Tonight I am convinced more than ever that Tuerk is not
equipped to be mayor of this city, nor is he a competent or capable
leader. The start of tonight’s City
Council was a joke. He talked about all
of his “friends” at the unsheltered camp and how he brought Portable toilets
and dumpsters. He then left for several
weeks and said he went back to see if they were delivered. Hmm? If he asked them to be delivered because he
was so concerned about their safety why would he not have followed
through? That is what leaders do. Did he possibly lie about the drownings? He was challenged about his facts and he
doubled down by saying that they were not in that area. Leaders come with facts related to the
situation, not cherry-picked from other events.
Failed Leadership
He then asked for money to pay for the YMCA to open
early. Seems to me like HE had an
opportunity to fund this when the CED found $300,000 and gave it to a
non-profit that no one knew what they were doing, including the two gentlemen
that were handed the money. Prioritizing
taxpayer funds is what leaders do.
The womenswear provocateur/business owner Santo Napoli has a plan-spend more taxpayer money that wasn’t budgeted, just like he spends money to promote. Again, where were you Santo when $300,000 was given to a shady non-profit. That’s right supporting this. Failed leadership.
Here comes my man Eddy Avilles during public comment on the
early opening of the YMCA. He was so
right-Mayor and Council you better be ready for unsheltered on your lawn. Eddy has been very vocal about this problem
and the leaders have ignored and not acted. Failed Leadership.
The city solicitor was ill-prepared and doesn’t seem to
understand that the council passes laws that are enforced in the city. While the council does not direct staff, they
do pass laws that the Mayor is to execute through his duties. So while Council doesn’t direct staff
directly, they do define their duties.
The mayor seems to just hire real winners like this tool — they are
bottom of their class professionals that rely on arrogance and bullying to get
their way. Just like the Mayor
does. Failed Leadership.
The citizens really showed up tonight. They called out the administration, council,
and the mayor for their failed leadership.
They called them out for borrowing $134m and none of the money is slated
towards the unsheltered. They called
them out for ignoring the situation in May when the first problem happened and
the Fire Department didn’t bring it to the Emergency Management Committee.
I will say council did take leadership tonight but it was reactive not proactive, so is it really leadership?
"You dont get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results"- Bill Parcels
11 comments:
Abe I was waiting for your post. Tonight was a disgraceful display of local government. The mayor I think lost alot of votes. Funny Aug 25th is eviction day and also Nat Hymans court date. Im pretty sure Tuerk cant change the eviction day now or he will be held in contempt. I love the fire chief. Looked like a complete idiot. Candida let him have it. Ce ce destroyed the solicitor with the community college degree.
Im really curious the dirty politics behind this land.
Allentown is a broken city of turmoil and chaos. A declining quality of life for residents in crumbling and seemingly lawless neighborhoods. Shabby, neglected public open spaces. An unchallenged, single-party government that’s seen as clueless and largely dysfunctional.
This is the new American urban lifestyle. All brought to us by an Obama/Clinton/Biden collective of twisted thinking, clandestine operatives.
Voting differently MIGHT improve things, but the road will be long.
This Mayor is a pathological lying narcissist. His claims that he is friends with people down by the water is a joke. He doesn’t take a moment to think about anyone but himself and he claims that he’s sitting down by the water talking to people and becoming friends with them. Liar. This city is a joke.
Queue up the $134 million borrowing that is going to prove even more that these leaders are completely out of touch with proper execution of their duties.
Hey Matt Tuerk! Why don’t you focus on the problems in the police department and clearly your finance department before you try to build New ego buildings
Ce-Ce is an advocate for Ce-Ce. Always remember this when she takes any position. Her position is always based on what will put her in the limelight and nothing more. She advocates for the homeless because she believes it is in her best interests to do so. Integrity or altruism have very little to do with any of her words, positions, or votes including this one.
Everyone saw Mayor Tuerks true colors last night. He is about himself and his future. He doesnt care about the homeless what would make anyone think he cares about the tax payers? I think Allentown needs someone with no political aspirations to lead this city. No political ties, no agendas. So being a democrat and Im not sure what party Zucal really is nor do I care, I will be voting for him. I am embarrassed to even live here anymore.
It’s all theater.
Bingo!
The mayor is a self righteous liar.
Roll the tape from last night. He was laughing at the two attorney’s and canoodling with his puppet Adam Rosenthewl. I sat up when they said they’ve contacted the FBI and senior federal officials, Matt and his buddy laughed.
Maybe Matt and Adam will laugh when the cuffs are slapped on their wrists? Maybe they can get adjoining cells in prison? Arrogant pricks
Matt and his Adam were last to be picked at everything. No athetic ability. Been picked on their entire lives. Adam cant cut it as a real attorney hence why he is an assistant solicitor. Not too many candidates when the job opened up lol. Sorry Matt your a huge dork. You arent hip, were never cool and you try way to hard to be. Laugh now clowns. FBI comes you wont be.
IBICILES
OMG! Stop enabling the homeless! There should be no YMCA shelter at this time of year. There should be no money for housing them.
By all means, fund mental health programs and addiction services (that are either in non-residential areas of the city or outside the city) and get the homeless into a program quickly. If they refuse to get into a program, cite them for vagrancy and take them to the county jail. Do not normalize their condition, or make it acceptable.
Any programs that house or feed them long-term are only going to make the problem worse and make the city a magnet for every homeless person in the Valley. In addition, every suburban municipality in the Valley will dump their homeless problem on Allentown if Allentown continues down this road of stupidity.
City taxpayers cannot afford to pay for housing and feeding the homeless, nor should they. Most importantly, doing so does nothing to actually help the homeless get out of their condition.
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