Greetings Neighbors,
Some of you know me already.
My name is David Scully, and I'm the Democratic Candidate for Mayor of Middletown.
I bought an old fixer-upper in Middletown in 2007, 14 years ago, and fixed it up.
I'm going to talk about my early, formative years (1951 - 1977), and then jump to 2021.
Hit Piece On Shirley Sherrod!
Sound Familiar?
Anybody Seen Any Misleading Hit-Piece On Me Lately?
The Shirley Sherrod story really got to me in 2010.
If I recall correctly, I was driving a truck in this region, listening to talk radio in Satellite Radio,
and the Shirley Sherrod story happened.
As I recall, the job ended because of a dispute, but I managed to get unemployment.
That was great. It was the first break I had in a long time, and things were pent up.
The Shirley Sherrod story struck a bone deep.
As I recall the story, Shirley gave a speech to the NAACP
in which she described how she changed
from seeing the world as "white vs black"
to seeing the world as "the HAVES against the HAVE NOT".
According to Wikipedia,
Shirley Sherrod (born 1948) is a former Georgia State Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of Agriculture.
The story went something like this (and this is just from memory)
An old white farmer came to her for loan assistance because he was losing his farm.
She didn't want to have nothing to do with helping a white man.
Eventually, she changed her mind and saw that man as a victim of oppressors.
She helped him get a loan.
She saved his farm for him.
If I'm correct, the gist of her NAACP speech was that she used to be racist against whites,
but that she changed her worldview and sees the world as "the Haves against the Have nots".
I don't think this is uncommon.
Lots of people mature and see how the world works
and see that the rich and powerful abuse the poor, regardless of their race or color.
That's how the labor movement and unions and various political movements have evolved.
So, she told this honest story of how she used to be one way and then changed.
Then, Breitbart news jumped on it and did a shoddy, shitty thing.
They selected what she said
and only broadcast the part about how she said she was racist.
That's what you call a CHEAP SHOT.
It said a helluva lot more about Breitbart News than it did about Shirley Sherrod.
I was disgusted.
It hit home because that's what they've done to me, too.
Shirley Sherrod Case, Southern Poverty Law Center Shirley Sherrod Case, Washington Post
Ok, I just looked up and got these two articles,
and apparently my memory was pretty good about the basic story.
What got my attention big time and bothered me a lot (but I don't seem to be able to find it right now)
is the name of the radio person involved in spreading this the trash about Shirley.
He worked for kfbk radio in sacramento at that time, or previously.
I remembered the name because I met some kfbk people at a demonstration at The Capitol in Sacramento in 2000.
They were rude to me, and mocking, but I ignored it.
(NOTE ADDED 10/31/2021
The radio jerk's name is mark williams)
You see, kfbk is "the limbaugh station"
So, this guy, who seemed to be the limbaugh replacement as the big man at kfbk in sacramento (the limbaugh station)
was the one promoting this trash hit-piece on Shirley Sherrod.
They blatantly made it seem like she was saying the opposite of what she was saying.
She said "I used to be an angry racist
but then I realized that we're all in this together - poor and weak against rich and powerful".
THAT WAS IT!
I'D HAD IT!
I WAS GOING TO TRY, ONCE AGAIN, TO TELL MY STORY.
My tagline, my elevator pitch, is that I "wrote the limbaugh script"
when I established a publication at sac state in 1982.
What I mean is - and I've always made this perfectly clear -
is that limbaugh imitated me, that he was inspired by what I did to a great extent.
He even stole my Hun metaphor, lifted it right off my pages, the very words.
That is,
wixz 1971; 18 months to 1973; "personality conflict" with the program director
kqv 1973; fired 1974; new management put pressure on the program director to fire him.
Limbaugh recalled the general manager telling him
that he would never land success as an air personality and suggested a career in radio sales
kudl 1975; fired 1977
kfix 1977; The stint was short-lived, however, and disagreements with management led to his dismissal weeks later
By this time, Limbaugh had become disillusioned with radio and felt pressure to pursue a different career.
He looked back on himself as "a moderate failure [...] as a deejay"
Salesman for a baseball team 1979
IN 1982, I, DAVID SCULLY, WROTE AND PUBLISHED AT SAC STATE AND SHOOK THE UNIVERSITY, THE POLITICIANS TO D.C., AND THE MEDIA
kmbz 1983; in Kansas City for a year. He was fired from the station
kfbk sacramento 1984;
wabc 1988 New York City!; So, in other words, he was an unemployed salesman for a baseball team,
kfbk hired him, looking for someone to do on the air what I'd done with my written publications,
and he struck a chord of hunger for the truth nationally with critical satire, imitating me.
In other words, I WROTE THE SCRIPT. I SHOWED 'EM HOW!
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But we all know he was a blowhard, mean-spirited carnival huckster.
like Phineas Barnum,
limbaugh knew that there was a sucker born every minute.
They called themselves dittoheads.
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So, when I heard about Andrew Breitbart and that limbaugh replacement at kfbk
MISREPRESENTING Shirley Sherrod,
I'd had it!
It gave me new spirit and determination to try again.
They did it to me, and they are doing it to her.
I AM GOING TO TRY AGAIN TO TELL MY STORY!
So, because I lucked out, in 2010, by collecting unemployment after a labor dispute
I decided to tell my story again, and I wrote all summer and fall.
I sent a copy to Dr Diane Ravitch, a Giant In Education,
and she conferred on my, by email, the title "Doctor of Education".
Some laugh that off, and maybe she was just being polite,
but she didn't have to do it, but she did.
No, she's not a university,
but she has higher prestige and gravitas than any university president alive.
She's a scholar, an expert in her field of Education Research and History.
It's kind of like being given an Honorary Doctorate in Physics by Einstein.
"Doctor of Education" conferred by the esteemed Diane Ravitch via email (2010)
"Doctor Risk" conferred by The Sacramento Bee (2003)
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THE HIT-PIECE ON SHIRLEY SHERROD
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Sherry Sherrod's Speech In Full
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You know, they keep doing it to you throughout your life,
but there are just THREE specifics that I want to mention here now
that they've done to me in my life.
ONE
The most recent is a job I was lured to in New Mexico, abused, fired,
and, two years later, when complained (2018) they did a HIT PIECE on me, like they did to Sherry Sherrod.
I've been told that the other candidate for mayor AND THE LAW FIRM HE WORKS FOR,
scrounged and scoured the internet and found the discredited RETALIATORY HIT PIECE
and fed it to Middletown simpletons in the bars and on facebook, hoping to assassinate my character for an easy checkmate and an easy win
even though he chickened out of running because he switched from Democrat to Republican to be with Trump, and Trump fell apart and lost.
That's the most recent abuse.
TWO
Before that, the most recent abuse was committed by PA state employees interviewing me for a position.
It was a telephone interview because I was driving a truck and I was in Texas at the moment.
They absolutely LIED and fabricated A STORY.
The said I used the word "negro" in the interview. I DIDN'T.
I didn't say that word at all, ever, in the phone interview, and I haven't said it in half a century.
Besides, it's not a bad word, it's just old-fashioned.
They said I used it, and in a bad way. I DIDN'T. I DIDN'T USE IT AT ALL.
But, what if I replaced it with another word, like "black"?
I DID.
But I didn't do it in a bad way. I did it in a good way.
Here it is as quick as I can explain it.
It was a phone interview and they asked me why I wanted to work for the state.
I believe that one should be communicative in an interview, not brief and tight-lipped.
It's an opportunity to get to know each other, isn't it?
So I gave a complete answer.
I could have given a short, brief answer, like this,
"Good pay and benefits."
But such a short answer would seem like an insult.
It would seem like you had a bad attitude, and I didn't.
I gave a complete answer.
I said I couldn't get good renters for the few rooms I rented out in my house to make ends meet.
Every renter that I had from Middletown was a big problem.
Since I live across the street from the Amtrak stop and the commute to The State Capitol area is convenient,
I decided to find stable downtown state workers to rent to.
So I went downtown looking for renters, looked at all the offices,
and figured there must be a job more me there.
Then, I would be the one with the state job and the convenient commute.
I told them that, because I couldn't get good renters in Middletown, I went downtown.
Going downtown made me realize that working there would be a good idea for me.
THEN, REMEMBERING THAT IT WAS A REAL ESTATE POSITION I WAS INTERVIEWING FOR,
AND KNOWING THAT DISCRIMINATION IN HOUSING IS NOT ALLOWED,
I EMPASIZED "and I'm NOT talking about the blacks in Middletown.
I'm talking about Middletown as a whole.
The blacks only make up about 5.5% of the population."
The purpose of saying that was to emphasize that I understood
that discrimination in housing is illegal, and that I didn't discriminate.
(AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE PREVIOUS YEAR 2013-2014,
I WAS RENTING TO A BLACK PENN STATE STUDENT FROM AFRICA).
THEY LIED, MADE UP A STORY AND STUCK TO IT THICK AS THIEVES,
AND SAID THAT I SAID, "I won't rent to the negroes."
(I JUST ILLUSTRATED WITH AN EXAMPLE ABOUT HOW I DID RENT TO BLACKS).
ridiculous. NO ONE says "negro" any more.
I never said that. I said what I just told you I said.
THEY LIED.
IT WENT WAY BEYOND THE SELECTIVE MISREPRESENTATION THAT THEY DID TO SHERRY SHERROD.
THEY JUST OUTRIGHT LIED.
FABRICATED.
MADE IT UP.
Trash.
THREE
THE THIRD ABUSE IS SIMILAR
(and you thought this stuff only happened to black people!)
In 1982 I published for about 7 weeks on the sacramento state university campus.
One of my instructors, an old female, wife of the old hippy department chair,
flirted me up and everything which wasn't such a big deal,
but she went too far with her abusive attitude and speech.
I won't go into it all,
but she made me so mad that I establised a publication to have a university community dialog.
I told what she had said.
SIT DOWN.
CATCH YOUR BREATH.
THIS WILL MAKE YOU MAD.
BUT REMEMBER, I DIDN'T SAY IT.
SHE DID.
I JUST REPORTED WHAT SHE SAID, SO WE COULD DISCUSS IT.
SHE SAID (while offensively pointing her finger to the tip of my nose)
THAT
"calling a white woman a women's libber
IS JUST AS BAD AS CALLING A BLACK MAN A N@#$er."
BUT IN THAT PUBLICATION
I ACTUALLY WROTE THE NWORD
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT SHE ACTUALLY SAID.
I GUESS SHE FELT ENTITLED.
Everybody HATED me forever since
and called me a racist.
But I didnt say the word.
She did.
Do you think calling a white woman a women's libber (remember this was the early 80's)
is JUST AS BAD AS
calling a black man the nword?
I didn't think so.
It's ridiculous.
She also pointed the tip of her obnoxious finger to the tip of my nose and scolded,
"White men have it coming to them." (she was white. from Georgia. who was she to scold?
My ancestor was an officer in The Union Army).
She was a beer-drinking flake, but she was reflective of what was going on all around on campus,
but the others didn't display it as badly and as much as she did.
She was like the canary in the coal mine.
So, those are the three things that have motivated me to stand up
AGAIN!
Also, I found this to be a very hostile town, not a welcoming town,
when I moved here a dozen years ago.
A lot of it was the police (I think we have more good cops and less bad than 10 years ago),
and it reflects the kind of police state we live in these modern days.
It's part of what I call "Future Shock" in honor of a book by that name, written in 1970 by Alvin Toffler.
The new policemen that I've encountered have been very professional,
and I hope the new police chief is like they are.
As mayor, I will work with them and help them be their best.
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Here are links to Stokely Carmichael's Wikipedia page
fbi targeted Carmichael through COINTELPRO program
The FBI targeted him for personal destruction through its COINTELPRO program
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and link from there to COINTEL Wikipedia page
COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day
"COINTELPRO tactics are still used to this day
and have been alleged to include discrediting targets through psychological warfare;
smearing individuals and groups using forged documents
and by planting false reports in the media;
harassment;
wrongful imprisonment;and illegal violence, including assassination"
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Web Page I Have Assembled
My own webpage that I've assembled that discusses the deep state abuses
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Current 2021 Real Estate Photos of 50 Hazelwood Ave, all fixed up modern
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THE CHURCH AND SCHOOL
We lived four houses up from Sacred Heart School and Church.
Sacred Heart School and Church and Convent and Rectory took up a complete block,
The Church being a big old beauty on the corners of South Orange Ave and Sanford Ave.
Sacred Heart Church, Vailsburg, Newark, NJ, Link To More Photos And Information
Those first 10 years were full of family, neighborhood, church, and school.
Catholic School church activities (First Holy Communion, Confirmation, Father/Son Breakfast),
School, Cub Scout Friends and Den Mother, Boy Scouts and Boy Scout Camp, Little League (All-Star Centerfielder!, 2 summers of CYO Day Camp (Catholic Youth Organization).
The streets were safe enough for us to come home and change out of our school uniforms into playclothes,
get on our bikes and play baseball or football and be home by 6 p.m.
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My mother used to sing this song when she was upset (she'd only sing the first line).
When I asked her about it, she said, "It's an old Negro Blues Song".
Actually, on the video it says "Negro Spiritual" (if needed, expand the size at the beginning to read it)
"Negro" was common, polite terminology in the 50's and earlier (even to the mid/late 60's)
Other examples
Dr Martin Luther King used the word regularly in his "Letters From A Birmingham Jail" (1963)
"For years now I have heard the word 'wait.' It rings in the
ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' "
"...unarmed, nonviolent Negroes. I don't believe you would so quickly commend the policemen if you would observe their ugly and inhuman treatment of
Negroes here in the city jail; if you would watch them push and curse old Negro women and young Negro girls; if you would see
them slap and kick old Negro men and young boys"
Negro Baseball League
United Negro College Fund
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1961-1973
PARADE, ST PATRICKS DAY 1961, KENNEDY ELECTED
In 1960 JFK got elected President, and he took office January, 1961.
That was a big deal because we were a mostly Irish and Italian Democrat environment, with some Germans and Polish.
On March 17, on St Patrick's Day, we had a big parade that assembled on Hazelwood Ave, beside the school.
My Italian friend and classmate, Fred, joined me and we marched together.
We marched all the way through Newark to downtown.
My father was all dressed up in a fancy Top Hat and Tails.
It was his dress uniform for his rank as a Knight in the Knights of Columbus,
a Catholic Men's Service Organization.
It's the only time I ever saw him dressed up like that.
When I was in the 6th grade (1961-1962)
I sat down at a lunch counter with a black man every week, and we refused to leave until we were both served.
Yes, that's true.
Of course, they always served us. It was no big deal.
We were in South Orange NJ, not Greensboro SC.
The Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins happened that same year.
The long walk home to school resulted in me adopting a stray puppy.
In my case, I was an 11-year-old "paying off my dog's veterinarian bill" by coming in to work for him on Saturdays, washing dogs etc.,
and I would eat with his employee who showed me the ropes of dog care.
But it shows the culture we lived in, and that I was raised in, and whose values I assimilated.
But on South Kingman Rd we were surrounded by City
Ivy Hill Apartments, Newark
Urban Newark
New York City
From South Kingman Rd, South Orange To The Empire State Building
Google Map; From 120 South Kingman Rd, South Orange - To The Empire State Building, 34th Street, Manhattan
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IVY HILL APARTMENTS
Shortly after we moved from Hazelwood Ave to South Kingman Rd,
my best friend across the street moved from Hazelwood Ave to the Ivy Hill Apartments.
From our South Kingman Rd house, it was less than a half mile walk through Ivy Hill Park to the Ivy Hill Apartments.
Ivy Hill wasn't that bad when I lived on South Kingman Rd.
From South Kingman Rd, South Orange To The Ivy Hill Park Apartments
Google Walking Map; From 120 South Kingman Rd, South Orange - To Ivy Hill Park Apartments, Newark
Distance, I always took a short cut directly through Ivy Hill Park, practically a straight line; Less Than half a mile, 5 minutes
But apparently is got very bad as the decades rolled by
Ivy Hill Apartments Crime
10,000 residents. You could see The Empire State Building from the roof.
Over the decades it became dangerous.
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Adolescence, 13-17 (1964-1968)
URBAN NEWARK
But the projects in downtown Newark were ALWAYS bad.
one evening, early 70's,
I walked here on a Goodwill walk.
I went to Rutgers Newark 2 semesters
got jumped at library door
