WALKING THE BEAT: Rain Doesn’t Stop The Labor Day Parade

BY JOE SHAY STIVALA/ A DRENCHING DOWNPOUR did not deter labor-union members from marching on Labor Day. Together, as one, they pushed on. The best description of how each member thought of that solidarity day is by President Roosevelt: “I felt the crowd, it kept me warm; I didn’t know that I was wet through.” BRAVO to PAT EIDING, AFL-CIO chief whose toughened-by-the-times membership made him proud on that hard slog in the rain…. HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES to Judge Carolyn NICHOLS, who is recalled as an expressive person when campaigning, and having a lovely mother who is missed for her upbeat smile.

A Shore BIRTHDAY for Eleanor DEZZI’s son JAMIE went well. It was also the Dad’s B-day. Eleanor had fun with the grandkids…. The cop-killer never got a monitor bracelet as directed by Judge Susan SHULMAN. The judge was FIRM that her rulings be followed!

ON FACEBOOK: DEREK GREEN, ESQ., aide to Councilwoman Tasco, and his son are raising $5k in a Walk for Autism on Sep. 15 at Citizens Bank Park. They are doing well at it. Help!… We HOPE to soon learn if the Made in America Concert will cost taxpayers a lot of money.

WARD LEADER of the week is Michael BOYLE, Esq. of the 5th in Center City. A worldly fellow and so expert in Social Security Law, which Mike alone may be able to help make it solvent. Read his column in the Public Record…. The Commission that determined there are enough INDOOR square feet to feed homeless instead of outdoors – I did not expect a different finding. I feel like the 1% prevailed.

During the GOP Convention, all I could think of was the word “Wealthy”. How about the ME-note address of CHRISTIE? He wants respect over love. Wonder would Jesus would say about that. And RYAN seemed working on the Bill Clinton tight-lips look too often. When Ryan evoked JFK by accepting the nod for “my generation,” I remembered the Sen. Bentsen line to Dan Quayle: “I knew JFK. You’re no JFK.” Silent Cal” was a name given to a very quiet President Coolidge. And Silent CORBETT was not heard speechmaking for the GOP?… You could see why RUBIO was not selected for Vice President: Too youthful and no fire. He was too heavy on religion. Did you know he once was a Mormon?

And MITT: Obama gets blamed for gas prices. If a President Mitt attacked Iran, watch gas go to $7 a gallon. He talked of 12m new jobs. We could have that now if Obama-recapitalized banks lent more money, and if employers hired instead of adding tasks to existing workers. Who is holding the economy back? Military costs – it was Eisenhower who first warned of it (GOP). Repeal Obamacare? It is really Romneycare – his idea while Governor and still working in Massachusetts. Dems sent jobs to China. Huh. Free-trade advocates and CEO’s did that over decades. Mitt will make us energy-independent? It has already started, Mitt…. And the crack that Obama worries about the ocean’s rising. It is the same type as the birth-certificate crack made in Michigan– for which he apologized. It is really “the jury will disregard” remark (which they cannot). On the shore islands, I see higher water around 1% manor homes. Is this what we want?

VETERANS GET BETTER CARE. This is true. The selection of Gen. Eric Shinseki to head the VA was a super pick, and results are everywhere. Disabled vets discharged between September 2001 and September 2009 may have their low disability reviewed.

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