March your fat blue smurf ass up the street now!

"Official: PPL put pressure on firm
Montana subsidiary said to want energy company to back its legislative policy."

How typical is this of the Hamilton Street gorilla? Very typical. Most people in Allentown aren't aware of (or are so beholden to PPL that they turn the other cheek) how this bully operates. It would take a lot of words to describe the level of the misdeeds and I don't have the time so I'll just give you a little taste- open wide - that's it, wider...open it up...

PPL was involved with Enron.

PPL's Enron-like division is called PPL Energy Plus. PPL Energy Plus is not the so-called "public" utility "PPL Electric".

PPL Energy Plus is simply a broker of energy and doesn't generate or distribute anything. For all practical purposes, Energy Plus could have its offices in the new casino.

PPL runs a mid-Atlantic energy cartel and was indicted for artificially inflating (fixing) energy prices in the mid-Atlantic region.

Last time I checked (a few years ago now - today is probably much higher) PPL Energy Plus pulled in $4 Billion per year in revenue. PPL Energy plus was hiding in the corporate tower when it should have been paying business privilege taxes to the city of Hamilton Street (aka Allentown). Ed Pawlowski was directly involved in allowing PPL Energy Plus to move across the street into the nice new building (which they DIDN'T build) thereby insuring that they would pay no taxes for a long time. How much did they save by this move - oh, only between $300-$500 million. Ed Pawlowski claims he wasn't involved. He's a liar. Ed is upset that opposing baseball teams won't stay in his city but he didn't even blink at the fucking the city got from PPL.

The electricity industry was deregulated which was supposed to allow competition with the ultimate goal of reducing prices for the consumer. At that time, PPL should have found itself facing property tax issues in PA - like it did in Montana. Nope. PURTA saved the day - PURTA is the "PA Utility Real Estate Tax Act" which shields PPL from normal property taxes. Part of PURTA's protection would, of course, be from school district taxes - PPL loves the advantage so why not hire a state school board guy to run interference. A few years ago, as its annual contribution, PPL gave the ASD $140,000 - why? As a good corporate citizen - bullshit. PPL also became involved in monitoring students in the ASD - why? Probably because if the school system, failing at that time, collapsed, PPL's contribution would be scrutinized and perhaps found, in a deregulated world, that it wasn't paying nearly it's fair share. PPL should be paying the ASD about $1 million or more per year.

PPL systematically bought up competitiors or drove them out of business.

PPL released 150 million gallons of Fly Ash into a local river. They said that the waste was held back by a small piece of wood and that wood failed. They treated this as no big deal. Look up Fly Ash - its not something that you want a small piece of wood holding back. It's highly toxic.

Ed Pawlowski will probably graduate to PPL when he is done spending money in Allentown.

PPL will probably leave Allentown when the KOZ benefits are gone.

When asked "what are the projected savings for PPL Energy Plus resulting from moving the division into the KOZ" the senior manager at PPL (a former Community and Economic Development Director for the City of Hamilton Street, (surprise!)) stated "at PPL, we don't do projections". Huh?

Aw fuck them and fuck Allentown. Not the good people and there are many. Not even the knuckleheads who are just trying to get by. I mean fuck you Ed Pawlowski and your bunch of insidious shitheads.

What to do? March your little blue smurf ass up the street and tell PPL that the city needs $30 million over the next three years or you're going to kick them out of the KOZ and collect taxes not just going forward but retroactive as well. What are they going to do? Leave? Who cares - that would make their Allentown property taxable. Do it now before it is too late - and it will be too late pretty soon - you smurf.