John,
The
Judicial Committee found in your favor and the County Committee by a
majority vote, approved the recommendation. I find it interesting how
your language at the County Committee meeting heard by half the room in
your attack on a State Representative is no where posted. Your apology
on your Berks blog falls short of what decency in this matter would
require. I suggest you apologize to the State Rep. "in person" since
you acosted him in person and that you apologize in person to the
entire County Committee at our next meeting. Your posted outrages, are
"one sided" inaccurate misrepresentations, revistist history and/or
science fiction. I strongly suggest you actually research your
information and allegations prior to posting them on an Internet blog
for all the world to see and possibly assume there may be any truth to
them. As my email to the Berks County Democratic Community states,
"Congratulations," on your prevailing before the Berks County
Democratic Committee's Judicial Committee and the County Committee's
"majority" vote to support their recommendation. Again, I invite you to
become a team player and participating member of the Committee and
assist all of us in building the precincts with the DNC's Howard Dean
50 State Grassroots Precinct Building Plan, that we have embraced.
Merry Christmas.
Sincerely,
Tom Herman, Chairman
Berks County Democratic Committee
Above is the comment written by Democratic Committee Chairman Tom Herman in response to an article on this blog.
I responded to his comment in that article but I was so annoyed by the
bloated ego displayed here by Mr. Herman that I decided to re-word my
comment as an actual article.
THIS ENTIRE ARTICLE IS MY OPINION…LET’S JUST BE CLEAR THAT THE ONLY ACCUSATION I MAKE IS THAT SOMEBODY NEEDS A REALITY CHECK. I
WELCOME ANY CORRECTIONS TO ANY FACTS I STATE BUT AS FOR MY CONCLUSIONS
AND OPINIONS…OH WELL YOU’LL JUST HAVE TO DEAL WITH THEM. That said…
Mr.
Herman, may I point out that despite your hand-picked Kangaroo court’s
ruling, you have, and you continue to pursue some unfathomed vendetta
against Mr. Morgan. At the meeting you outlined your argument against
John and had it printed on Committee stationary for all the delegates
despite knowing that the ruling would be in John’s favor. You did NOT
permit John to have available any response to your manifesto of
allegations. It is my understanding that your own Judiciary Committee
chairman REFUSED to sign the report, on the advice of his lawyer.
Excuse me but that seems a bit odd don’t you think? What possible
reason would a committee person have for fearing to sign a simple
report of findings???
Let’s
address the comment about (by the way the word is) revisionist
history. Why is it you keep changing the rules of Democratic Committee
to suit your whims? Talk about revisionist! When I asked you for a copy
of the motion against John you told me it wasn’t valid until the
meetings were approved at the next meeting. Yet you pay bills and bring
in new members so they can take part in meetings immediately without
having the minutes approved first? This seems to be a double-standard.
I’m an accountant Mr. Herman. I specialize in taking companies with
poor systems and making their accounting department shine. Part and
parcel of that job is forensic accounting. Shall I request to have a
look at the Committee books to see how many bills were paid before the
minutes authorizing their payment were approved at the next meeting?
What would I find, I wonder?
As
for apologies, if anyone here owes anyone else an apology I would think
it’s clearly apparently that you owe one to Mr. Morgan. You have
pursued John with a zeal rarely seen today. He still exists under the
threat of a lawsuit for the name of his other blog, a suit that has no
merit since (as I understand it from checking the ownership online) the
Committee doesn’t even own its own blog name. And, in case you read
this also…no, Mr. Ryan I’m not a lawyer but neither am I a moron. You
don’t need to be a lawyer to research law and precedents and relevant
rulings. You sure don’t need to be a lawyer to check and see who owns a
website name on the internet…it’s really rather easy. There are
non-lawyers who are actually intelligent people. I don’t find people
who throw their title around as an ego trip to be especially impressive.
Back
to the point…Mr. Herman, have you taken the same action and made the
same threats against the person or people who are running the blog
entitled Berks County Dems sited at http://berkscountydems.wordpress.com???
How about the person or people at the blog entitled Berks Democratic Committee sited at http://berksdemocraticcommittee.blogspot.com??? And this appears to be run by Republicans judging by their own blog entries.
Nevertheless,
you have take action of threat against Mr. Morgan. A threat you have
not yet rescinded. How very interesting? And yet, we’re not supposed to
believe this is somehow a personal vendetta.
You
present yourself as a “man of rules, truth and equity” well let’s
examine that for moment shall we. When Tom Caltagirone gave money to a
Republican a while ago, did you move to have him punished in any way?
When Mr. Caltagirone pulled his little stunt about a year ago changing
his vote in the House you wrote a scathing entry on the Committee’s
official site. No follow through though. No call for resignation. In
fact, now you appear to be his friend. I can’t help wonder what
prompted the re-evaluation of your comments.
A
few days ago John wrote a rather lengthy article about Mr.
Caltagirone’s inability to follow campaign finance reporting laws. Yet
the silence from your office is noticeable by its absence. Why should
we Democrats not be holding OUR officials to the standards we chastise
the other side for not adhering to? To allow Democrats to flaunt the
law should be intolerable to us. All that does is cost us credibility
and votes. It gives the opposition ammunition to use against us and,
from the standpoint of trying to get Democrats elected, is your worst
nightmare come true as Chairman. Or, at least, one would think it so.
And yet the article, with links directly to the Commonwealth’s website
to support its factual basis, is treated by you as a traitorous act,
not by Mr. Caltagirone, the man who appears to have violated the
regulations, but by Mr. Morgan who reported it.
You said, “Your posted outrages, are "one sided" inaccurate misrepresentations, revistist (sic) history and/or science fiction.”
Clearly,
as we have seen, that is not true. You have an odd sense of values Mr.
Herman. I understand you work for a union. It is men like you that make
me want to outlaw unions. No scruples and a little light on the ethics.
I
would suggest to you that Mr. Morgan’s reporting is well researched in
its facts. You may disagree with his commentary and perhaps the
conclusions he draws from time to time but so do I. He fully supports
unions and I think they should be stomped out of existence like a bug.
We fight publically on the blogs all the time about that. You CAN
challenge someone and still be cordial and remain friends and maintain
a working partnership. But you have chosen to obfuscate the truth and
re-write the rules time after time to suit your own needs.
I
don’t know who is pulling the strings. I suspect I know the answer but
without proof I’m not stupid enough to voice that opinion.
If
you really want to have everyone work as a team, rescind the threat of
a law suit, stop changing the rules, follow the Bylaws and apply them
equally to ALL members, step up to plate and show YOUR strength of
character and apologize for the actions you have taken against Mr.
Morgan publically and personally and make an effort to show that you
are truly an upstanding, honest, ethical person.
I
don’t think you’ll do that…I hope that you will…but I don’t think you
will. As it stands, I think you’re going to keep pushing until John and
his lawyer sue the crap out of you and the Committee and the whole
thing blows up in the media making an even larger mess. Well, maybe
then we’ll find out why the Chairperson of the Judiciary Committee
refused to sign the report on the advice of his lawyer. I just can’t
get past that one. That’s a gem…a real keeper…it’s very telling…really
it is…
Posted by Kirk Wentzel at 06:49 PM in Campaigns
The Committee cannot rescind the lawsuit threat because Mr. Herman used that as his first charge against me in his complaint. He then used as justification for his illegal suspension of me as an elected official.
Regardless, no Committee person has made any attempt to nullify, rescind, or negate the threat. This is why I have hired an attorney.
Herman took his initial actions against me as a Committee man but now has distributed them in his capacity as Chair and on the Party letterhead making them official Democratic Party documents and positions. Not one Committee person objected to these actions at Saturday's meeting. Oops.
As for apologies, none have been offered to me by either Mr. Herman, Mr. Ryan or Mr. Caltagirone.
I have said Tom Herman would refuse to stop his attacks upon me and his comment here proves me correct. It's similar in tone to various emails he has sent (and which I possess) slandering me.
This is why I will seek a formal legal resolution to this matter.
Posted by: John Morgan | December 19, 2007 at 09:03 AM