- Pennsylvania Among 'Terrible 10' Most Regressive Tax States
- February 4 Non-Partisan Training: HOW TO RUN FOR ELECTION BOARD IN 2013: HOW TO RUN FOR COMMITTEEPERSON IN 2014
- Republican Governors Opt-In to Medicaid Expansion
- The Reports of Unions' Death Are Greatly Exaggerated
- Ask Allyson Schwartz to run for Governor
- Mind the gap: Opting Out of Medicaid Expansion Leaves Low-income Families Behind
- Jan. 14 Workshop:HOW TO RUN FOR ELECTION BOARD IN 2013; HOW TO RUN FOR COMMITTEEPERSON IN 2014
- Seth Williams on Guns, Jasmine Rivera on School Closures @PFC Meetup Wednesday
- PA Revenue Strong Midway Through Year; Tax Cut Could Have Big Impact
- What to Make of the Fiscal Cliff Deal?
Frittering Away Philadelphia's Brand Equity One Casion at a Time: Fumo wins "John Perzel Wanna-a-Be Award"
Submitted by mdcphilly on Wed, 07/05/2006 - 12:19pm.
Over the weekend, State Senator Vince Fumo and a bunch of Pennsylvania state representatives voted for Philadelphia to lose its influence in determining where to put the two casinos that will be located in the city. Governor Rendell was quoted on KYW news radio as saying, “we need to take the decision of where to locate the casinos away from local politics.” Ed Rendell was once one of those local politician so I wonder what exactly he is thinking. This pre-emption of local rights is an outrageous and egarious power grab. Why is it happening? I don’t know but it seems to me that the local politicians, and Fumo in particular, can now:
1) Tell their constiuents that they have no control over the final decisions and hence can’t be accountable
2) Ignore the highly organized neighborhood opposition in the River wards and Hunting Park/East Falls
3) Ensure that the cash from potential casino operators flows to State politicians and decision makers
Another victory of the special interests over the people.
Retraction: Ed did condemn Fumo in the Inquirer article so my blasting him here was only a little over the top. I wish I could listen to the KYW report because I thought it definately conveyed a different story that what the paper says. And another update upon further research, Rendell did say that he favored taking the deal away from the local politicos: http://www.kyw1060.com/pages/53430.php
I think we are all learning w
I think we are all learning where certain elected individuals place the idea of the public trust. Why would we want dialogue? We all know good decisions are never made with dialogue. Could you imagine????
If Rendell truly said that, he should be ashamed of himself. I know that his campaign would say it is to take it out of local politics to help the communities, etc., but really it is to block people from having a say.
Government is only as good as our expectations, fortunately, places like this allow them to change.
can you post a link?
I missed this story and would appreciate a link to any coverage, so that I can see what the details might be (let alone what possible justification they might be dredging up). sounds terrible!!!
acm
Vincy Vince, Thanks for Nothing.
Link to KYW report on Fumo's actions are in main post upstairs. I'll try to find a source first next time. ;)
If Lynn Swann was running a campaign, he'd point out that stuff like this is bad.
Casino Free Philadelphia's Trip to Harrisburg Last Week
Here is a link to a Hallwatch's coverage of our bus trip to Harrisburg last week, http://www.hallwatch.org/photos/sunshine20060629. As far as I know, not one City Councilor, the Mayor nor Mayoral candidates have spoken up in opposition to Fumo's efforts. What gives?
Here...hidden away as a one sentance throw away...
A few paragraphs below from our favorite paper of record:
Actually, that article doesn't say the proposal was passed so I could be wrong. Somebody please prove me wrong but Vince still should be voted out of office for this junk. Thanks.
Anti-Philly Legislation -- from Philly Pols
Fumo's argument is that his constituents can't be trusted with such important decisions...Because they might disagree with the Senator and his Casino allies?