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REPRINTED FROM THENEXTMAYOR.COMFebruary 7, 2007 press release, (submitted via e-mail) |
New Leadership. New Direction. A New Philadelphia.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 7, 2007
CONTACT: Melanie Johnson
(215) 545-9700
(267) 984-2027 cell
melanie@nutter2007.com
Philadelphia, February 7, 2007— When Councilman Kenney introduced his bill in City Council last week to revoke the campaign finance limits, outraged citizens protested and condemned this move. In response to the protest, Kenney has announced his intent to amend his bill -- he now wants to substitute a “sliding scale” of donations that exceed the City’s campaign finance limits. However, this latest attempt to amend the campaign limits is just a back-door way to accomplish the same goal.
Only in Philadelphia could a less bad law be considered better. With city indictments coming down like raindrops and one former councilman in jail, our elected officials should be trying to stop any effort to repeal the contribution limits. City Council should stop fiddling with the law while Philadelphia is burning down from corruption and indictments. My good friend Jim Kenney has been a good councilman, but this recent effort is unfair to the public who voted overwhelmingly in 2005 to change the City Charter in response to City Hall’s pay-to-play scandals. The citizens of this city have had enough. I call on all of the mayoral candidates to publicly join me in rejecting this new effort to take our city back into the swamp of pay-to-play.
Our city deserves a clean election. We need to stop changing the rules and instead, we should be conducting a campaign. With barely 95 days left before the election, there is a race to be run and changing course in mid-stream is like changing the rules at half-time because you don’t like how the game is going. We should be talking about the issues and putting our efforts into making sure that we elect a Mayor who will be part of the solution instead of part of the problem. Philadelphia deserves better – let’s demand it.
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