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THE EARLY WORD: Get With The Winning Team!
Dear Phawker, This is it! Election Day is just five days away. Now we need to make sure that Philadelphians come out and vote in force this Tuesday, November 6th. To kick off our massive get out the vote effort, we’ll be holding a rally tomorrow, Friday, November 2nd at Noon in Love Park. Please come out and join us and invite all of your friends, family members and neighbors to attend the rally, too. This rally is a great way to raise awareness about this election and get people fired up to get out and vote for change on […]
‘No one who practices deceit, shall live in my house’
DEAR PHAWKER, Brian Abernathy* is dead right, about one thing at least. I desperately want to represent the voters of Philadelphia in Harrisburg. Not because I need the job, but because it’s time that first district voters had someone working for them in Harrisburg. Like most people, I learned the value of self sacrifice and public service at home. My parents were devoutly Catholic and throughout my childhood we worked hard to extend a helping hand to those less fortunate than ourselves. At the age of eight, I helped my mother bake hundreds of pies to benefit our church, St. […]
MAILBAG: A House Is Not A Hotel
DEAR PHAWKER, Anne Dicker couldn’t qualify for a mortgage to buy fumo’s house because she’s never held a job. That’s why she’s running for state senate. She finally want sto work after being in Philadlephia for 4 years. And why is she making a stink about Fumo’s property taxes? How much does Anne pay in property taxes? Wait, do you mean to tell me she has never paid the city wage tax and bnever paid the property tax here and STILL she thinks she is qualified to be a state senator? She actually thinks she knows what people who WORK […]
LIVE & DIRECT: The Democratic Presidential Debate
MONSTER M*A*S*H: Demonstrators act up at 34th & Chestnut, 7:55 PM BY JONATHAN VALANIA PHILADELPHIA — We are live and direct from the press filing room of the Democratic Presidential Debate at Drexel. All media poohbahs great and small are here: CNN, Philly Gay News, Newsweek, Phawker. I just saw the Daily News’ Dan Gross being led away by security yelling something about “Don’t Tase me, bro” — whatever that means. Maybe I should help. Fuck it. I’m sure he’ll be fine. Besides, I don’t wanna lose my spot in line for the snack table. They have pretzels. I like […]
NEWS CLUES: It’s Like Adderall For Your Eyeballs
ZOGBY POLL: Slim Majority Of Americans Say ‘Bomb Iran’ Despite President Bush’s perpetually abysmal approval ratings, it appears his increasingly hostile rhetoric against Iran has drummed up enough fear of a “nuclear holocaust” or a World War III that a majority of Americans are in favor of a US strike against the country aimed a curtailing its apparent nuclear ambitions, a new poll shows. The Zogby International survey shows 52 percent of Americans would support a strike on Iran, while 53 percent expect President Bush to launch such an attack before the end of his second term. Democratic candidate Hillary […]
SERVE THE SERVANTS: Dicker Bids On Hotel Fumo
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, Philadelphia, PA — Today, Pennsylvania State Senate candidate Anne Dicker put in an offer to buy Senator Vincent Fumo’s 2220 Green Street Mansion. The offer was for $250,001, which is $1 more than the value assessed by Philadelphia’s Board of Revision and Taxes (BRT). If successful, Anne Dicker has pledged to turn around and sell the house for upwards of $1.25 million, and to donate the profits from the sale to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [via HEARD IN THE HALL] PREVIOUSLY: Welcome To The Hotel Vincent Fumo, You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But […]
SECOND GUESSING: The Case FOR John Edwards
BY LOREN R. DORGAN OF THE CONCORD MONITOR John Edwards says if he’s elected president, he’ll institute a New Deal-like suite of programs to fight poverty and stem growing wealth disparity. To do it, he said, he’ll ask many Americans to make sacrifices, like paying higher taxes. Edwards, a former Democratic senator from North Carolina, says the federal government should underwrite universal pre-kindergarten, create matching savings accounts for low-income people, mandate a minimum wage of $9.50 and provide a million new Section 8 housing vouchers for the poor. He also pledged to start a government-funded public higher education program called […]
WORTH REPEATING: Be Very Afraid, Please
BY BILL MAHER This week — as every week — all the Republican candidates talked about was who was toughest in the war on terror. While the country’s most populous state literally burned. The Democrats, as usual, said nothing, because they didn’t want to offend fire. The Republicans, including the scaremonger in chief, sell themselves as protectors of our safety. But since they’re all, except for McCain, armchair warriors, they’re only comfortable protecting us from fears they made up. Like the way Iran is itching for a war with the United States now. Ahmadinejad is pure evil! Terror has a […]
HOT DOCUMENT: Look Who’s Blogging!
Congratulations! If you are receiving this email, you have been credentialed for the NBC Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at Drexel University. Attached to this email is the Media Logistics memo. This memo outlines the logistics aspects of the debate, services available to working journalists and general information helpful in planning your coverage of the October 30 Democratic Candidates Debate at Drexel University in Philadelphia. NBC’s “Terms and Conditions” for re-broadcast are in a forthcoming email. NBC will provide satellite coordinates for those outlets who wish to pull down its feed of the debate on October 30 and that information will be […]
SIGN OF THE TIMES: Rain On The Scarecrow
PENNSYLTUCKY: Target Bin Laden, Strohl Valley, PA, Pop. 34, Sunday 3:47 PM [Photo by JONATHAN VALANIA]