Philadelphia attorney launches GOP mayoral bid
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whyy.orgPosted Dec 18, 2018, 6:40 PM UTC
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whyy.orgKenney’s campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt said in a statement that “under Mayor Kenney, crime is at a 40-year low."
- Why is Mayor Kenney's office even being asked for a statement on this?
- LOL at said statement. Meanwhile the city's murder rate is at a ten year high.
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Meanwhile the city's murder rate is at a ten year high.
To be fair, both statements can be true. There could definitely be less crime, just that more of said crime consists of murders.
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murder rate
Not the rate, but the total count. Because the population is much higher.
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Because the population is much higher.
oh yeah?? got a sauce on that data??
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Lord knows, it's all the yuppies moving in from the burbs who are driving the murder count up.
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+54k 2010-2017, per US Census Bureau
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His Facebook page mocks CNN coverage of the president, and Ciancaglini said while he knows Trump is “an incredibly polarizing individual … I tend to judge people on the job they are doing. So far, I think he’s doing an OK job.
“They were the greatest thing ever put on the internet, if you ask me,” Ciancaglini said of [his former campaign] videos.
Delusional take on the President? Inflated sense of self? Concern trolling Antifa and defending the Proud Boys? JAQing off to televised [same-sex kissing] (https://twitter.com/BillyforPhilly/status/1066064458970218496)? Doesn't understand that twitter comes with a per-post character limit? Unironically uses the word 'bozo'?
Taking bets on what his r/philadelphia username is
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I honestly don't see how anyone in their right mind would ever thing Trump was doing a job at all. Seems like he has taken more vacation time than work days at this point
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I don't think it's possible to overstate how important pushing through two Supreme Court nominees is. SCOTUS is basically a super-legislature that is responsible for sorting out most if not all of the major disagreements we have on how society should be run. Two lifetime appointments is a massive victory for conservatives.
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Not really, Nixon appointed 4 justices.
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They probably don't spend all day watching CNN and MSNBC.
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It's 2018. Tweeting and making TV appearances is a job.
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Seems like he has taken more vacation time than work days at this point
This has been said about every president since I've been old enough to pay the slightest amount of attention to politics.
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Trump's taken 8 less than Obama, Bush 2, and Clinton combined.
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Feel like if that were true, CNN wouldn't be able to stfu about it. If you want to link some stuff and prove me wrong, go for it, but I don't really take this response seriously enough to google it.
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If you go to Ray's on your 21st, you'll get a shot on the house
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Hahaha nevermind, the regulars at Ray's don't take kindly to downvoters, they're more of a frozen peach crowd, maybe order a daiquiri instead
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Real talk this guy ain't going anywhere.
Only hope is a frank rizzo esque character who wants to be tough on crime, tough on tax deadbeats, tough on traffic enforcement and moving violations, tough on water deadbeats, tough on property code enforcement, hires 500 more police officers, is proactive on center city loading zones, bully pulpits septa into changing and completely reforming bus lines to radically improve service and does the same for regional rail, runs on eliminating councilmanic privilege somehow, promises to bully the land bank into selling as many properties as possible and sets a timetable on it dissolving itself, combines all public land and development corps into one entity,
Should I go on?
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Shocking, your ideal platform for a candidate is that they promise to bully everyone they have to deal with, and also hires more officers, presumably, so they may bully by proxy.
Out of morbid curiosity, I'm wondering what "proactive on loading zones" means. Can you bully a loading zone?
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If getting someone to do what they should (re:tax deadbeats, l&i violators, criminals) requires bullying then so be it. Perhaps it's the lack of bullying that let's people act however they fucking want in this city.
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Perhaps it's the lack of bullying
Current year Libertarian thought: Stop telling me what to do
Current year Republican thought: Perhaps there's not enough bullying
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Current democratic thought: let the inmates run the asylum and blame The Man for our own failures
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I'm using the word bullying in an over the top way. The bully pulpit and heavy handed rhetoric is a big part of how I think a successful center right mayoral run might go, and how I think the only way a mayor would be successful in accomplishing what I think they would need to. You're seeing the word bullying, and having a conniption. Publicly shaming an idea and a way of doing city business is rhetorical. If you were triggered by the use of the word bullying I don't apologize.
Insofar as loading zones go, being proactive with regards to them is redesigning center city parking zones and adding Uber/loading/delivery zones where possible, in a technocratic way, without the input of dumbass councilpersons.
Of course, a main platform to fire up voters would be councilmanic privilege, and its evils, and use the bully pulpit of the podium to shamelessly deride and bring light to its shortcomings.
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I'm using the word bullying in an over the top way.
You're seeing the word bullying, and having a conniption. Publicly shaming an idea and a way of doing city business is rhetorical. If you were triggered by the use of the word bullying I don't apologize.
"Once again, when called out, I will insist I the words I wrote don't have the same meanings as the words I wrote. If, when you take my words at face value, I will react by namecalling because I hate being held to my words, which only have a specific meaning when it is convenient to me."
redesigning center city parking zones and adding Uber/loading/delivery zones where possible, in a technocratic way,
Cool! Excellent idea, and one I agree with. See how easy it was to describe that without using the idea of "bullying"?
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“Once again, I’ll just attack the use of a single word rather than the ideas contained in a paragraph”
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Let's get Alan Domb or someone like him to run as an independent...it's the only chance we have to get rid of terrible taxpayer-fleecing Kenney.
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Are you involved with the city Republicans? I'm curious what was the thought process behind running this guy. I realize they dont expect he will win but, with all due respect, he doesn't seem to be at all viable
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No, I'm 100% independent. I don't associate with partisan political parties.
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Domb owns half of rittenhouse square and is predictably a straight up Republican. A coat of independent paint on him won't help.
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The only "Republican" thing about him is that he's fiscally responsible.
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Have you seen what the deficit has done under republican government?
Deficits in billions 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
$679 $485 $438 $585 $665 $779
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Agreed, but they've strayed from traditional Republican values when it comes to fiscal conservatism. Still, much better than how Democrats handle taxpayer dollars.
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Sure, why not? Hell I’ll run as a GOP candidate too. We’ll probably get the same amount of votes.
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lol good luck, these people will vote kenney no matter what
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Streets are dangerously in disrepair. Murder rate through the roof. We have become a national talking point in the opioid addiction crisis. The real estate bubble is seconds away from bursting. City council is running amok, as corrupt as they were under Street. The police commissioner is just here to keep cops happy. The DA is....I don’t know. Soda Tax money is not going where it should. Schools are...Well, what they have been for 15 years so I can’t really put that on him.
But Kenney is making sure that is twitter account is stocked with snappy jokes and poorly put together videos with stupid responses to even stupider tweets.
Fuck Jim Kenney. He’s not getting a second vote from this democrat.
Edit: sorry, I should clarify that I’m also not voting for this douche mentioned here
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vote woodser
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Fuck Jim Kenney. He’s not getting a second vote from this democrat.
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....I don’t like that
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Ciancaglini doesn’t like Kenney’s sanctuary city policy or his plan for supervised injection sites for opioid users.
“I also disagree completely with this soda tax,”
Too soon to say, but this might be my first election where I vote for a republican.
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I mean you only have to google downtown east side Vancouver and you'll soon find, from local news sources, that it is a shithole of epic proportions. Visit Vancouver. See it for yourself. The insite project started in 03. That's FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, and it's an even more cursed shithole today! Gimee a break, dude.
But muh "case studies" tho
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"Great success" how's that fake kool aid taste? Been to east downtown Vancouver?
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Work for what?
Reducing heroin use? Can you please link me some of these studies?
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Looks like they re-evaluated their statement
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Guess it's better than having a 20x reply string talking to someone with their hands over their ears.
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Good luck bro.
Does he know that r/philadelphia alt accounts can't vote?
edit: commenting on the state of the sub, not him
Six months, active user, posts in multiple other subs, but it's an r/philadelphia alt account?
Enlighten me, what is an r/philadelphia alt account?
The fuck? This is obviously u/8Draw's claim to make.. Why would you even ask that?
My joke was a jab at nonresidents who make multiple accounts just to troll here, not at you.
There are so many of them that if they all could vote for a philly mayor maybe a repub would have a shot.