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Cutler claims win in 100th
Armstrong loses bid for third term
Intelligencer Journal
May 17, 2006 08:16 EST
By Paula Holzman, Staff

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I love how everything I do - you know is motivated by something wrong and you all are just pure as the driven snow! I guess Solancoforever is hear posting because she is idealogically neutral? Commtech brags about being non-party (foolish in PA I might add) and he has ZERO politics motivated him.

Look - I made my point and challenged with Cutler early on. Bryan will tell you that I was more than corridial and friendly towards him when we met at various functions after that....

It's a fact that I was planning on doing something on the "day after April Fool's day" this year and re-release my Barley video just to remind people of exactly how bad Barley was. April 2 was the fourth anniversery of Barley's resignation.

The reason I wanted to? I hear people all the time say - "They are like Barley" or whatever. HA! There is no one as bad as Barley currently serving.

I also know that Cutler didn't even vote 4 years ago when this seat was open. Why not? For him to complain about Giblet when he didn't even vote to pick the replacement. I could have written about that.

Other than that initial story and frankly the proof - I didn't do anything on my website. For crying outloud - Cutler complimented Barley and told some silly story about him sending a letter. 5thEstate.com is my good government site. I point out issues and hope to public officials and wanna be's to improve their additude. I have defended Democrats and gone after republicans for the most parts.

Cutler actually made some negative comments about Barley in the newspaper which frankly made me back off.

rh
RonHarper
QUOTE(RonHarper @ May 19 2006, 06:01 PM)
Trivia question: Why did Giblet get fired from the newspaper? Who was it that published the goods and got him fired?

rh


Who took it off their website once the issue resurfaced? I know it was there in February but went missing in March once someone in his office reminded you that it was there.
hmmmm
P.S get over it with Barley already.
hmac
QUOTE(Solancoforever @ May 19 2006, 10:51 AM)
You weren't at the meeting Ron and I was as you well know. Bryan's mother had a living will. Bryan flat out very loudly said that he DID NOT support the Schiavo decision because no one knew what she really wanted.

A woman showed up at the Friday night meeting in Conestoga. Her name was Joanne Celotto but she wouldn't tell us that. The whole jist of her very aggressive comments were that because Bryan had a photographer working on his campaign who supported him who was a known Democrat and Liberal than he must be that way too. SHE said that no Liberal deserved to be heard and shouldn't be treated like a constituent. She also said Bryan was a reflection of the company he kept. Bill Rudick (the photographer) also is a columnist with the Sun Ledger (she called the Sun a Liberal left leaning paper--well Gib wrote a regular column in it too). Bill had written 2 columns about Schiavo both encouraging Living Wills.

I walked out with this woman and she told me she supported Gib Armstrong. Later she gave a convoluted story of what happened to Helen Colwell Adams. Helen called Bryan and he told her he did NOT support the Schiavo decision.

Funny how some off the street person who went in, disrupted a meeting, leveled false allegations and then literally ran out the door knew to call Helen. Then and even better there were the Monday WDAC ads.

So anyway what was the truth about the woman who said she supported Gib to me but denied it publicly but crashed our event? Let's look at her. She passed around peitions for Gib to run in the primary. She was at numerous events of his and finally even though from Conestoga guess who was standing at the Quarryville Borough poll trying to convince people Bryan killed his mom? Good old Joanne.

I'm not saying one more word about this except I'm trying to figure out--where do bold faced lies come in?


Let me tell you about Joanne Celotto and her daughter Annie. Annie wrote a really long letter to the editor all about how Gib's former staff were all liars and that she new of their character and that he never asked her as an intern to do campaign work in his office.
Well I worked for Gib and accused him of doing campaign work in the office. I only met Annie and her mother twice, and one of those times was when Gib had a Saturday campaign meeting in his district office and both Celottos were there. Annie was wearing her Liberty University sweatshirt that day. I wonder how it is that she knows me well enough to talk about my character and my bad behavior. Seems like the mother daughter combo is willing to lie for Gib and bash someone elses character at the same time. I wonder how Jerry Falwell would feel about that.
hmac
My silence has to do with the fact that my hobby doesn't pay the bills rather than my reluctance to print something. I have many stories that I just never get around to writing about actually. I am working on a couple of documentaries - the convention center and Ben's custody thing so that's taken a lot of time. (A lot!)

rh

PS
Barley is important because I hear people and they just don't realize how bad it can get. The fact that the media is FINALLY paying attention is something I am thankful for - wish they covered Barley's per deim and expenses like I did back then! NOT....they turned a blind eye. It's a fact that the New Era refused to cover my press conference when I broke the news that Barley was selling the neighborhood out for a landfill. They didn't want it to effect his election! They waited until two days afterwards!

Anyway, one of the reasons I didn't do the Barley after four years is because of the election. I wanted people to look at it without the current political ramifications and I wasn't sure that it could be done. Besides - too busy trying to earn enough money to pay for the 5 kids and all that goes with it!

Something that I printed 5 years ago is not up. I took nothing down. I changed hosts a number of years ago and all of the old stuff wasn't never put up.
RonHarper
Ron is right in several areas. Bryan did criticize Barley and Ron really has not given us any kind of a hard time. His plagiarism revelation (Ron's) really took Gib out of the paper and also showed early on his true colors. Also everyone from our campaign encountered Ron publicly several times and Ron did treat us with respect as we did him.

There is no question I am not neutral but I am idealogoical--perhaps too much so sometimes.

But Gib lost, Bryan won and the Cutler campaign is moving on. I hope we all can work together peacefully.

On another issue I didn't realize that Annie's last name was Celotto! That explains a whole lot!
Solancoforever
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