{"id":37296,"date":"2017-11-04T08:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=37296"},"modified":"2017-11-04T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:15:52","slug":"letter-iacocca-puts-needs-of-community-over-personal-ambition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=37296","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Iacocca puts needs of community over personal ambition"},"content":{"rendered":"

To The Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There are three things, in my opinion, that make Al Iacocca a stand-out person to be Magisterial District Judge \u2013 his law and court experience of course, his remarkable civic outreach in our community, and his temperament.<\/p>\n

Al has had not only a long standing and ongoing experience as a criminal and civil lawyer for years in our area doing all of the court representations for his clients that this entails, but he has been a trained mediator to resolve disputes between individuals and businesses, served as a Chester County Arbitrator for the past five years and been admitted to the PA Supreme Court Bar and the Federal District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania Bar.<\/p>\n

But Al Iacocca has gone far beyond that in the extensive creation of youth and adult community activities in our area. The Kennett Run to name one, came out of his involvement with Rotary Club and his board affiliation with Kennett Run Charities.\u00a0 He has been responsible for quality of life events: he became Race Director of the Run for a good while. \u00a0\u00a0Is it commonly known that he has won Volunteer awards of significance twice, because of his commitment and energetic work with kids in the YMCA, that he has served as PTO Vice-President and President at the Hillendale Elementary School, pro-bono counsel, that he has been a long-time coach and sponsor of youth sports in our area, that he currently serves as Boy Scout Leader of a local troop?\u00a0 Al has been a real civic presence here \u2013 working in leadership roles with youth of all ages and many adults.<\/p>\n

This leads to the third trait of significance:\u00a0 Al Iacocca is working and thinking or others \u2013 his family, his neighbors, his community above personal gain for himself.\u00a0 He obviously likes to forge ahead, take on challenges, but without arrogance.\u00a0\u00a0 He has the temperament to be a good judge because he cares enough to listen and to understand the problems of the many individuals he meets, and interacts with.<\/p>\n

Here is a statement that Al Iacocca has made that underscores his intent:<\/p>\n

\u201cI hold fast to the belief that we can\u2019t let bad decisions define us, but we \u00a0do need to acknowledge and make amends for the mistakes we\u2019ve made, and we owe it to our community to move forward in a positive manner. I would aim to instill that concept in all who came into my courtroom, arming them with the opportunity and the tools to be a contributing member of the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Iacocca is a known quantity with known integrity. Fair treatment and respect for others goes a long way.<\/p>\n

Lastly, Al Iacocca is a modest man, not one to publicize his accomplishments.\u00a0 It came as quite a surprise to know that he graduated from the University of North Carolina Central University School of Law magna cum laude.<\/p>\n

Al may not have spent the money to publicize his campaign as has his opponent, but it is to be hoped that the scope of his good deeds over the years in our community and his fine character will be appreciated by the many who know him.\u00a0 And translate into many votes this Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Diana M. Rarig<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kennett Square<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To The Editor, There are three things, in my opinion, that make Al Iacocca a stand-out person to be Magisterial District Judge \u2013 his law and court experience of course, his remarkable civic outreach in our community, and his temperament. Al has had not only a long standing and ongoing experience as a criminal and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9412,1662,9130],"class_list":["post-37296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","tag-al-iacocca","tag-district-justice","tag-election-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37297,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37296\/revisions\/37297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}