Why Is the Democratic Committee Supporting Schmehl?

Judge Jeffrey Schmehl is up for retention this year.  He is an avid and ardent Republican.  If anyone had any doubt to that recall his time sitting on the Board of Elections for a reminder.  I am not supporting him for retention and neither should the Berks County Democratic Committee.  Why then are his sings available at 434 Walnut Street, headquarters?  You can waltz in there and ask Boyd for one.

Then there are the Schmehl signs being put up by one of our Democratic candidates and the rumor the Judge is helping fund the election night party at The Riveredge (provided it's still open for business).  That isn't "water over the dam," so to say.  It's a flood of support for a partisan Republican candidate at the very same time I'm being reprimanded and disciplined, not for supporting a Republican, but for criticizing our County Democratic officials for malfeasance.

Double standard?

To make matters worse Tom Herman, in his obsessive vendetta against me is trying to drag a cancer victim into the affair so I can't say this is arbitrary and capricious?  Who drags a chemo patient into a disciplinary hearing, what kind of heartless bastard does something like that just so he can cover his ass?

Comments

[DC 93]

John,

That would be one of the most despicable and heartless kinds of bastards. Actually, tactics like that tend bear out one's bum-bum all the more and give people more incentive to want to give it a good swift kick, not cover it up.

I find it deafeningly and stupifyingly ironic that a man whose career is working for the Service Employees International Union, a group who you showcased as taking to task Manor Care HCR nursing homes for their negligent and woeful list of violations of care standards and regulations, would want to drag some cancer victim into something like this and ignore a reasonable standard of care and concern for them, in the name of some power hungry play at revenge or a vendetta as you say.

Talk about way out of line and out of touch, but alas most of the lemmings who lap at his feet and willingly follow without question are not likely to perhaps believe a thing about how wrong it is, but it is their loss and harm to take.

[John Morgan]

Yes, Mr. Herman is employed by SEIU but the union actually has separate entities now. SEIU Healthcare covers the nursing home and medical workers. Herman works for the branch of SEIU which covers municipal and school employees.

Your point is valid however, that the overall union does represent people who (supposedly) care for people.

[DC 93]

Thanks for setting it straight on the difference.