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Our campaign finance dashboard is now updated with data through 3/27/23. Shout-out to everybody who has helped with research! Next filing deadline is in 2 weeks, and then it's 1 1/2 weeks after that until the primary.
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Hell yeah, (anonymous) Jeffrey Yass shout-out in the latest Abbott Elementary haha
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This is the organization which Solomonov's restaurants donated over $100k toward in October - providing medical support, food, and personal care items to Israeli soldiers. Goldie was not just a randomly selected Jewish restaurant.
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this you?
Maybe there is a crime problem in our city, maybe. Need a change, need a plan.
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narrator: the Philadelphia Police Department was not defunded.
#Defundthepolice
?
@RebeccaRhynhart
: Defunding the police hasn’t happened in Philly. We need police for public safety, but we should reimagine police.
.
@DA_LarryKrasner
: We’ve doubled funding to police upwards of a BILLION.
.
@PPDCommish
: I disagree. We were defunded.
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Mayor Parker: we can't afford $900k/year to fund syringe exchange programs.
Also Mayor Parker: we're gonna give me and my top advisors 9%+ raises and quadruple the number of $150k+ salary positions within the Mayor's Office.
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8th op-ed from Stefano in 9 weeks. The FY23 PA budget has a surplus over $5 billion plus over $2 billion in the rainy day fund. This is not
@PhillyInquirer
publishing diverse viewpoints, this is them publishing right-wing billionaire-funded misinformation.
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76ers org claims the Center City stadium will create lots of jobs for Philadelphians, while across the river in Camden their practice facility (for which they received $82 million in tax breaks) only employs 11 Camden residents out of 275 employees.
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Seriously,
@quintabrunson
is a superhero. The whole scene is like a perfectly condensed 45 second explanation of the problems of charterization..."not every student in the neighborhood count count on attending Abbott if we turned charter..."
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Reminder that every Councilperson who votes to ban overdose prevention sites is voting for the continuing status quo of unsafe consumption sites in our public spaces and on public transit.
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Inquirer editorial board lost its credibility a long time ago, but choosing to not endorse a candidate basically just because she is endorsed by orgs that are trying to pressure Biden to take action to stop a genocide is morally bankrupt.
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Many charter schools have the ability to selectively admit students in ways which neighborhood public schools cannot. Even then, the median Philly charter school has a lower % of students who scored at least proficient in PSSA math in 22-23 than median Philly public school. 🧵1/
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Requiring all written public communication from all departments of a >25,000 person org whose whole purpose is to respond to public needs to be funneled through a single centralized communications office is a recipe for information being chronically shared too late or not at all.
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Pretty wild to look at the trajectory of starting salaries for cops vs. sanitation laborers in Philly since the 1970s...especially the divergence from the mid-1990s onward.
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The history of police corruption in Philadelphia goes back to the very beginnings of the police department.
We reviewed every major corruption scandal over 150+ years and revealed the repeated failures.
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The Trump campaign has been filing lawsuits to disenfranchise PA voters for weeks– in this thread we'll look at some of the PA lawyers behind those lawsuits...
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Right-wing interests that want to defund our public schools (like Sammin in yesterday's Inquirer) often act like teachers unions control politicians thru their large political spending. In reality, Jeff Yass has spent more than 5x the PSEA on PA politics since 2017.
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While Vega would have you think he doesn't take money from "elitist millionaire and billionaire donors," his latest filing just came in and it's full of them. Here's a rundown. 1/n
Don’t let Larry Krasner and his elitist millionaire and billionaire donors distract you. Our city is in a crisis, and I have a plan to meet this moment of crisis. We deserve both reform AND safety. Let’s get to work, Philadelphia - vote for me May 18th.
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"What caused these overcrowded housing conditions?" asks the same editorial board that told voters to vote "no" on $25 million in dedicated funding for the housing trust fund.
The fire in Fairmount needs to be a wake up call about the living conditions of Philadelphians — a city in which an estimated half of rental units are unlicensed, writes The Inquirer Editorial Board.
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Epidemiologists, harm reduction practitioners & Parker's OWN Director of HIV Health all say her plans to reduce $ for syringe exchange will result in increased rates of HIV & Hep C. Imagine living with that on your conscience for a measly $900k out of a $6.3 billion City budget.
Members of Parker's administration said this afternoon that they expect rates of HIV and Hep C will rise as a result of the funding withdrawal
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If you're mad about garbage pick-up delays and high attrition rates for sanitation workers, consider the fact that police officer starting salaries increased at twice the pace of those for sanitation laborers over the past decade.
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Kensington Caucus continuing to establish itself as the "overdose encouragement" caucus. Removing services that connect people with treatment, healthcare, and harm reduction supplies is shamefully anti-public health and will cause more deaths.
Savage Sisters, a small nonprofit that provides harm reduction services in Kensington, is set to lose its storefront after intervention from City Hall. And Councilmember Quetcy Lozada said funding for Prevention Point could also be in jeopardy soon.
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If Parker cares so much about building municipal workforce development pipelines, why is she planning to outsource large amounts of street cleaning rather than investing more in the City's under-funded sanitation dept, where sanitation laborers make under $40k?
Mayor Parker debuted a $246M five-year sanitation plan for Philly today
It calls for more street cleaning, more trash cans, a twice weekly garbage collection pilot & more
The plan is also very complex, and relies on the city outsourcing much of the work:
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"Prevention Point’s syringe exchange program has prevented tens of thousands of cases of HIV over its 30-year history. Collectively, this has saved taxpayers over $182 million a year, or $1.8 billion over the lifetimes of those who avoided contracting HIV."
"If the mayor and the Kensington Caucus make it harder or impossible for people in Kensington to access clean syringes," writes Jose DeMarco, "they will have thousands of new HIV infections on their consciences."
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Jeff Yass is swooping in to fund candidates running against socialists/progressives in Philly this year:
1) $25k to Anthony Williams (running against
@paul_prescod
)
2) $12.5k to Amen Brown (running against
@CassGreenForPA
)
3) $10k to James Wright (running against
@RepKrajewski
)
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Well y'all, it looks like the FOP burned thru $150k+ for nothing. Even if you have mixed feelings about Krasner, seems like we can all celebrate that!!🎉
🔥💵🚔💵🔥
#MakeCopMoneyToxicChallenge2021
FYI, my needle is now 100% confident Krasner will win.
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Amazing to see people on here congratulating Parker for militarized arrests and forced treatment in Kensington while even cops are saying "They'll be right back on the street within a day." In reality, this type of response is increasing the short-term risk of fatal overdoses.
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Rebecca Rhynhart's campaign has now paid former mayor John Street $55,000 ($11,000/month for 5 months) for political consulting. Don't know how many hours of work he's putting in, but seems like a pretty hefty sum!
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Today the Inquirer published an op-ed against the wealth tax written by someone who lives in NYC and works for Steve Rattner, whose firm invests Michael Bloomberg's (💸$82 billion net worth💸) personal and philanthropic assets.
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Mark Squilla's top 6 indiv. donors in 2021 ($3k+) were 3 South Philly strip club owners (Frank Antico Jr., John Meehan and Dean Pagano), Mike Lu of BJ Kitchen Floor Inc. on Washington Ave., Ru Fang Wang of United Bus and Travel and Wayne Shulick, a fashion/nightlife entrepreneur.
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Pissing off people you depend on to get things done when you've already got 1/4 jobs unfilled seems like a great way to become a 1-term mayor. Or to create more excuses to outsource/privatize/union bust. Shameful lack of solidarity from SEIU & building trades for supporting this.
Mayor Cherelle Parker is announcing all city of Philadelphia employees must return to the office or on-site work full time by July 15
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Joseph Zuritsky (of
@ParkwayCorp
) owns a $6 million condo at 1706 Rittenhouse Sq. Thanks to the property tax abatement, he avoided over $475,000 in taxes on this property 2013-2020. Does this seem like someone who needs more tax breaks in order to give his workers raises?
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Truly fucking wild how cops will be getting economic boom time 2.75% (2021) and 3.5% (2022 and 2023) raises while most non-union represented City staff's salaries are still frozen at pre-pandemic levels, and libraries are talking about halting new hires.
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Helen Gym raised more than twice as much money from small donors ($50 or less) during 2022 than any other mayoral candidate. Amen Brown, who seems to have outsourced much of his campaign to a NYC developer-funded SuperPAC, raised no money from small donors in 2022.
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Why pay for commercials when you can just run private industry propaganda as
@PhillyInquirer
"op-eds" for free instead?
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The infuriating aspect of this is that this represents just 0.017% of Yass' net worth. It's basically like pocket change for him to be the majority funder of multiple entire campaigns.
#TaxTheRich
For anyone keeping track, Jeff Yass lost every single Pennsylvania race he put money into and wasted over $5 million 💸
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Obviously this pales in comparison to US govt & defense co. military support for Israel, but it's not like Goldie was the primary target of the march! Framing this as antisemitic w/o mentioning this context is what people trying to discredit Palestinian solidarity actions want.
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The amount of money which Allan Domb and Jeff Brown have spent on their own campaigns ($14.3 million) this electoral cycle is now about equal to the amount of money that the City General Fund puts toward permanent housing programs each year.
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After months of posturing as progressives on Twitter,
@AGreaterPhilly
has, as we predicted, now sent out mailers attacking progressives across the city, including Reps. Fiedler, Rabb, and Krajewski. 1/
Watch out for A Greater Philadelphia in the coming year - in the mode of Philadelphia 3.0, they'll be acting like progressives while being run and funded by neoliberals and conservatives. 1/
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Feel like this should be getting more press coverage than it has. Many PA Democrats joined with Republicans to disenfranchise Philadelphians by allowing a special prosecutor to take jurisdiction over cases in large swaths of the city.
Courtesy of
@Philly_NN
: 🧵 Shamefully, the Pennsylvania House, by a vote of 159-44, has passed a bill that strips power from the Philadelphia District Attorney's office by creating a Special Prosecutor,
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Kind of overwhelming, but here's a diagram of Jeff Yass PA political funding from 2021. The richest man in PA is the single largest source of $ for PA GOP campaigns, and he was the 2nd largest funder of Back to School PAC, which donated to GOP school board campaigns across PA. 1/
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Parker admin's rushed aggressive policing approach to Kensington is simply pushing people experiencing houselesness & addiction to other areas, further destabilizing people's lives & making it even harder for them to access healthcare, shelter & treatment.
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Please explain to us
@PhillyMayor
how paving over a large wetland/meadow area fits into the City's Greenworks long-term sustainability plan's vision for "climate prepared and carbon neutral communities."
Proud to welcome FIFA and U.S. Soccer to Philadelphia for our official FIFA World Cup 2026 site visit today. We couldn’t be more ready.
Philadelphia’s love of sports is unrivaled, and our fans turn out–and turn it up–for every game.
#TheBidIsOn
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The City has now paid over $18 million to settle civil rights lawsuits against the police just in the first half of 2021 - that's over 1/3 of the Free Library budget for the entire year.
#DefundThePPD
#FundOurCommunities
#DismantleTheFOP
News: Philadelphia is paying $2M to Rickia Young, the woman who was seen on video being pulled from her SUV by Philly Police and then beaten in front of her child last fall. Mayor Kenney calls the officers' conduct "absolutely appalling." More to come.
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Looking forward to Jabari and all the PhillyCrimeUpdate fans thanking Larry Krasner, since as we all know the DA is fully responsible for the city's homicide rate. /s
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In the past 8 weeks, the Inquirer has now published 6 op-eds written by Jennifer Stefano. And now they aren't even bothering to mention in her byline that she works for the Jeff Yass-funded Commonwealth Foundation.
I will give it the editorial board, it’s pretty clever how they let Jennifer Stefano write from multiple organizations.
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Jeff Yass, richest person in PA is:
-bankrolling conservative Zionist think tank Kohelet Policy Forum
-largest funder of PA GOP
-6th largest donor to GOP SuperPACs at fed level
-pushing an agenda to defund our public schools
-spending 1/2 million to support Yang for NYC mayor
Jewish activists picketed a company owned by two Montgomery County financiers over their support for right-wing Israeli groups.
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Apparently nextphlmayor, who is Director of Finance & Design for Oren Brothers, which owns rentals in Chinatown/proposed stadium area, thinks that it's a "conflict of interest" for a mayoral candidate's daughter to...*squints*...have political opinions?
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When Mark Gleason, Jabari Jones, or anyone else affiliated with A Greater Philadelphia tries to run for City Council next year, do not let them forget this. When you hire (and likely are funded by) Republicans, this is what you get...
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Love it when YIMBYs go masks off and are like "selling off community gardens that have been managed by local residents for decades to private developers is a good thing, actually."
Disappointing the furthest left position apparently is all about side yards and lots for semi-private garden hobbies rather than using city land to build affordable housing
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Who could have guessed that the real estate bro from Meadowbrook would decide that supporting the GOP attempt to overturn 2/3 of Philly's voters' decision via impeachment is a good thing?
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Amazing combo of tweets in which Harrison gives Squilla credit for something that Save Chinatown Coalition members did (they were banh mi!) and then calls anti-arena folks opportunists.
Love the Chinatown +arena worker solidarity ❤️
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Very hard to trust the Philly Democratic Party to do what's needed to protect our elections from fascists or boost turnout to prevent a Christian nationalist from being governor when this is how
@PHLDems
Vice Chair Jannie Blackwell handles a ward leader election.
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Ok so the
#1
funder in PA (by a long shot) of anti-abortion + anti-public school GOP politicians, billionaire Jeff Yass, has provided from 1/1/22 to 5/2/22:
1) 63% of the $ supporting James Wright
2) 41% of the $ supporting Amen Brown
2) 31% of the $ supporting Anthony Williams
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Imagine if instead of dumping over $700,000 into PA school board elections Back to School PA had bought tens of thousands of rapid tests for schools. Martino and Yass are interested in dismantling public education, not ensuring that youth have safe and healthy places to learn.
Increasing numbers of US private & charter schools intro new testing & mask protocols while many public schools struggle to find the money and resources to do the same. Neoliberalism in action, the private sector made into the hero.
Health care should not be a commodity good.
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Amazing how unprepared the Parker admin seems for the Kensington crackdown they're planning...they openly acknowledge they don't have enough treatment beds, & the Philly prison system is already straining under severe under-staffing (42% position vacancy!)
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Chinatown says otherwise– and has said otherwise– over and over again, for a quarter century and counting.
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Good time to remember that Rhynhart was Budget Director when Nutter was pushing for privatization of PGW and conversions of public schools to charters. Of course no tough questions from him about her stances on privatizing City services.
Ex-Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter has used public appearances to aggressively question frontrunners Helen Gym and Jeff Brown, while taking it easy on others, including Rebecca Rhynhart, whom he hired.
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As we've pointed out before, police salaries have outpaced other Philly public sector workers for decades. Homicide rate is down 21% this yr in midst of police staffing shortage, which if anything seems like an argument in favor of reinvestment into other anti-violence strategies
Interesting take from
@ResearchPhilly
, given that nearly 25% of city job vacancies are in Police. Does this mean progressives behind the page now support competitive salaries for officers after all those years calling to defund the police?
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Since the nextphillymayor acct is out here embarrassing himself again, maybe worth noting that it seems he's already made up his mind who he'll be supporting...donated $100 to Allan Domb in Dec. His aunt and uncle made max $3100 donations each to Jeff Brown.
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Got an anonymous tip that real estate agent Barbara Capozzi seems to be illegally using her positions on the boards of nonprofits Friends of FDR Park and Packer Park Civic Association to support the Vega for DA campaign
@PhillyEthicsBd
1/n
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Philly police received higher % raises than other unionized city workers *every yr but one* since 2010. These higher %s compound over time. Non-repped & sub-contracted workers' salaries lag even further behind. FOP is partially responsible for staffing exoduses in other depts.
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In reality,
@PhillyInquirer
has been giving not just one, but two weekly op-eds to the Commonwealth Foundation. Both Stefano and Broad & Liberty's Kyle Sammin have EACH had 10 op-eds published in 11 weeks. Both weekly spots suspiciously began the same last week of May.
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Egregious facts about our local billionaires and wealthy corporations, a thread...learn more by checking out the Revenue for a Just Recovery report.
#TaxTheRichPHL
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The SuperPAC supporting Cherelle Parker, Philadelphians for Our Future, received $125,000 yesterday from University City Housing, owned by charter school founder and major PA Republican donor Michael Karp.
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Despite putting so much emphasis on "clean and green" initiatives, Mayor Parker is actually proposing cutting the Parks & Recreation operating budget by 10%.
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You accused your opponents of supporting terrorists while yourself refusing to speak out against genocidal violence by the Israeli state. Good riddance.
We came up short, but I know we could not have done more. I love you all. Thank you Jim Hasher for all of your hard work and a well run race. We did the best we possibly could and can hold our heads up high.
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3 of 4 of these Dems (all but Isaacson) have accepted donations from Jeff Yass-funded PACs. Amen Brown possibly owes his primary win to a big infusion of Yass $ and is rumored to be considering a run for Council District 3 next yr, with a big pile of anonymous donor $ backing him
Yesterday, 9 Philly Dems joined the GOP’s effort to overturn the 2021 election of DA Larry Krasner
4 of them are running to represent districts that voted overwhelmingly for Krasner in the 2021 Democratic Primary
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In case anyone still had any questions about who the strongest defender of public schools is among mayoral candidates, just look at who Jeff Yass & the Commonwealth Foundation are most afraid of (Stefano gave Gym a 0, Rhynhart a 5, and Amen Brown an 8 for debate performance lol)
What a sham. That they let Jennifer Stefano weigh in here…
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In 2017 the Phila. Police Foundation received $479,940 in contributions and grants, according to its 990 filing. One of the larger donors to the police foundation appears to be the Neubauer Family Foundation, which gets its $ from Joseph Neubauer, former Aramark Chairman and CEO.
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Watch out for A Greater Philadelphia in the coming year - in the mode of Philadelphia 3.0, they'll be acting like progressives while being run and funded by neoliberals and conservatives. 1/
@XO_LM
@CaralhoPhilly
@mr_saltz
@aaronbauman
Low and no income Black Philadelphians also deserve access to free transit.
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Amen Brown likely owes his political survival in last spring's primary to a big boost in funding from Republican billionaire Jeff Yass, so not totally surprised that he, like Jabari Jones, is having interesting conversations with Dr. Oz.
Did Dr Oz make this tweet attacking
@JohnFetterman
and Krasner while having lunch with
@RepAmenBrown
on Friday?
Also, why is a member of
@PaHouseDems
having lunch with the GOP nominee for US Senate?
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David Maser, chair of the Super PAC which has been ordered to stop spending money by the Philly Board of Ethics for illegally coordinating with Jeff Brown campaign, lists in his bio that he was a founding member and chair of the board for Philadelphia 3.0.
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Sorry to break it to you, but a multi-millionaire getting tax breaks to renovate luxury condos while public school teachers are dying from asbestos and kids are getting lead poisoning at school is fucking nefarious.
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Lovely how Stefano and Sammin now get to weigh in on the Senate debate for the Inquirer as "contributing columnists" without any recognition of their ties to a billionaire-funded right-wing lobbying and SuperPAC network.
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It's honestly hard to believe when you compare Philly vs. Baltimore Parks & Recreation operating budget spending per capita...and this is before the FY25 10% cut in Philly.
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Helen Gym shouldn't have attended the GBCA event at the Union League. The question for Jabari though (which he so far refuses to answer) is whether his PACs or orgs are, like Amen Brown, taking money from a billionaire who is one of DeSantis' biggest funders (Jeff Yass).
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Has been fascinating watching stadium YIMBYs' arguments evolve from "the stadium is popular among Chinatown residents" (very false) to "it's not actually in Chinatown" (it's a block away) to "actually the public shouldn't get any say" (lol)
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As the PPD responds to protests against them by demanding MORE funding from the City, it seems like a good time to point out that the $725 Police Department budget is not even the full cost of policing in Philly. Expenses also show up in other parts of the City budget... [THREAD]
Philly police seek extra $18 million for protest coverage and raises
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Doing our best to model the millions of dollars flowing between PACs that are funded primarily by options trader/school privatization champion Jeff Yass – and fueling the Commonwealth Partners-affiliated PA Republican political spending juggernaut. Deep dive in the thread below…
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"Mailers attacking three progressive Philadelphia state legislators with brutally blunt terms and images are now rupturing the group that sent them — and raising questions about who funded them and whether they are connected to the city’s Democratic Party"
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UPenn, Comcast, & Independence Blue Cross partner w/ the Philly Police Foundation to raise $$$ for the PPD. See who else is bankrolling the police here:
#defundthepolice
#fundourcommunities
#phillyprotests
#defundppd
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Thoughts and prayers from the Condo King who owns over $250 million worth of real estate in Philadelphia alone. How about instead you and your super-rich friends pay your damn taxes so that we don't have 26 people living in a 3-story rowhouse.
#TaxTheRichPHL
#WealthTax
“My thoughts and prayers are with the family members, friends, and neighbors of those who died during this morning’s tragic fire. I hope you will all join me in prayer for those still fighting for a full recovery at our hospitals." (1/2)
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Allan Domb resigns from city council, will likely run for mayor.
Did you know that from 2008-2019, Domb’s personally owned properties received at least $541,000 in abatements, about $300,000 of which would have gone to public schools?
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"most striking feature of Mayor Parker’s Sub-Cmte on Education is its dearth of educators...list contains just one public teacher & one principal, and no one is identified as a parent or student...In contrast, there are several charter admins & investors"
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Philadelphia Democratic City Committee has been run by Bob Brady since 1986. Bob got his start in politics running on Frank Rizzo's slate for Philly City Council in 1983.
This morning, we received news that the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee will be endorsing my challenger.
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Allan Domb basically said that giving $7 million to *his own campaign* was his way of giving back to the city of Philadelphia and the neoliberal brain trust at the Inquirer editorial board is like "great answer, great answer."
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"The investigation has found numerous cops who have claimed to be too injured to work but at the same time launched new businesses, toiled at physically strenuous jobs, rode motorcycles, played sports, and ran marathons."
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Meanwhile, today the School District had an unscheduled early dismissal due to excessive heat. Investments in school infrastructure like air conditioning are anti-violence investments. Repubs in PA state leg. are sitting on a multi-billion dollar surplus that could go to schools.
"The first time they carjacked, they were mostly bored."
what a story from
@EllieRushing
and
@dylancpurcell
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The person most likely running the "Next PHL Mayor" Twitter account:
1) Doesn't live in Philly
2) Is the cousin of a major real estate developer and works in real estate himself
3) Seems to have an interest in NFTs
Advise taking their political musings with these items in mind.
@mr_saltz
@phlsharp
@kanders26
upon further review, I'm feeling fairly confident it's Bart Blatstein's (developer of the Piazza) cousin Jeremy...he donated $100 to 5th Square on 2/11, and why else would Bart Blatstein be included in the mayor rankings? lol
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Great that RR wants to fully fund our libraries and rec centers, but sincerely don't see how that's possible while simultaneously continuing to further cut taxes (as her plans call for).
Tonight I did not address the core issue with the Fashion District curfew. Our teens have far too few places to go for activities. That’s why as mayor I will fully fund our libraries and rec centers to give our teens safe spaces and places in their neighborhood and in Center City
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If you want to learn more about the specifics about how the PA edu funding system unfairly favors charter schools, or cyber charter tax $ waste, recommend checking out the many resources created by groups like
@EdVotersPA
@pacharterchange
@Research4Action
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We know who the Inquirer endorsed for mayor and city council, but who does the Inquirer Board of Directors want to win?
* Allan Domb ($31k)
* Rebecca Rhynhart ($21k)
* Eryn Santamoor ($9k)
* Donavan West ($3k)
* Isaiah Thomas ($3k)
* Job Itzkowitz ($3k)
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Part of the reason that L&I is understaffed is because of insufficient pay, which is due to underfunding. Jabari just helped coordinate a campaign to get businesses to lobby Council for tax cuts. If we continue to defund public services, we can expect more of this.
This morning a 3 story building collapsed on our Lancaster Avenue commercial corridor, highlighting once again the need for the City to hire city inspectors - last month I testified to
@PHLCouncil
to rehire retired employees to fill these needed roles
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As the Inquirer runs yet another Stefano op-ed less than 32 hours after the Colorado Springs mass shooting, reminder that she and Sammin's orgs have been boosting transphobic and homophobic hate, just like the rest of the GOP
Not that surprising, but truly despicable that Broad & Liberty, which is chaired by
@PhilaEdFund
President (and former A Greater Philadelphia board member) Farah Jimenez, is sharing content feeding into the "groomer" panic which is going to get teachers and queer folks murdered.
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Galaxy brain thinking: not enough people vote in Philly, therefore we must allow about 130 mostly white men from rural/suburban PA decide if we picked the right DA
@ResearchPhilly
You mean 2/3 of 18% of philly voters who bothered to vote in the last DA primary?
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Meanwhile, one of the Vice Chairs of the education subcommittee of Parker's transition team is Dawn Chavous, a charter school advocate, president of a private school scholarship program, and wife of City Council president Kenyatta Johnson.
Cherelle Parker recently announced the Housing, Planning, and Development subcommittee of her transition team, and we saw some familiar names. They’re great additions—if you want to model our top evictors, slumlords, and discriminatory realtors.
🧵 for the details 🧾
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Supporting cuts to funding for schools and public services without any replacement revenue strategy, right as COVID relief money starts to run out, is not a "center left" position! It is conservative austerity politics.
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Inky editorial board: "Won't someone think of the feelings of the corporation with $5-14 billion in annual net income that pays $0 in property taxes to Philadelphia on its $1.2 billion skyscraper building for 10 years?"
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