Why I keep track of City Issues:

The Mayor wanted to upgrade the Harrisburg Incinerator instead of shutting it down. He said that it cost too much to shut down. That is why he wanted to upgrade it. Besides, the City can make so much money out of it that we could reduce taxes and upgrade parts of the City government according to Mayor Reed. I believed it and I believed in what the Mayor was doing.

I did not know that the Mayor ran a public propaganda machine that rivaled Joseph Gerbils,Hitler’s Propaganda Ministry Chief for the Third Reich. He kept things from the public by not reporting things to the press. Since City Council did not have a public relations office, they did not report any information to the press. That gave the Mayor the opportunity to change City Council members every two years by giving them all bad press. That bad press influences the voters to vote for the people that the mayor wanted in office. As soon as the City council members achieved experience in City Government, they were voted out. This gave the Mayor supreme power over everything in the City.

In the Incinerator affair, he hired his friends who never worked on a project this complex. He falsified City documents stating the progress of the Incinerator. He would not allow City workers to test the equipment once in place. When it became known that the Incinerator project was a complete disaster, he told the people through the press that it was all City Council’s fault. They ran this project and it did not work. In fact, the Mayor lied to cover up his failures and to turn over City Council members again in the next City election. His friends walked away from this project making millions of dollars and the public was stuck with higher utility rates.