GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 2011.

WHERE AND WHY HAVE WE FAILED IN THIS ELECTION? 

A NEWLY ELECTED COUNCIL MEMBER SENT OUT AN EMAIL AFTER THE ELECTION WHICH STATED THE FOLLOWING:

LOSER  -  MARVIN MANN

NO, A THOUSAND TIMES NO!!!

THE COMMUNITY OF COPLAY IS THE LOSER.  WHY?

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER A DECADE, IN MY OPINION, COPLAY FOUND ITSELF WITH A COMMUNITY ORIENTED COUNCIL HEADED IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION.  IN JUST THREE SHORT YEARS UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF COUNCIL PRESIDENT MARVIN MANN II,  WORKING IN CONSORT WITH THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, COPLAY HAD A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COME TO FRUITION, STREETS NEWLY PAVED, A NEW FIRE TRUCK, A POLICE CRUISER CAR  AND A NEW LARGER CAPACITY SANITATION TRUCK PURCHASED, WITH ALL PAID FOR.  THIS WAS ALL DONE WITH NO NEW PROPERTY TAX  OR SANITATION FEE INCREASE IN 2011.  YES, A LOAN WAS NEGOTIATED, BUT IT WAS WELL THOUGHT OUT AND AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE PLAN.  IT IS A PART OF THE BUDGET WHICH ALLOWS COPLAY TO MOVE FORWARD. THAT IS ONLY SCRATCHING THE SURFACE.  UNLESS I AM BADLY MISTAKEN, THERE WILL BE A FINAL PASSAGE OF THE 2012 BUDGET ON MONDAY EVENING DEC. 19, 2011, ONCE AGAIN WITHOUT A PROPERTY TAX OR SANITATION FEE INCREASE.  WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THIS AND THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION?  HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN, CONSIDERING THE STATE OF THE CURRENT ECONOMIC AND EMPLOYMENT SITUATION IN OUR NATION?  THE POSSIBLE ANSWER SEEMS TO BE TOO SIMPLE TO BE TRUE.  BUT, BELIEVE ME, IT WAS BECAUSE PEOPLE WORKED TOGETHER AND UTILIZED ALL OF THEIR ENERGY TO FIND WAYS TO ACCOMPLISH NECESSARY TASKS WITH ALL RESOURCES AND AVENUES AVAILABLE.  THERE WAS NO TIME AND MONEY WASTED ON ALLEGED WITCH HUNTS ZEROED IN ON A SPECIFIC ORGANIZATION AND/OR INDIVIDUALS.  IN ONE CASE WHICH ENDED UP IN COURT FOR AN ANSWER FOR THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION, AN AMOUNT BETWEEN $30,000.00 AND $40,000.00 WAS SQUANDERED. THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION FOCUSED ON GOVERNING WITH THE INTERESTS OF THE RESIDENTS OF COPLAY BEING THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE AS THEIR GOAL.  THEY HAD PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS MANDATED AND THEY LISTENED AND ACTED ACCORDINGLY AFTER EVALUATING THE PUBLIC RESPONSE.  I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MORE TRANSPARENT  LOCAL GOVERNMENT COULD BE?  IT HAS BEEN A TRUE BREATH OF FRESH AIR WHICH WE PRAY MAY CONTINUE WITH THE NUCLEUS LEFT BEHIND AFTER THE ELECTORATE FAILED TO RETURN MARVIN MANN II TO COPLAY BOROUGH COUNCIL!!!   AGAIN, I REPEAT STRONGLY, THE BOROUGH OF COPLAY (OUR COMMUNITY) IS THE LOSER, NOT MARVIN MANN II. 

INCIDENTALLY, IN THE AFOREMENTIONED EMAIL, WHICH WAS SENT OUT BY BILL LEINER, Jr., HE ANNOUNCED A VICTORY SPAGHETTI DINNER TO BE HELD THREE DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION WHEN HE WOULD POSSIBLY MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT HIS FUTURE POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS.  AND HE DID.

HE ANNOUNCED, ACCORDING TO A WHITEHALL/COPLAY PRESS ARTICLE A WEEK LATER, THAT HE, BILL LEINER, Jr., WAS GOING TO RUN FOR THE POSITION OF COPLAY MAYOR AGAIN IN 2013.

SOUND FAMILIAR?  YOU BETCHA YOUR SWEET BIPPY.  AS YOGI BERRA WOULD SAY "DEJA VOUS ALL OVER AGAIN".  HE DID THE SAME THING WHEN HE FIRST RAN FOR COUNCIL SOME YEARS BACK.  AFTER BEING ELECTED, HE RAN FOR MAYOR IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS TERM ON COUNCIL.  HE DID THE SAME THING WHEN HE WAS MAYOR IN 2007.  HE RAN FOR A COUNTY OFFICE AND LEFT HIS POSITION OF COPLAY MAYOR IN MID-TERM.  BILL LEINER, Jr., IN MY OPINION, DOESN'T GIVE A HOOT FOR THE WISHES AND CONCERNS OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE ELECTED HIM.  HE SUFFERS FROM SELF AGGRANDISEMENT AND DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR.  COPLAY, BE WARY AND BEWARE.  IT MAY COME BACK TO HAUNT ALL OF US. 

GOD BLESS.