Fast Ed Rendell Today Starts Doing To The State What He Did To Philly

www.rendellinauguralcommittee.org/ ^ | 01/21/03 | NA

[prisoner6]

Edward G. Rendell, 59, won election as Pennsylvania's 45^th Governor on November 5, 2002. He will take office on January 21, 2003, in an inauguration ceremony scheduled for 11:30 a.m. on the East Side of the State Capitol in Harrisburg.

From 1992 through 1999, Governor-elect Rendell served as the 121^st Mayor of the City of Philadelphia. Before serving as Mayor, Mr. Rendell was elected District Attorney of the City of Philadelphia for two terms from 1978 through 1985.

Among his many accomplishments as Mayor, the Governor-elect eliminated a $250 million deficit; balanced the City's budget and generated five consecutive budget surpluses; reduced business and income taxes for four consecutive years; implemented new revenue-generating initiatives, and; dramatically improved services to the City's neighborhoods.

Dubbed America's Mayor by Al Gore, Governor-elect Rendell worked tirelessly to revive Philadelphia's economy and position it as a destination city. During the Rendell administration, Philadelphia saw the end of six years of job losses, and enjoyed six straight years of job gains. Philadelphia is nationally and internationally recognized for its enhanced historical tourist attractions, a thriving downtown, and a booming Convention Center. Perhaps the best testament to the Governor-elect's efforts as Mayor was the awarding of the 2000 Republican National Convention to Philadelphia in November 1998.

Following his service as Mayor, Governor-elect Rendell served as General Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during the 2000 Presidential Election. As such, he was the chief spokesperson and fundraiser for the Democratic Party nationwide. Thanks to his tireless efforts, the DNC raised more money than the Republican National Committee during the 2000 campaign, a first in recent Presidential election history. The Governor-elect led a weeklong bus tour on behalf of the Gore-Lieberman ticket throughout Pennsylvania during the last week of the campaign, helping to ensure that the Vice President carried Pennsylvania on Election Day. During his tenure as Chairman, the Democratic Party picked up seats in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate, won back control of Governors' offices, and came within a hanging chad of retaining control of the White House.

The Governor-elect is a partner at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP, a position he will hold until he takes the oath of office on January 21st. Also, he teaches two government and politics courses at the University of Pennsylvania, and has been active in the community through memberships on a variety of boards. Governor-elect Rendell, an Army veteran, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1965) and Villanova Law School (J.D. 1968). He was born on January 5, 1944.

The Governor-elect and his wife, Marjorie O. Rendell, a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, celebrated their 31st wedding anniversary on July 10, 2002. They live in the East Falls section of Philadelphia. Their son Jesse, 22, is nearing completion of his studies at the University of Pennsylvania and currently is touring with his rock band, Don't Look Down.

For information on the Governor-Elect Edward G. Rendell's predecessors visit the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission web-site.

[prisoner6]

PA FReepers gear up! Our work is clear on the path ahead.

prisoner6

[Russ]

So far the majority of Rendell's staff and cabinet picks
are from Philadelphia. What we are going to see with this
administration is government of, by, and for the people of
Philadelphia. The rest of the state will pay the bills...

[Dr. I. C. Spots]

I am a former resident of Philadelphia, who lived there in the Northeast under Fast Eddie’s reign. Let me share what I‘ve experienced. Philly has one of the highest city wage taxes in the country. They tax you for working in the city and more if you work and live there. This forced a lot of us who do work in the city, to move out of the city so that we could reduce our taxes. I was a member of my children’s PTA school board for two years. While the city school officials drove around in brand new cars each year we were unable to even get a new copy machine for our school. Every school in the city is reduced to fund raisers to buy much needed equipment and supplies because of poor city management. I always questioned where our high school taxes were going because it sure didn’t make it to my children’s school. Our school was forced to bus in handicap and center city kids because by doing so we would receive additional money from the city and the ability to hire extra teachers based on the student quotas for our school. Needless to say that by the time Fast Eddie left office the school system was in shambles, the quality of education had gone down, the conditions of the schools were deplorable, school violence had escalated, and teacher unions were demanding more money. Last but finally not least; area neighborhoods were ruined due to an influx of Section 8 money. Every nieghborhood was required to have their quota of Section 8 housing available to the “underprivileged”. This caused people who did not work to earn the income to live in affluent areas the right to move in next door to people who did work to achieve that right. Needless to say the new residents were low life, non-working, drug addicts, undisciplined and uncaring. Their children were trouble makers, their rented property was run down and un-maintained because of the residents destroying it, and their run down cars littered the streets because they had either lost their driving privileges or the vehicle needed repair. Good neighborhoods were reduced to slums in a short time. This caused a mass exodus to the area burbs. The city continues to race down hill under the democrat’s poor management to this day. Thanks Fast Eddie, let’s watch as he runs the state into the dirt, by their fruit you will know them.

[Mo1]

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[Kenny Bunk]

Yo, holawnaminit, youse are all forgetting Fast Eddie's major accomplishment: the temporary illegal registration of some 100,000 aliens for the Al Gore election. Al carried the state. Sometime after the election, the foreigners were de-registered. Tom Ridge (aka the idiot who now refuses to police the borders in his incapacity as chief of Security and Grandmother-Frisking.) and Sanctimonious the Senator failed to notice or speak up.

Youse are also forgetting to explain to freepers that about 10 square blocks of Philly is a quaint Disneyland, the rest of the place looks like Dusseldorf in 1945

[Temple Owl]

The left-wing, liberal Philadelphia dailies portray Fast Eddie as a successful mayor. But they never report that Philadelphia has lost almost 150,000 people since 1990--That's more than any other city.

Center City maybe thriving, but the rest of the city remains a crime- and highly taxed municipality of failing schools and continued middle-class flight. It is still in the throes of economic decline. Black and white middle-class families with children continue to spill out of the city, always giving the same reasons: schools, crime, and taxes.

The city doesn't attract the kinds of start-up businesses prospering elsewhere. In 1997, Philadelphia had one new business started for every 275 residents, compared with one in 97 in San Francisco and one in 66 in Houston.

Meanwhile, the surrounding counties experienced such a boom that a city resident is now more likely to commute to the suburbs than a suburbanite is likely to commute into the city. Why city residents would want to remain is a mystery: a family of four paid 15 percent more in local tax than it would in high-tax New York or Chicago, and twice what it would pay in L.A.

Fast Eddie is famous for failing schools, a fanatical pro-abortion stance, opposition to the Second Amendment, sexual escapades, throwing snowballs at Santa Claus and getting sandwiches named after him. He gets a lot of money from tort lawyers and unions,

Methinks we Pennsylvanians are in deep doo doo.

[bankwalker]

Fast Ed Rendell

He needs a new name.

How 'bout "Uncle Eddie"?

People from Philly shoud understand.

[Dasaji]

Well, there are enough of us PA Freepers to go into action. If we can keep tabs on proposals and favors getting pushed through and bombard the legislature with a letter writing campaign, perhaps we can keep it at bay and do a little good.

No sense complaining, it's water under the bridge. I propose we build a REALLY BIG DAM around the bend.

Anyone?

[dirtboy]

Methinks we Pennsylvanians are in deep doo doo.

Both state houses are controlled by the GOP. Fast Eddie is going to have to moderate his positions to get anything to his desk.

[Temple Owl]

Too many of those Republicans in the House and Senate are tort lawyers. Trust me, we are indeed in deep doo doo.