Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Glenn Kranzley refused Bill Villa a "Welcome Mat" meeting 229 times to shield DA Martin

Glenn Kranzley is the former longtime editorial and opinions editor, and VP, at The Morning Call "newspaper."

These days he's a freelancer who also teaches "journalism" part-time at Lehigh University with Morning Call cronies that include Lehigh U adjunct "journalism" professor Christine (Press Agent for Celebrity Criminals) Schiavo ... Lehigh U adjunct "journalism" professor and "opinion columnist" William "Bill" White ... and Lehigh U "journalism" professor and elusive Morning Call "editor" Wally Trimble [Note: we didn't knock Wally's tooth out.]

Kranzley also moonlights ironically as an "instructor in communications" at Penn State Lehigh Valley.

But in happier times, Glenn G. Kranzley ruled the editorial and opinions roost at The Morning Call w/ a fist as stubbornly inflexible as iron.

Kranzley was especially powerful and influential as a member of the (now disbanded and defunct) Morning Call Editorial Board that annually and magnanimously boasted (in print) of having its:

"welcome mat always out for those who want to be heard." [See: paragraph 4 ]

FYI, I was one of "those who wanted to be heard."

My first born, and only daughter, Sheena Villa, was killed by the son of a prominent Allentown attorney who is a partner in the politically over-connected Allentown law firm, Gross McGinley, that has represented The Morning Call for many years.

I had some questions about the favoritism tactics being employed by sometime Gross McGinley client and Lehigh County District Attorney James B. Martin regarding several cases I had been following closely, in addition to my daughter Sheena's case.

In October 2007, Morning Call Investigations Editor Tim Darragh discussed my questions w/ me over the phone, for two hours, and told me my questions were ...

"excellent questions that deserved to be answered."

Although answers (acquired via Morning Call investigative reporting) would have been nice, at the time I was willing to settle for just discussing my excellent questions with The Morning Call Editorial Board after politely wiping my feet on their extended-to-everyone-else-who-wanted-to-be-heard welcome mat.


In all, Glenn Kranzley rejected 229 polite email requests from me for a "welcome mat" meeting w/ his Editorial Board.

Along the way, Kranzley also rejected numerous outreaches from City and County elected officials questioning him as to why he was denying me a meeting. Incredibly, Kranzley even blew off a gracious offer from then Chairman of the Lehigh County Commissioners, Percy Dougherty, PhD who volunteered to act as a moderator at a "welcome mat" meeting involving The Morning Call Editorial Board and myself.

Kranzley's only communication to me on this was a purposefully inflammatory 2-word email saying, "We'll pass."

Team Martin gatekeeper Kranzley's overt wagon-circling was briefly 'challenged' by the Lehigh Valley blogosphere. Kranzley's response was to invite most of the 'dissenting' bloggers to become affiliated w/ The Morning Call "newspaper" and have their blogs featured on The Morning Call's website. Predictably, all of the publicity-aquiver bloggers' challenging questions stopped immediately and their allied and malicious 'straw party' litigation led by diminutive Morning Call blogger, election loser, and attorney (for now) David C. Najarian started soon after but was ultimately defeated by us in court. Sadly, Morning Call-affiliated malice and harassment against us continues. Ditto DA Jim Martin's Villa Vendetta and The Morning Call purposefully looking the other way on phony trumped-up criminal charges that were rigged against me by DA Jim Martin and Tom Corbett but were ultimately defeated by us in court.

In the two years since Glenn Kranzley's karmatic shit-canning, I've succeeded in answering most of my own excellent questions about DA Jim Martin's tactics ... definitively.



VILLAS: WHY WE FIGHT

45 comments:

The City Official said...

Bill, any word back from Debbie Garlicki?

Bill Villa said...

Not yet, and I need to proceed w/ some caution on this one, b/c in the past, DA Jim Martin has managed to get phony trumped up "harassment" charges approved against me by Tom Corbett.

Beaten, in court, BTW.

Consigliere said...

Gross McGinley represents Jim Martin too, just sayin'.

Bill Villa said...

"Personally, I don't see the point of not meeting with you - up here we meet with people all the time that we may not agree with and may not be able to help. At its most Machiavellian, doing so allows us to take the high road and prevents PR nightmares like the one you are currently conducting. It costs some time and no small amount of aggravation on our part, but in the long run that's preferable... and sometimes we discover we do agree on some things, and we actually can help on others. However, I am not in a position to tell other newsrooms how to conduct their business." -Don Gilliland

LinkedIn > Don Gilliland

Facebook > Don Gilliland

Bill Villa said...

(almost forgot)

That was an excerpt from an email I got from Don Gilliland a while back. At the time Don was managing editor of an award-winning newspaper in Potter County. Don offered to probe Morning Call managing editor Dave Erdman for me at a publisher's meeting both were slated to attend. After telling Don everything I knew (then) about Morning Call/Jim Martin collusion, I never heard back from Don. Then (get out) he turned up recently as a friend of Dave Erdman @ Facebook. But possibly their friendship isn't all that recent. Just sayin'.

Angie Villa said...

Excellent catch, BV, ouch ... ;D

Bill Villa said...

Thanks, I have a Facebook friend request pending w/ Don, fingers crossed ...

Doug said...

Not coincidentally, Percy Dougherty was one of the very few Lehigh County Commissioners who openly OPPOSED the appointment of Jim Martin as DA. I suppose Percy had his reasons... just saying...

Bill Villa said...

Yep.

Anonymous said...

This is Donald Gilliland. Actually, I've known Dave Erdman - through the Pa newspaper editors association - since I first became a board member in 2003 or there 'bouts... To the best of my knowledge he's been a Facebook friend - along with most of the other board members - since I first signed up for facebook. No conspiracy there. The fact remains: I am in no position to tell other newsrooms how to conduct their business.

Bill Villa said...

Hey Don, thanks so much for reading LVS (and obviously hanging on every keystroke; had no idea), we're beaming w/ pride.

Re: You being "in no position," back when you were communicating w/ me, you were in a position to tell me the truth about your relationship w/ Dave Erdman. Instead, you led me to believe that you only knew of him, and that what little you did know of him led you to conclude that Erdman was a "pompous jerk" (I have your email somewhere) and you'd be my double-agent, not Dave's.

More importantly, will you be friending me or not?

Oh I'm kidding.

But please tell your "pompous jerk" friend Dave Erdman I said "BOO!"

Angie Villa said...

Oopsie. ;D

Bill Villa said...

Email, Outgoing, to Morning Call "Managing" Editor (for now) Dave Erdman.

On Sept 27 @ 4:15pm Bill Villa wrote:

Subject Heading: w/ "friends" like these ...

Hi Dave, your "friend" Don Gilliland is calling you a "pompous jerk" at our blog, thought you should know.

If I were you, I'd de-friend him at Facebook.

Hope all is well.

Bill Villa
610.428.xxxx

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Hey Dave, LVS, use it for life.

Domain Name > (Unknown)
IP Address > 163.192.13.# (Tribune Company)
ISP > Tribune Company

Time of Visit > Sep 27 2011 4:16:05 pm

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Welcome, fellow educators ...

Domain Name > lehigh.EDU (Educational)
IP Address > 128.180.61.# (Lehigh University)
ISP > Lehigh University

Time of Visit > Sep 27 2011 4:29:01 pm

Bill Villa said...

Don Gilliland ... we're offering you the Last Word ... Don, you out there, Don, calling Don Gilliland ...

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Readers, The Morning Call "newspaper" is spotted stalking LVS continuously, nearly 24 hours a day, every day, including weekends & national holidays, and these folks of course include DA Jim Martin water-carrying "columnist" Bill White, adorable DA Jim Martin lapdog Kevin Amerman, really determined truth concealer/"editor" Mike Miorelli, colluding and mortified "reporter" John Micek, deaf, dumb, and blind "reporter" Manny Gamiz, and DA Jim Martin bootlicker extraordinnaire, Paul Carpenter.

Domain Name > (Unknown)
IP Address > 163.192.12.# (Tribune Company)
ISP > Tribune Company

Time of Visit > Sep 27 2011 6:45:04 pm

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LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Readers, not surprisingly, the IP address "LehighCounty.org" is spotted stalking LVS for damaging and exposed dirty facts hundreds or more times each day, and these gold-bricking folks would of course include DA Jim Martin, "Executive Aide" (wink wink) Debbie Garlicki, County Executive (for now) and DA Jim Martin lapdog Don Cunning-Ham, DA Jim Martin shield/sycophant/notary Merrily Starkey, Detective Dennis Steckel, and Chief Deputy DA Dog Renee Smith among others (e.g., judges McGinley, and Reibman).

Domain Name > ptd.net
IP Address > 204.186.62.# (PenTeleData)
Host > LehighCounty.org
City > Allentown, PA

Time of Visit > Sep 28 2011 10:31:14 am

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Yo, Team Martin "anonymous," you've been awful vile anonymous comment (about Sheena) quiet lately. Pussy got your tongue, hmm?

Domain Name > ptd.net
IP Address > 204.186.244.# (PenTeleData)
City > "Walnutport" (wink wink)

Time of Visit > Sep 29 2011 9:55:22 am

Visit Length > 1 hour 26 minutes 53 seconds

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Read it and weep (in your beer), Deb ...

Domain Name > ptd.net
IP Address > 204.186.62.# (PenTeleData)
Host > LehighCounty.org
City > Allentown, PA

Time of Visit > Sep 29 2011 11:48:23 am

Visit Length > 27 minutes 25 seconds

Anonymous said...

has kranzley ever apologized to you?

Bill Villa said...

No.

Robert LaBarre never apologized either.

Nor has anyone on LVS's right sidebar "Scroll Of Shame" (w/ 1 exception we can't discuss for legal reasons).

Anonymous said...

did anyone "pass" on more opportunities to apologize to you than michael donovan?

Bill Villa said...

No, but a close second was Dave Najarian.

Bill Villa said...

(almost forgot)

Don LaBarre apologized to us.

Anonymous said...

i remember when the entire local blogosphere was questioning kranzley's hiding from you bill. then kranzley formed all the local bloggers (except you) into an alliance w/ the paper and all their questions stopped.

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Blog Administrator said...

Readers, although we get a steady spew stream (daily) of cyber stalking taunts and threats here at LVS, and sadly, not all of them are from (wink wink) "anonymous" ...

tellingly, no one ever factually disputes our dirty facts on DA Jim Martin and The Morning Call "newspaper."

Related Story: Diana Morse Donovan Gives Us Her Two Cents

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LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Domain Name > ptd.net
IP Address > 204.186.244.# (PenTeleData)
City > "Walnutport" (wink wink)

Time of Visit > Oct 5 2011 10:04:11 am

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LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

LVS stalker Bill White slithers by. Read Bill White's "Tribute to DA Jim Martin."

Domain Name > (Unknown)
IP Address > 163.192.13.# (Tribune Company)

Time of Visit > Oct 6 2011 12:36:30 pm

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

The ever-vigilant Team Martin/Morning Call LVS stalker known as (wink wink) "anonymous" ...

Domain Name > ptd.net
IP Address > 204.186.244.# (PenTeleData)
City > "Walnutport" (wink wink)

Time of Visit > Oct 7 2011 9:34:56 am

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

STILL stalking & worried? Jesus. How stacked a deck do youse want it?

* Martin Decks Drug Dealers

* Martin Mauls Moses Again

* Porn Porn Porn Martin Martin Martin

* Martin Single-Handedly Saving Soldiers

Domain Name > (Unknown)
IP Address > 163.192.13.# (Tribune Company)
ISP > Tribune Company

Time of Visit > Oct 7 2011 2:35:43 pm

Ever hear of "equal time?"

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LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Morning Call stalking LVS on a Sunday.

Domain Name > (Unknown)
IP Address > 163.192.12.# (Tribune Company)

Time of Visit > Oct 9 2011 8:06:20 am

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

"Anonymous," what's it to you?

Domain Name > ptd.net
IP Address > 204.186.244.# (PenTeleData)
City > "Walnutport"

Time of Visit > Oct 10 2011 8:41:24 am

LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight said...

Domain Name > ptd.net
IP Address > 204.186.244.# (PenTeleData)
City > "Walnutport" (wink wink)

Time of Visit > Oct 11 2011 2:41:49 pm

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