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With Vlahos "throwing down the gauntlet", will this include his evicting the new tax collector in Lower Pottsgrove?It seem that the new tax collector, Jennifer Marsteller (the wife of Vlahos constant companion and political confidant, Dave Marsteller), leases office space, as the tax collector, in a building owned by Vlahos (see picture below)...convenient, no?.
For the record, I was with both Vlahos and Marsteller last evening at a fundraising event in Norristown. They arrived and left together, as they always do, joined at the hip.
I'm not always accused of being the sharpest tool in the shed, but I must ask...Is it just me, or can we assume that the the Vlahos gauntlet actually means '"do as I say, not as I do"?
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It looks to me that instead of answering to the issue of his giving $250.00 to Michael Nutter's campaign, Jim Vlahos is throwing up a smokescreen. Nice try, Vlahos. I ain't buying it.
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Candidate Challenges GOP Municipal Chair to Sign an ‘Integrity Pledge’
COURTHOUSE — Republican Pottstown Area Leader Jim Vlahos, in his bid to become chairman of the Montgomery County Republican Committee, has thrown down the gauntlet at the feet of rival Robert J. Kerns.
Vlahos this week said he is challenging Kerns, the Upper Gwynedd GOP municipal chairman, to join with him in signing an “integrity pledge” to the party’s 800-plus municipal committee people who will be electing their new leader at a meeting scheduled for May 8.
The pledge requires county GOP chairman candidates to relinquish any existing municipal or county contracts they may have in the course of their business and to promise that neither they nor their businesses will accept or solicit such contracts while they serve as GOP chairman.
Read the entire article by Margaret Gibbons here.
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Didn't Vlahos resign two elected government positions, both with clouds over his head?
He's going to question people on integrity?
Gimme a break.
Bill, I think is actually a pretty sharp move on the part of Vlahos. I'd agrue that the Davis lobbying contract (the obvious inference here) is far more detrimental to the Montco GOP than a $250 Nutter donation. Of course, both are still less important than the Courthouse fiasco, but still......
Hi Bill,
Be careful. I'm a township treasurer (tax collector) and we can choose to work out of our homes or lease office space. The office lease is between the treasurer (not the municipality) and the owner of the property. In other words, I pay rent out of my own pocket to be in my office.
Thanks
Whatever the relationship, she's his close friends wife and she is operating the tax office out of his building.
For him to ask Kerns to give up his solicitorship(s) as a show of "good faith", he must be willing to practice what he preaches, which should include the renting of office space to municipal elected officials for their municipal office.
Fair is fair-Kerns didn't get his solicitorships because he was county chairman...But, one has to wonder if Davis got his lobbying contract because he was.
Vlahos request is nothing but a case of him blowing smoke to skirt other issues. Like his lack of support by area leaders, his $250.00 donation to a democrat for mayor of Philadelphia, etc.
tell Jim Matthews Boy to ask Asher and Matthews to give up there work. And also you should see if Duane Morris still gets lobbying business for work with the community college.Lastly we should start to ask Jim why he did resign in Pottstown. By the way ask him who pays for the Pottstown GOP website ?
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