Ann Dicker has been exposed for the Fraud that she is!
The problem was she did not keep her word she did not run her campaign with courage and grace. That is why her top people bailed on her a week before the election! The reason, because she got in bed with Doc you want proof she calls Doc's campaign manager up for advice after the Inquirer endorsed Farnese! Why was Dicker consulting with Dougherty's media consultants anyway? Isn't corruption something she is sworn to oppose? No one is more corrupt than John Dougherty! Why did Dougherty's media consultants tell Ann Dicker to stay in the race? Anyone with half a brain knew it was to hurt Farness. It was obvious that Ann Dicker was in bed with the Dougherty campaign. Ann Dicker is just like any other politician but not as smart, there is no doubt in my mind she got played by Doc. The smart move would have been to drop out and back Farnese that would have guaranteed Farnese a victory and the Buss would be that Ann Dicker decided the election and Farnese would have owed her and supported her on her next try for office. I am so happy that she was exposed for the fraud that she is and I hope this is the last we hear of that "Has Been" Ann Dicker let me rephrase the correct term is probably that "Never Was" Ann Dicker!
Gratuitous Character Assassination
This is the kind of gratuitous character assassination that makes progressive unity extraordinarily difficult to achieve.
Talking to Larry Ceisler--an informed, irrepressible, interesting person regardless of where he or you stands on any given issue--hardly makes one corrupt. I have talked to him repeatedly over the years, both when we agreed on a choice of candidates and when we disagreed, and I have gained from those conversations.
Further, the allegations against Dougherty, like the allegations against Fumo, have not been proven in a court of law. Throwing around allegations of corruption as though they are hard facts is just plain irresponsible.
Larry Farnese has won an impressive primary victory and now may or may not face a strong general election challenge. This is a time for graciousness and outreach among his supporters in order for him to run as the candidate of a unified Democratic Party in the Fall.
This is a time for graciousness and outreach...
I certainly hope the same holds true for a State Rep. race in NE Philly ( yes we do vote above Bridge St. ) where the Democrats have the best chance in a decade of beating former speaker John Perzel. Even with a brazen attempt of a Local 21 IUPAT " Hillary & Tim Kearney " mailing and a similar ballot handout, using every Republican committee person to support Tim Kearney ( who Perzel clobbered twice before ) Rich Costello won a 57-43 primary and needs, as Mark Cohen so aptly put it...for Tim Kearney as well, "This is a time for graciousness and outreach among his supporters in order for him to run as the candidate of a unified Democratic Party in the Fall." I know we can count on Rep. Cohen to assist in that effort.
Traditionally The Role of the Winning Candidate
It is traditionally the role of the winning candidate and his or her supporters to reach out to the losing candidate and his or her supporters.
I look forward to Rich Costello extending such an invitation soon, if one has not been extended already.
Ah, the Sweet Northeast
Hi Devlin! I can speak only for myself, but I'd be delighted to hear more about NE Philly politics. West, Northwest, South, and Center City Philadelphia are well-represented. But that's because the people who live in those neighborhoods and know its politics well blog here a lot. If the boys and girls above Bridge St have the time and inclination, this is the place. I hope we can count on you to assist in that effort.
graciousness and outreach
Dear Terry,
If you were really interested in "graceousness and outreach" you would first stop your character assassination tirades like this one:
"I think Kearney pretty much did himself in with the NE Times interview...his reference to having moved form Germantown just to run against Perzel...I suspect at that point it was the only place he saw he could a nomination of any party, except MAYBE the CPUSA..."
And you tell us finally what is so progressive about Rich Costello, whose campaign extensively used Tim Kearney' s sincere answer to the "Northeast Times" that he "does not know who killed Mumia" to falsely accuse him in supporting the "Free Mumia" movement. I canvassed at least 10 divisions of the 172nd district and can attest that Mumia's guilt is not the first problem on people's minds.
How will your campaign appeal to these people who do not have health isurance, who cannot afford college, who live on pension which is not adjusted according to the growing cost of living? I know Tim's campaign would answer these questions. All I know about Costello is: "He favors more competition among health care providers" (NE TImes, April 14). Great! More right wing than Perzel.
I was part of the group that left the campaign
And I don't think you are being fair or mature. Anne's poor choice of final strategy and what I would see as a bull-headed misread of what it means to aim to be "independent" in that race was just that - a "poor choice". I honestly think her decision was her own and based on a perhaps misguided emotional attachment to "defeating Fumo" above and beyond the fact that the criminal charges that Fumo faces, are his and his alone.
She may have accepted misleading, manipulative advice from Ceisler (who is Doc's media advisor/PR guy not his campaign manager BTW). She may have made some immature, poorly thought out, hasty decisions based bad advice compounded by pure emotion rather than a realistic analysis of who was the other progressive in the race. She may have have in fact been "played" to a certain degree but until you show me a last minute contribution from the IBEW COPE, I'm going believe it was just that - emotion and anger, leading to a lack of a balanced perspective on big picture of progressive politics generally and the casino resiting cause specifically.
My advice to Anne would be to sit down and spend some long, hard hours thinking about why she got a notion to run for office in the first place. I would suggest she maybe got so wrapped in the heat of the minute she lost sight of the big picture. I would suggest she might meditate on how sometimes when you set into battle championing a cause you can lose track of the why you started out in the first place and that leads to sometimes counterproductive decisions.
Anne's got a lot to think about. Lets let her do that thinking without the jeers and taunts, OK?
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.
Sean has really been the voice of reason
through most of this, which I didn't totally expect.
Thanks
I think.;)
In six months lack of transparency in how Harrisburg conducts its business, lack of funding and lack accountability for our schools and those darn casinos will still be giant issues and ultimately thats what matters. Farnese is way more likely to be responsive to these issues, actually campaigned on these issues, sees these issues as vital to the future of Philadelphia. You could not say the same thing for Dougherty on any count. Sometimes it really is that simple.
-Sean
MrLuigi, my cat, actually only types half as badly as I do.