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hello again east whiteland supervisors

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Dear East Whiteland Supervisors,

I figure I will address you this way because well you guys really do not respond to much these days, do you?

I do believe the headline in the Philadelphia Inquirer, said it all the other day:

“Amid data center disputes, East Whiteland hired a PR firm, while its residents hired an attorney.”

Here’s the article link in case you haven’t read it and it didn’t cost the taxpayers $6800:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/pennsylvania/east-whiteland-ceisler-20261015.html

So let’s review: this week you were rude to our State Senator and abysmal towards residents, both local and visiting. Like you called the cops on them and where did that paranoia come from?

Here’s the 411: we live here and we pay taxes and for some stupid reason we voted for each and every one of you. Part of our fundamental rights in this country is the right to public comment, opinion, questioning government, or do you forget about all those little details?

You don’t seem to listen to anyone, even officials in neighboring municipalities do you? I mean it’s not just the residents who are having a hard time with this township is it?

Among the things we saw at this week’s meeting is the tail is wagging the dog. Do you guys even know what goes on in your own township building? Why does your manager talk in circuitous word salads these days?

Here’s a video of the comments:

Peter Fixler, why are you a supervisor? You obviously don’t want to be around residents, so why did you run in the first place? What are you getting out of this? Do you think you’re going to get some further political cherry? With the way you treat residents every meeting? You don’t even follow the meeting rules that you like to lob at people do you? (Note 3 and 4 below.)

Peter, this past meeting there were a couple things that stuck out. First was your comment “That is inappropriate.”

How are you the arbiter of appropriateness? You are literally a jerky boy every meeting. You smirk, you, sneer, you mock, you badger, you lecture, shall I go on?

You attempted to be cheeky with the ladies of General Warren over Bishop Tube when they commented that most everyone wasn’t around when the whole Bishop Tube saga started and you said you were? Well Peter, there’s a difference between being around and being present, isn’t there?

Then Peter, you said when Ginny Kerslake was speaking “Ginny everything you say is half truths.” Ginny only deals in facts, and you essentially called her a liar. Do we want to talk about inappropriate for real?

You all seem to like to paint Ginny as the antichrist, and why? Because she tells the truth?

Scott Lambert, you honestly disappointed me this past meeting.

We will start with your cutting off the public comment. I heard you actually cut someone off who was getting up to compliment you guys on something? Good job.

If you don’t want to take public comment anymore why are you all sitting up there? Not that we want you to step aside Scott because then Jerry Pyne comes into play and that’s a shit show isn’t it? But we need you to lead and not hide behind the solicitor or anyone else and IMHO you know what is going on here is wrong don’t you?

Also wrong? Refusing to let our State Senator Katie Muth speak. and then you made it worse by saying “Katie would you show some respect here?”

And then there was your snarky comment “We are out of the public comment shouting period.”

Facts matter, and at that meeting on Wednesday night, you showed State Senator Katie Muth whom has been very good to this municipality, enormous disrespect. She helps you get things like grants (I mean, I know you probably think it’s because of she of the bad cat eye, your assistant mismanager, but it’s really probably more because of Katie Muth isn’t it?)

You showed Katie Muth disrespect and rudeness that embarrassed your residents. That behavior was not a show of strength. It was a political tactical error and unforgivably rude.

There are so many things I don’t get and you all have such a sense of disconnect from the people who elected you to look out for them, it is quite simply astounding.

This is part of why we want two more supervisors. This is why residents worked to get that question on the ballot, and you’re doing everything you can to stop that, while you should be probably enforcing stop work orders and making sure that the developers over at Foote Mineral are doing things the right way don’t you think?

And then there’s the zoning officer that we heard was was hired to replace the one who was disappeared who didn’t last seemingly long enough to even make it into the township directory and why was that really? Why can’t you get a zoning officer? Have you asked yourselves that question?

And the magical monopole (is that the right term for that giant pole with the electrical stuff coming off of it?) at Foote Mineral? None of you will answer anything about it and why?

So then you hire a PR firm. A PR firm that are as you know damage control specialists and political fixers aren’t they?

So you hired a PR firm at the tune of $6800 a month which is like $81,000+ a year instead of getting a public information officer? How is it you think they’re going to be answering emails and performing duties that somebody that for example isn’t a sworn right to know officer? We don’t want to get our answers from Spin Doctors. That is just as bad as all of your non-answers at present.

You know what I think? My opinion is you hired a PR firm with taxpayer funds to gaslight the taxpayers further. And you actually have the brass balls to say it won’t add another layer between you guys and the residents? Do you really think we’re all that stupid?

I think the main problem with all of you is probably that you expected us all to just be little sheeple. You never expected residents to question anything that was happening. The irony is of course that’s how all of you got into office in the first place so is it power corrupts?

I should be fair to Clint and not really lump him in with everything because he looks like a deer in headlights most meetings. He’s probably regretting that he ever ran for office?

You guys are doubling down on bad decisions in my opinion instead of trying to actually find solutions. You’re committing political suicide, and I don’t know where your moral compasses have gone? Do any of you have a true north anymore?

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got to say. Not that what I say or what anyone else says appears to matter to any of you. Please read the message from the Chair of the West Whiteland Supervisors. That’s what leadership is all about.

Bye for now.

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east whiteland planning commission members do not seem to be fans of open government?

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On January 27, 2026, Planning Commission Bob Logan (seen far left in above meme) wrote:

So allow me to be clear: even before Bob Logan was on the planning commission (and it still escapes me that they took him on and yes I can have that opinion) I thought he was a bloviator. I do not care for him. At all. I encountered him years ago at various meetings and in local groups. So this showed up in a right to know someone sent to me because I was mentioned by him like an escaped convict IMHO.

In all fairness, there was another email in the batch with a similar feeling shall we say, although it did not mention me by name. This was what the vice chair of planning said:

So I knew the planning commission didn’t want to be camera ready. And did I ask for East Whiteland to start streaming and recording Planning Commission Meetings? YES I DID. It is merely transparency and good government, something which seems to be sorely lacking at times, yes?

We ARE the public, why should we be denied access, Bob??

I will note that East Whiteland has seemingly stopped recording the planning meetings which means they are probably back to random things that they were doing here and there which IMHO I felt they should not have been doing- allow me to be clear: not about planning stuff per se but the quasi political utterances and moments of silence that had ZERO to do with a planning commission and I am not the only one who heard these things, right?

So Bob Logan, who essentially lives fairly close to me acts like I am a second class citizen proposing something bad or dangerous because I am blogger? I guess if I just stood quietly at my stove stirring a bad stew I would be more palatable to him? Ha! I wear it as a badge of honor that he doesn’t like me. But Bob? I am a resident and taxpayer too. I believe in open government and the reason I asked for those meeting especially earlier this year to be zoomed/streamed is because they were about the data center and they were meetings that were often over capacity almost weren’t they? I hope Bob doesn’t decide to run for Supervisor some day don’t you?

This is the list of Planning Commission members and highlighted were the ones who showed up in the right to know as being against recording the meetings which to be honest is not an unusual municipal occurrence except here:

So what are they afraid will happen if meetings are recorded? If I was a supervisor or manager type person in East Whiteland I would have every meeting streamed and recorded for the planning commission. If they kick up a fuss about a meeting being recorded that is suspect. And yes, I can have that opinion. And members of boards in a municipality who aren’t all about transparency and open government? Kick those anti-sunshine folks to the curb.

These little love notes from the planning commission will have me share the meeting recordings that do exist and the right to know which also shows when East Whiteland changed engineering firms if that is of interest.

So little old me the 2nd class citizen is signing off…for now.

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east whiteland wants to hire ceisler media?

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Color me fascinated.

There is something rather interesting at the bitter end of the agenda for the Wednesday supervisors meeting. Apparently East Whiteland wants to hire a PR firm?

Are you OK with your tax dollars being spent like that? Apparently they must have image issues and could it possibly be the data center and other poor decisions? And they wish to hire a politically obvious firm called Ceisler Media? Can we wonder if they’re going to use a PR firm to be obnoxious towards residents’ opinions they might not agree with? I asked that question because that’s what Lower Merion Township did years ago. Why don’t they have a public information officer like a lot of municipalities have?

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It’s a very interesting turn of events and I guess add up that and all the lawyers they currently have employed and makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

When you Google about Ceisler what comes up first? “The firm is widely known for creativity, deep political and media relationships.” ding ding ding. Political operators/damage control. This PR shop has a municipal services arm correct?

Will hiring a PR firm, for example make up for the fact that they don’t have a zoning officer or have a problematic assistant township manager?

Will hiring a PR firm make up for the stupidity and ignorance towards residents that seems to dribble constantly from Supervisor Peter Fixler’s lips? I know from Great Valley Democrat meetings past he did what? Showed up with wifey to sing the politician blues and tries to blame me among others for his lack of popularity? (I mean dude, do you WATCH the meeting replays where you are rude or show disdain for residents? I mean did someone make you do those interviews about your work for an environment and nature centric non-profit entity? Did you seriously think no one would ever wonder how you could work for whom you are employed and then be a data center apologist as an elected official?)

Will hiring a PR firm suddenly make the shady dell acres over at Foote Mineral or Bishop Tube butterflies and unicorns?

Why else do I find the timing interesting? Because of the ballot question that residents officially have on the ballot for this November’s elections. That question is and never has been about politics, it is about township growth, better government and adequate representation. Can’t have that right? The people must be compliant sheeple, right?

What this comes down to is control. And neither party nor East Whiteland Township itself wants to lose control, and isn’t that horse out of the proverbial barn? (Not that there are many barns left because of development in East Whiteland, right?) If East Whiteland gets five total supervisors, people stand a good chance for the first time in years for balance and representation in all matters.

And maybe if East Whiteland get two more supervisors, we can clean house on staff that really shouldn’t be there.

Vote for the government you want, not what the political parties are telling you that you should do. Also, you need to ponder the point that perhaps both parties are for data centers.

So I think that also hiring a PR firm that does “strategic communications”, “brand reputation” and things like social media is ever so timely because face it, those three supervisors don’t want two more do they? I mean did not Board Chairman Scott Lambert actually kind of get into that at a recent Great Valley Democrats meeting in the township building? (The walls maybe do have ears?)

And let’s get real. Members of the Great Valley Democrats literally went to community signing events to stop the ballot question from reaching the ballot (former supervisor Bill Holmes and former VP of ChesCo Dems Jerry Pyne). Now they are saying nothing…but in my humble opinion we know that they are most probably still trying to quite literally stop the public from what they have the right and legal choice to want.

The other thing to note again is the Vacancy Board chair in East Whiteland is Jerry Pyne right? So that makes him a tiebreaker in case a supervisor gets incapacitated, and it also gives him the ability to appoint someone, correct? So is it so far-fetched to think that if something happened he might appoint Bill Holmes again if the opportunity arose?

And the East Whiteland Republicans? They actually have circulated a sample ballot telling Republicans to vote no on the East Whiteland ballot question, haven’t they? Great Valley Democrats are merely being their usual passive aggressive selves. Of course in East Whiteland, both political parties are like Pat from Saturday Night Live years ago. They are more of a homogenous lump than people thing with years of deal making and horse trading just to keep the power from the people.

Think I am kidding? Look at former Supervisor Rich Orlow. He was a Republican who was eventually defeated by Scott Lambert. But then when Bill Holmes had to step down because of work (Vanguard) did he not convince Rich Orlow to switch political parties and become an appointed Democrat Supervisor?

So East Whiteland want s PR firm because they have lost control of their own narrative and they did it to themselves. So they will hire a pit-bull PR shop in an attempt to discredit residents, won’t they? East Whiteland never thought residents would rise up against data centers and them. They never thought residents would organize to question everything AND the data center plan. They never thought residents would organize to get two more supervisors.

East Whiteland residents meet yet another shining example of fear based governance. Take this as your indication that you are trying to do the right thing for your community. This is circling the wagons 101.

Show up at the meeting tomorrow. Ask questions politely. Pack the boardroom. Politely demand better government and come November on election day? Say YES to adding two more supervisors and to answer another question yes there are people interested in stepping up and serving. But three supervisors is not working in East Whiteland. At all. Look no further than the data center of it all, or even old hot topics like Bishop Tube.

I will note that the East Whiteland Republican social media pages are all very Pravda on this bus, showing an actual disconnect to the reality of issues locally….Great Valley Democrats are going for merely limp and insipid on theirs….but also not talking about what matters to residents for real. But in my opinion they are still like a homogenous lump that does no one any good, which is again why they don’t want two more supervisors.

There are other things on the agenda for Wednesday in East Whiteland. I do not see the data center on the agenda, but by all means, please show up and express how you feel about that or any other township issue. I will note there is another liquor license transfer.

You can either attend the meeting virtually via Zoom or in person.

Here’s the link to the website of the PR firm- it doesn’t say whom specifically at the firm they are hiring. https://ceislermedia.com/about/

Here is the link to the full agenda:

https://www.eastwhiteland.org/Documents/Agenda%20And%20Minutes/Board%20of%20Supervisors/2026/1.%20October%2014%20BOS%20DW10.9.pdf?t=202610091720400

File under the more you know, the more you wish you could hide under the covers.

get ready to vote…in east whiteland
the ballot question in east whiteland township.
and the (political) bullies roll into east whiteland township…oh wait they live here in some cases, don’t they?

PS Does East Whiteland even realize they have two “official” Facebook pages?

vote east whiteland peeps!

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My ballot has been received back to Chester County making me an official YES vote for two more supervisors in East Whiteland Township.

Don’t forget the ballot question when you vote, and please vote yes!

BREAKING:once again, aqua fails the public – this time over data centers

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I don’t know what to make out of this. We learned the news yesterday that there’s a magic will serve letter, but we were almost expecting a magic letter, weren’t we?

hey east whiteland show your work if aqua sent a will serve letter

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If you think Aqua shouldn’t be doing this, you can send emails to the company. You just have to be polite.

Also in case you wish to email East Whiteland, here is a letter I grabbed from Ginny Kerslake to share:

Sample email to send to
slambert@eastwhiteland.org
Pfixler@eastwhiteland.org
Csmith@eastwhiteland.org

Dear EWT Supervisors,

The Township did a grave disservice to our community in approving and recording the 2024 Data Center plan, all in violation of our township ordinance section 1 75–24.

This section explicitly requires a will-serve letter from Aqua AND a plan from Aqua of the proposed distributtion system demonstrating that the project will not degrade water service to existing customers.

The township was repeatedly reminded of this by ARRO in their consultant reviews of the Preliminary and Final Land Applications. The Township ignored this and approved the plan despite these deficiencies.

Yesterday the Township announced it is in receipt of a letter from Aqua confirming that the water for the 2024 approved plan will be supplied to Sentinel Green Fig despite AQUA saying in 2024 they could only supply roughly 20% of this.

The Township has not made this letter public. I urge that you do so immediately. At the very least community members should be able to expect transparency.

AQUA email addresses sourced from the Internet, and note that Christopher Franklin CEO lives in Willistown like Charlie Lyddane.

Marc Lucca (president) mlucca@essential.co

Christopher Franklin (CEO) CHFranklin@essential.co

President and Chief Operating Officer richard.fox@essential.co

Nathanial Manchin Director, Municipal Partnerships 512.990.4400 ext. 56125 jnmanchin@aquawater.com

Please show up at the next East Whiteland meeting in person if possible. Bring a friend! Call a reporter!

Next Wednesday! October 14th 6:30 PM (But come Early) East Whiteland Township Building 209 Conestoga Road Malvern, PA 19355

East Whiteland pretty much sucks right now. Oh and in spite of that fakakta document being something the public has a RIGHT to see, there was at least one email from a non- attorney saying basically they had to check with Aqua and the developer to make sure nobody had any objections to this being released and are they freaking kidding me?

So from a knowledgeable friend who read the letter, here is part of their opinion:

So here…

-Aqua has only committed to providing less than 66% of what was requested in 2024?

  • it’s less than 66% because the amount requested in 2024 did not include fire suppression
  • the required plan from Aqua demonstrating that existing customers will not experience degarded service is still missing isn’t it? ⁠ This plan is especially important now that Aqua is saying that they can provide three times what they committed to in 2024.

My acerbic , sarcastic takeaway? Well number one, can it now be said the developers not only use new math when it comes to things like height of structures and parking but also power and water? We’re currently in a drought and we’ve experienced a lot of drought situations the past couple of years so if Aqua couldn’t provide the water circa 2024 how is it they magically can supply the water now?

Oh and good ol’ Willistown Charlie? Spewing again on LinkedIn and maybe he needs to get off of his phone?

welcome to west vincent, and can SOMEONE give them social media lessons and save the taxpayers money? is this now a malicious municipality?

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I thought West Vincent seemed quiet, which made me think they were cooking up crazy. Well yep. There is a court docket. It’s welcome to crazy town that they filed against a former employee so when this is all done and dusted will this just be plain old harassment of some sort? I don’t know which is why I am asking the question.

Another question: if something was filed September 3rd, wouldn’t it have been referred to obliquely as an executive session item at their most recent meeting which was September 21st, 2026? Here you listen to the snippet where it was mentioned that there were NO executive session anythings from Chairwoman Bobblehead:

Yeah nothing and really strange, right?

Went back to August. Mention of something “potential” and “township property” but no mention of PROCEEDING with anything or did I miss something? You listen:

Imagine my surprise when this popped up:

Say what?

So yeah, a filing:

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Read it. It’s bananas and if you are a West Vincent resident and/or pay any kind of taxes YOU are paying for some pretty amazing bullsheit in my humble opinion.

Your eyes do not deceive you….the manager and solicitor of west Vincent Township are trying to sue Kristina Casey, former employee (township secretary? assistant township secretary?) over a Facebook Page she is no longer part of and an Instagram page she was never part of. By “part of” I mean specifically administrator.

This fuckatorymagnimus has been going on for what? 14 or 15 months?

Let’s recap:

When Ms. Casey worked for the township, a Facebook page was created for West Vincent Township because well they were among the few that doesn’t have one:

It had 1700 or so followers.

So how do you create a Facebook page? Under your personal profile. Then after creation you can add other admins and moderators.

When Ms. Casey was leaving West Vincent as far as I can tell she wanted to TURN THE PAGE OVER TO SOMEONE ELSE IN FREAKING WEST VINCENT TOWNSHIP TO RUN, right? Never happened. And apparently at first world genius and Manager Tommy Ryan didn’t have a Facebook page.

Then all this Who Shot John (one of my late PA German grandmother’s favorite phrases) started and Ms. Casey kept repeating that she WANTED to turn it over but someone has to ACCEPT it.

Here are some screenshots:

Yeah ummmm okayyyy. And over the course of the time that has passed since Ms. Casey left and now it has been crazy town right? Some kind of private investigator on the township dime? But my favorite was township manager wanting the PASSWORD to the Facebook Page.

Umm hello? Not how it works. When you set up a page, there is an underlying individual Facebook profile but that account’s password belongs to the individual with the individual Facebook profile. When a Facebook page changes hands, it goes under someone else’s individual Facebook profile and they already have their own password….they don’t get Ms. Casey’s password…that would be against Meta rules and possibly illegal right?

Wait let me back up to the investigator who was also hired to sweep….wait for it…West Vincent Township for bugs. How very MI5 CIA of Tommy Ryan, right?

For real:

Real Twilight zone stuff right? Meanwhile Mr. Dopey Manager Dude gets a Facebook profile for himself with a West Vincent logo and a new Facebook page linked to some Instagram page:

And then I found this and have zero clue what that is about:

West Vincent also has an Instagram page…excuse me TWO Instagram pages….set up by someone else:

I asked around and apparently that person set one up a few years ago before Ms. Casey was employed. Seems like this woman who also is no longer at West Vincent must have lost her password, and started a second Instagram page. Her name is Maria. But none of this is something Ms. Casey has access to, so they seriously think she needs to give them control of this account or something? Whose on first here??? Why don’t they just talk to the Maria lady?

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS TOWNSHIP. I also do not understand why and how west Vincent Supervisors are OK with all of this? I mean don’t the supervisors know how Facebook works? I am only sharing two profile screenshots because the new guy has a photo of his kid for a profile photo.

This is bananas and what is WRONG with this manager?? Are the civil rights of Kristina Casey being violated? Isn’t this like she being persecuted most unfairly?

Good lord residents of West Vincent Township are you paying for this? If so, any single one of you could be next and why is this dude a manager? Once upon a time the question was asked if the state needed to come in and manage this township, makes a body wonder if they should be invited to, doesn’t it?

Please note this post is brought to you by the First Amendment and what is publicly available. And make sure you like and follow the NEW West Vincent Facebook page for drivel. I think at the end of the day ol’ Tommy wants to be adored even if that would be a cold dark day in hell?

oh ok, the current west vincent township manager and that federal law suit from east cocalico which seems to have reactivated and other curiosities….as the west vincent turns lives large, eh?

very disappointed in chrissy houlahan and her staff.

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You know when Chrissy Houlahan was first running for Congress, I was honestly excited back then. I thought she was so nice.

That was 2018.

That was then, and this is now. And lots of people are pretty disillusioned with her. Part of the problem is is that she has been so handled and shielded since she was elected by the Democratic Party. You literally can’t talk to her unless you’re like some big deal. If you go and participate in one of her Town Hall meetings, your questions need to be approved ahead of time, and that doesn’t matter if you’re in person or like on some big Zoom call or phone thing.

If you contact her, her staff is really nice and you might get a form letter in return, but don’t hold your breath waiting for your actual letter topic to be addressed. i’m literally not making this up. I have experienced it and people talk about this all of the time. There is actually one person I know who was very hurt by a lack of response by his Congresswoman. A man who literally helped make the Democrat Party in Chester County.

I am just disappointed.

And so is another local resident and constituent who contacted Houlahan’s office about a freedom of information act request AKA FOIA request being stalled out by the EPA.

This local resident has literally I think been trying to get an answer since I think April? So that’s like five months right? And no less than 10 phone calls on the topic to Houlahan’s office?

Why was she contacting Houlahan in the first place? EPA FOIA lack of response. And this is the response from EPA staff (finally) on September 8, 2026:

Obviously, this has to do with the East Whiteland data center, which is on a federally noticed super fund site known as Foote Mineral.

So are we to presume it took five months to circle the wagons here? Is something being hidden from the public? Do you guys think that this is acceptable? Why is a congressional office so hand’s off in assisting with a federal level issue?

I mean, who can we count on as residents in Chester County?

If you’ve ever submitted a right to know request, you’re familiar with the dance that often occurs. It’s whatever state municipality or agency you’re contacting asking for an extension. But five months for an excuse laden non-response?

I don’t know and I’m still asking as I close this post, is this EPA woman’s response ineptitude or by design?

Do better, Congresswoman Houlahan. You keep asking for us to continue to vote for you, but you’re not giving us a reason why anymore. This is a basic kind of thing that staff should be able to research and get a response to other than this. From April until September 8? Totally unacceptable, bureaucratic bullsheit, don’t you think?

It makes me really sad.

This person never actually got a response from Houlahan’s Office. 

remember when the mega warehouse stuff had to replace happy days farm in exton? why is it empty?

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It was a historic farm. Farmed until the bitter end. Part of a Penn Land Grant. But when Jack Bogle passed away, Vanguard which had bought the land at some point during his tenure, sold it….for development. Next is the old historic resource survey form, which seems to have disappeared from Pennsylvania websites?

So listen, if this had to be mega warehouses or whatever why is the whole site a ghost town? You can apparently just drive in and someone I know did that and sent the following video with this note:

Not one tire rub mark where truck drivers are always turning wheels hard leaving black marks. Not one oil drip. Pure virgin concrete.

Here, you look for yourselves:

So this begs the question which is a horrible thought and that is what else could this site be used for and does Uwchlan Township know or keep tabs on this? The sad fact of life is don’t you wish you could look at swaths of land like this and not worry it might someday become a freaking data center?

It’s a GHOST TOWN

https://www.cushmanwakefield.com/en/united-states/properties/for-lease/warehousedistribution/pa/exton/1130-pottstown-pike-bldg-1/s120199964s120201315-l

https://i76tradecenter.cushwakesites.com

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Here are a couple of old Happy Days Farm posts to remind people what we lost:

not so happy days farms on route 100 near turnpike in exton (uwchlan township)
this used to be happy days farm…

dear “contest every race” and all democrats and republicans running for office.

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I really hate these text messages. Especially since I didn’t sign up for them and it’s an invasion.

They didn’t actually get a user-friendly version of me via text back. They got a blast just like Red Whiners and Blue. These groups can piss off.

When I was a Republican (until 2016) I was on do not solicit lists. I didn’t get emails, text messages, phone calls. When I tried to be a Democrat, I had to repeat the whole process. When I realized that both major parties were not for me and went to an Independent status, I’ve had to do it all over again and while the Republican Party has respected my do not call/do not text/do not contact them at all, I can’t say the same for Democrat groups. My husband who is also a registered Independent gets bombarded by both parties.

I can only say Democrat groups are being obnoxious with unwanted contact, I don’t know that it’s the entire party in PA with the lack of respect. This is the second one within about a week or so.

So to this group Contest Every Race which I never heard of before, can stick it where the sun don’t shine.

Here’s what I think: I don’t think any voter in Pennsylvania should be supporting candidates. I think the candidates should be supporting all of us against data centers.

I only know one politician for sure who is all about defending Pennsylvania against data centers and State Senator Katie Muth.

The others, regardless of party affiliation, I don’t necessarily know for sure. Well except for that guy who is running against State Representative Kristine Howard. His name is Joe Lewis. He is among other things, co-owner of a really good café in Wayne , Pennsylvania. And allow me to be clear, I am not endorsing Mr. Lewis, but he is literally the only person running for office besides Katie Muth who has stood up at a township meeting and basically say “What are you people doing?”

I have not heard another single candidate from either party do that. God knows the incumbents like Paul Friel, Danielle Friel Otten, Lisa Borowski, and Kristine Howard just to name a few are completely out of touch and have forgotten completely why and for whom they were elected. I have to wonder if they ever really knew if it is so easy to have selective political amnesia over data centers?

And I am very disappointed in the Democrats because they’re all lining up behind Josh Shapiro, who is data center happy.

Therefore, I think it is incumbent upon every politician running for office this November to actually really side with residents or get out of the way.

I just don’t know how else to say it other than plainly. We are fighting for our land, our property values, our water, our energy, our environment, and possibly our lives.

We need a full moratorium on data centers within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

I don’t want to hear any crap that we couldn’t look at Facebook, etc. etc. if they stopped building data centers. Newsflash to the idiots in the room is that those aren’t the kind of data centers they want to build. That is the bottom line.

So elected officials and politicians? What side of this issue do you want to be on? The right side or the wrong side?

Side with the people save us from what we haven’t asked for and don’t really need.

To all of the residents of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: you don’t have to support candidates with campaign donations when you need to fight for your right to exist. You tell anyone who wants your vote they need to earn your vote without your hard earned money. They need to roll up their sleeves and prove themselves.

Actions speak louder than words and I’m not seeing much out of Pennsylvania politicians with few exceptions.

If you are a politician at all running for OFFICE in Pennsylvania this November, even as an incumbent, if you can’t say no to data centers, people shouldn’t say yes to voting for any of you.

To the data center neighbors groups across Pennsylvania I have a simple message: if any of these politicians aren’t taking your side of the issue, they aren’t worth your time. Saying that they side with whatever Shapiro is shoveling is not anyone you want in office. Same with Marge Simpson, otherwise known as Stacey Garrity.

Our choices for governor are definitely lacking because of data centers, but we do have a say so the rest of the state and local races we are voting in.

Look carefully at the candidates and don’t just vote because they are your party or someone tells you to vote for them. Being an independent thinker is important here.

#NoDataCenters

#PeopleOverPolitics

#NoTimeForSheeple

is a great valley democrat east whiteland’s shadow cabinet?

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Screenshot from the very public and apparently not very updated. Chesco Democrats website.

Soooo. This is just a funny little post about wondering if Jerry Pyne is East Whiteland‘s shadow cabinet? I am just asking a question. I am not asserting that by design or anything else. It’s just he seems to insert himself often doesn’t he?

So he has an interesting history. He is now the past vice chair of the Chester County Democratic Committee. it’s actually embarrassing for them that he still shows up when you do a Google search as being Vice Chair because the current Vice Chair is Michelle Smith. and truly that is progress. I don’t always agree with her, but I know she does her best and does her homework and has honor. That is also not saying I have anything to do with this because really my opinion doesn’t matter to them. It’s just an opinion.

Anywhoo, Jerry reared his head and sometimes ruddy complexion when East Whiteland residents were gathering signatures to get the question on the ballot of should East Whiteland Township go to five supervisors.

See there’s Gerry directing opinion traffic or trying to.

Jerry likes to mansplain from what I’m told, but he was practically rabid about this not making the fall ballot wasn’t he? And I am sure he is working feverishly to make sure people don’t vote for this yes?

I never actually realized until this morning that he lives in East Whiteland. I thought he lived over the border in Charlestown for some reason but I guess that’s where the other crazy Jerry lives who is the Republican? It’s easy to get them mixed up because they are a type and there’s one from each party in such close proximity to one another right?

Jerry is a committee person for the Great Valley Democrats. His patch is Peoples Light and he is in the first precinct.

This morning, I was chatting with a friend who is a prodigious reader of meeting minutes of multiple municipalities. Truly a research marvel. So she says to me, do you know who your vacancy board person is in your township? And I said no, why?

Then I got the following screenshot:

Oh, and here’s the link in case anyone thinks I’m making it up:

East Whiteland 2026 Reorg.

And there he is Mr. Vacancy Board 2026! I wonder if he has a pretty sash like a prom queen or beauty pageant winner?

Anyway, what does that mean for the rest of us mere mortals ? Simple. If someone resigns or is removed from office or takes a leave of absence or is incapacitated in any manner he’s the guy that gets called up for tied votes. He’s a vote tie breaker.

https://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/LI/US/HTM/1933/0/0069..htm

Legally, however, he cannot vote himself to be a more permanent supervisor of the board in a situation. The purpose of this position is in part to decide upon a replacement Supervisor should a Supervisor position become vacant. It’s kind of important and people often overlook this spot in township government, myself included. honestly I had forgotten about the position.

It is mostly succinctly put an often overlooked but influential and important position.

https://www.palegis.us/statutes/unconsolidated/law-information/view-statute?txtType=PDF&SessYr=2017&ActNum=0016.&SessInd=0

And what would happen if he somehow came in via the vacancy board while this data center is still being decided?

Another valid question yes?

So he doesn’t want five supervisors as he loses his power right? He doesn’t want five supervisors because he loves data centers doesn’t he? I mean, shall we recall that email that recently surfaced in a voluminous right to know?

Allow me:

That is from 2023 and he was pushing data centers because his excuse? Didn’t want to appear business unfriendly correct?

Now the backup generation they were talking about at the time if I’m not mistaken, was the failed attempt at getting a hydrogen hub immediately over the township borders into West Whiteland with samey same developer yes?

How to Shut Down a Dirty Blue Hydrogen Project

Ahhh yes.

So I have a hypothesis and I’m going to ask another question. Does Jerry Pyne want to be a supervisor eventually in East Whiteland? This is easy way to get noticed via the back door if you are like the vacancy board person or appointed by the vacancy board because someone steps down or leaves or whatever?

That snake is not too subtle in this patch of grass IMHO so people need to keep an eye on him and this is yet another reason why we need to vote for five supervisors on the fall ballot.

Duplicitous is as duplicitous does?

Time will tell but right now I just have questions do any of you?

Life is very interesting right now.

Life is also not a conspiracy theory until suddenly it feels like one. Seeing that guy’s name next to vacancy board doesn’t help though does it?

and the (political) bullies roll into east whiteland township…oh wait they live here in some cases, don’t they?