Earlier today, City Controller Butkovitz got on his "I want to be mayor someday so I'm trying to raise my profile as much as possible" stool to decry the laxness with which the prohibition on posting signs on telephone polls is enforced.
WHYY's Liz Fiedler attended the press conference and provided me with a copy of L&I's list of Code Violation Notices (tickets) that were given out for illegally putting signs on polls.
How did the candidates for mayor do?
Bob Brady heads the pack with $21,675 in fines.
Dwight Evans comes in second (poor Dwight, he couldn't even "win" this one) with $7050 in fines. To his credit, the list in my hands indicates that he has already paid his ticket.
Michael Nutter follows with $2,475 in fines. So much for that squeaky clean image.
Chaka Fattah's fundraising woes may have saved him a little this time around since it probably meant that he didn't have too much cash to throw away on these signs. He racked up $1425 in fines.
Finally, in what seems both strange and unbelievable, Tom Knox brings up the read with a whopping $75 fine for one sign. I could go right now and find two Tom Knox signs in South Philly. If I take them down do you think he'd give me 50 bucks per sign for the 75 per that I'd be saving him?
It should be noted that the list indicates that:
Prior to the issuance of the aforementioned Code Violation Notices, all candidates were sent a two (2) letters notifying them of the code regulations regarding posting of signs and the subsequent penalties.
Comments (6)
Butkovitz is sooooo obvious. I don't have a problem with him having aspirations of higher office, but he has the most obvious and incredibly unimpressive ways of trying to raise his profile. He starts this whole war with Vallas, which was fine, except that it's pretty easy to start a war with an already embattled executive from Chicago who has always said he has no intention of hanging around Philly permanently. It's like a lion going after the three legged gazelle. Now he's trying to become the people's hero by trying to prevent dangerous and menacing signs from being posted on telephone poles. And he needs a press conference to announce this?
Who the hell cares!?!?
Posted by Anonymous | August 16, 2007 11:42 AM
BUTkovitz doesn't seem to know what his job really is.
Posted by Anonymous | August 16, 2007 4:54 PM
Butt-kowitz has the personality of oatmeal and has had a free ride in the Notheast forever...he should at least try to be 1/10th of the COntroller Saidel was...he is a phoney.
Posted by Do your Job Buttkowitz | August 17, 2007 6:02 PM
I guess Brady will have to get another no show job to pay his fines. Now that he is in charge of the office supplies at the House of Representatives, he can help himself to some paperclips to sell on E-bay to make up the rest.
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