Sadly, LVS wasn't able to attend last evening's much ballyhooed budget meeting of Allentown City Council but (like other local bloggers who weren't there neither) we won't let that stop us from writing about it authoritatively.Here's what we know:
The Morning Call "newspaper" had agenda-manipulated last night into the Fight Of The Century, pitting a maverick "Democrat" (and lifelong Republican before he moved here) city councilor "W" Mike Donovan who's not seeking reelection (wink wink) against popular Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski. The pre-fight hype was that Donovan, w/ alternative budget plan in hand, was gonna teach the Mayor, and City Council, and all in attendance a thing or two about revenue raising and budgeting (Donovan teaches girls "ethics" at Cedar Crest College for now).
Well apparently none of that happened last night as advertised, and Donovan's much-practiced and preached ("I am tired of people saying they cannot afford a tax increase!") "knockout punch," INCREASING PROPERTY TAXES, vanished, curiously, at the last minute like hundreds of sadistically cruel and libelous blog comments that were "fun to read" (according to Donovan) while they lasted, too.
As revealingly reported by 69 News ...
Donovan said earlier this week he was also going to propose an increase in property taxes as part of his alternative plan, but he said last night that he decided not to follow through with that part of his proposal. Yep.
City Council (minus Donovan) subsequently passed Mayor Pawlowski's Popular Budget unanimously.
Here's the updated report from 69 News ... Donovan had more than 100 proposed amendments to the final budget Wednesday night, though he withdrew many of them after his initial attempts failed.
Donovan was spotted crying in his (hiccup) Brew Works beer early this morning in a sore loser, narcissistically whining, pity-extorting, and poorly written new post at his "Inclusion" (wink wink) blog ... but he nervously poofed it quickly. We'll keep our eye out for the revised version (we suspect Jarrett Renshaw is helping him w/ it).
In the meantime, let's all savor this side-splitting classic from the LVS "Best Of Donivan" vault.
Post UpDate: Duped Dunce Donovan has now re-posted his poofed/revised blog post. And we sure do hope he doesn't poof this declaration of political suicide in the last paragraph, and thanks for saving us the trouble of further destroying you, Mike ...
"I have no sympathy for the voters, none." -"W" Mike Donovan
He's done.
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22 comments:
LOL. In fact, I'm LMAO.
VIVA VILLAS!
"Editors" and "reporters" from The Morning Call "newspaper" visit LVS, on average, 50-75 times each day, including weekends and national holidays. Most frequent/compulsive LVS visitor/stalkers are Jarrett Renshaw and Bill White.
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Booya!
An un-hinged "W" Mike Donovan spotted stalking LVS ...
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Time of Visit > Dec 2 2010 10:48:20 am
If I were Mike Donovan I'd drive up to the Villas house right now and smash their front door.
(almost forgot)
Civilly, and w/ mutual respect (just sayin')
If I were as inept as Donovan in getting any of my missions accomplished, I'd resign immediately, instead of being bitter and petulant. Whoever said this guy was passive-aggressive really nailed him.
1:32, it was popular Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski who said Donovan was "passive-aggressive" and that dead-on description does indeed nail Donovan real good.
(almost forgot)
1:32, re: constant failure and Donovan resigning because of it, you may be interested to learn that skittish anonymous blogger "LVCI" agrees w/ you and has joined forces w/ LVS in calling for Donovan's immediate resignation in a comment at Donovan's "Inclusion" blog.
Here's LVCI's exact quote (before it goes POOF) ...
you [Donivan] should just resign immediately for your own sake and others. What you said [I have no sympathy for the voters, none] was disgusting to my ears!!!!!!! -LVCI
LVCI has no problem (finally) seeing the truth as to what Donovan is all about .. You will not see the other "bloggers" similarly acknowledge reality because that would - ahem - be an inconvenient truth.
:) 4:54, prior experience w/ pathetically needy for inclusion local bloggers tells us that LVCI will flip-flop back down onto his knees compliantly blowing Donovan kisses in 24 hours or less.
From The Morning Call:
"Trying to decipher the politics of some council members' answer to the city's poor financial condition is difficult. Councilmen Michael D'Amore, Peter Schweyer and Michael Schlossberg — a trio with larger political ambitions who often vote as a block — rejected the earned income tax increase but later supported the budget that relied on the same tax increase."
Wow, talk about "playing politics." This is really shameful. Council President Mike D'Amore voted against the much-needed earned income tax increase just so he can tell PPL he voted against it when he runs against Pawlowski for Mayor down the road. And obviously Pete Schweyer and Mike "Giggles" Schlossberg are using Allentown voters as stepping stones too. Just more reasons to vote all 7 city "councilors" out of office. Thankfully, Duped Dunce Donovan has done himself in.
Well said Honeykins and you should be flattered to know that LVCI has stolen and is using a catchy descriptor that you invented-- he's calling Donovan's political pals "ass clowns" over at Donovan's blog. How uncivil. Finally.
Ho, Ho, Ho ...
Mayor Pawlowski tried to re-direct $300K from the 2011 budget to other needed areas by eliminating the Redevelopment Authority ... and [from The Morning Call] Community and Economic Development Director Sara Hailstone said city officials were already carrying out most of the Redevelopment Authority's work, such as enforcing codes and identifying blighted properties.
Pawlowski told council members, "This was about saving money and eliminating redundancy ..."
But City Council, and specifically, council person Jeanette Eichenwald, wouldn't have it and the Redevelopment Authority stays.
So Jeanette Eichenwald must go, next election for her, which is in November 2011.
Donovan is too haughty for me.
FYI: LVS's current most frequent obsessive/compulsive visitor/stalkers (100+ visits daily) are coming from the "LehighCounty.org" IP. These folks would of course be DA (for now) Jim Martin, "Executive Aide" (wink wink) Debbie Garlicki, and DA Jim Martin shield/sycophant Merrily Starkey.
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Dissclaimer
Some LVS SiteMeter(R) Spotlight visitor/stalker "callouts" are based solely on our (savvy, astute, informed, researched, and corroborated) opinion.
Others we are 100% proof-positive of.
Hey .. "Wally" .. you've been stalking LVS 50X a day all week but haven't been posting your usual vile anonymous comments. WTF, pussy got your tongue?
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Time of Visit > Dec 3 2010 8:40:28 am
At his "Inclusion" blog,
Donovan says ...
"I have no sympathy for the voters, none. I face a crumbling social infrastructure of neglected kids, dysfunctional school system, inadequately staffed police force, no community strategy, and an irrational financial decision process." -Donovan
A person in a position of city leadership should not be referring to our public school system as "dysfunctional."
As an alleged educator, Professor Donovan should know that our public school system has worked and has served students for over 100 years. It's not the school system that is dysfunctional, it is our socio-economic system that is not functioning properly to meet the basic needs of children. Also dysfunctional are the politicians mandating education policy that does not address the needs of children growing up in poverty. These kids face a host of problems outside the realm of the school system. It really does "take a village to raise a child" and Donovan should not be attacking our public school system, he should be advocating for people to mentor children and volunteer at schools. Instead of just pontificating about the problems, and sitting on seemingly dozens of do-nothing boards and committees, go out and do something, Donovan. One person can make a difference. See: Bill Villa. How about a little empathy for the children who are born into poverty, and the teachers who have to deal with all the social problems before they can even get to the teaching. But of course you don't see that at cushy and feminine Cedar Crest College.
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