Chris Casey to Run For LC Comm'r

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In Northampton County, the five Council seats up for grabs this year are "at-large", meaning that candidates are not confined to one specific geographic location. But in Lehigh County, the Commissioner races (they say commissioner, we say council member) are in five specific districts. District Two, which includes the Macungies, is represented by incumbent Percy Doughetrty. He's being challenged by Scott Aquila, a Dean at LCCC. If he survives the Republican primary, he'll face blogger Chris Casey, who's running as a Democrat. Chris believes that Dougherty, a Republican who supported public health, will lose to a man who's "in league with a "reform" group that believes we should not accept Federal and State funds to prove a point."

I'm not sure Aquila is in league with anyone. I spoke with Vic Mazziotti last week. He may be a card-carrying member of the conservative cabal on Lehigh County's Board, but he's also honest to a fault. St. Thomas More is his idol, while mine is Frank Zappa. Vic told me that he has not been asked to support anyone. He has offered his support to incumbent Tom Creighton, who has not been a member of the so-called reform team but is pretty damn conservative.

Here's Casey's pitch: "Unlike the members of the REpublican reform team, I am not a millionaire managing a plastics company, nor am I a retired County employee drawing a pension from one County while working for another. I am a blue collar guy working in a warehouse while my wife works for a hospital. We work for a living. Last year we paid over $15,000 in income taxes and after deductions, we received a refund of just over $3K. Of that $12k the Federal and state government kept, our so called reform team doesn't want to accept any of it back into the community. That is not just insanity, that is STUPIDITY."

It's a pretty good argument, but what if Dougherty wins the Republican primary?