Stubborn facts: “Friends of Bryan Callahan contributed $4500 and various developers contributed $4300” to candidate Ritter’s campaign (58)

Budget, Candidates for election, Serious Issues 1 Minute

(58th in a series of posts on candidates for election)

Barbara Diamond enjoys retirement as Lehigh University Director of Foundation Relations by engaging in various activities and organizations hopefully for the betterment of the community. Her particular interests at the moment are preventing gun violence, local government ethics reform, and Bethlehem Democratic Committee work.

Gadfly:

Here are some stubborn facts: Friends of Bryan Callahan contributed $4500 and various developers contributed $4300. Over half of Ms. Ritter’s total campaign funds ($14,100) are from developers and a developer-friendly councilman, judging by his voting history, who supported her as an elected official using his campaign funds not his personal money. This magnitude of political contribution in a city council election should concern everyone about the corrosive effect of political influence by special interests.

Barbara

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Edward J. Gallagher, Bethlehem immigrant, retired, nearly 50 years as Professor of American Literature at Lehigh University, known as "Dr. G" and "Conan the Grammarian" to students, whose virtual world avatar "EdwardScholarhands" stares at you here, has reinvented himself as the Bethlehem Gadfly.

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One thought on “Stubborn facts: “Friends of Bryan Callahan contributed $4500 and various developers contributed $4300” to candidate Ritter’s campaign (58)”

  1. Barbara, I believe you made significant campaign contributions, Yes? Or is it only wrong if a Union, a Businessman or a Callahan does it? You’re hypocrisy is showing.

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