Well, Doherty had proposed a 78% (!!!) property tax increase, and council rejected it out of hand. I live in Scranton, and as people have said, it’s been a one-party town for decades. A couple Dems temporarily switched for political reasons. But right now, our three county commissioners are all Democrats; one ran as a Republican, and b/c he is Irish, enough Republicans were fool enough to nominate him.
How does a small city get hundreds of millions of dollars in debt without rampant corruption? It doesn’t. Bob
For YEARS, when a city employee was going to retire up there, said City employee called the insurance broker said “I’m retiring next week.” Broker would automatically put him on permanent disability for the best breakdown of money paid out.As recently as 14 years ago, there more permanent disabilities employees than there were regular retirement employees.