By --- on
1/4/2010 2:18 PM
I stand before you now -- as I stood before you four years ago -- grateful for the support of my family, friends, colleagues and constituents and mindful of the incredible responsibility bestowed upon me and my administration.
No one succeeds alone and my re-election is not just an affirmation of my candidacy, but of the many accomplishments of my administration and the hardworking employees of Lehigh County who get the job done every day, day in and day out – often in a thankless capacity and, unfortunately, all too often maligned for being government employees. For those who want to attack those who serve the public, I invite them to spend a day with the young, mostly female, social workers who go into some of the toughest domestic situations you can imagine and have to make decisions about removing children from their homes for their own safety.
I invite them to spend a day with the corrections officers who keep us safe from the violent and dangerous of our community or to spend time...