{"id":730,"date":"2003-06-25T11:30:38","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T14:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=730"},"modified":"2011-06-04T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T17:38:47","slug":"fight-the-power-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/fight-the-power-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fight the power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>C&amp;Y critic Bayer takes his campaign to voters<\/strong><br \/>\n(This post is also running at the American Family Rights Association forum)<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Bayer, &#8220;A vocal critic of a county child protection agency, is mounting a write-in campaign for Monroe County commissioner. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Basically the readers digest version of the story was that Bayer thought C&amp;Y (Pennsylvania&#8217;s CPS) would help, instead they took his stepsons away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We will be working now to tell other parents in Monroe County about Children and Youth and to warn them never to look to Children and Youth for help.&#8221;, says Mrs. Bayer.<\/p>\n<p>While there was no abuse found, there was still a delay in returning the children. The outrage FROM the public, as the newspaper ran the stories on this case, helped speed up the process, forced several foster parents to return the kids back to the agency because &#8220;they couldn&#8217;t take the public outcry&#8221;, and the county commissioner (who is assigned to oversee C&amp;Y) has offered no comment on the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Now Mr. Bayer is after her job in the hopes to make a difference.<\/p>\n<ul><strong>Related Links:<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<li><strong>Parents fume while county holds kids <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Parents pinning hopes on court to return children<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Child agency finally releases kids<\/strong><\/li>\n<p>It&#8217;s days like these that I just love my job. :0)<\/ul>\n<p><strong>EricBrooks.Com\u00ae <\/strong>&#8211; If you&#8217;re not making enemies, you&#8217;re not making a difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C&#038;Y critic Bayer takes his campaign to voters (This post is also running at the American Family Rights Association forum)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-enemy-of-the-state","category-political-cannon-fodder","category-poconos"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fight the power! 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