Sorry to be late in updating, folks -- I have been obsessed with a project that just this minute wrapped up.
But there's some stuff to talk about. Here's the first: Lynn Abraham has endorsed Bob Brady.
Reports the Daily News' Dave Davies:
Saying the next mayor must provide relief from “the bloody, bloody Philadelphia that we have today,” Abraham yesterday said Brady has the ideas and experience that would make him an effective leader in the fight against crime.
Abraham, who has sharply criticized Mayor Street in recent weeks, said the next mayor shouldn’t “be accepting excuses, running from one failed experiment at suppressing crime to another.”
She was asked if this endorsement was payback for all the times that Brady, as city Democratic party chairman. And she said: “Nothing I have ever done is for sale for anybody at any price ... I don’t believe in political paybacks.”
Dave also reported:
State Rep. Dwight Evans, a rival candidate for mayor, issued a statement yesterday saying he was disappointed that Abraham had chosen “to support the old political machine and empty rhetoric Philadelphians have grown weary of.”
Comments (3)
Where has Lynne Abraham been while all the pay to play scandals were unfolding? Has she been involved in anyway with one investigation into corruption in city hall? Now she endorses the guy that was just "spinning the sh t". See Tigre Hill's The Shame Of A City folks. It will be on DVD in April. WAKE UP!!!!!!!
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February 26, 2007 10:05 PM
she endorses the one candidate that hasn't released a crime plan yet. I am wondering how she knows that Brady will be so tough on crime when this has never been an issue he focused on. seems like politcal payback to me.
Posted by sj | February 27, 2007 3:11 PM
Abraham would not be in office if it were not for Brady's machine. This is nothing more than political backscratching.
Also, is anyone surprised that the FOP, a UNION, supported Brady, who hands down, will put unions before the needs of the city...
Posted by Abraham would not be in office if it wasn't for Brady's machine | February 28, 2007 4:10 PM