Melissa Brayman For NCC President. Monique Johns’ behavior since she won a five-way primary has revealed who she is: A money-grubbing grifter and a narcissist. The best that we could hope for her in office is that she becomes a laughingstock. The worst? She and the County wind up with a bunch of lawsuits on their hands. It’s not like it hasn’t happened before. And Johns has all the same earmarks of utter incompetence as Karen Hartley-Nagle did. Wonder who Johns’ ‘behavior coach’ will be…
Melissa Brayman is, at the least, what’s the word I’m looking for…competent. Check out her bio for yourself. There’s no comparison with Johns’ sketchy and limited resume. Although Brayman has yet to come up with anything as bizarre or entertaining as The Johns’ “Love Doctors” podcast.
Monique Johns is the logical extension of ‘one-party rule’–a winner of a five-way primary who got nothing approaching a majority. Not even elected yet, and looking to steal county tax dollars for a party to celebrate–herself.
Unless you’re the type of Democrat who ‘roots for the laundry’ regardless of how soiled it is, voting for Melissa Brayman is the right thing to do.
Sculpture Of The Day:
MAGAt Rethugs Go After–Nuns. Nuns Fight Back:
A number of concerned persons in various states have alerted the Benedictine Sisters of Erie to a new post on X that claims 53 voters are registered at the monastery’s address and “NO ONE lives there.” The poster, Cliff Maloney of PA CHASE, claims “Our attorney’s [sic] are reviewing this right now. We will not let the Dems count on illegal votes.”
According to a March 2024 post from the Lincoln Institute, “The ‘PA Chase’ is an effort led by Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania (CAP) to knock on 500,000 doors and raise the GOP mail-in ballot statewide total from 20% to 33%.” Cliff Maloney is listed as the CEO of Citizens Alliance.
The Benedictine Sisters take no issue with knocking on doors to increase citizen participation in elections. We do take issue with claiming false information as true in an effort to discredit differing views or affiliations.
“We want to call Cliff Maloney to account for his blatantly false post that accuses our sisters of fraud. We do live at Mount Saint Benedict Monastery and a simple web search would alert him to our active presence in a number of ministries in Erie. We also want to alert those who subscribe to X and other social media platforms to be vigilant and seek additional information before accepting these posts as truth,” said Sister Stephanie Schmidt, prioress. “A free republic depends on free and fair elections. It depends equally on a discerning and conscientious citizenry who do not unquestioningly accept the word of anyone who has a social media platform.”
Musk And Putin: Perfect Together. Lest you were wondering where Putin gets his talking points, and vise versa:
Russian President Vladimir Putin has held several discussions with Elon Musk over the past two years, during which he also requested a favor from the tech billionaire on behalf of Chinese leader Xi Jinping, according to a new Wall Street Journal report published Thursday.
Several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials cited by the Journal said the regular contact between the Russian leader and the tech billionaire started in late 2022 and covered “personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions.”
As part of their talks, Putin also asked Musk to not activate the Starlink service over Taiwan to appease Xi, a former Russian intelligence officer with knowledge of the request told the Journal. Russia has become close and increasingly dependent on China for trade and navigating sanctions placed on the country over its invasion of Ukraine. An official from the Chinese embassy in Washington told the outlet they had no comment on the topic.
Musk has so far not commented on the contents of the Journal’s report.
Musk’s reported discussions with Putin, a major U.S. adversary, raise potential national security concerns for the U.S. government as his company SpaceX is involved in several U.S. intelligence and military projects.
Musk has also taken an elevated role in former President Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign, donating millions to his own Trump super PAC and also headlining events promoting his White House bid.
Gee, having a tough time connecting the dots. Can you help?
A Pretty Decent Dive Into ‘The Delaware Way’. Which recognizes the Working Families Party as the force it’s become:
Another aspect of this is the rising presence of the Delaware General Assembly’s progressive wing – of which many were supported by the Working Families Party that, since 2018, has overhauled the makeup of the General Assembly.
The grassroots efforts of the Working Families Party have made waves in the legislature, as eight current members of the state House were supported by the group – including Rep. Madinah Wilson-Anton, D-Newark, the state’s first practicing Muslim legislator; Rep. Eric Morrison, D-Glasgow, the first openly gay man to serve in the legislature; and Rep. DeShanna Neal, D-Elsmere, the first nonbinary member of the General Assembly.
The Working Families Party also supported Sen. Marie Pinkney, D-Bear, who became the first openly gay woman elected to the General Assembly in 2020 after defeating then-Senate President Pro Tempore Dave McBride.
Similarly, Democrat Kamela Smith – a Working Families Party-backed candidate – upset Speaker of the House Valerie Longhurst, D-Bear, in the Sept. 10 primary election.
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