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Say What You Mean

Gov. Rendell has weighed in on the mayor's race and given his views on each of the five candidates. He won't endorse any one of them, but that doesn't stop him from talkin'.
Never did, never will
In an interview with Amy Worden in the Inquirer, Rendell gives verbal hugs to each of the Democrats running for the job he once held.
To fully understand where he stands, though, you have to be conversant in Rendellian, the governor's native language.
Fortunately I have a RTM, a Rendell Translation Machine (pat. pending), which takes Rendellian and converts it into plain English. Let me fire it up and see what it says:

Dwight Evans: A great guy, but what a lousy campaigner. He couldn't give away snowmobiles to Eskimos. I'll probably end up voting for him, but it's a waste.
Tom Knox: A good head for figures, but what a jerk. He makes Street look like Mr. Personality.
Michael Nutter: A bright guy, but arrogant. He wouldn't even listen to me and David, if you can image the nerve of him.
Chaka Fattah: Lots of ideas, but he's run the worst campaign I've seen in 20 years. What could he be thinking? A stone loser.
Bob Brady: A nice guy, but what a dinosaur. And Brady as a reformer? Don't make me laugh.

Posted by Tom Ferrick on May 3, 2007 9:41 AM |

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PhillyDeservesBetter:

Ed was a great Mayor and is an excellent Governor, but one thing that he's really, really terrible at is picking good Mayors. I wouldn't listen to him for a second about who is "most qualified" to be the Mayor, as he said that crap about Street. My theory? Rendell's ego is very big and he doesn't want a Mayor Nutter because he'd be great and this would somehow diminish Rendell's stature as the greatest Mayor of Philadelphia of all time. Just a theory.

Posted by PhillyDeservesBetter | May 5, 2007 11:13 PM

Posted on May 5, 2007 23:13

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Great Expectations is a civic engagement project brought to you by The Inquirer and the University of Pennsylvania. Check out the Great Expectations Web site.

Chris Satullo is an Inquirer columnist and former editor of The Inquirer's Editorial Page. He was a founder of the Great Expectations project, which focuses on civic engagement and the issues in Philadelphia's 2007 mayoral race.

Tom Ferrick, a former Inquirer reporter, worked on the Great Expectations project throughout 2007 and into 2008.

Other members of the Editorial Board will be weighing in on the blog, as will Harris Sokoloff and Jodie Chester Lowe, members of the Great Expectations team.

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