Josh at the Metro's Fight For Room 215 talked to Chaka Fattah about his attempts to start a fundraising free-for-all appeal of the Commonwealth Court ruling on campaign finance.
There's the usual line about whether it's fair for Knox to be able to spend so much of his own money while the other candidates are so limited.
Fattah also diagnoses a pretty common rhetorical malady in our partners at the Committee of Seventy:
“I don’t remember a release from the Committee of 70 that if Ed Rendell could take unlimited contributions [in his campaign for governor] it would be chaos and pay-to-play politics,” Fattah said. “It’s like selective amnesia here.”
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Last I checked, Seventy was primarily concerned with local Philadelphia politics. I'm not sure why Fattah would expect them to get involved with a gubernatorial campaign. Sounds like he's trying to pass the buck.
Having said that, I hope Rendell follows through with his recent talk of implementing state-wide campaign finance reform.
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April 3, 2007 5:19 PM
Wasn't Seventy under different leadership the last time Rendell ran for mayor? In fact, if I remember correctly, Zack Stalberg didn't even come on board until after the last mayoral election.
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April 3, 2007 5:42 PM
knox is buying the elction with his own money and fattah wants to buy it with someone elses money.
since when did pay-to-play become a campagn platform?!?!?
philly wants an election, not an auction.
how bout a real candidate who can win on his merits?
a candidate who can win votes not just campaign cash.
if brady can get 66% of the vote the way he just did from the afl/cio, we will be soon calling him mayor.
Posted by bradybradybrady | April 3, 2007 5:49 PM
Brady's been bought and paid for by the labor unions. I wonder how much of his campaign cash came from anywhere other than a labor union.
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April 3, 2007 6:00 PM
Brady's been bought and paid for by the labor unions. I wonder how much of his campaign cash came from anywhere other than a labor union.
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April 3, 2007 6:01 PM
This is the info at www.hallwatch.org on the House of Umoja, owned by the Fattah family, which owes over $46,000 to the city in prop. taxes. So if Fattah is worried about Rendell's finances, I suggest he clean up his own House of Umoja.
If the Fattah's want to help schools, I suggest they start by paying the property taxes that support city schools. The hypocrisy this paper lets candidates get away with if they are a certain race is PCism run amok.
Hopefully, the paper will get past flashy rhetoric and look at the data on the candidates.
"* These records come from the Philadelphia Department of Revenue. Hallwatch is not responsible for the accuracy of the Revenue Dept.'s records. They are current as of February 14, 2007"
Properties Count 40
Average market value $6,800.00
Total market value $136,000.00
Total Delinquency $46,401.42
Average Delinquency $1,160.04
Average Years Delinquent 2.90
But don't take my word for it: look up the data at hallwatch.org or just scroll through below. Delinquent taxes are after owner name, and after del. taxes are years delinquent:
Parcel # Sort addr Owner1
Owner2 Total amount due Years delinquent Unique mail code Market Value
774655000* 01410 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$833.25 3 191313830
043081550 01410 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$833.25 3 191313830 $8,000.00
043070250 01411 N FRAZIER ST
191313829 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$833.25 3 1913138425625 $7,500.00
774656000* 01411 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$833.25 3 1913138425625
774657000* 01412 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,882.40 3 191313830
043081650 01412 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,882.40 3 191313830 $8,000.00
774659000* 01414 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313830
043081750 01414 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313830 $8,000.00
043070450 01415 N FRAZIER ST
191313829 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313829 $7,500.00
774660000* 01415 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313829
774661000* 01416 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$401.37 3 191313830
043081850 01416 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$401.37 3 191313830 $8,000.00
774662000* 01418 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$709.86 3 191313830
043081950 01418 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$709.86 3 191313830 $8,000.00
774663000* 01420 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313830
043082050 01420 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313830 $8,000.00
774664000* 01422 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313830
043082150 01422 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313830 $8,000.00
774665000* 01424 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$648.18 3 191313830
043082250 01424 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$648.18 3 191313830 $8,000.00
774666000* 01426 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$648.18 3 191313830
043082350 01426 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$648.18 3 191313830 $8,000.00
043071350 01433 N FRAZIER ST
191313829 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313829 $3,000.00
774667000* 01433 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,697.24 3 191313829
774668000* 01436 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,512.12 3 191313830
043082850 01436 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,512.12 3 191313830 $7,000.00
774669000* 01437 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$709.86 3 191313829
043071550 01437 N FRAZIER ST
191313829 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$709.86 3 191313829 $5,000.00
774670000* 01438 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,497.39 3 191313830
043082950 01438 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,497.39 3 191313830 $7,000.00
774671000* 01439 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$709.86 3 1913138301444
043071650 01439 N FRAZIER ST
191313829 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$709.86 3 1913138301444 $5,000.00
774672000* 01440 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,512.12 3 191313830
043083050 01440 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,512.12 3 191313830 $7,000.00
774673000* 01441 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$732.86 3 191313829
043071750 01441 N FRAZIER ST
191313829 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$732.86 3 191313829 $5,000.00
774673200* 01442 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,512.12 3 1913138301444
043083150 01442 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$1,512.12 3 1913138301444 $5,000.00
774674000* 01446 N FRAZIER ST
None HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$571.69 1 191313830
043083350 01446 N FRAZIER ST
191313830 HOUSE OF UMOJA INC
$571.69 1 191313830 $5,000.00
Posted by Sick of politics as usual in Philly | April 3, 2007 6:23 PM
I imagine House of Umoja is tax exempt. Is there any way of verifying?
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April 3, 2007 8:04 PM
From the Umoja web site:
"The House of Umoja is a state licensed, tax exempt, non-profit organization."
Posted by Wendy | April 3, 2007 10:18 PM
So that probably means one of three things:
1) Tax exempt doesn't apply to local property taxes
2) Umoja forgot/neglected to apply for an exemption
3) Whoever maintains the city's taxes-due database leaves something to be desired in the competence department
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April 3, 2007 11:03 PM
There is a pattern with Fattah in how he relates to the media and any one asking him tough questions, it's very John Street. It's a very "how dare you" posture. On every issue that he has received even the gentlest of questioning: his educational background, his family's finances, his voting attendance record, his position on campaign finance -- he has been incredibly defensive. Add this to his tendency to play his policy ideas very close to the chest, his resistance to talking about details - as documented in the Philly Weekly profile of him last month -- and you have an arrogance that is wrong for Philadelphia.
Posted by Anonymous | April 4, 2007 10:26 AM
In response to the last post. Fattah will be no different than John Street, with regards to both corruption and egotism and lack of real ability to get things done. When his plan to sell the airport falls through, he will probablly go after an even bigger bond than the one Street got for NTI, in order to fund all of his idealistic-pie-in-the-sky-money-grows-on-trees-bloat-city-government-even-more-with-new-redundant-agencies-"social" programs. Expect Philly's finances to tip so far into the red, with all of this deficit spending that taxes go up, up, up. Expect 8 more years of push back on ethics reform, on making government efficient and modern, and on making Philly a place that looks foward. With Fattah the downward spiral that is Philadelphia continues. HE IS THE STATUS QUO.
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