Morning gang!! My hubby
found this vital bit of info in our newspaper this AM and after reading, I had
to share with all of you. Looks like the HONORABLE first
responders of this town, are fed up with the antics of His Majesty, Sherriff
Lobo, and Deputy Perkins, are FINALLY taking a stand, and it’s about time!!
They are also giving a long overdue apology to Union FIRE Co., and the Jerri
family, which will hopefully bring about more brave souls to take a stand
We as a group of Bensalem emergency
responders got together after we read the shocking, but not surprising article
in the Inquirer about our Mayor, Public Safety Director and Deputy Public
Safety Director. We knew they would do anything to get what they wanted; we
didn’t believe that they would harass, threaten and arrest anyone that stood in
their way. We were wrong!
As a group, no one knew that the township
was buying a new engine for the paid fire department. In fact, one of our companies was out at the
very same factory looking at their apparatus and was standing right next to
this new engine. When they asked who’s
it was, no one
would tell them. We checked the budget; there is no mention of a new
engine. Now we understand why they had to take more
money from the volunteer fire service at the very beginning of 2014. They have promised us a BIG tax increase to give us
back our funds in 2015. I guess we will
wait and see if that happens. It amazes
us that the $11,000,000.00 received annually by the township to offset costs
associated with the casino goes everywhere BUT to the volunteer fire
departments. All this disregard for the
volunteers, even though the volunteer fire companies provide 24 hours coverage
7 days a week compared to the 40 hours a day, 5 days a week coverage, by the
paid fire company. Plus, the paid fire
company keeps all the revenue generated by
fire inspections! Yea, it doesn’t make
sense to us either.
We can’t wait for the next council meeting
to see how the President of the council side steps this cluster of a police
department that won’t answer questions regarding
the false arrest of a Union fire company fire officer. All because the Chief of that fire company
had the guts to stand up and point out the illegal activity of the paid fire
company AND the disaster of a training center that the Chief of Nottingham
demanded be built in the township. The one in Bristol, less than 10 minutes
away provides state of the art training, with state certified instructors
including live burn training AT NO COST to any of our
companies. We are the laughing stock of
the state and region with the block “no burn, no sprinkler” $5,000,000.00 SWAT
training building. How did these great
minds forget to put a fire hydrant at a fire training center? How did that become an afterthought?
So that we make our point
perfectly clear let us review the facts:
The Mayor, Director
of Public Safety, Deputy Director of Public Safety and the Detective that
brought the charges against the officer from Union all claim their fifth
amendment rights regarding the arrest and prosecution of the Union Fire Company
officer. The witness from the towing company that was also an informant for the
police department mysteriously ends up dead, right after the lawsuit against the
township and the towing company is filed. Gee, how convenient is that for the
township defendants?!
They are all still in
office with NO
INVESTIGATION being
conducted by the government of our township.
If they do conduct an investigation (not that it is going to happen), is
the Mayor going to be in charge of the investigation?!
How come the new fire
engine was a surprise to members of our Council? Didn’t they approve the
purchase? Why wasn’t it mentioned at budget time? Why wasn’t it discussed at a council meeting
with the other major purchases for the township? Where did the $400,000.00 plus
come from?
Congratulations are in
order to former Councilman Mathieu for receiving a consolation prize after he lost
the election for council. It’s awfully
nice to get a 17% raise to $79,000.00 a year at his recently created assistant
position with the Bensalem School District.
We would love to see who he beat for that position, considering it did
not exist prior to his non-advertised hiring at the school district in the
first place!
I’m sure that will put a
lot of confidence into the public’s mind regarding the running of our
schools!
It was nice to see that the
Mayor had someone comment on the article, breezing over all the corruption and talking
about a boat that Union was forced to get rid of by the very people who are now
taking the 5th! Yea, your statements are credible! We did enjoy the
township attorney’s response article. We
kind of mentioned the 5th amendment rights! What do you mean, Kind of? Why would you mention them at all if you have
“nothing to hide”? Why does the Mayor
and the Director of Public Safety have personal attorneys in addition to the
attorneys already provided by the township? Who is paying for their personal
attorneys?
Another concern regarding
public safety and tax increases is that after a tax increase the Bensalem
Rescue Squad has reduced the number of emergency
ambulances in service during the day from 3 to 2! Of course, they did decide to
keep the tax increase and the money they get from Parx. I guess it pays to be a lap dog for the Mayor.
We would like to send our apologies to our
Brother and Sisters at the Union Fire Company for not standing with them while
they were being threatened, harassed and as it turns out falsely accused of
crimes by the people who are now hiding behind the law.
I say this: shame on all of us, including the
people of Bensalem for allowing this to continue.
Let’s see what we have on
this. A mayor, public safety director, deputy public safety director, and so
much more that are so desperate to hide their evil actions they will even use a
pre-amble of the constitution to cover their evil!! Then when the truth via an
article in the Philadelphia Inquirer came out, they send one of their minions
to make a comment on something that has NOTHNG TO DO WITH THE ARTICLE!! In the meantime,
they spend, spend, and spend some more, slowly draining this town of its finances,
until it’s bankrupt. The people of this town, beginning with the Bensalem Democrats
need to DEMAND that an investigation be done of our mayor, public safety
director, and deputy public safety director, and done by an outside
investigating source. This means NOT by the township, but by the FBI, and the
PA Attorney General!! It’s time that we stand up and say that we will not
tolerate this behavior within our town, and that we hold our public safety
officials to a higher standard.
STAND UP AND FIGHT!!