Radnor's Latest Controversy: Philadelphia Export William A. Colarulo For Top Cop

So will Radnor's choice for top cop be a smart move or public relations nightmare? 

Will past lawsuit keep Philly police official from top Radnor post? By DAVID GAMBACORTA

January 27, 2011

An old lawsuit has created a fresh headache for a longtime Philadelphia Police Department official who's in line for a coveted new job.

 Chief Inspector William Colarulo was seemingly all but assured of being named Radnor Township's police superintendent during a township meeting on Monday.

That plan was put on hold after the seven members of Radnor's Board of Commissioners received anonymous e-mails...

 

Does Commissioner Johgn Fisher, Chair of Radnor's Personnel and Administration Committee as well as now President of The Board of Commissioners ever do his own research on candidates for hire?  Last year there was the kerfuffle over that schlub from Coatesville that caused many residents of Coatesville to show up at a commissioners' meeting (and then caused pussy Radnor to overreact and put cops in the room?).  Remember?  For the temporary township manager gig?  Did Radnor use the same inept headhunter this time when putting on the search for a new Chief of Police?

Mind you I think Radnor was wise to seek a new chief from outside the ranks, but seriously, did they think that someone as controversial as William A. Colarulo  would fly under the radar?  I have no idea and no way to know if this guy is a good cop or a bad cop, but when I saw the stuff in the papers and the way they rushed to squash this as a topic at the recent commissioners' meeting, it certainly became a point to ponder.

From what I have always heard whispered, there are issues from time to time in Radnor's police department.  So I get they want a clear head and a fresh face to rule the police department roost, but why this guy?

A quick google will get you a lawsuit to give one the willies , and face it, racism is not a nice topic.  And people on the Main Line like to pretend it doesn't exist, but it does.

Who else has applied for this job in Radnor?  Are the pickings for this so slim?  I am just a little bothered that all of this is swirling...  Well, Mr. Commissioner Fisher, you behaved like a petulant child for all of 2010 because you weren't president and now you and that slippery slezoid geriatric Bill Spingler are in charge, so ummm, do you have some 'splaining to do as they say?

And one other thing - the media coverage on this is seriously lacking.  I thought they were supposed to report the news and inform the public.  I find it astounding that the Inquirer and Daily News, who have covered the good bad and ugly of this  Colarulo's career have had almost nothing to say about this - but then again, our news doesn't matter and I hear the Daily News will be changing it's name to the Daily Testicle. It would be nice of course, if the editors of the Inquirer and Daily News actually let reporters cover the news once in a while....

And that salary???  $150,000???? Plus benies???? Is that what Rutty made???  Sweet Jumpin' Jehoshaphat's! That's like a township manager's salary, ain't it?  What is this?  New York City? Damn, for that kind of salary and a taxpayer funded take home car, justsnarky will snap on a color coordinated holster and wear fashion backwards colors and a poly blend outfit!

Here's the other coverage I see:

Main Line Suburban Life

Vote on Radnor police superintendent postponed
By Sam Strike
Published: Monday, January 24, 2011

The appointment of Philadelphia Police Department chief inspector William A. Colarulo as the next superintendent of police of Radnor Township was postponed Monday evening.


Manager Bob Zienkowski said that Colarulo himself requested that his hiring be rescheduled after a “question” was raised in regards to him.

The “question” likely referred to the role Colarulo played in actions leading up to a lawsuit three Philadelphia police officers filed against the city and individuals, including Colarulo. In the suit the officers claimed that their supervisors violated their right under Title VII to be free from retaliation for opposing racial discrimination in the workplace, according to a document from the third circuit court of the United States Court of Appeals.

Zienkowski said Colarulo did not want any controversy on his way into the job and suggested the township’s Board of Commissioners “take any additional time to look into any concerns.”

“We will look at that and report back to board,” said Zienkowski.


Radnor’s Board of Commissioners was slated on Monday night to vote to confirm Colarulo, currently a chief inspector in the Philadelphia Police Department. According to his resume, he has worked in law enforcement for thirty years. He is currently assigned to the department’s training bureau.

Commissioner president John Fisher said he “appreciates additional time to have consideration of that matter.”

Colarulo would earn a $150,000 salary in 2011; that amount would be increased by three percent next year, according to the proposed employment agreement. The proposed employment agreement would run five years.

Posted on Tue, Jan. 25, 2011
Phila. chief inspector in line for Radnor post
Mari A. Schaefer

William Colarulo, a chief inspector with the Philadelphia Police Department, is expected to become the new Radnor Township chief of police, according to township officials

It's Girl Scout Cookie Time....

....Beware the parents.  Seriously. Those folks ain't playin'.

Girl Scout Cookies always raise the nostalgic in me. 

In days gone by, it was a friend who came to the door with her troop when you were young, and even until a few years ago, you might find a knock on the door and cute Susie Q down the street would be there taking orders.

Do you get thin mints? Do si dos?  Oh the decisions...but then the tradition fades out and when the hyper stage parents of today hit the scene, and well ,damn, it takes the fun and nostagelia right away PDQ (pretty damn quick).

OH NO THERE THEY ARE: THE GIRL SCOUT PARENTS! WHO ARE REALLY SELLING THESE COOKIES ANYWAY????

Seriously, the parents are ruining the fun of Girl Scout Cookies.  OK I get when the world realized how many freaks were out there, mums and dads didn't want the little girls wandering door to door. 

But the parents are so damn aggressive.  They have these kids in cookie costumes at the grocery store and practically mug you on the way in the door - the parents not the girl scouts themselves. 

Then there are the office aggressive - buy from my kid or your bonus is off.

Or the at home thugs who hit up the nanny who makes no money as it is and it is suggested they buy cookies from their charge - and the nanny will pay and the kid will eat...

And then the friends and neighbors vying to have the neighborhood cookie monopoly. Between that and the cold weather, people might not open their doors for months.

Seriously, people, think valium or ativan - they are cookies and these are kids.

I wonder here on the Main Line if any of these parents ever read the Girl Scout Parents Law:

Parents, please repeat the Girl Scout Parent Promise after me-

On my honor, I will try,

To encourage and support my Girl Scout Daughter,

To obey the Girl Scout Parent Law.

Parents, would you please read the Girl Scout Parent's Law:

1. A Girl Scout Parent understands the true purpose of Girl Scouting.
2. A Girl Scout Parent gets their daughter to and from meetings on time.
3. A Girl Scout Parent knows a troop is a team effort.
4. A Girl Scout Parent sees the job through to the end.
5. A Girl Scout Parent sets a good example at all times.
6. A Girl Scout Parent is enthusiastic and cheerful.
7. A Girl Scout Parent does not consider the leader a baby sitter.
8. A Girl Scout Parent brings troop problems to the leader first.
9. A Girl Scout Parent always does his or her part willingly.
10. A Girl Scout Parent is aware that Girl Scouting is for all girls.

Or...maybe they take this too literally and need law number 11 which should read:

11. Chill, they are just cookies and these are just kids.

The Main Line is The Land of Reinvented Women

The Main Line is not merely continually amusing for the poseur nouveau set  screeching to belong, where if it isn't obvious and expensive they can't deal,  but also amusing for those types who are practionioners of revisionist magic.  If you have spent even a few years on the Main Line, you will undoubtedly run into a few of these. Every time you meet them it's as if they are born again virgins.

A lot of these "ladies" (term applied loosely) seem to hail from Wayne and west.  They just tickle my fancy. Well shod succubi and all that.

The first set one may encounter join organizations like The Saturday Club or even the Newcomers Club , except if they really are ambitious they bypass the Newcomers and go straight to The Saturday Club. 

The Saturday Club has such a divine history, yet today a lot of the "ladies" they allow into their hallowed halls are of the reinvented set. Some of the largest bar hopping loud mouthed former drunkie girls are now all so grown up and Lily and Tory-fied.  The comment you  parsley around the pig comes to mind...and those "ladies", my, my, my give them too much to imbibe at a beer or wine tasting and they revert to form.  They hold to great pretense with their cotillion and other events, yet the best part of them requires no interaction whatsoever: just buy their cookbook and save yourselves the aggravation.

Moving right along are the ladies who grew up shall we say close to the Main Line, yet not on the Main Line?  Some of them marry and settle down on the Main Line and try to belong. They rack up the hubby's Amex and pretend, pretend, pretend.  My favorites among this ilk are the ones who routinely cheat on their spouses (mind you it's not limited to the women, as there are enough men trolling for juicy morsels on the side as they want their cake, want to eat it too, and not pay for a divorce - 24/7 service ).

I recently heard about a woman with children who has cheated on her husband for years and years.  She has never even been particularly subtle about it.  She is also one of those babes who is basically a former shall we say "shop girl" who is also a shopaholic.....I hear her long suffering half has finally decided maybe a woman who was faithful and actually enjoyed his company might be something for the future and he wants out.  Only Mrs. Cheater doesn't.  It's rather odd - you don't like your husband, you cheat on him, you stalk every woman he has ever known or met or worked with, yet you don't want out.  Lady, let the old sofa go.  No one deserves you for their retirement prize.

Then there are the fringe babes who in their younger days were the world class sluts of it all.  When they used to shake their booty, their form of belonging was to schtup anything with a large wallet and possibly pedigree to match.  Those babes are a definite reason safe sex is such a good idea.  A rule of thumb was generally speaking, if men dipped their wick in those babes, my you didn't want them - or at least not until you got them tested.  A few of these fringe babes tried trapping men the old fashioned way and merely ended up with bastard children and child support issues.  A few, like one I heard of recently, managed to main stream for a while. 

These fringe babes stalk men the second and third time around like big game - truthfully they are sociologically fascinating to watch in action.  Why one I heard of  a fringe babe recently who actually managed to snag  a new hubby . The proverbial speed wedding- would love to be the fly on the wall when he sobers up.   But women like this can straighten and bleach their hair and update their looks (including with Sugar Daddy funded plastic surgery), and pretend to be to the manor born, but scratch the surface ever so slightly and what do you find?  Super sluts meets guttersnipes. You can dress 'em up, but they can only hide who they truly are for just so long - they also have their male counterparts, mind you.  (Just wanted to be fair as there are just as many hyper ambitious men on the Main Line as women).

The land of reinvented women are easy to spot at a party - they are the ones who always order the wrong drink and look nervously around the dinner party table to see what fork everyone else is using and pull on their outfit.  They are not comfortable in their own skin, as opposed to the nouveau who are so self focused they don't necessarily see anyone else at the same dinner party table - generally they spend most of the evening on their smart phones or in the bathroom with their fingers down their throats.

The sad thing is, the more times I encounter these various degrees of Main Line flora and fauna, the more I miss the civilized of the Main Line.  Those people are a disappearing breed to be sure....

The Burning Question on Larry Platt Becoming Editor of Daily News Is...

....What salary and compensation did they offer Larry Platt's severed testicle or cyst or whatever? 

Seriously?  The Daily News was actually decent to read most days and now they hired a law suit waiting to happen?  I guess even the NEW owners of the Inquirer and Daily News don't respect women or reporters in general? Michael Days is moving over to the Inquirer from the Daily News.

The new dumb ass in charge, Gregory J. Osberg, was quoted as saying :

“[Platt] is extremely well-suited to begin the transformation of the Daily News into a loud, irreverent, and fun tabloid.”

Fabulous...except what was it that was said about Larry boy's departure from Philadelphia Magazine?

Let's start with what his new job, The Daily News said on June 25, 2010:

Philadelphia magazine yesterday parted ways with editor Larry Platt who was at its helm for eight years.

Platt's contract with the magazine is up in August, but he was informed yesterday that he would not stay on, we're told.

Sources tell us the decision was largely due to Platt's history of inappropriate and unprofessional remarks and jokes to his employees, in what closely resembled the behavior of the fictional "The Office" boss Michael Scott.

We hear that Platt's recent gift of a framed-photo of a cyst removed from his testicle to a departing female staffer, was one of the examples that led to the decision of Herbert and David Lipson, chairman and president of Metrocorp, which owns the magazine, to relieve him of his duties. The magazine announced today that Platt has resigned.

David Lipson declined to comment on Platt's departure further than what the company issued in a statement.

Here, Gawker has more:

The Testicle Pictures That Got an Editor Fired


The Disembodied Testicle Pictures That Got an Editor Fired - Photos

Ball Cyst Photo Gift Gag Goes Awry


Now check Philebrity:

Breaking: Editor Swaps At Inky And DN



Dave Davies says it all in his piece for WHYY today titled How not to follow a Pulitzer.


Apparently, Philadelphia newspapers are destined for mediocrity meets tawdry behavior.  I did not think it was possible for anyone to out dumb ass Brian Tierney quite so soon.....


The Daily News now has either a balless wonder or testicle in charge....take your pick


“Daily News” to Name New Editor? BY STEVE VOLK

Just Call Him Volcano Eddie...

Fast Eddie became Volcano Eddie on this one...showing his true colors to the entire nation at last.  He's lucky the reporter didn't drag his penchant for ladies on the side into it, eh?

Posted on Mon, Jan. 10, 2011

Rendell: ‘60 Minutes’ producers provoked outburst
By Angela Couloumbis
INQUIRER HARRISBURG BUREAU

HARRISBURG – Gov. Rendell said he was essentially provoked into losing his temper during a 60 Minutes interview that aired Sunday night, showing the governor baring his teeth and calling reporter Lesley Stahl and the show's staff "simpletons" and "idiots."


During an interview this morning on WHYY's Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, the governor said though he apologized to Stahl afterward for his outburst, he didn't apologize to her producers, who he said goaded her into asking him the same question "over and over again."

He said the other alternative was to walk out of the interview, which was on the subject of casinos. But, he said, "that would have been just as bad because I believe the press should have access to public officials."

Posted on Sun, Jan. 9, 2011

Karen Heller: On TV, Rendell's all the rage
Wusses and wackos, snowballs and low blows: Big Ed's cable-ready.

The Big Ed farewell tour continues Sunday night when he fillets and flambes Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes.


After the veteran journalist questions the Slot King's adamant support of gambling, an enraged Gov. Rendell explodes with bared incisors and a chop of his hand. "You're simpletons. You're idiots if you don't get that."

Those are fighting words. They also make buzzworthy television.

By sheer coincidence, Rendell signed recently with the William Morris Agency and is looking for a post-gubernatorial commentator job.

Correction: a nonfootball commentator job. Rendell is the only sitting governor with a weekly postgame TV gig.

The Rendell 60 Minutes interview, taped in August, went viral when CBS released it Friday. Comedy Central's website turned him green, comparing the governor to the Incredible Hulk

 
Posted on Fri, Jan. 7, 2011

Rendell rants to 60 Minutes on casino foes
By John Timpane and Amy Worden
INQUIRER STAFF WRITERS

This Sunday, on CBS' 60 Minutes, an event will occur that will shock the heck out of everyone in America.


Except those who live around here.

Ed Rendell's going to blow up at a reporter.

The outburst is recorded and ready to roll. The subject is casinos. Lesley Stahl, longtime CBS reporter, one of the smartest people in the business, is pressing Rendell about casinos and their effect on addictive gamblers. Rendell takes it less than well.

"People are losing money for the state to get its revenue," Stahl says. "They're losing money."


Rendell replies, beginning to sputter: "Let me answer this. You . . . you've . . . I've always . . . I've known, uh, for two or three decades, you're a very smart person."

"But not now," Stahl says.

"But you're not getting it," Rendell says...."You're not getting it," Rendell says, clearly flustered. "Those people would lose that money anyway. Don't you understand? You guys don't get that. You're simpletons. You're idiots if you don't get that . . . "

By the end, he is grimacing and waving his hands.

It's yet another volcanic media moment for the soon-to-be-ex-governor, yet another unguarded, high-volume Rendell rant. It follows hot on the trail of his still-glowing declaration, at a Monday news conference, that the United States has become "a nation of wusses."

I don't think gambling is doing anything for PA except promote criminal activities and gambling addictions.  As for Rendell, that's classic pig boy of him.

Radnor in 2011....Spingler as VP and No ACME in Wayne? Fabulous.

Sooo....it's bad enough that I was right and Radnor is run by jackasses and tonight the dumb bastards and one Greener Partners loving gal elected Bill Spingler Vice President of the Radnor Board of Commissioners - lordy can Spingler lay off the glad handing now you think?

But even worse????  A comment on my Holy Cow, It's 2011! post which reads:

Anonymous said...

2011 was going pretty well until today: Employees at the Wayne Acme were officially told (and then started telling customers) that the place is shutting down next month. The rumors of the strip becoming a restaurant row seem to be true. I don't have a problem with food places like Panera and Five Guys coming in but I hate losing the only supermarket in Wayne proper.

 January 3, 2011 7:43 PM

I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so...in May 2009.  Isn't this mall property controlled somehow by that pal of Ernie Shapiro's? You know the guy who wanted to be commissioner once upon a time and who Mimi-Who-Should-Be-Fired-Auchincloss will probably trot out again?

I told you people the store was closing.  And now Wayne, thanks in part to Bill Spingler, will have a drive thru Rite Aid eventually that is a dumb assed no one wants idea, a park that no one goes to, and NO GOD DAMNED GROCERY STORE!

We can't shop at Wawa, and we have no Whole Foods, or Trader Joe's.  Yes there is Genuardis, but there is a whole population that walks to this ACME...a big senior population among others.

Radnor Township you had at least TWO YEARS lead time that ACME leaving was brewing and you sat on your asses and voted in...a drive thru Rite Aid and a freaking coal fume emitting pizza joint.

Radnor Township is not beginning 2011 auspiciously.  Here's hoping John Fisher does a decent job at least. He was a disappointment with his practically year long temper tantrum, fit of ego and pique in 2010.

Holy Cow, It's 2011!



Rose Queen - Pasadena CA 1923



Here's hoping 2011 is a fabulous year on the Main Line!  May Radnor not revert and Spingler retire (not become BOC Prez as everyone knows he is trying to guilt people into this while Fisher plots and stews still over the outcome of 2010); may Lower Merion not end up like Radnor in 2010 (because if I read my local papers right, that is right where Lower Merion is headed);  may Tredyffrin just become part of the 21st century (Tredyffrin is just strange - like backwoods justice or something).  And as for Philadelphia? Well that city just needs a complete political makeover (much like Washington DC). 

As for the attitude of Main Liners?  I wish they would all stop pretending they were in Los Angeles or Manhattan...because y'all aren't and you can't carry it off. ( I promise to be even less tolerant of Main Line poseurs in 2011 then 2010)


Mummers Parade - Philadelphia - 1960



Cheers to another snark-filled year little darling monsters!  And a New Year's resolution suggestion for those who feel the need to contact this blog and complain? (a) Get your own blog (b) stop reading this blog.

After all.... this is my flowing stream of fabuloisty - not yours!

Happy New Year Main Line!