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Allemaengel t1_iy5f58d wrote

Crappily inept dumbass county government. I live in an adjacent county that looks amazingly competent at running an election compared to these Luzerne clowns.

Last time actual ballots were found next to dumpster. Unbelievable.

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IamSauerKraut t1_iy5izu1 wrote

Might be time to put the Luzerne elections system/department under receivership.

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Allemaengel t1_iy7tgd6 wrote

Not a bad idea but going through multiple county managers suggests the real issue rests up the food chain with the county council.

The entire county government really should be received and reconstructed with best practices. The elected officials have lost control, if they ever had it.

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JennItalia269 t1_iy5p2d8 wrote

All my family is from there. Glad my dad had enough foresight to move away from there 45 years ago.

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Allemaengel t1_iy7t89x wrote

A lot of people have over the years. I live up that was but commute to Bucks County and lots of people at work have friends or relatives that did.

It could be a nice area to live but the corruption, bad roads, poor school districts, etc. just makes it so bad that good people with resources leave, good people without resources get stuck and corrupt crappy government happily proliferates.

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TheOperaGhostofKinja t1_iy7sbkb wrote

I’m tangentially linked to a legal case involving Luzerne County. It’s been going on since 2018.

From my understanding, the lawyers involved have reached multiple settlement agreements, with the only thing needed to make the whole case go away is for the County Board to approve the settlement. Every single time they’ve either not even put it on the schedule to be voted on, or rejected the settlement.

The county has probably spent more $ on legal fees than the settlement.

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Allemaengel t1_iy7tku0 wrote

Gee, why am I not surprised when it's Other People's Money, a.k.a. the taxpayers'.

Edit- typo.

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italia06823834 t1_iy9dtrq wrote

Luzerne in generally is just really weird. It has Wilkes-Barre and Hazelton, fairly large "cities", but then a ton of really quite rural areas. It's like a microcosm of the whole US.

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