Nutter's endorsement meeting with Philly Magazine just ended. At the end of it, Nutter slightly joined the criticism of Knox, says The Daily News' Catherine Lucey.
Nutter said: "I actually have a record. He's got a TV record; I've got a public record."
And then Nutter added that he and Knox were roughly contemporaries in City Hall, but that he didn't see Knox at bean-counting time: "I came into government at the same time, and I attended every budget hearing the city ever had. I never saw Tom Knox."
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If I understand correctly, Michael Nutter plus all the other mayoral candidates are refusing to join the Save Burholme Park side in the Fox Chase Cancer Center v. Burholme Park dispute for fear of alienating the votes and special interest support they need to get elected as Philadelphia's next mayor.
Please allow me to analogously parse that for you:
If this were the Deep South back in the days when public lynchings of Negroes held widespread public and special interest support, these same candidates would all fully support such lynchings so as to have a good chance of getting elected.
Not a fair comparison you say?
Think again.
For the Fox Chase Cancer Center's desire to expand onto neighboring Burholme Park is 100% illegal as well as morally and ethically wrong. So given that, one would think that every candidate now running for mayor would make a special point of pointing out that fact. In fact, they would capitalize on that fact when fully taking the Save Burholme Park's side in the dispute.
That is, do you see what I'm talking about here, people? Why this IS such a major rather than "off to the side minor, insignificant" issue?
For if we're going to completely disregard the law in this case so as to be popular and get elected, where's this going to stop?
Some of you might've caught JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG (a fictional reenactment about the actual trial of Nazi judges in 1948) when it aired recently on Philadelphia's Channel 12. The film focused heavily on the breakdown in German laws, ethics and morality that led to the rise of the Nazi Third Reich. And I tell you the principle is the same in the Fox Chase Cancer Center v. Burholme Park dispute. For here in Northeast Philadelphia, quite separated from the rest of the city at the present moment, the Fox Chase Cancer Center, with promises of good paying jobs as a result of people being inflicted with cancer, wants to become the new law. And the exact same thinking is going on on the other side of Northeast Philadelphia with the recent reactivation of Holmesburg Prison which, by law, wasn't supposed to happen.
But in the Fox Chase Cancer Center v. Burholme Park dispute, in that case the Cancer Center has popular support, while with regard to Holmesburg Prison there's widespread public apathy and indifference.
And where are the mayoral candidates vehemently speaking out on both these issues? WHERE?!
No, you won't see that because they don't want to do anything unpopular and that will cost them the special interest support they need to get elected. And that's exactly how it all starts, folks.
For destroying Burholme Park so the Cancer Center can expand -- even if you personally don't like Burholme Park and those who do -- is not only illegal but it's just outright wrong. And the interior of Holmesburg Prison is so deteriorated and rundown that to hold any prisoner there is in clearcut violation of the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment. But, when you have major pharmaceutical companies wanting to see a revival of the University of Pennsylvania's Acres of Skin experiments and willing to pour a lot of money into the campaign coffers of mayoral candidates who will side with them, hey, the hell with the U.S. Constitution, right?
But I ask, where's it going to stop, folks, where's it going to stop?
At the end of JUDGEMENT OF NUREMBERG, when the one repentant Nazi judge hands Spencer Tracy a long list of all the people he tried, saying he didn't know when exactly it came to all that or that it would [referring to the Holocaust], Tracy quickly tells him: it "came to all that" the first time he sentenced a person he knew to be innocent to death. And if any of you think that's an unfair comparison to what's happening up here in Northeast Philadelphia, and with all the mayoral candidates either holding silent or taking the popular side in these important matters, you're not paying very close attention. For the big question that every mayoral candidate should be blasted with right now is: WHAT ABOUT NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA? WHERE DO YOU STAND WITH REGARD TO THE FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER AND HOLMESBURG PRISON?
Posted by Steve W. | April 25, 2007 1:54 AM
No one is reading this -Nutter loses
Posted by Knox pays me | April 25, 2007 10:35 AM
Knox pays you for what exactly?
Posted by Steve W. | April 26, 2007 12:44 AM