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March 5, 2007 press release, (submitted via e-mail)

Sharif Street

City Council at Large

www.SharifStreetforPhilly.com

March 5, 2007

FOR MEDIA PLANNING PURPOSES

Contact: Dale Wilcox, BUZZCommunications LLC

Tel. (215) 985-2899, Cel. (267) 255-1640

Dale@BUZZCommunications.biz

 

MEDIA ADVISORY

Organized Labor 'Gets on the Bus' for Sharif Street

 

WHAT: Endorsements, rally and caravan for Sharif Street's campaign for City Council at Large

WHO: Sharif Street, Candidate, City Council at Large and Jeff Brooks, President, TWU Local 234; Walter "Butch" Bennett, Business Agent, Operating Engineers Local 542;

WHERE: TWU Headquarters, 2233 Spring Garden Street

WHEN: 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 7

City Council at Large candidate Sharif Street will receive the endorsement of several key Philadelphia unions, including the 5400-member Transit Workers Union Local 234.  Union leaders and rank-and-file members will then board a SEPTA bus adorned with an ultra-super-king 'Sharif Street for City Council at Large' bus wrap, which will lead a caravan to City Hall.  Members of the news media are invited to attend the endorsement and get on the bus, fare-free!

Community/Weekly Eds Note: Sharif, with the big bus, is tentatively scheduled to greet shoppers at 40th Street and Lancaster Avenue at 11:45, and at 52nd and Chestnut streets at 12:30. 

 


Last Updated: May 11, 2007