BUT DISTRICT ATTORNEY SAYS HE CLOSED SHORTY'S, AND HE CAN'T SHUT OTHER TAVERNS WITHOUT EVIDENCE.
By KIRK BELDON JACKSON
Oct 29, 1999
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LEHIGH COUNTY DA TO HANDLE FULMER PROSECUTION. JAMES B. MARTIN SAYS HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BAKER AND ACQUAINTANCE WITH HER FRIEND DON'T CONSTITUTE CONFLICTS OF INTEREST.
By DAN HARTZELL
Oct 15, 2000
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HOUSE ARREST ISN'T UNUSUAL FOR HIT-RUN. FULMER IS GETTING COMMON PENALTY FOR FIRST OFFENSE IN APRIL 4 INCIDENT.
By DAN HARTZELL
Nov 30, 2000
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LEHIGH COUNTY DA JAMES B. MARTIN TO SEEK REELECTION; DEMOCRATS WITHOUT CANDIDATE. HE SAYS HE WOULD LIKE TO RUN UNOPPOSED SO HE CAN FOCUS ON HIS JOB.
By DEBBIE GARLICKI
Feb 21, 2003
"MARTIN IS SOFT ON NUISANCE BARS"
If Jim Martin had shut down J.P. O'Malley's (which was cited by the PLCB--twice--as a nuisance bar), I know of 2 young people who died because of O'Malley's negligence who would likely be alive today.
Yes, so do I.
Who did in fact shut down that nuisance bar?
J.P. O'Malley's bar quietly and pusillanimously closed their doors a few weeks before our lawsuit against them came to trial.
A civil jury subsequently ruled that O'Malley's was negligent in the death of my daughter, Sheena.
O'Malley's has been out of business ever since.
The Morning Call "newspaper" boldly reported that O'Malley's was found NOT negligent by the jury. This was a lie.
The "newspaper" also quoted O'Malley's (now former) owner as saying he was relieved that "O'Malley's good name had been restored" and that it was too bad Sheena's family "would never see a dime," 2 more lies.
It took the "newspaper" a month (30 days) to bury a correction on the jury's actual ruling deep in the "newspaper" where no one would see it.
DA Jim Martin routinely puts the safety of the citizens of Lehigh County at risk ... every time there's a DUI homicide and Martin takes his sweet old bar stool lingering time getting around to prosecuting it.
Q. Did you know that these DUI killers DO NOT HAVE THEIR DRIVER'S LICENSES REVOKED UNTIL AFTER THEY GET OUT OF JAIL (if Martin sends them to jail). Yep. That's right.
So Gregory Williams who crashed into a house hundreds of feet off Route 22 while killing Shaun Buenzly ... and Sheena's killer who crashed into a tree on 35MPH-zoned Parkway Boulevard at a police-calculated minimum speed of 85MPH were both FREE TO KEEP DRIVING as DA Jim Martin took up to 2 YEARS (in the Williams case) to get Williams off the road and into jail.
We believe the citizens of Lehigh County deserve much faster service and better protection from its next (new) DA.
Im still trying to figure out if this is a PR stunt by Jimbo - you know put the fire out before it even starts. Its too bad no local political party would ever think about using this (and the veritable smorgasbord of other evidence) as campaign fodder against Ol' Hiccup in the upcoming 2011 DA "race" (literally laughing out loud as I typed that word). Beings that its been reported by the local "Pravda" Im almost certain there is a whole bunch of shit the writers have neglected to bring to light. Love this town...LOVE IT!
"AB," my prediction is: watch The Morning Callers frame this issue a la: my oh my, what a stand-up guy this Jim (hiccup) Martin is ... "The Buck Stops Here" ... W-O-W ... isn't that refreshing ... he made a mistake but he's taking full responsibility for it. And that's what we want in a DA. That and all them DUI Free Passes he hands out 'round the "newspaper" (just sayin').
I'm w/ ya though ... it's still a risky maneuver shedding ANY light on this issue (even the "lite" they applied) because some percentage of Morning Call readers will be reminded of what a zero Jim Martin is.
Off the record (wink wink), I'm actually hearing from members of the Lehigh County Democratic Party lately (just this morning, in fact), so don't count them out of the race for a new DA in Lehigh County. But yeah, I'm with ya to in that they'll need to use brass knuckles and baseball bats on Jumbo Jimbo (figuratively speaking of course) to beat him to a pulp (at the ballot box) in 2011.
IF he runs, that is.
I may be the only person in Lehigh County who knows this, having experienced it first-hand, but don't forget Jim Martin is a total pussy. Confront him (as I do whenever I feel like it) and he wets his frilly panties and runs for the hills whimpering like he did at Lehigh Country Club recently when he spotted me there. You wouldn't think an elephant as big as Jimbo could get in his smashed up car and speed away that fast and that recklessly and illegally.
When the Dems put up a candidate against him, Jim will probably retire (shaking) or run for judge and lose.
Is how I see it.
The 100% Integrity-Free Morning Call "newspaper," stalking LVS on a Holiday Weekend Saturday night. Now that's dedication. And paranoia.
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Andrew Bailey said...
Im still trying to figure out if this is a PR stunt by Jimbo - you know put the fire out before it even starts.
Andrew,
we have our answer in today's "newspaper" ...
KILL THE MESSENGER
"Newspaper" blames Parole Board, all done mentioning Pally Jim Martin
BOTTOM LINE
* DA Martin deceived 69 News
* DA Martin discards w/ out (hiccup) opening important mail from Parole Board
"it's still a risky maneuver shedding ANY light on this issue (even the "lite" they applied) because some percentage of Morning Call readers will be reminded of what a zero Jim Martin is."
Indeed. The damage is already done. Martin must be fuming.
I agree, Dave Erdman and Mike Miorelli must both be on vacation.
I wonder if D.A. Martin will charge Riley Yates w/ attempted homicide?
(almost forgot)
... and I doubt he'll wait a YEAR to do it ...
Email, Incoming, from Team Donovan Wiener and Allentown City Council member (for now) Mike Schlossberg
On Jul 4, 2010, at 10:40:51 AM, Mike Schlossberg wrote:
Bill,
If you wish to speak to me regarding this matter, you may do so during Courtesy of the Floor at the next City Council meeting.
You are not welcome at my house.
--
Mike Schlossberg
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MikeSchlossberg
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MikeSchlossberg
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeschlossberg
Darn. I had been looking forward to enjoying a severely grilled wiener at my neighbor Mike Schlossberg's home today (Mike lives right around the corner from us).
Oh well.
Is Mike Schlossberg the "4:19" taunting anon?
"[Billy Boy] ... it's always fun to say hello to you and the Missus outside your palatial security-patrolled estate on 18th Street." -"Anonymous?," Fri Jul 02, 04:19:00 PM 2010
That's an excellent question that deserves to be answered ;D
Betcha Chris Casey knows the answer ...
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Some people's "life" is watching the Villas 24/7 and trying (in vain) to stop them.
See right sidebar,
"Upcoming Justice Events" :)
That has everybody "nutz"
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I've never seen one guy (Villa) kick so many different peoples' asses simultaneously, it's very impressive.
Merci.
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"Upcoming Justice Events" :)
"That has everybody "nutz"
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Keep checking back to read more names added to the (albeit fast-shrinking) team of duped dunces.
Here's "number two," checking in from another exotic locale ...
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W-O-W.
Angie and I are VERY PROUD of this one.
LVS, firmly under the pusillanimously thin skin of The Morning Call "newspaper" at almost midnight on the freakin' 4th of July. Beautiful.
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Oui ;D
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