Matt Tuerk's Racist Language Inequity

Why is Matt Tuerk proving so very incapable of even trivial leadership and innovation?

Pandering racist Matt Tuerk is yet again excluding all of Allentown's English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) taxpayers *except* for the Spanish speaking community. Tuerk's xenophobic bigotry is morally reprehensible, and the community at large should broadly condemn him for it.

If Matt Tuerk were in any way a leader capable of any innovation whatsoever, how would he solve this problem -- assuming, of course, that it is not his express *intent* to divisively exclude nearly all of Allentown's ESL communities? Here's how Matt Tuerk would do it if he were an innovative, inclusive leader...

Google provides translation services for scores of languages free of charge. These services can be accessed by programmers (via their APIs in developer-speak). If Matt Tuerk were a leader capable of any innovation at all, he would go directly to Allentown's IT department and instruct them to write a program that does the following:

1) Take as input a simple text list of all languages spoken in Allentown according to the census and similar documents.

2) For each posting made in Allentown's official language of English, traverse every language on the list, call the corresponding translation API, and produce an output page with the translated post -- i.e. one html page per translated language.

3) Create a selection menu with a link for each language into which the post is translated and the URL of each corresponding translation page.

4) Put a "Translations" link at the bottom of each posting allowing the user to access the menu in Step 3.

5) If a language spoken in Allentown is missed, simply add it to the list in Step 1.

6) Have a script automatically run the above every time a new posting is deployed.

Any reasonably experienced developer(s) could deliver such an app in two or three person/weeks at most -- most likely considerably less.

If Matt Tuerk refuses that solution and continues translations of official Allentown communications exclusively in Spanish to the exclusion of every other ESL community, it says very bad things indeed about his leadership capabilities, his character and integrity, or both.

We net taxpayers need to start holding Matt Tuerk accountable for transparent, responsible, Good Government. This is a great place to start in preparation for closely monitoring his performance at budget time...

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Allentown Is Grossly Unfair to Taxpayers

Allentown simply doesn't work.

For far too long we've had Mayors and their cronies whose "experience" was as taxpayer-paid bureacrats, not businessmen who have had profit / loss responsibility, made payrolls, paid dividends, and in the end been net taxpayers. As a result, Allentown has become a very poor value for net taxpayers.

Worse, our taxpeyer-paid city employees have begun to lash out at taxpayers suggesting ways for former taxpayer-paid bureacrat Mayor Matt Tuerk to improve his focus and performance. That is unacceptable.

That's what we're here to talk about.

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