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Allemaengel t1_j07ljtb wrote

I'm not surprised.

I live just a few miles out of JT and the borough operates like a shit show compared to what it could be. The borough council president seems in over his head whenever he gives our local news on Blue Ridge Cable 23 News an interview. Not only that but they have bigger fish to fry than that.

Needing a new public works building. Water system upgrades. Insufficient storm water system. Of course the glorious parking problem for residents on Broadway issue. Dirt bikes illegally riding the Switchback Trail. The new Kresge sign that somehow got approved crazy overly-illuminating everything on the east side, the Fall Foliage Festival getting too big gridlocking traffic. Working with Mahoning to figure out the Flagstaff redevelopment without more than a hundred likely Airbns way up a too narrow road for that.

And etc. & so on.

Remember, these are the guys who bought the idiotic fight with Blue Mountain and Reading Railroad over retroactively collecting an entertainment tax on the tourist train they had ignored collecting for years only to have the RR call their bluff cancelling the train only to quietly cut a deal no one knows about behind the scenes to bring it back.

But no, they have to focus on an unnecessary roommate zoning ordinance because they're bored with no issues to solve.

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MeEvilBob t1_j07y32g wrote

This ordinance is important to them because it makes it harder for immigrants to settle in the area, which is what this is all about in the first place. This is classic racist republican fuckery right here

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Libsoccer20 t1_j08bfm5 wrote

Is Jim Thorpe Republican now? It was always very blue when I lived there... (My family immigrated to Jim Thorpe in the 1800s.)

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Allemaengel t1_j08edjn wrote

Carbon County as a whole is solidly Republican but I think parts of JT borough is as Democratic as the county generally gets.

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Libsoccer20 t1_j08h7cd wrote

That's exactly what I remember is the borough was solid blue.

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ell0bo t1_j08db1j wrote

Well, things have changed in rural PA since the 1800s.

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shadowstar36 t1_j0ca8s6 wrote

Why do you have to bring politics and especially identity politics into this? . It's so tiring with the..,. " everyone is racist, sexist, bigots,.. Blah blah blah"... That world view can't be fun, it's so negative, and really wasn't a thing until 2014.

Sorry but the world doesn't work like that. It's not all black and white. There are legit reasons why they would do that before pushing out boogieman conspiracy theories of "dats racsssist"... Lol. If there was proof, then that would be different.

This was most likely due to their bad parking situation. Recently they made the whole place permit only parking. When I was there as a visitor and asked a store owner why they did that, they freaked at me. Like how dare I voice complaints about their parking. Apparently they don't want tourists to park on the streets as it's very limited. Instead of blasting some of the mountain away and creating new parking lots, they make crazy laws like this. Has nothing to do with Republicans or racism. Also not all Republicans are racist and not all democrats arent. Most people aren't racist and there can be racists people in every ethnicity.

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MeEvilBob t1_j0cxlpg wrote

Why do I have to bring up politics when talking about a purely political issue?

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