For reasons unknown to me I decided to check out The Reading Eagle website this morning and saw that Adam Mukerji can no longer live in his plush mansion in Montgomery County if he wants to continue to work for The City Of Reading. The charter board also has the right to fire him according to the three judge panel.
As most of you know Stefan Kosikowski was man responsible for getting the ball rolling on this when he filed the complaint with the charter board some time ago. Stefan has also come under attack by Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon and the rest of The Established Elite. Even when the environment around you is turning into a 3rd world shit hole, there is still a bit of hope when you see that Tom McMahon is not above the law.
Once again well done Stefan.
Source: http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=76839
January 19, 2008 at 8:19 pm
Just a reminder of what Stefan put out on his web site when McMahon, Boscov, and the Pharisees were out to subvert the Reading City Charter!
http://www.stefanforstaterep.org/archivesjune06.htm
Good call, Stefan
January 19, 2008 at 8:31 pm
Oh, that was in response to how Mayor McMahon and Council were reacting to the initial Charter Board ruling… they changed the law for the city managers and attempted to go around the Charter restriction, rather then attempt to amend the Charter.
They knew the residents of the city were very much against McMahon’s idea of eliminating residency requirements. These positions at City Hall used to be held by the elected Councilmen before we switched to the Charter form of government. So by law, the positions were mandated to be held by citizens eligible for local election, ergo legal residents of the municipality in question.
Knowing Stefan, he is quite pleased by the ruling, but Boscov will undoubtedly pull McMahon’s little strings and the City [mayor] will appeal this decision, fight it to the very end. Adam Mukerji is Boscov’s crony to direct the peoples’ taxes into the kike’s projects.
January 20, 2008 at 2:03 am
I’m sure we will see an appeal, as this could affect Tom McMahon living in his plush mansion in Wyomissing.
McMahon can appeal it all he wants, but from what I have read of the judges decisions thus far, the charter is pretty much iron clad.
It seem Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon just has this thing about wasting taxpayer money on his own personal petty lawsuits from attacking Mark Baldwin, to violating the city charter.
That give me an idea for you guys to use. You guys should put together a total sum of all the legal bills that the city is paying in these adventures of Tom McMahon’s and post the tally on Stefan’s site, and I would be more than happy to aid in this. Even though I live far far away now, it’s still fun to watch Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon blow his gasket when things don’t go his way
Plus I know Keith Stamm will more in likely put up that number and say how that money could be used for Drug Dogs, securing Reading High School, or hiring more codes officers. If you guys go after this let me know the number and I will post it, because you know The Reading Eagle won’t as the city’s legal bills are more in likely higher then Al Walentis’s sperm count 
January 20, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Information for interested parties!
The City Auditor, Dave Cituk, is an honest man and no lackey for Mayor Marshmallow. He is the person to inquire with for those “litigation costs” figures, after all, they are public record and Mr. Cituk does cite these figures on occasion at Council meetings.
I would not trust the Finance Department personnel but they have the figures as well.
What is interesting is how soon ACTION will commence?
When will the Charter Board expel this leech for non-compliance with the law?
How about all these years that the City of Reading was denied the income tax revenue from Mr. Mukerji who didn’t pay local income taxes to this municipality?
Will we as taxpayers get restitution for his illegal actions?
There are a host of problems created by McMahon and his Master and their insistence on stealing our federal and state tax dollars for Boscov’s private projects. Yes, the PROFIT is privatized… no public funds for private enterprise, that is corporate welfare!
January 22, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Let’s not forget… those who decide to battle City Hall are often forced to dip into their own pockets to prove that the rules aren’t being followed…as was the case with the pre-sale property inspection fiasco and the petitions that were refused by a clerk. If our leaders can’t get their act together and follow the rules then there should be an appointed lawyer on staff whose job is representing residents. Our tax dollars are paying the salaries of the rule-breakers and the lawyer fees they rack up trying to get out of their own messes.
January 23, 2008 at 12:52 pm
There are two avenues for citizens to battle city hall, the charter board process (free) or through the courts. With all due respect, I do not want to pay for your litigation costs with my taxes, for I do not share in your profits which is the basis for your complaint!
But don’t misunderstand me, I am still sympathetic to your plight for McMahon is a bastard who believes he is above the law, all the while using the law against others.
SHAME
What I suggest is tying his ass down through every angle possible. File charter complaints, organize citizens and make noise in council, use litigation as a last resort.
This is all a delaying strategy, until we can replace this crook.
Next time, find a better candidate then Dennis Moyer and don’t waste your effort on the Green Party after you failed to do all you could in the primary election. This is Reading where the general election will select the Democrat. The primary is a different story, voters must choose a person, there is no party vote.
Spend at least 6 to 9 months campaigning too, not a crash course in the last 30 days… too many people have already decided by then.
Pick someone who is active politically all the time, Dennis is never at any public meetings or functions… never. Great guy but he simply didn’t know what’s going on around town!
January 23, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Also notice that little prick, Don Spatz, has a column about the timing of this judgment.
All boiled down, the investors want the taxpayers to build their fucking hotel for them but the investors are not the least bit interested in sharing their profits.
End corporate welfare!
January 23, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Yes, Don Spatz’s column…. once again the morning newspaper starts my day with a “WTF?”. My favorite part was the very end… “contact REPORTER Don Spatz” Reporter?! Ummm, maybe he should be called a columnist? What exactly did he “report”? It was filled with information we already knew, it was nothing more than a verbal pat on the back for a man that has NOT performed all of his job duties. Part of his job was to move into the city, if he had no intentions of doing this he shouldn’t have accepted the job.
If Don Spatz continually handed in his column late would his superiors be willing to give him even more time when it’s already late? Why should Mukerji be allowed more time, or even have his title changed? He has already set a pattern of disregard for the City Charter. McMahon’s acceptance of the disregard does not change the fact that the rules were made for everyone.
Don Spatz suggesting that the city spend more money in legal fees to submit an appeal just to stall Mukerji from being fired is another slap in the face to those of us who are expected to blindly follow the whims of our administration. Perhaps Spatz is willing to pick up the tab on that one? Mukerji has gotten his thanks each time he gets a pay check dispite not keeping up his end of the employment bargain.
January 23, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Found it,
http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=77233
City Charter Board ruling comes at awful time
Reading, PA - Last week’s Commonwealth Court ruling clears the air on the city Charter Board’s authority, but muddies the water in a whole lot of other places, in part because its timing is awful.
The ruling says the board can fire economic development manager Adam Mukerji for refusing to move into Reading.
Mukerji has been working since 2002 as the city’s point man for numerous redevelopment projects, including several sought by retired retailer Albert Boscov.
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Hmmmm… Mukerji is on Boscov’s payroll with a sweet side deal. Boscov needs someone to direct tax payer funds towards his private investments.
Enter the indespensible Adam Mukerji.
January 23, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Oh that puff piece is just way too much. Don Spatz (or swallows) is just saying, “please just one more pimp job”. Now this should not come as a shock to anybody as The Reading Eagle stopped being objective years ago. Just look at Mike Case, and how The Reading Eagle kicked him out the door for being objective which in his case was exposing Tom McMahon for being the anti-American scumbag he really is, or how they outed Jason Stief as a murder witness. No community can survive if it’s only media source is against it’s citizenry.
Just look at all the outside money that went to Tom McMahon’s campaign, including some cash donations from LaRazza which is a open borders group with the agenda of reclaiming the southwest of the country for Mexico. In other words this group is a terrorist organization.
Remember this. Boscov, and McMahon want crime, because crime keeps property values low, and low property values mean better deals for Al Boscov’s front group Our City Reading.
January 24, 2008 at 11:54 am
Extremely low property values ensures a concentration of poverty!
Why do these bastards want more poverty?
Because poor people are DESPERATE people and desperate people will do things that those who are not desperate would not even concider.
Poor people will shovel shit for 10 cents an hour!
January 24, 2008 at 8:32 pm
“Poor people will shovel shit for 10 cents an hour!”
Well then Don Spatz is seriously overpaid! hahahahahaha
January 24, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Matt, you have it all wrong. I never exposed Mayor McMahon, nor did I set out to do so. The Reading Eagle exposed Mayor McMahon…and he may have even exposed himself by aligning with the Reading Eagle. Even now, I refuse to “BASH” the mayor because I think the problem is much bigger than one tired man. But I did indeed try to write objectively, and do what I thought I was supposed to do when I invented the column “ReadingFirsthand” and that was give an alternative viewpoint to the news from a resident’s mind, and I remained tactful and edgy without beligerence. So Matt, get it right. I LOVE MY CITY!!!
P.S. Please inform your readers that they can Google the word SARCASM if anything in this comment seems unlike me!
January 25, 2008 at 1:19 am
Maybe Don Spatz will be the next one out the door in their next round of cost-cutting measures. That should just about make room for their expansion into the Marvel Ranch.
January 28, 2008 at 11:10 am
Well, tonight is City Council, and I bet the house on Stefan showing up and sticking it to McMahon and Mukerji.
Who won’t show up who was at the June 2006 meeting where Council pulled this farce?
Albert Boscov Jr.
He lost the court’s decision!
January 28, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Andy,
If you are going to be there see if you can youtube it for me, because I’m sure it will be a classic.
January 28, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Stefan spoke very well about the issue, but declined to personally call anyone out beyond their job titles.
He called for action, now that the courts have ruled. It has gone from the Charter Board, appealed to Berks County Court, appealed to Commonwealth Court… I truly doubt the PA Supreme Court is interested in doing what the lesser courts refused. McMahon has dragged his feet on this for over 4 years now.
I think Stefan came across as very conservative, reducing this to a taxpayer issue.
Why are we wasting our precious tax dollars on this pig?
Over $10,000 has been squandered as of Oct 1st, 2007, but the City Auditor told me he doesn’t have the latest round of legal bills for this latest appeal process, so it must be even higher.
We don’t have enough money to do the things that the citizens need, let alone waste money on something so obvious.
January 29, 2008 at 12:37 am
Thanks for the update City Resident.
I agree 100% from a legal standpoint, Tom McMahon does not have a leg to stand on. However what concerns me when it comes to the Supreme Court is that I’m sure Tom McMahon will do this if he has not done so already and that’s pull strings with his dear buddy Ed Rendell to influence Ralph Cappy to get the case heard. He did it with the pay raise, why not to help Tom McMahon and Al Boscov who donated quite a bit of cash for his reelection?
If they decide to hear the case, keep your eyes open for which of the justices were involved, and that should prove my theory.
Now the backlash is if The Supreme Court hears the case and sides with McMahon, then we are setting a dangerous standard where state government is basically telling local government that they have don’t have any rights. The Acre bill in regards to farmland opened the door for something like this. We have to wait and see.
January 29, 2008 at 10:24 pm
“…then we are setting a dangerous standard where state government is basically telling local government that they have don’t have any rights.”
Indeed, this is the crux of the problem.
Under state law, municipalities have no power beyond that which the state’s legislature grants to them. The only exception to this is when municipalities switch to a home rule charter.
That is precisely what Reading did in 1994.
So Reading is in the unique position that we can create laws beyond the powers granted by the state’s legislature.
Why is this important?
Because the mayor of Reading has the ability to do what the mayor of Hazelton (no home rule charter) can’t.
This is why a candidate like Stefan, should he become the mayor, could aggressively take on illegal aliens the way Lou Barletta did up in Hazelton and defeat the courts along the way.
This case could have extremely dire consequences depending on how far Cappy is willing to subvert justice!
January 30, 2008 at 11:56 am
Myron Carl Taylor, Democratic Committeman for the 3rd Ward, 1st Precinct, raised the issue last night at the community meeting. Since Don Spatz didn’t cover the event, the reporter who did actually reported the story in today’s B-Section!
Don Spatz has been silent about Stefan’s remarks Monday night.
January 30, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Don Spatz is a shit head.
All he does is shill for Al Boscov, Tom McMahon, Mike O’Pake, and the rest of the faggots that steal our tax revenues for their own personal profit.
In fact, the only decent politician in all of Reading is Tom Caltagirone, because he is a moderate.
I also heard through the grapevine that Stefan is backing Tom C over this guy who is a flaming liberal… Mike Morrill from West Reading. This is the guy who was the Green Party candidate for PA Governor in 2002 and switched back to the Democratic Party about a year ago.
I was a bit surprised, I thought Stefan liked the Green Party guys, but I did notice that Caltagirone has reversed his long standing positions that Stefan challenged Tom C on back in 2004 (Legislative Reform, Single-Payer Healthcare, and Property Tax Elimination).
You’re the man Stefan, you didn’t make it to Harrisburg, but you converted your representative to your stance on those critical issues!
I salute you.
January 30, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Well we all know Don Spatz (or swallows) for Mayor Marvel-Less Tom McMahon.
February 4, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hey Stefan,
You were right again, the 1972 Dolphins are still the best football team ever!
What a game last night.
February 7, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Mike Morrill is a putz… he quit before he started!
He had the nerve to call Tom Caltagirone out, then tells eveyone at the Committee meeting Saturday that he “canvased and determined he could win, but it would be expensive. He determined he would use his resources to help the Democrats SWEEP all the contests in Berks County.”
Yeah sure, he can win but decided to not run.
He won’t succeed in this effort either as Joe Pitts will win in a landslide again. Other Republican winners will include Sam Rohrer, Jim Cox, and Jim Argall without much effort.
Mike Morrill is pathetic!
February 12, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Well, now we know the plan… re-write the Administrative Code to CONCEAL the nature of these HEADS OF OFFICES, AGENCIES, and DEPARTMENTS, pretend they are just lackeys of the Managing Director!
This is EXACTLY what they did the first time, which led to the current legal action, that the Courts have already ruled is bogus.
You can not pretend the Managing Director is the HEAD of everything, and that he can simply DELEGATE THE AUTHORITY to all these assholes who HATE Reading so much, they refuse to LIVE HERE.
Check out that law which the courts struck down, the one Stefan highlighted on his web site in his archives. The one where City Council and the Mayor made the Managing Director the figurehead, who then delegated the authority back to Adam Mukerji so he could actually do the job (be the City’s principle AGENT for directing community development funding).
DOING THE JOB MAKES THE PERSON THE HEAD OF THIS AGENCY and trying to claim Community Economic Development is no longer a DEPARTMENT is irrelevant.
Time for the Charter Board to act. The Courts gave them the green light. What’s the hold up?
February 12, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Here is the FLUFF PIECE in today’s edition:
Churchill introduces reorganization plan
City Managing Director R. Leon Churchill Jr. introduced a plan Monday night to reorganize several city offices to make their bosses immune to the city charter’s requirement that they live in Reading.
Although he said the restructuring will make the city more bureaucratic, he hopes it will end the two-year dispute he’s had with the city Charter Board.
“I’m not saying I agree with it,” Churchill said. “I just got tired of fighting. I surrender. I don’t want any more fussing or fighting, no more disputes.
“I’d rather do what they (Charter Board members) want so we can get some work done.”
The Charter Board had ordered the city’s economic development manager, Adam Mukerji, to move into the city or be fired. He refused and the city took the board to court on his behalf.
But Commonwealth Court ruled in January the board has the authority to fire him if he doesn’t comply.
Now, the board is targeting three other city managers who don’t live in the city — Henry Tangredi of the Information Technology office, codes manager Jatinar Khokhar and Wayne Cockrell of the Office of Neighborhood Development.
All report to Churchill, and the Charter Board has defined top officials subject to the residency rule in part as those who report to Churchill.
Under an ordinance introduced by City Council on Monday, codes, zoning and neighborhood development would fall under the police department, and the Citizen Call Center and the computer department would fall under the finance department.
The human relations office would fall under human resources, and Mukerji would be a paid employee of the Reading Redevelopment Authority.
“This is complete compliance and creates finality as to residency,” Churchill said. “Unfortunately, this episode will make the organization more bureaucratic and makes nimbleness and responsiveness more difficult.”
•Contact reporter Don Spatz at 610-371-5027 or dspatz@readingeagle.com.
February 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm
I guess there won’t be an appeal, rather the Administration believes it can once again re-write the City Code to pretend the job function these individuals perform is irrelevant.
SHAME
This is precisely what these assclowns tried the first time.
http://www.stefanforstaterep.org/archivesjune06.htm
This is unacceptable.
February 13, 2008 at 10:11 am
“…all these assholes who HATE Reading so much, they refuse to LIVE HERE.”
Amen brother!
These white collar criminals have no shame and surely believe they are above the law. Too many years of corporate leadership, where they never need to be RESPONSIBLE because you are indemnified from prosecution.
Stop electing corporate executives to government.
February 13, 2008 at 1:56 pm
How about that $1.0 BILLION investment along the river front, south-side Reading?
Do you believe that shit?
I don’t… just more flatulence from Fast Eddie Rendell.
The press conference is tomorrow at the Canal Street Pub, but there were no other details available.
Does anyone have this information… please?
February 13, 2008 at 1:57 pm
They will say anything to relieve the mounting pressure on Adam Mukerji.