God Bless

the real problem is the entire political system is broken, the only thing politicians have done is pissed off everyone

For our readers, SoaringEagle is failed state rep. candidate Rob Hamill. He changed his screen name after publicly justifying and condoning Illegal behavior by elected officials. Rob is a committed CEPTA member and relies on fringe thinking to rationalize irrational Tea Party agendas as demonstrated by his regular posts on this website.

That seems a little different than your argument of why You should be chosen over MacKenzie. Wow. You can swing faster than a Romney.

Rob: you seem very sure that Mr Mackenzie does not pander to "special interest" groups yet his campaign contribution lists read very differently.

Easy to talk trash when you're hiding behind a pseudonym, "Soaringeagle." MacKenzie is a political carpetbagger. Patrick Slattery is a hometown hero.

What needs to be rejected is this nomination. Get a local guy who knows the people. I hope that somebody challenges the residency and looks into the legality of this choice.

Actually, it is appalling to see the number of signs on Main Rd in Vera Cruz that are missing. About two weeks about I counted 15 signs. At the end of last week, half were missing and were "replaced" with Mackenzie signs. Such juvenile behavior! Why in the world would East Penn republicans stand behind someone from Parkland who has never lived in this district as an adult. He has no investment in the community. Patrick Slattery, on the other hand, has worked in many capacities in our community. He has proven that he is a candidate who will tackle issues and not play some dumb political polarization game. It is about time we had a rep that voted on the issues and not because he had to stick with his party.

I welcome Poor Patrick's solutions. What are they? All he whines about is his signs and character bashing. Stand up Patrick and tell the people where you stand on the issues. I would like this race to be nothing more than about the issues. I don't give 2 hoots about how many community events Slattery went to for a photo op and free publicity. Where does poor Patrick stand on the real issues? He has no position.
1. How does the state attract more businesses?
2. How is he going to solve the public pension crisis?
3. Where does he stand on parental rights?
4. Where does he stand on school choice?
5. Where does he stand on property tax reform?
I could go on and on and on. Poor Patrick takes no position and offers no solutions. He and his apologists just whine about Mackenzie, or tactics or anything other than the issues. Meanwhile Mackenzie was working in Harrisburg saving the taxpayers $160-$180 MILLION DOLLARS. That's what I call working for me. Let's send Ryan back to find a few $Billion to cut and put the state back on economic track.
COME ON PATRICK, GET A SPINE AND STATE SOME POSITIONS AND YOUR CONCRETE SOLUTIONS. The time for excuses is over. Nobody on here wants to debate issues, they just want to whine about political tactics, and how many yard signs they see. If this is all you care about then no wonder you support Poor Patrick.

one would think a candidate has better things yo do than post on patch.com

are you proud of the deaths that have occurred at KidsPeace at the hands of staff?

Way out of line "Elephant Man". I rarely respond to Pseudonym screen names since they are nothing more then internet trolls for the most part. . .

Kids peace handles thousands and thousands of youths a year. It's record is outstanding considering the volume and level of severity of issues/psychiatric/behavioral problems they handle. I know first hand the special kind of people these counselors are and what they face on a daily basis. (over 150 attacks on counselors reported over a year timeframe 2006-2007.) It's certainly not something I could do. I know people who worked there who are injured on a weekly basis from being punched/bitten/attacked. It takes a SPECIAL person to help these kids at KP who major and sometimes violent psychiatric issues.

2nd. I'm happy Pat is out in the public. It's a damned if he does damned if he doesn't viewpoint with some people. Since he's running for office every good thing he did the past decade in this community is now "glad-handing" or "photo-ops". You criticize for posting on Patch? I commend it. It's what politicians should be doing. I guess you would prefer him simply taking marching orders from the Democratic establishment as Mackenzie does with the R's.

Lastly, KP's financial issues. According to records released to Mcall "the agency cut its losses for 2011 and gained revenue." Furthermore, "the agency slashed costs on professional services, consolidated some operations and hired full-time doctors instead of relying on temporary ones — moves that cut $2.6 million from the budget."

Do you know what caused the issues? A major cause is declining gov't funding. Ok. This is what you all want? (And I agree with to a certain extent) Cut the gov't funding to Kidspeace. Thats whats happening and they are dealing with it. You can't have it both ways. You can't say "Kidspeace is funded by the gov't" knowing it's funding is being slashed but then say "Kidspeace is in financial trouble, it's all Slatterys fault" (which of course is a stupid generalization to make). But point is, you can't play both sides of the coin.

Lastly, let's say kids peace fails. (it won't) lets say it did. What happens to these kids then? Welfare system? Ya, that will be really efficient!

I am not attacking the work Kidspeace does. I am dismayed that the financial mismanagement at Kidspeace(ask Moody's) may cause those kids to be thrown out into the street. I AM thinking of those children. Let us get past Kidspeace. What I am trying to do is move the conversation to ISSUES. Why don't you address the issues? This is how you respond. Attack the messenger and not offer any solutions. All you say is you want to go meet people. What do you tell people you are going to do? What are the issues and what are your solutions? What's that??? Silence. No answers no solutions. I ask you to respond to the issues, and your only response is to say you want to stroke your ego and get more photo ops to satisfy your narcissism. Address the issues. Tell us what you think the issues are and tell us your solutions. I look forward to your response, but I will not hold my breath.

Patrick, thanks for commenting. Im glad to see you are actually involved in your community.

he may also live in Texas.

MacKenzie is a puppet for the machine, nothing will change and he is ill prepared to be a leader amongst men

Im voting for someone who lives in the Lehigh Valley and is not one of the good 'ol boys newest members. Even if he cut 10 bizillion dollars, who cares if he is just going to be another political hack. Arent you and the rest of the CEPTA clan againsts these types of political cronies anyhow. I want real people in office not just robots of the party.

Yeah who cares that he doesnt live here. Oh wait, actaully the law does.

And for the record he has not done anything to lower taxes. That was debunked in the first week of his campaign. He actaully increased them if you look at the 3 year projections of those cuts on local tax payers.

many children take care of their parents

This was CANCELED last week tough guy

FYI, I am a fed up taxpayer, fed up with being taxed to death to pay for multimillion dollar public pensions, illegal tax scams to fund private sports arenas(yea, Browne must go!), and all the other unconstitutional entitlements and corporate bailouts. I am not associated with any candidate. Does anyone want to talk issues? Will someone who got a Slattery Photo Op, tell us his issues and solutions?

why are you anonymous with you comments? afraid to reveal your true identity??

As a business manager Slattery's job is to make programs that match the needs of children. He has done this and done a good job. He is not the CEO, President or Vice President nor is he in charge of the fiscal management of the company. By saying he ran the company into the ground you are simply trying to distract the public from the fact that Mackenzie is a terrible choice for the GOP. He was fighting for Corbett and Tommey and looking to become a political insider. It had nothing to do with fighting for people.

Where did these accusations come from? Are they on Slattery Website? Just curious.

At EPSD, the "business manager" is the CFO. While I doubt that Mr. Slattery's position at KidsPeace is the CFO, I also doubt that anyone who was called a business manager would have " a job to make programs that match the needs of children". That would be in the purview of psychological, medical, educational, and social services professionals.

Little of that would be the function of a business manager. Depending on the breadth (and/or level) of a particular business manager's responsibilities, he might be in charge of paying the bills, collecting the receivables, preparing or analyzing budgets and financial statements, facilities management, h.r. administration, or even sales and business development functions. For a lower level manager, it could be only one of these functions.

I'm sure during the campaigns, we'll find out whether ot not the candidate is a big cheese or not.

With any new programs being created their is a business aspect to it. That is what the guy is involved with. The point is that he is not the one that led to the financial problems. At KP their was an admissions freeze and a reorgnization which included no longer taking the most violent youth. This led to less money coming in along with some other government revenues that were cut. Blaming him is a political myth being created by those who want to see the weak mackenzie nomination succeed.

On his website, I think the candidate fashions himself a "health care executive". We've also seen him called a business manager, which usually has profit/loss responsiblilty, or in the case of non-profits, the responsibility to maintain the viability of his organization. To be fair, some clarification of his actual responsibilities would be in order, from the candidate himself, in order to stop the questions and speculation.

I think he is following this discussion.......since he commented earlier when he tried to change any discussion about his professional record into an alleged attack on the 130 year old organisation. (see: Patrick Slattery,10:37 pm on Tuesday, April 3, 2012, "If anonymously attacking a 130 year old children's charity, KidsPeace, is what the MacKenzie campaign is about then I hope that the voters will clearly reject that type of behavior.") No one is doing such a thing - the problems at his employer are very well documented elsewhere in the press so people are naturally interested in his involvement.

He could have simply denied that he was involved in its problems by telling us what he really does there as a "health care executive".

I want the speculation to end as much as you do, but the candidate hasn't really helped himself at all by attacking the obvious questions.

Slattery claims to be Kidspeace Director of Business Development on his LinkedIn page. Either the title is a fabrication/resume padding, or does not mean what a normal person would think. I read that as responsible for making the business GROW, not shrink. Still waiting for someone to post Slattery's positions and solutions on anything other than photo ops. Anyone get even get a campaign slick with anything other than photos of how much he "cares"?

From: http://vote4patrick.com/values.html

1. Restore public trust in state government by embracing true transparency
and reign in wasteful spending. Simply stated, the government should only
do for its citizens that which the citizenry can not do efficiently or
effectively for themselves. • With one of the most expensive legislatures in the country next to California and New York coupled with multi-billion dollar budget deficits, we have plenty of work to do!

(NICE WORDS. SPECIFICALLY, WHAT WASTEFUL SPENDING HAVE YOU IDENTIFIED THAT SHOULD BE CUT?)

2. Concentrate on Education, Energy, the Environment and how these issues
interact with the Economy. A thriving Economy in the 21st Century is
generated by success in these three areas. A vibrant economy affords our
best opportunity to meet the needs of taxpayers, businesses, families,
children and seniors! • By shifting our concept of these issues as expenses or cost and looking at them as sound Investments in our future, we can begin to have real
debates about how to make the needed improvements in our public policy.

(IN LIGHT OF MULTI-BILLION DEFICITS CITED IN ITEM #1, HOW WOULD YOU PAY FOR THESE "INVESTMENTS"?)

arlene was very concerned about older residents and people in general. She would have been a good choice. I guess it is about who you know but the fact is voters have the power to go to the polls and change that, they just dont use it !

As long as she is not guilty of a felony like killing,hurting,stealing or cheating someone or destroying property i could care less. if we say we cant vote for someone who ran a red light or stop sign or texts or talks on the phone while driving or gets distracted by loud music or something they see along the road or who maybe speeds now and then we would not have anyone left to vote for. I do like that your willing to call voters crazy at least you say what you think so you get style points for being politicallly incorrect. Still to be such an insider kind of erases your style points sorry. oh and i may be crazy but its a good kind of crazy

stfu

Ya i know i was just trying to make a point as to the type of candidates i like. 1. politically incorrect 2. dont make promises you cant keep 3. dont use catch phrases or buzz words just say what you mean.4. dont look at polls and say what you think people want to hear, be truthfull. Stop laughing, i know i probally have a better shot at mega millions than finding such a candidate!!!!