Once again, I read with great dismay the utter and absolute pro-administration SPIN with which today’s article by…you guessed it: Johnny Come Lately Luciew wrote in regards to City Council rescheduling Tuesday July 24ths meeting pertaining to another incinerator bailout.
What bothers me isn’t so much the horribley one-sidedness of Luciew’s writing, but more my befuddlement as to WHY!?
Luciew opens the article with this statement “For the second time in as many weeks, Harrisburg City Council might fail to muster a quorum to deal with what Mayor Stephen R. Reed has called a solvable financial crisis — the city’s troubled trash incinerator.”
From the word “go”, the piece already has a pro-Reed bias. By simply using the word “fail” in regard to absent members of council prior to stating that the Mayor believes that we have a “solvable financial crisis” .
Couple things on that– one Council is on scheduled recess for the summer. They have families. They have obligations that rank far higher than a Mayoral Panhandling session in the middle of their well deserved break.
And as for the Mayor believing this is a “solvable financial crisis”- did someone slip ACID into his coffee this morning? Is it possible that the mayor is on some sort of psycho seductive painkillers?
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again- the ONLY way to solve this problem is to cut our ties and sell the damn thing. Stop the bleeding.
Moving on, Luciew continues his anti-council writing by saying “The prospect of the council again putting off a vote on $43 million in financial aid for the incinerator prompted Reed to blast members for blocking or delaying action on the proposal.”
Dude.
Council is on their scheduled and WELL deserved break.
Tuesday’s meeting was supposed to be a SPECIAL SESSION.
Quoting Reed: “We have certain council members who don’t want this solved, they want to keep taking shots and making attacks.”
No, Steve. Council DOES want this resolved.
Council DOES want this to end.
As do the rest of us- the people who put you in office.
But they (we) are finally standing up to the current Admin and not bowing down to threats of lawsuits and negative media spin.
I’m going to vow to follow up EVERY one of Luciew’s stories with a piece similar to this until he either A: Resigns. Or B: Starts getting his stories straight and balanced.
Luciew- I’m OFFICIALLY calling you out.
You’ve got a MORAL and SOCIAL responsibility that comes along with your job.
And you’ve molested the facts and twisted the truth for FAR too long.
Patriot News- with regard to the distribution of pertinent and correct information, I ask you this: do you see yourselves as part of the solution? Or do you see yourselves as part of the problem?
Because you’re only one or the other.
Thank you!
Mike, if you where around when the County and the council said no to the incinerator back in the 90′s and knew why, you’d be giving the mayor a break just like Luciew. Back when the county was strong arming the city to continue dumping its trash in unsustainable land fills. Back when my own father resigned from the dauphin county waste authority chairmanship because of the rampant nepotism that lined the pockets of all involved (just like the Mob lined the pockets of major city’s leaders in order to buy political favors and cement the waste dollars for the future). The mayor was looking for a way out and the incinerator was the only sustainable plan. Well the waste mob of central PA forced the incinerator and sabotaged it’s completion from the beginning. Realizing the political pressure that Reed would be under. County officials ruined any chance of success by not releasing funds as promised. This council has no such memory and is merely reactionary. Making Reed look bad about the incinerator is easier than doing what needs to be done to put H-burg on a sustainable course again. The decisions are way easier to criticize in hind sight.
I wish working together was the goal of the council. Miller has political reasons to piss on everything the city doesn’t get accomplished. But he knows the score… And if you did you’d think about the past decisions in a different light. I know that Reed’s decisions look bad, but if he wasn’t dicked by the county and council repeatedly on this over the last decade we’d have a sustainable solution right now. Would you rather pay fill up stinking polluting holes in the ground that will fail and cost clean-up cash while poisoning our children, and lining the pockets of organized criminals or try to find a way out of the nightmare cycle of cancer death that our trash forces on us.
He tried… And failed…. But at least he had our best interest in mind… I’m sure it would’ve been done cheaper but at least nepotism has lost to idealism. and if we can work together and get a plan in order instead of planning a failure that will only make Reed look bad for the next election.
Those who saw it happen can’t help but to side with the only person who has had the best interests of the city’s people in mind for two decades. Reed’s History of public service has impressed many and brung the problems to the forefront instead of back alley nepotism and cronyism. I wish the concil and the county could look past the next election and help rather then hold up the city’s progress for yet another election cycle.
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Thor Keck
3014 N. 2nd St.
Harrisburg, PA 17110
717 557 9370
thor.keck@gmail.com