All five serious Democratic candidates were present at the Flower Show forum tonight. And, reports the Daily News' Dave Davies, you will be relieved to hear that all five have morphed into radical greens.
They made all kinds of promises for the rapt crowd of as many as 1,000 listeners in two rooms -- tree planting, park funding, you name it. Which, again, shows how far environmental issues have come in this race.
Actually, Dave pointed out to us, it shows how savvy the candidates are. They treated the large crowd like "supervoters," those who both vote and influence other voters, he said -- which Flower Show attendees certainly are, at least those who live in the city. There were tables of information for the candidates and people working the crowd to pass out literature.
Anyway, the big applause-getter through the night was money for Fairmount Park. All seemed to agree that the park system should be able to keep revenue it gets from concessions and fees, which it doesn't now. (Again, this would be a big change, and it's great to have this promise on the record -- if they can afford to keep it.)
Dwight Evans pushed his plan for a percentage of real estate transfer taxes to go to the park system as a dedicated source of funding.
In other issues...Tom Knox pushed his adopt-a-tree program, saying if citizens plant the trees the city will water and prune them (does this happen already?).
And there was some back-and-forth over the success of the Neighborhood Transformation Initiative and councilmanic privilege, development issues that closely relate to environmental issues.
Finally, there was some of the usual squabbling that goes on at these things. At one point, Michael Nutter asked Knox -- who has admitted to getting senior citizens discounts -- "Tom, do you pay for anything?"
Knox responded to Nutter, "I paid more in taxes last year than you ever paid." That drew some groans.
Bob Brady and Evans got into it a bit, too. Brady said he'd absolutely support asking developers to include support for green space in each development plan, and referenced his friend, developer John Westrum. Which is the kind of relationship-based comment you'd expect from Brady.
But policy-focused Evans didn't like the name-dropping and the kind of decision-making he felt it represented. Evans responded, "This is exactly what we have to change."
"Public policy has to be transparent. You can't do it on a retail basis."
Also drawing some eye-rolling was Brady's response during the wrap-up questioning. When asked what he'd do to make Philadelphia greener, he responded with something many in the crowd had heard before: That somewhere in Philadelphia there was a father who was wondering where he'd find the money to buy a can of soup for his hungry family, and that once Bob Brady had been that father.
An affecting story, but it's been rolled out more than a couple of times, and it wasn't really what the question had asked (Karen, we were listening!). The story wandered back to green space, but it was odd.
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Is it true Bob Brady called developer John "we build expensive homes poorly in neighborhoods that don't want them" Westrum a "dear friend?" Oddly, Westrum's latest project has him in the middle of his other "dear friend" Frank Oliver's 29th Ward. How many "dear friends" do we want running this town?
Posted by TedP | March 6, 2007 12:28 PM
That is apparently what got Evans hacked off.
Posted by Wendy | March 6, 2007 3:24 PM
I don't think having a mayor with long standing relationships is a bad thing...it's a great thing! Like anyone else, we respond to people we know. I think that's been one of John Street's greatest liabilities.
If he has a lot of friends, it's because he's been involved in the community for so long and helped so many people.
Posted by Andy Daven | March 6, 2007 7:11 PM
Having friends and maintaining friends in the community is one thing, steamrolling zoning legislature through city ocuncil to produce low-quality housing at a premium "market rate" when a vocal group is against it is another. What Brady's language suggests is he looks out for "dear friends" which can easily be construed as some sort of nepotism or P2P politics. Don't you people watch gangster/mafia movies?
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