THE PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE AFRAID OF THEIR
GOVERNMENT
THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE
Welcome to our political
website. I'm Joe Pilchesky, the person directly responsible for everything you will read here. Thank you for taking
the time to come here.
The Scranton Political Times Message
Board is where citizens are sharing information, comments and opinions regarding corrupt government officials, employees
and crony campaign contributors in our area. No one is protected here, from janitors to judges to commissioners,
everyone is fair game. Click on the message board link and see what's going on. If you'd like to join in, the registration
is quite simple once you get to the message board. Happy to have you aboard. You can read about the rules of message
board participation by clicking on the Message Board link in the Navigation Bar to the left.
The only purpose of this website is to expose government
corruption, any corruption involving anyone. This site is not politically affiliated with any party, and it never shall be.
A spade gets called a spade here. That's been its focus since its inception in April of 2005. You may have read about this
site in the paper, or heard about it on the TV or radio. The media is hardly kind in its reference to it, but that's
only because it is jealous that the truth gets printed here. This site has become very popular as a place to go
to read the truth about those raping the Scranton residents and taxpayers. The newspaper is not happy about its
existence, but why should it be? This website has often exposed stories and inside information that the Scranton Times-Tribune
refuses to publish because it blemishes Mayor Doherty's image. Unfortunately for the Scranton Times-Tribune, so much
of the mayor's corrupt acts have been posted on the message board that he is regarded more as a political leper than
anything else these days. Few want to be seen in his company and many democrats have distanced themselves from him,
and well they should.
Our city has been victimized by a brutally corrupt
and selfish man who, unfortunately, is the mayor, Christopher A. Doherty. He promised us a world of efficiency
and accountability when he ran for office, but what we got was a world of deceit, corruption, lies, backstabbing and the most
reckless spending spree of any single mayor in the history of the state of Pennsylvania.
He now has us buried under an enormous mountain
of debt that is approaching $300,000,000.00, the highest debt of any city in the state.
But, with what to show for it? Nothing!
Mayor Doherty could not have achieved this outrageously corrupt task on his own.
He needed help, a lot of help. He got it in
many ways, from Governor Rendell to Senator Mellow to a rubber stamp council to a flock of underhanded, unethical and corrupt
people he hired in his cabinet.
The most support he got was from the worst place
possible for the citizens; the Scranton Times-Tribune. Its owners, the Lynetts, have either concealed one corrupt act after the
other, printed half the truth or completely spun the truth to insulate the mayor from blame. The Scranton Times-Tribune
has gone as low as to publicly attack the citizens who are trying to expose corruption.
Political cartoons by John Cole have often belittled
and degraded citizens when exercising their rights to free speech. It's shameful when you realize it's the citizens
who keep the paper afloat.
That's why so many have cancelled the
paper; you should, too. Take a stand against this insulting disrespect.
The mayor has used our city, every taxpayer
penny and every asset we own to try to buy his way to higher office. In doing so, he has financially ruined us
for at least the next 30 years. His name will forever be attached to reckless greed, mass corruption and incredibly irresponsible
administration.
Many wonder why the FBI has not entered the picture.
He has close friends on the current city council
who give him whatever he wants in terms of money. Council President Judy Gatelli, Councilwoman Sherry Fanucci and Councilman
Bob McGoff are unethical Doherty cronies who turn their backs on the taxpayers and continually give the mayor tens of
millions of dollars without even knowing where it is going.
Judy Gatelli is at the core of it, and most responsible.
She's the two-faced, betrayer to the people as council president. She alone opened the vault for the mayor and
shoveled millions into his pocket, and we have to suffer with raised taxes now because of her. But, what did she
get in return? We don't know, at least not yet.
These are some of the issues discussed on the message
board, and much, much more.
Below are short paragraphs that have links in
them that will take you to information that should be of interest to you. These are stories regarding various actions
and certain conditions in the city, and things our corrupt mayor has done behind our backs.
There is also a Navigation Bar to the left of this
page with topics that match these paragraphs for quick reference.
Over time, more and more topics will appear here,
so consider returning from time to time and check it out.
The information posted here is to enlighten you,
but you can also enlighten me. Join the message board and share what you may know about wrongdoing in our city.
You can do it anonymously and confidentiality is
assured. Every piece of the puzzle helps, and you may have an important piece, no matter how small you think it may be.