Wednesday, April 20, 2005
WoooHo! We're #50!
I've been meaning to put this up for a while now, but could not stop laughing every time I started to read it:
Quack.
- He's hardly in agreement, but Mayor Street knows why Philadelphia, if by reputation and ranking only, has gone from having America's best mayor to one of its worst, in the estimation of Time Magazine.
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He also said it won't impact the agenda he has for the city during his last two and a half years as mayor. "I'm not going any place. I'm going to be right here to the last day of my term," Street said.
During the 25-minute news conference, he refused to grade his performance as Philadelphia's chief executive. He was neither combative nor complacent.
He rejected the idea that the federal investigation into city contracts and other municipal matters would define his legacy in the way that the tenure of former Mayor W. Wilson Goode is marred by MOVE. "Once it ends, it ends," he said of the federal probe. Though one of his political fundraisers was indicted, as well as the former city treasurer, Street has been accused of no crime.
Given the powers of a mayor, especially in Philadelphia's strong-mayor type of government, Street said it was difficult for him to imagine someone bearing that title being a lame duck - with one exception. "The only person who could make a mayor a lame duck," he said, "is a mayor himself."
Quack.
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