IT HAPPENED IN COPLAY

          NOTHING BUT THE FACTS

YES, IT HAPPENED IN COPLAY. THE WHITEHALL/COPLAY PRESS WEEKLY PAPER CARRIED THE STORY WHICH OCCURRED AT A LOCAL CHURCH PICNIC. IT STATED THAT AN ALLEGEDLY INEBRIATED MEMBER OF COPLAY COUNCIL, CARL LUCKENBACH, APPROACHED ANOTHER MEMBER OF COUNCIL, B. LEINER,JR, WHO WAS WITH HIS WIFE, MRS. LEINER, JR. AND ANOTHER COUNCIL MEMBER , WHO ALSO HAD HIS WIFE WITH HIM AND ANOTHER INDIVIDUAL, FROM OUT OF TOWN. EVIDENTLY THE INEBRIATED MEMBER TOLD LEINER,JR. WHAT HE WOULD LIKE TO DO HIM (LEINER,JR.) IF HE COULD GET AWAY WITH IT. HE ALLEGEDLY THREATENED LEINER, JR'S LIFE. LATER, IT STATED THAT LUCKENBACH APOLOGIZED AND THOUGHT IT WAS ALL OVER AND DONE WITH. BUT, LEINER, JR. CONTACTED THE D.A.'S OFFICE AND FILED CHARGES AGAINST LUCKENBACH, STATING THAT HE, LEINER,JR, WAS IN FEAR OF HIS LIFE. LUCKENBACH PLEAD GUILTY AND PAID A FINE AND AGAIN APOLOGIZED AND SHOOK HANDS WITH LEINER, JR. LATER, IT WAS REPORTED PUBLICLY THAT LEINER,JR. WANTED LUCKENBACH REMOVED FROM COPLAY COUNCIL, BUT COUNCIL DECIDED THAT THE INCIDENT WAS A PERSONAL ISSUE BETWEEN LUCKENBACH AND LEINER, JR. AND REFUSED TO TAKE ANY ACTION AGAINST LUCKENBACH.  LUCKENBACH STILL SERVES US ON COUNCIL.  I BELIEVE WHAT IS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN IS THAT LEINER, JR. CONTACTED ALL THE REPRESENTATIVES  IN THE PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE IN HARRISBURG PROPOSING A LAW OF SORTS TO COVER THIS KIND OF SITUATION IN THE FUTURE. I NEED SAY NO MORE. WE HAVE HEARD NOTHING MORE ON THIS REQUEST. IN MY OPINION, THERE ARE OTHER FOLKS IN COPLAY WHO MAY HAVE SOME SENTIMENTS WHERE LEINER, JR IS CONCERNED, ALTHOUGH PROBABLY NOT AS DRASTIC AS PROPOSED BY COUNCIL MEMBER LUCKENBACH. 

THIS IS THE SAME B. LEINER, JR. WHO MAINTAINED A PERSONAL WEBSITE WHEN HE WAS MAYOR AND EVEN AFTER THAT.  HE RAN A CONTEST TO IDENTIFY QUOTE" COPLAY'S NON- POLITICAL, POLITICAL CLOWN" UNQUOTE, WITH A GIFT CERIFICATE PRIZE TO A LOCAL RESTAURANT TO BE GIVEN TO ANY PERSON WHO COULD CORRECTLY IDENTIFY THE PERSON. THERE WAS A WINNER, WHO HAPPENED TO BE A MEMBER OF COPLAY CRIME WATCH. THE WINNER, UNBEKNOWNST TO ME, HAD SUBMITTED MY NAME. ONE DAY, THE WINNER HEARD A NOISE AT THEIR FRONT DOOR AND WENT TO CHECK IT OUT. THE WINNER OBSERVED LEINER, JR. GET IN HIS VEHICLE AND DRIVE AWAY. THE GIFT CERTIFICATE WAS LEFT ON THE DOOR OF THE HOME.  LATER, LEINER, JR. RAN ANOTHER CONTEST WITH THE SAME TYPE OF AWARD IF SOMEONE COULD IDENTIFY QUOTE: "COPLAY'S TWO POLITICAL CLOWNETTES" UNQUOTE. I TOOK HIM TO TASK WITH A LETTER REQUESTING THAT HE APOLOGIZE TO THE TWO WOMEN. HE STATED THAT NO ONE IDENTIFIED THE WOMEN AND THEREFORE THERE WAS NO PROOF THAT IT WAS THE WOMEN I REFERRED TO.  BUT, IN ONE OF HIS WEBSITE POSTINGS HE COMPLAINED OF TWO WOMEN WHO WERE AT THE LEHIGH COUNTY DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S MEETING AND WERE MAKING NEGATIVE REMARKS ABOUT HIM ON THE NIGHT WHEN HE SPOKE. BUT HE HAD REMARKS ABOUT THE INCIDENT, AS I STATED ABOVE, WHICH HE POSTED IN HIS WEBSITE NEWSLETTER.  INCIDENTALLY, I HAVE A STACK OF HIS POSTINGS THAT I PRINTED OUT AT THAT TIME TO BACK UP WHAT I STATED ABOUT THE CONTESTS.

I WILL NOT SAY ANYTHING ON THIS BLOG UNLESS I HAVE SOMETHING TO BACK IT UP. I WILL NOT DEAL IN MAYBE'S, POSSIBLY'S. OR PROBABLY'S. AS THEY ALWAYS SAID IN "DRAGNET", "NOTHING BUT THE FACTS JOE, NOTHING BUT THE FACTS". SOMETHING I LEARNED DURING MY CAREER,  DOCUMENTATION. 

MAINTAINED IN MY PERSONAL ARCHIVES FILE.

I WILL CONTINUE WITH MORE B.LEINER, JR. FACTS AT A FUTURE DATE. THANKS FOR LISTENING.

GOD BLESS,
FRANK AND ANN DICKMAN