The upcoming Philadelphia Mayoral Election has become a RACIST JOKE

[phillyTIM]

Sad news here from the City of Brotherly Love...our Country's Cradle of Liberty:

We will elect a new Mayor next Tuesday, November 4th, and it will be one of the most racist elections this country has ever experienced.

And the racism has come from the African-American incumbent Mayor, John F. Street.

As many of you know, the Mayor Street of Philadelphia is currently under an FBI Investigation for allegations as-yet-publicized. This has caused the Mayor to cry foul and "play the victim" by playing on the sympathies that he is yet another black man democrat being picked on by the big-bad white republicans. [What a lot of you don't know is that there has been a secret, internal investigation going on for the past two years, BY INTERNAL CITY EMPLOYEES. But that has now been blown out into the open by the Feds being exposed.]

This has caused polarization of people based upon color and party partisanship. The real issues have been circumvented by the wind-storm of racism and partisanship Mayor Street has chosen to divide the City with.

And now he's been bringin in people like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson, Hillary Clinton, Bill Cosby; many of which have no interest whatsoever in Philadelphia itself. Yet they rally around Mayor Street because of his cries of racism and big-bad-Republicans.

Mayor Street's challenger, Sam Katz (R), is a lauded businessman, whose done a lot of good work with the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and other area business ventures.

Mayor Street has indirectly accused Katz and his party of the FBI Investigation, and Mayor Street's union friends have horridly harrased Katz and his supporters at Katz's own rallies. See this link for info.

Polls show Mayor Street ahead, however alot of the ground concensus seems to be on Katz's side.

The stakes are high in this election - will the proven-corrupt, proven-racist Democratic incumbents stranglehold City Hall for another 4 years, or will some new blook with fresh business ideas (on the order of his Honor Edward G. Rendell in 1992-2000) help moderate this City back into a City for everyone, with fair business practices and fair opportunities for all whites, blacks, asians, and other minorities?

Either way, there seems like a large portion of this City's population will be disconnected and disconcerted and feelings will rage deep.

There is no Brotherly Love in this town. Only "the brothers and sisters are running this City" mentality, as Mayor Street throws in our faces.

Stay tuned, and pray for us.

EDIT: blook should be "blood" in an above paragraph

 

[Mursilis]

And this surprises you? Why? Check out the career of former Washington, D.C., Mayor Marion Barry ("Bitch set me up!") if you think Street's act is anything new. Unfortunately, minority politics these days is usually about little more than the race card. See this article from today's Wash. Post for more.

 

[tnitsuj]

Mayor Street seems to be right up there with Buddy Cianci.

 

[Corn]

Welcome to Detroit 30 years ago.

 

[phillyTIM]

Here's a great article that expresses my point.

Michael Smerconish | ONE VOICE FOR KATZ

The Philadelphia Daily News
October 30, 2003

IT TOOK THE editorial page of this newspaper until paragraph 22 of a 25-paragraph endorsement of John Street to say what matters most:

"If he is guilty of anything, it is in unfairly demonizing this federal investigation as a racial and partisan witch-hunt."

This statement should have been the lead, and it alone justifies a vote for Sam Katz. Here's why.

Watching our mayor's race, an out-of-town friend said to me, "Only in Philadelphia could an elected official be identified as a subject of a federal investigation and see his odds of re-election increase."

How true. And how embarrassing.

We like to think that the Philadelphia of the New Millennium is the city that pulled off a national political convention, just christened a National Constitution Center, has all the hot restaurants, the Kimmel Center and the gorgeous Pennsylvania Convention Center.

Forget it. In the eyes of the nation, we're headed back to being the city that burned down a neighborhood, pelted Santa with snowballs and blew the Bicentennial.

Attract business to Philadelphia in this climate? Bring a convention to town against this backdrop? Stop the brain drain? Reverse the suburban exodus? You gotta be kidding. Think laughingstock and national embarrassment instead.

Thankfully, with one day of effort, we can turn that around. But it will take something monumental. It will take the strongest electoral rebuke of our lives.

City government needs a house-cleaning. And nothing less than a total rejection of those responsible for returning us to national prominence in the most negative of lights will suffice.

Here is the threshold question voters need to ask: How did it come to this? One answer is that it's the fault of J. Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon and John Ashcroft. Good sound bite - but totally lacking in logic.

Here is another answer as to how we got here: The pay-to-play culture in city government has finally caught up with it.

Connecting the dots of the published accounts would lead a reasonable voter to conclude that the feds have been looking for the last two years at the way in which city business gets done - because something stinks in City Hall. If that's the basis of the investigation, then there would be no more logical time to tighten the screws of a probe than in the middle of a campaign.

And remember, nobody cried race or partisanship when any of these investigations first made the newspapers.

Remember too that investigators must have been able to convince a federal judge, someone who has the same job as Gov. Rendell's wife, a person immune from politics by virtue of a lifetime appointment, to permit the bugging of the mayor's office. To sign such an order, that judge must have determined that crimes have been or are about to be committed and that there is probable cause to believe the office is being used in connection with those crimes. Common sense would dictate that an even higher level of scrutiny would be applied to the decision to bug a U.S. mayor in a major city than a random citizen.

Why did the mayor tell us his office was bugged? So that in the midst of a lackluster campaign being run on his behalf, he and his supporters could manipulate this discovery to suit their political objectives by appealing to people's worst instincts.

And that is the reason that the rebuke is necessary. It isn't because John Street is under investigation. He is absolutely owed the presumption of innocence. No, John Street deserves to be thrown out of office because as mayor he is playing the race and partisan cards, and in the process, destroying our ability to get along when this election ends.

Voters need to call Mayor Street on the fact that it was he who created the speculation and concern that this is racially motivated, and ever since he has failed to rein in those around him who play the race card. In the final debate, he would not even condemn Ron White's outrageous comment that he was involved in the probe because "I am a black man in America doing what I think needs to be done, and people resent that. They resent that, that black men in America are supposed to be bowing down all the time and not doing nothing but having babies and not taking care of them."

Voters need to reject the playing of the race and partisan cards.

Voters need to reject John Street.

 

[phillyTIM]

Now, for an interesting contrast, check out THIS article:

Now check this article out:

Stu Bykofsky | More bad news for Katz
STU EXPLAINS WHY HE'S VOTING FOR SAM
By Stu Bykofsky & Dan Gross
stuspy@phillynews.com
October 30, 2003

I 'M VOTING for Sam Katz.

Why? Because he's white.

I'm a racist, you say?

No, I'm just a Philadelphian: Roughly 82 percent of blacks plan to vote for the black guy and roughly 71 percent of whites plan to vote for the white guy, according to a poll in last Sunday's Inquirer.

I don't care where Katz stands on jobs, schools, crime, the wage tax, economic development, corruption, neighborhoods. None of it matters.

I'm white, he's white. Case closed.

Need more?

Katz is Jewish. So am I. You know how "they all stick together." (At least that's what I hear almost daily on black talk radio.)

While I am joking about voting for Katz because he's white, I confess to voting for W. Wilson Goode the first time he ran because (as a member of the liberal media elite) I did want to see a qualified black man become mayor of my city.

Read the full article HERE.

 

[phillyTIM]

It looks like the race wars have begun.

 

[EXman]

is he (Street) a Marion Barry type (racist crack smoker)?

 

[NesuD]

Carefull PhillyTim. Your failure to toe the party line and express the appropriate level of blind partisonship could get your Liberal attack dog license revoked.

Sadly this is one of the aspects of the democratic party that turns me off. That they allow what is obviously a racist untrustworthy and corrupt politician a free pass simply because he is black. They don't have the fortitude to call it like it obviously is. I grew up in Michigan and witnessed the entire tenure of the renowned racist Coleman Young so I am pretty jaded when it comes to that type of politician. I realize there is hypocrisy on both sides of the fence to one degree or another but the free pass that the Dems traditionally give the Black racist politicians just irks me. If they can't be honest with themselves concerning people like this then how can they be honest with me as a constituent?

 

[Shelly21]

Originally posted by: NesuD
Carefull PhillyTim. Your failure to toe the party line and express the appropriate level of blind partisonship could get your Liberal attack dog license revoked.

I for one, am suprised.

 

[kage69]

I am a black man in America doing what I think needs to be done, and people resent that. They resent that, that black men in America are supposed to be bowing down all the time and not doing nothing but having babies and not taking care of them."

Hahahahaha, aww man what a great quote. And I thought Bush couldn't speak.

 

[phillyTIM]

An ominous conclusion to this treacherous election where a Mayor divided his citizens to win:

Philadelphian Mayor, who rang a campaign using his raceism, thinks no unity or healing is necessary for the embattled philadelphia citizens

STREET: NOTHING'S BROKEN
SAYS THERE'S NO NEED FOR HEALING
By Jill Porter
porterj@phillynews.com

The Philadelphia Daily News
November 5, 2003

"The campaign was disgusting, terrible," said teacher Linda Anderson, who'd arrived early at the polling place, at the William D. Kelley School, 28th and Oxford streets in North Philadelphia, to vote. "I wanted it to be about issues," she said. But she watched it disintegrate into something else entirely.

Now, the question was obvious: How could we recover from the wrenching descent into gutter politics?

And as John Street made his way back to his trolley tour, I asked him how he intended to heal the deep wounds of the vicious campaign. Reach out to Katz? Use the balm of inclusive, conciliatory rhetoric? What did he plan to do to bring us back together? And he said, simply and impossibly: No healing was necessary. Katz fomented racial conflict where there wasn't any, Street declared, insisting that "30 days from now" the toxic dust of racial division will have dissipated and harmony will have been restored. "I had a peaceful administration for four years," he said. "I'm the only mayor who hasn't had a significant racial incident."