Posted on 04/20/2010 7:03:48 PM PDT by grace522
To the wacky tales of Philadelphia politics, add that of LaMott Ebron . A 22-year-old African American elated and inspired by the election of President Obama, Ebron decided to run for office - as a Republican.
Not long after offering himself as a candidate for party committeeman in the May 18 election, he received a subpoena at his Nicetown home notifying him that someone he had never heard of was trying to kick him off the ballot.
It turned out that the challenger, Michael Gilliland, did not live at the address listed on the challenge, which ended in late March. Gilliland never showed up in court and lost his challenge.
In another race for Republican committeeman, the challenger, Rita Wootten, is dead, and had been for nearly a year before the challenge was filed.
And in yet another, challenger Melvin Hamlin listed his address as St. John's Hospice, a Center City homeless shelter. On Monday, a representative of the shelter said it had no record of Hamlin.
Those challenges also fizzled out in court, along with 29 others. The lawyer leading those challenges was Michael Meehan, the head of the Republican City Committee. He withdrew them in the face of documented forged signatures and other problems.
"Politics in the city are just all out of line," Ebron said, "and I think Republicans are to blame, because they almost never challenge the Democrats."
Ebron's tale is a skirmish in a larger battle waged by the state Republican Party against Meehan's city Republicans. A spoil of this war is the GOP's share of patronage jobs, many at the Parking Authority.
This year, an unusual number of candidates filed to run as Republican committee people.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
As if we didn't have enough problems with the scumbag DemocRATs, this pile of human excrement needs to get flushed!
Ping to Trib & Kid.
ping
Who are the “Republican City Committee”? are they legit? Or is this all a scam to make the ‘pubbies look bad?
Three generations of ruining Philadelphia! He should be in jail. If Jesus were a Republican, he would beed Meehan’s blessing to run.
Philadelphia's Republican City Committee starts here:
but the real 'power' in the shitty of Philthadelphia is under the control of this bunch:
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