A guest post by Walter Griffith, candidate for Luzerne County Controller.
The recent developments in the City of Pittston, regarding the placing of Mr. Terry Best’s son, P.J. Best, on the November Ballot for Pittston City Council, by the Pittston City Democratic Committee is more of the same " taxpayer be damned" attitude by some people in our area.
The election of people to "Serve" has once again been made to look like the democratic process is more about "who you know" and not " How can I help" my City and my County, to be a better place in which we all live and work.
Terry Best and his antics to withdraw from the ballot for City Council of Pittston, is just more reasons why the Democrats in the Third Ward of Luzerne County and Pittston City should always remember to look deep into the hearts and souls of their candidates that they chose to elect in the Primaries to "Serve" them into the General Election and possibly beyond for the next 4 years.
The good people of Pittston City placed their trust in Terry Best, who campaigned and promised to serve them, if elected to City Council, and took Terry Best at his word to be there if the taxpayers came out and voted for him in the Primary on May 26th 2009.
The deadline to withdraw your name from the ballot was on Monday August 10th 2009 and Terry Best withdrew his name at 1 PM just hours before the deadline, after he had 2 ½ months to decide, and the reason that Mr. Best gave was because he thought he would be better able to "Help" the taxpayers of Pittston by staying on the school board because of the investigations and alleged wrongdoings of several on this school board.
The reason that Mr. Best gave sounded like he was sincere, and actually looking to better "Serve" the people, until what appears to be a "Backdoor Deal" to wrangle away the power and control of the people of Pittston City.
Luzerne County is currently under a very dark cloud of scrutiny by the FBI, and also the "Good People" of Luzerne County, and we deserve to have people elected that have a true heart of service to the taxpayers, and not a heart of deceit and deception for their own self motivated interests in the "Control Arena" of Political Power in Luzerne County.
The Primary Election was finished on May 26th 2009, and the people of Democrat Party of Pittston have voted for their candidate to represent them in the General Election in November and the ability of some to "Thumb their Noses" at the taxpayers should be stopped, and those people like Terry Best, and the politically connected cronies, that feel nepotism and cronyism is "Alive and Well in Luzerne County" should hear loud and clear that, we the taxpayers, are "mad as hell" and we are not going to take it anymore.
Walter L. Griffith Jr
Candidate for Luzerne County Controller
4 comments:
Walter - You are so right. It absolutely amazes me that in the middle of an FBI investigation, the size which has never been seen in this valley, Terry Best tries to slide his son in the back door. There must be something illegal about this deal! Have these people no morals at all?? Even if this is not illegal, it certainly is not ethical. Hopefully, Terry Best and his son will do the RIGHT thing and turn this council position over to one of the people who legitimately ran for this seat in the primary election. And hopefully the people of Pittston will remember this "sneaky deal" come the next election. Just when you think these politicians will wise up , they just get worse!
When pressed on Friday by WILK's Steve Corbett, P.J. Best disclosed that, while he wants to "serve" the good people of Pittston, he still has to finish his law school committments in...get this...in Pittsburgh.
And when Corbett rejected the entire malarkey as being absurd, Best offered the following:
"I'm in Pittston more often than not."
"I can travel, Steve. That's how things work."
AND...
"The swearing-in ceremony doesn't take place until January."
And Corbett shot back with, "This looks like the political fix is in...politics as usual."
All of that typed, this is the fearless leader of the Home Rule movement? This is the guy that portends to fight for open and honest government, for, by, of and (all of that other hollow B.S. about being) for the people? This is Mr. Transparency himself?
The way I see it, P.J. Best has not only dealt a major blow to his yet to be established credibility, but he has also bestowed upon the Government Study Commission a low blow it probably didn't deserve, nor did it need.
Call it guilt by association if you must, but remember, there's no shortage of guilt being doled out in this corrupt county of late, nor is there any shortage of plea-offering people associated with any of it.
Whether P.J. Best wants to own up to it or not, he is perfectly fine with being elected by his dad, his dad's brazen cronies in the back room behind the closed door and, as he put it, "the procedure."
But as we are seeing of late, again, as P.J. himself put it on WILK, following the "procedure," and following the "guidelines" in this politically and economically stifled county so often amounts to little more than the initial enabling of the rampant corruption we are all so...supposedly...shocked by.
Bye, bye P.J.! Don't let that closed door on the backside of the smoke-filled back room hit you in the smart ass on the way out.
While your short run in politics was a good one (so they say), it's surely bound to be a short one.
"I was not appointed to this position."--P.J. Best on WILK
Um, er, yeah you were.
I usually can't stomach walter, but he is right on the money on this one. i have known terry for years, I will no longer acknowledge him when i see him in public.
they did everything according to the letter of the law, the spirit of the law is another matter.
disgrace does not even begin to describe. and as far as anything that comes out of the home rule study group... well f that too.
Ah the true colors of PJ and Terry really come out. This ought to teach anyone who believed they have the area's best interests at heart. Sorry if anyone got disappointed by these two tools.
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