Maher died Friday. He was 87.
In the days leading up to Thursdayâs funeral for Maher, those who knew the influential Democrat have been giving tributes, including his longtime boss.
âPaul was a well-liked guy and a well-connected guy. There were very few places where he didnât have contacts. He was my lead man in the district in getting in touch with people. He really was my right hand man,â Kanjorski said Wednesday.
After serving in the U.S. Army during the Korean War, Maher was employed in banking and finance jobs before entering politics. He started working as Wilkes-Barreâs coordinator of federal funds in 1971 and later was appointed Luzerne Countyâs first budget and personnel director in 1975.
Feb. 25—Paul Maher is being remembered as a savvy political and community leader in the region who seemingly had connections everywhere that helped guide former U.S. Rep. Paul Kanjorski's 26 years in Congress. Maher died Friday. He was 87. In the days leading up to Thursday's funeral for Maher, those who knew the influential Democrat have been giving tributes, including his longtime boss. .
latino sqaets. you have to look at the context. i agree with mark he has to show his record but you ve not heard members of congress criticize or members of the congressional black or hispanic caucus. i think a poor choice of words but i think his point is an important one. this recession is hitting every demographic and to suggest that only blacks or whites or hispanics or one group is singled out is the wrong thing. the real issue, republicans blocked the jobless age bill last night. the fact we are saying to the 1 is.3 million americans who receive jobless aid we re going to cut it off a un-american here. i think the bigger issue that paul kanjorski was trying to address. i think he is trying to you just get a sense i don t know the man obviously, like you do and, obviously, the words were unfortunate. you get a sense there wasn t the mali
the reason i and other of my colleagues have fought for this program isn t because we are trying to give relief to people that aren t responsible that don t know what the hell they are doing or don t care what they are doing. we re giving relieve to people that i deal with in my office every day now unfortunately, but because of the longevity of this session, these are people not minorities and they are not defective and not all of the things you would like to insinuate these programs are these are good, average american people. congressman kanjorski, the democrat from pennsylvania. put in in context. mark halpern, put that into a little perspective for us before we go after it. it s at a minimum a very unfortunate set of word choices and i think when this is one of those instances you will hear people say if this was a