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Posted on 02/19/2021 7:04:20 PM PST by Phillyred
NORRISTOWN — What began as the airing of a grievance led to the eruption of a verbal powder keg between Montgomery County commissioners on Thursday.
Commissioners Joe Gale and Ken Lawrence Jr. traded jabs over contentious interactions between the board's two Democrats and the lone Republican.
“The two of you are obsessed with being vindictive towards me,” Gale said, referencing Lawrence and Montgomery County Commissioners’ Chairwoman Valerie Arkoosh. “In reality, your spiteful, political stunts and abuse of power have hurt others.”
“Commissioner Gale, you said that we’re obsessed with you. I’m just not that into you. OK?" Lawrence replied during the meeting. "I don’t think of you much at all ... I will not stand with you. I will not sign documents with you unless they are legally required to fill my oath of office."
During his opening comments, Gale spoke about a pin ceremony that traditionally recognizes Montgomery County employees for their service. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person function was replaced with sending letters and pins to recipients, and Gale said that his “name did not appear” in the recognition documents.
Alleging a “pattern,” he expressed further frustration with his colleagues for excluding his name and signature on a proclamation issued earlier this month declaring February as Black History Month and recognizing the efforts of the initiative’s planning committee.
There was space in the proclamation designated for Arkoosh and Lawrence’s signatures, but Gale was not listed on the Feb. 4 declaration although he is part of the three-member governing board.
“Your petty snubs and shameful actions insult the county employees, the Black community and tens of thousands of constituents who elected me twice as county commissioner,“ Gale said......
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I can’t believe a Republican was voted into a Montgomery Co. office.
Side story - I was driving around the old Norristown crazy hospital campus a couple weeks ago, and that place is creepy as hell. They still use some of the buildings for hospital issues for the violent criminally insane. Fences bent backwards with razor wire bundles on top.
Gale is a fighter just like Trump. He totally beat the odds but he campaigned like crazy. Gotnpeople on the voter rolls...Never apologizing for speaking the truth.
A White dude who went to Temple.
He must have some stones...
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Pennsylvania Third Class County Code requires that of a three person Board of Commissioners only two may be of the majority party and one must be of the minority party.
County boards are always 2D/1R or 2R/1D.
Thanks, I had no clue.
Sometimes you end up with a blue dog D or a RINO...then things get interesting.
i think the philly city council has reserved seats for the minority. isn’t that how rizzo jr always won his spot
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