Power Outage Idles Blog Production

molovinsky on allentown has just gotten back on line, after about 13 hours of another PPL outage. Customers have come to expect disrupted service when wind reaches beyond 6 miles per hour. Although the PPL automated message system first reported that power would be restored by 8:00pm last evening, the message was then changed to 7:00am this morning. As a veteran of these power interruptions, let me translate. A tree or branch fell on a line, and the contracted tree service doesn't start work until daylight. One would think that after all the recent outages, the utility might have considered an in-house tree service. According to an article in The Morning Call, PPL showed some favoritism in 2011, dispatching crews to special customers. We know that I'm not one of them.

Historic Visit To Israel

Although Pope Francis' visit to Jerusalem captured world headlines, the real history was made by Cardinal Bechara Ra'i, Patriarch of the Maronite Catholic Church, centered in Lebanon. While over 11,000 Maronites live in Israel, it was the first visit by a leader of that church since 1948, when Israel was created. The Patriarch felt compelled by faith to greet Francis in Jerusalem, but while there met with no Israeli officials. Never the less, the visit has been criticized in Lebanon by Hezbollah, for humanizing the enemy. They said that the Patriarch's visit to Jerusalem cannot pass quietly. Let us pray that it does. Here in the Lehigh Valley, there is a Maronite community in Easton.

the Cardinal at a church in Jaffa

Internet TV Scoops Mass Media

ASSOCIATED PRESS: A small internet TV production has announced the first scheduled interview with Candidate Molovinsky, who is vying to be the only independent in the Pennsylvania State House. Molovinsky has agreed to sit down with hosts Robert Trotner and Lou Shupe this coming Sunday, June 1, at three o'clock. The show, Lehigh Valley Caffeinated, specializes in political content.

UPDATE:This interview has been postponed one week, until Sunday June 8th, same time, same channel

One Question, Yes or No

One of the things I find perplexing as a candidate is people's readiness to accept or reject you on your answer to one question. They are usually the hot button issues, such as gun control, abortion and unions. Never mind that they may not be in the purview of the state government. Never mind that they may not know how the other candidates really feel on the subject. These one topic, yes or no questions come from people in all walks of life, from high school dropouts to physicians. Although I prize core values,  the voters should also want to know that  their representative  has the skill set to employ due diligence on all the other topics.  Harrisburg is so broken and deadlocked by monkeys in empty suits, with empty heads, who keep pushing the same buttons.

Friday Nights In Slatington

This past month I have taken to spend a couple hours each Friday evening in Slatington. It's quaintness masks a frustration about the lack of jobs and opportunity there, the taprooms outnumber the stores. Local Slatedale Republican Marc Grammes beat 10 term incumbent Julie Harhart at the polls there on Tuesday. I hope to earn the vote of his supporters come November. I look forward to meeting some of them this evening, at Darla's Ice Cream Parlor, between 6 and 8.
photo by K Mary Hess

Assault At Allen

The father of a special needs student tells this blog that his daughter was assaulted at Allen, by a security officer. The girl missed her bus, and a security guard was assigned to wait with her, until another van could pick her up.  Supposedly, the guard became frustrated, presumingly by the girl's behavior, and subsequently pushed her into a locker, injuring her fingers. According to the parent, a coverup of the incident has evolved since he first filed a complaint with the school, and then the police. Although he has provided the school administration, school board members and local media with a report detailing the incident, save for this blog post, nothing has been written. He is beginning to believe that the titan's of Allentown are sacrificing his daughter's welfare, for the district and city's image.

Closing In On Harhart

Despite 3 glossy mailers and a robocall by 10 term incumbent Julie Harhart, Marc Grammes garnered 44% of the vote in yesterday's primary. Harhart's mailers, case studies in omission and distortion, will be scrutinized by my campaign in the coming weeks. It is my intention that in January she should start receiving the generous pension for which she voted.

Outpost Molovinsky

The Molovinsky For State Representative Campaign is one month old. The 183rd District is enormous and geographically diverse, but the problems are essentially the same. The district stretches from west of Slatington to just east of Bath, north from Rt. 22 to the Blue Mountain. This economically depressed area has been represented by the same person for twenty years. Although her staff is apparently good at helping people get their driver's license renewed, she is just a seat warmer in Harrisburg. Yesterday, I visited a huge indoor flea market outside Slatington, in the former Keystone Lamp factory. People now scramble to sell their used possessions in the factory where they once worked, welcome to Julie Harhart country. My campaign has established an outpost in Slatington, and is now scouting for the highground in Northampton. Volunteers are still being sought for action tomorrow, gathering signatures on election day. If you're available for duty, please send a comment with your contact information. The application will not be printed, and will only be seen by me.