Posted on 01/05/2007 6:37:08 AM PST by philsfan24
Fattah - 29% Brady - 10% Evans - 12% Nutter - 12% Knox - 9% Dougherty - 5% Undecided - 21%
Street: Approval Rating - 48% Disapproval Rating - 45%
streets approval rating is unbelievable. people in philadelphia are so brainless its pathetic.
Fatah ruling the Pallies, and Fattah ruling the Phillies....
Fattah than who?
Boy, did I read that headline too fast --
(whew) Hair got a touch grayer before I saw that second "t".....
Hamas is firmly established in Camden.
Hell, more of the 'Rat base came out to support Street in 2003 after word of the FBI corruption investigation of his office became public. "Brotha John being hassled by Tha Man, know 'tm' sayin'" ...
Yep, the brothas and sistas are running the city ... INTO THE GROUND!
rizzo jr may run on the republican ticket. he is pretty popular in philadelphia. if he runs against fattah, he...
... wont come any closer than katz. in philadelphia, the citizens vote based on race, not content of character.
I thought the Palestinians opposed gun control.
Fattah Nutters Knox Brady
Clearly the people in Philadelphia are just loving the way their city is run, and want more of the same.
Start looking for things like this happening across America, it has started, the way down for us.
Can we look forward to his wife stepping out of the TV News Anchor spotlight? Nah, probably not.
Can wait to see how unbaised and impartial Renee is while the hubby is running...
You are soooo right! I am not too far from giving up all hope for this country.
For info on the Little-hyphen-Missus
http://www.nbc10.com/meetthenewsteam/1225449/detail.html
Who is Fattah and what is he like? I'm totally ignorant of Phillie politics. Thanks.
Though born and raised in Philly - but now living elsewhere - I am ignorant of Philly politics.
Please explain who Fattah is.....
The Google on Chaka Fattah
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLJ,GGLJ:2006-49,GGLJ:en&q=chaka+fattah
From http://www.discoverthenetwork.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1268
Democratic Member of Congress
Member of the radical Progressive Caucus
Has called for a new trial for convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal
His voting record is rated between 95 and 100 percent by the leftwing group Americans for Democratic Action.
Chaka Fattah is a Democratic Member of Congress who represents the Second District of Pennsylvania. With new boundaries drawn in 1992, the state's only black majority (61 percent) district includes much of downtown Philadelphia as well as Cheltenham Township.
Chaka Fattah was born in Philadelphia in 1956. His mother is community activist Sister Falaka Fattah, who his official papers archived at Temple University describe as "the founder of an urban Boys Town in West Philadelphia." This institution is the House of Umoja (Swahili for "Unity"), which helps African-American teenaged males who have suffered physical or psychological abuse.
By age 21 Chaka Fattah was Assistant Director of the House of Umoja. Three years later, in 1980, he became a special assistant to Philadelphia's director of housing and community development. (His name Chaka, a variant of the same first name as African warrior-ruler Shaka Zulu, in Swahili means "Great King." Fattah can be translated "opener of the gates of sustenance.") In 1982, at age 25, he became the youngest person elected to the state legislature, moving up to the state senate six years later, serving there until 1994. He studied at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1984. In 1986 he completed a masters degree at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 1991 when veteran Congressman William Gray resigned to become President of the United Negro College Fund, Fattah ran for his seat as a Consumer Party candidate against the Democratic ward leaders' nominee and lost. In 1994, backed by Philadelphia's African-American clergy and running as a Democrat, Fattah won with 58 percent of the vote.
Congressman Fattah belongs to the radical Progressive Caucus in the House of Representatives. The leftwing Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) rates his voting record 95-100 percent on the left side of legislation.
Along with other leftwing members of the House, Fattah voted against the use of force in Iraq but also against allowing oil drilling on a scant 20 acres of the 1.2 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), thus voting to keep America dependent on Middle Eastern oil.
Fattah is among the most prominent lawmakers calling for a new trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted and serving a life sentence for the 1981 cold-blooded murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.
In 2000 Fattah was one of only 15 Members of Congress to vote against the "Born-Alive Infants Protection Act." This measure provided that if during the procedure commonly called a "partial birth abortion" a nearly-born infant slipped entirely out of its mother before its brains were vacuumed out, it would acquire the human rights of a person already born.
Chaka Fattah sits on the powerful Appropriations Committee and is ranking Democratic member on the committee that oversees the District of Columbia. Nearly three-quarters of his campaign contributions come from organized labor and trial lawyers.
This country apparently has a deathwish.
Oh - THAT Fattah- didn't put him together with the Chaka Fattah that I knew about in Congress.
He is certainly one of the most ideologue liberal members of congress - probably left of Kennedy if that's possible. And even crazier.
I do remember my father saying that Philly was going down the tubes - and that was 50 years ago.
The poor but decent neighborhoods where I grew up (West Philly, Overbrook Park, Oxford Circle) are not at all the same decent places they once were.
I revisited the West Philly neighborhood in 1986 (40th & Girard) and it looks like Berlin cica 1945. That's not how it was when I grew up - not at all. We weren't rich - but the streets were clean and safe when I was a kid.
A long time ago.
*Your* Philadelphia was lost a long time ago, my friend!
Hold fast to your childhood utopia that was this once-great city. You will never see *THAT* city again. Sad.
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