Mercer County Conservatives

I started going there when I was just a little gir...

2012-05-18T16:03:03.467-04:00

I started going there when I was just a little girl and now I take my daughter and husband.I always get sad at the state it is in and wish that one day it will be back to its old glorious self. Every year we return at least once to the area and stop in to see progress. This year will be no diffrent. I loved this place as a child and would be crushed if it ever completely shut down. So many happy memories in there of both young and old. i kind of think the place might be cursed with all the problems they have had.

Better Late Than Never: I have had a really bad e...

2012-02-03T23:04:05.054-05:00

Better Late Than Never: I have had a really bad experience with Robert G. Kochems, Mercer County District Attorney. He went over and above wearing the hat of a District Attorney when he sent a Memo to retired Mercer County Judge Francis J. Fornelli. Judge Fornelli asked Kochems in a Memo why he did not prosecute a case involving Negligence of a Dependent Person. D.A. Kochems answered that the dependent person was responsible for his own injuries due to his physical condition. This person was confined to a wheelchair and was left alone unsupervised in a group home in Mercer County. Injuries were broken left foot, broken hip, facial lacerations, spiral fracture to right femur and broken teeth. Mr. Kochems is completely incompetent as a District Attorney and should be run out of not only Mercer County but the entire Country. His office of investigators our truly Howdy Doodies just puppets on a string who thing they can use the Mercer County Sheriff's Department to harass and intimidate people in Mercer County. The entire structure of Mercer County Government is Corrupt starting with the Mercer County Commissioners(two of the three anyway)..

Hi, I am a senior at Hickory High School. I am cur...

2011-12-06T12:46:58.735-05:00

Hi, I am a senior at Hickory High School. I am currently in the AP government class. We had a discussion about the Tea Party. Unfortunatly a majority of my class does not understand the logic and goal of the Tea Party. We were givin an article (written by the NYT) which bashed the Tea Party as right wing racist successionists. Most of my classmates bought into the article. I, along with a few other proud conservatives in the class would greatly appreciate if you would send a represenative to our class to speak about the tea party.

Cameron Linton

“We have the right as individuals, to give away as...

2011-08-22T10:24:11.718-04:00

“We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.” Davy Crockett

"I am no man's man. I bark at no man's bid. I will never come and go, and fetch and carry, at the whistle of the great man in the white house, no matter who he is. And if this petty, un-patriotic scuffling for men, and forgetting principles, goes on, it will be the overthrow of this one happy nation, and the blood and toil of our ancestors will have been expended in vain." Davy Crockett

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free. -- Ronald Reagan

Look around Ladies and Gentlemen this is what is happening now... BW

This is just a bullying tactic. I would strongly ...

2011-08-09T17:32:02.380-04:00

This is just a bullying tactic. I would strongly encourage you to investigate Marinkovic's credentials as part of defending yourself from his nuisance lawsuit.

You may notice, when reading through his many, many ongoing suits (where he always represents himself Pro Se -- a professional paperwork-filer, it seems) that his Pauper's Affidavits for relief from filing fees and successful counterparties' legal fees are routinely rejected. This is because a Google and a Lexis-Nexis search quickly reveal him to be the holder or beneficial owner of multiple real property assets. A counter-suit might thus prove fruitful.

Please keep us posted on this situation. I happen to disagree with many of the views on this blog but I am embarrassed to be an American when our legal system permits the "Mel Marin"s of the world to impair your exercise of the First Amendment.

I'm not a lawyer, but you should look into con...

2011-07-11T17:43:17.405-04:00

I'm not a lawyer, but you should look into contesting his Pauper's Affidavit. If the government doesn't pay for this frivolous lawsuit, then I doubt it proceeds.

Mr. Mel Marin, or whatever he is going by these da...

2011-07-10T21:23:24.975-04:00

Mr. Mel Marin, or whatever he is going by these days needs to grow a backbone and stop with frivolous law suits. I certainly hope the courts punish him with making him pay any fees that taxpayers are going to have to dole out for his childish actions.

I hope to get there sometime this year. I can'...

2011-05-09T16:34:00.869-04:00

I hope to get there sometime this year. I can't wait to see how the park is looking with the new rides manager and Blue Streak open! I am also hoping they did a little work on the midway but I am sure they really would need the pepsi refresh money to do anything extensive. Hopefully they have a great season this year so they can get it back in full swing for next summer and stay afloat.

I surely hope that our newly elected state officia...

2010-11-10T16:05:34.349-05:00

I surely hope that our newly elected state officials: Gov. Corbett, Sen. Robbins, and Rep.Brooks have been taking a lesson from the state of New Jersey. This starts with cutting legislative salaries and curbing expenses by going back to the budgets of 2007, 2008. During Gov. Rendell's terms, expenses increased by an average of $1,000,000,000 yearly for each of the eight years he was in office!

:-D

2010-11-08T10:23:20.340-05:00

:-D

We should thank YOU! You are a breath of fresh ai...

2010-11-04T10:54:16.068-04:00

We should thank YOU! You are a breath of fresh air in the smoggy world of politics. I am one of the 12,725 and proud of it. Robbins could not have won if he hadn't been on the Democratic ticket and he knows that. We all know that. At least you had them running scared. Thank you so much for being a candidate!
Amy McCamey, Mercer, PA

Mike Kelly is not a witch, but he sure is scary

2010-10-29T08:37:13.889-04:00

Mike Kelly is not a witch, but he sure is scary

I love the Tea Party, even though I'm what a l...

2010-10-13T20:57:45.716-04:00

I love the Tea Party, even though I'm what a lot of people would call a GOP hack. I've pretty much had my own Tea Party going for the last 8 years or so. What I mean by that is that I don't give to the RNC, the NRSC or the NRCC anymore. I support individual conservative candidates, or simply Republicans who are more conservative than their opponents. Almost all those candidates which I support financially are out of my home district which is 80% Democrat and will be until Kucinich goes up on the Mothership.

Unfortunately, I've heard similar thoughts fro...

2010-10-09T08:03:16.324-04:00

Unfortunately, I've heard similar thoughts from many others. Voters don't like either candidate and would prefer to waste their vote by leaving it blank OR writing in another candidate. They figure that a vote for Kelly OR Dahlkemper is waste either way. It is a shame, but it is a compelling point.

Have never heard of this alleged extra-marital aff...

2010-10-09T07:55:45.300-04:00

Have never heard of this alleged extra-marital affair of Kelly's. We all had several good choices in the primary for Dist. 3, but the voters spoke and due to some "spoilers" and county chair endorsements, Kelly won. Politics as usual. When you keep on with the same ole, same ole, you get the same results. Many people are having trouble voting for him. All you really can do, which is what many are doing, is to leave the dist.3 U.S. Congress blank and vote for neither. Maybe the party will start getting the message.

You raise interesting and valid questions. Questi...

2010-10-05T23:44:41.023-04:00

You raise interesting and valid questions. Questions that ONLY Mike Kelly can answer. I have a sense, however, that Mike Kelly intends on keeping his mouth closed (and remain in hiding) until November 3rd. I've gotten the impression that Mike Kelly assumes that he will win the election simply because he is a Republican. I also believe the Mike Kelly may be assuming to much. We all know what happens when you "assume", right?

Roberta, I am afraid to say I am outside your di...

2010-10-05T17:24:38.070-04:00

Roberta,

I am afraid to say I am outside your district but appreciate the effort and time you dedicate to the political discussion.

May I turn the attention to the PA-3 race between Mike Kelly and Kathy Dahlkemper for a minute? Becuase I can't get answers anywhere else.

We are one month away from the election and while I would never vote for Kathy Dahlkemper, I'm having real trouble convincing myself to vote for Mike Kelly. I pride myself on being an informed voter, so I refuse to vote for him just to get rid of Kathy Dahlkemper.

I drew the line when I saw Mike Kelly stand expressionless next to Mike McCoy as he endorsed Mr. Kelly as a man of family values and someone who would bring those same values to Congress. Apparently Mr. McCoy has been out of Pennsylvania too long not to know of Mike Kelly's well-known extra-marital affair. As a family man, I take this to heart and it is a very big obstactle for me to rationzle voting for him. It would do a lot of justice to hear Mr. Kelly confront the situation, apologize and move on. I'm a social voter, as I believe PA-3 is, and I make no apologies for that.

Mike Kelly pledges not to add to the deficit, while at the same time accepting over $600K through the "cash for clunkers" bailout. I have heard no good explanation for this. I envy Mr. Kelly's business sense, but no not try and pull one over on me. Either you did or your didn't. He did. I know we are all upset at Kathy Dahlkemper (for good reason) but I can't just vote for a man who is a clear hypocrite on critical issues?

He says he won't raise taxes, but he did as a City Councilman.
Also, how does Mr. Kelly plan on lowering the budget without cutting Medicare and Social Security? I think our seniors deserve further explanation. You can cut as many costs as you want, but with little to no real dent in the deficit. All economists agree that you must cut Medicare or Social security to make any drastic impact. Also, would Mr. Kelly endorse the Republicans message to privitize Social Security? These are all answers I have yet to recieve. Mr. Kelly just continues to stick to his talking points of "no new taxes" and "no more spending." But as an informed voter I want to know, how? Just like the Republicans "Pledge to America" Mr. Kelly appears to lack substance and specifics.

Frustrated,
Jason- Hermitage

Sure Jason, and thanks for asking. The State Empl...

2010-09-25T16:33:22.285-04:00

Sure Jason, and thanks for asking.

The State Employees’ Retirement System (SERS) and the Public School Employees’ Retirement system (PSERS) are unsustainable and they are facing billions of dollars in unfunded liabilities.

The money needs to come from some where . . . we need to either borrow it or "find the money". Borrowing is always a bad choice. In order to "find the money", it will become the responsibility of the taxpayers to pick up the slack and that’s just wrong. Taxpayers can’t afford it.

SERS and PSERS need to move from a defined-benefit pension plan to a 401(k)-style, or defined contribution, retirement plan in order to survive. In my support for a transition to a 401(k)-style retirement plan, I have signed a “Declination of State Pension” pact with the Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania which states that if elected I will decline enrollment in the State Employees’ Retirement System. As a public servant I feel that it is my duty to lead by example, and I am willing to decline a state pension in an effort to encourage others to do the same.

Roberta: You have probably talked about it before...

2010-09-25T10:49:09.528-04:00

Roberta:

You have probably talked about it before, but would you say a few words on why the Declination of Pension is so prominent in your platform? I think that some taxpayers don't fully understand the unfunded liabilities issue, or how it helps special interests to the detriment of taxpayers in general...

In June a brave group of conservatives attempted t...

2010-09-21T10:06:32.927-04:00

In June a brave group of conservatives attempted to dump Dave King (or, King David as we call him), but the attempt was blocked by the GOP loyalists. Since then those conservatives have slowly been kicked out of the GOP committee one at a time . . . and the witch hunt continues. It is sad to watch a political party run itself right into the ground because of a few VERY BAD applies.

Everyone knows that the problems with Dave King be...

2010-09-21T09:32:13.617-04:00

Everyone knows that the problems with Dave King being unbiased as he should be go WAY BACK to previous elections. He picks his candidate, then endorses them and foolishly believes no one notices and that he has that privelege. Everyone knew who he was supporting in the Dist.3 Congressional Primary. He needs to go.

Thank you for your comment "JoAnne". ...

2010-09-20T14:43:40.969-04:00

Thank you for your comment "JoAnne".

Word seems to travel fast in Mercer County, and the incident that you describe was brought to my attention this past weekend too. For those that aren't aware of the incident in question . . .

It seems that people have gone to the GOP headquarters in Mercer and requested campaign signs for 'some' candidates (but not all). They were then asked if they wanted a Robbins sign. If they said "no", they were told that they could have NO signs at all and they were asked to leave.

The rumor then began that I was PERSONALLY sending these individuals as "plants" in an effort to shake up the GOP. While the idea is interesting, I can promise you that I knew nothing of it until it was brought to my attention this weekend. I'm concentrating my time and effort (and the time and effort of my team) on getting out my message of "Good Government". I'm not involved in political game playing . . . and I have no interest in such activity.

The Mercer GOP is in denial if they think that ALL Republicans would WANT to support Bob Robbins. They are proving that they are bullies by attempting to FORCE people to support a candidate against their will. AND, they are demonstrating how selfish they are by turning down sign requests to people that won't support their single favorite candidate.

It is shameful, and I wish I could say that I'm shocked . . . but I am not. This is an example of "politics as usual" in Mercer County. THIS is what I hate about politics in Mercer County.

Another slap in the face to local voters from the ...

2010-09-20T14:27:10.031-04:00

Another slap in the face to local voters from the Republicans who think they are "the absolute power". Dave King at his worst again. I just heard that two voters requesting Republican candidate signs during a Republican Women's meeting were DENIED, yes denied the two requested signs, by Dave King, because they would not take the Robbins sign! It is my understanding that Dave King told them they HAD to take a Robbins sign or NO SIGNS would be given to them. They walked away empty-handed. How can this be? The last time I checked, Mercer County is in America - Land of the Free, which means we each have a free choice - our OWN choice. Since when does Dave King dictate what voters put in their yards? Shame on Dave King and anyone in attendance who did not stand up for individual rights. Did this not bother anyone in attendance at the meeting? If not, shame on them too.

Roberta, Not sure where to post this - but it certainly made my blood boil to hear the above. Edit as necessary if you use it - I also heard they are blaming you for sending in the two folks, which you disagree with. If Dave thought the two voters were 'plants' why didn't he just give them the signs instead of making a donkey of himself? More shame for the Republican Party.

GO TEA PARTY GO. You've cost the GOP Delaware ...

2010-09-20T10:19:34.786-04:00

GO TEA PARTY GO. You've cost the GOP Delaware and now Alaska. Keep up the good work

Coconut Bob and Cindy do know how to "play&qu...

2010-09-17T11:31:16.336-04:00

Coconut Bob and Cindy do know how to "play" the voters, don't they? They join the organizations which will play an important roll in backing them, like the NRA, and attend their functions. Don't forget he voted FOR the midnight pay raise, everyone. You thought that was ethical???