Ray O'Connell Is Allentown's New Mayor

I'm sure just about everyone has heard by now Ray O'Connell was selected by council as Allentown's new mayor. I've put off posting about this till I had the opportunity to skim through as many sites as possible to see the various reactions. They were exactly like I expected.

Trolls and naysayers always do what I expect them to. Rip apart the guy and council members before they left Friday's meeting. 99.9% of these people are low information people who spouted more inaccuracies then I could ever hope to catalog here. So too offering no good ideas of their own. Many of the comments were bashing liberals in the city about their intolerance and hatred of all things conservative while doing just exactly that after Ray's appointment. Hypocritical much?

Only about 10% came out to vote in Lehigh County in the 2017 local elections. Look if you guys don't want to show up and want somebody else to run the show shut up when they do. You had your chance.

I truly believe it wouldn't have mattered if Jesus Christ himself came back and was appointed to run the city. People would still be spoiling for a fight. After all look how that turned out for him the first time.

The good news is Ray will be lucky to see more then 5 people show up at regular council meetings to complain. The vast majority will continue to remain in their cocoons on social media howling at the moon. So too conservatives whining offering no one to run against Democrats like they've done for years. They instead blaming everyone but themselves for their failure. Maybe they should push for a special council to look into this, eh?

Now if we were truly reasonable people we should want to move on from all this bickering and turmoil Allentown has undergone. Let Ray push on till the next election. It isn't as if he was appointed mayor for life. Chill.