Asking the crowd, "Are you ready to rumble?" Chaka Fattah rallied supporters at City Hall earlier this afternoon.
Fattah reminded the crowd that when he ran -- succesfully -- for Congress in 1994, KYW intially reported he'd lost that election.
"The truth was, we had won in a landslide. We had won by 58 percent of the vote. We had won in Chestnut Hill and North Philadelphia. We had won in Center City and West Philadelphia. We had won across the board! And do you know what is going to happen on Tuesday?
"Let me tell you what's going to happen on Tuesday. We are going to win this election!"
Fattah reminded the crowd of suppoters of his issues...
"When [voters] go to the polls looking for someone who is making a way for their kids to go to college, there's only one name on that ballot that they can push," he said. "Some have tried to make me the insider and Mr. Nutter the outsider. They are trying to turn what's white, black, and what's black, white. But Philadelphians are not going to be fooled. I've created more affordable housing than Nutter and Knox combined."
And he denounced the Daily News' cartoon today.
"I believe in free speech, and I love the cartoonist for the Daily News. But to put a cartoon in which, because I say you have to protect people's constitutional rights, that means we are offering up our young people to be shot is insulting to our intelligence," he said.
"It's an insult to the lives of people spent not in the ivory towers of newspaper editorial rooms. I have been out on street corners. I have been shot myself trying to help young people be protected."
Fattah -- in full rally mode -- compared himself to Street Sense, the horse who went from early favorite to fading to win the Kentucky Derby, and told the crowd:
"We're going to win this one on May 15. Let's see if they can get that headline right on May 16: 'Breakthrough Fattah!' "
All the campaigns are holding rev-up-the-base events all day -- and will continue the heavy campaigning through the weekend.
Comments (15)
I'm going to miss this. Go Tommy go.
Jas.....
Posted by Jasper Zeigler Jr | May 11, 2007 2:16 PM
Fattah is Street lite
Posted by Anonymous | May 11, 2007 2:33 PM
Fattah is upset about a cartoon?!?!?!
He's SO upset in his e-mail he ends the e-mail with "P.S. give me money!"
Posted by Anonymous | May 11, 2007 2:38 PM
Fattah's failed campaign is broke and has no support. He's made a complete fool out of himself.
Posted by Anonymous | May 11, 2007 2:57 PM
Attacking cartoons and calling other candidates "not black enough" is a sign of a weak moral character. Its immature and shows that Fattah simply lacks the "gravitas" and emotional maturity to be Mayor of Philadelphia.
Posted by seand | May 11, 2007 3:28 PM
Hey Fattah is fighting violence, lets not discount his gun buyback program. We all know that is a great way to guns away from felons.
Posted by sj | May 11, 2007 3:53 PM
Don't get cocky. I think you all are going to be surprised at how well Fattah does on election day. Make sure you, your friends, your family, your dog, your cat GOTV cause it ain't over til its over
Posted by philly on the rise | May 11, 2007 4:14 PM
You just wait till "Shocka" shocks your ass! He is gonna beat up on the Plantation Queen Janie Blackwell and that crumb bum knox...it will be a "Shocka"
Fatwah on knox
Posted by I'm a homey too | May 11, 2007 6:13 PM
For Fattah, it is over.
In fact, the next step is to get this clown out of congress. He doesn't need to be in D.C. to play golf.
Posted by Anonymous | May 11, 2007 6:24 PM
C'mon you anonymous Dougherty punks -I gitcha ass in West Philly -they will be no knox
Posted by I'm a homey too | May 11, 2007 6:29 PM
We support Fattah because he will give us handouts for doing nothing, using other people's hard earned money!
Posted by Lazy Welfare Queens | May 11, 2007 10:40 PM
Time to chuck Chucka Fattah!
Posted by Anonymous | May 12, 2007 8:20 AM
The Welfare Queens are affiliated with the Queen of Poverty Janie Blackwell
Years of representing and nothing but failures.
Janie must go -vote for anybody - anybody but knox
Posted by Fattah in West Philly | May 13, 2007 10:08 PM
VOTE Michael Nutter for Mayor!
Posted by Anonymous | May 13, 2007 11:16 PM
The cartoon on the Editorial Page of Friday's Daily News was RACIST! Enough said.
Posted by Son of Anonymous | May 14, 2007 12:00 PM