So this contretemps began this afternoon and after much mansplaining by one unknown quantity, I decided as a woman I had to take a closer look.
It started with a conversation about how Lower Merion Township has traded on the phrase “First Class Township”. The phrase is amusing because Upper Chichester, Uppet Darby, Darby Township and Caln Township are also “First Class Townships.”
The “first class” designation has to do with size, not how good a municipality is. But it does lend itself to “first class” spin. The actual phrase is “Township of the First Class” . You can learn more by reading the Pennsylvania Code for Townships of the First Class.
Here allow me:
https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/HTM/1931/0/0331..HTM
So this silliness (as silly as those who don’t know what the actual origins of the Main Line are, etc.) ensued because there is a new fake newsletter called Spotlight on Lower Merion:
It reads like an AI thriller. Weird snippets of poached-feeling content and not much substance. And this is not an actual Lower Merion Township publication as in the local municipality putting this out. And it is suspiciously similar to a thing in Upper Merion:
And the common denominator is a Keller Williams Realtor:
She’s a hustler –
https://carolynkaufmann.realscout.me/
https://freshplaces.com/associates
Hey I admire the hustle but ummm she’s not being particularly discerning. These newsletters are dumb and read like nonsense.
I know realtors with newsletters. Some are actually pretty good. But they don’t have that feel of misrepresentation, you feel me?
But hey if you want your own Spotlight newsletter, you can buy one too:
Anyway, just wanted to put a pin in this.
Somehow I don’t think my blog was the “spotlight” they were searching for? But hey, being on my blog costs them nothing!
Cheers!
