Ed Rendell would tell Wolf, don't mess with Mary Bach!
Gov. Ed Rendell has appointed the Murrysville resident to serve a four-year term on the Senior Citizen Advisory Committee. The panel works under the auspices of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, specifically dealing with all crimes against seniors.
Bach is ready to do battle with charity scams, investment scams, telephone sweepstakes scams and the like, and most won't know what hit them. "She looks like she'd be a quiet woman who knows her place, that's how she speaks, how she dresses," Lynn Cullen said. "But I mean she's a barracuda."
http://old.post-gazette.com/localnews/20031208newsmaker1208p5.asp
(Headline) MURRYSVILLE WOMAN BEATS WAL-MART IN COURT OVER $2 ERROR.
The Murrysville woman has been acting as a consumer advocate for several years, and often takes big retail companies to court when she finds errors at the checkout counter. On Monday morning, Wal-Mart decided not to fight Bach's latest lawsuit, so District Judge Charles Conway ruled in her favor and awarded Bach $100 for being overcharged on a $2 purchase at the company's Delmont store.
Conway gave Bach another judgment against the same store on May 28. Bach said she sued because she alerted management about the error but the price scan was not corrected on her subsequent visits to the store.
Though the $100 award is relatively minor, Bach said it's not the money that's important to her. She wants shoppers to be aware that mistakes can happen, so they should check to make sure that the advertised price is correctly scanned at the checkout.
She's about 71 now, and I hadn't heard anything about her for awhile. Governor Wolf would be wise to turn to her for advice.
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