The Committee of Seventy has gotten us a DROP refresher. Observe: “Council members Jannie Blackwell, Blondell Reynolds Brown, Darrell Clarke, W. Wilson Goode, Jr., Bill Green, Bill Greenlee, Curtis Jones, Jr., Jim Kenney and Maria Quiñones Sánchez can enroll in DROP. Marian Tasco is already in DROP. Since she has no opponent in the general election, she will retire for 24 hours in January 2012, get her $478,057 DROP payment and return to office.” And of those on City Council, “Blackwell, Clarke and Greenlee said they had no current plans to enroll – but won’t rule it out.” [In The Know PDF]

The numbers are in! …and 17.6 percent of you voted. Don’t feel as bad as you should, though, because as Heard in the Hall notes, that number is more than four points higher than 2003 when John Street beat Sam Katz a second time and about a point higher than 1995, a year in which Ed Rendell ran for mayor unopposed. [Heard in the Hall]

Is it worth telling you a “long time ally of Philadelphia Housing Authority chief Carl R. Green” has been accused of misappropriating thousands of dollars form a nonprofit? We assume no, but better safe than sorry. [Inky]

It begins: “What I want to do right now is create a list of options and in order to do that I have to have a number of conversations with a bunch of different people including some of my longtime supporters including Councilman Darrell Clarke, I will talk to the party chairman there are other political figures, I mean I have to make a very serious decision.” – John Street [Newsworks]

Philly is still working on two elections: The GOP Mayoral race (Brown leads by 59 votes) and City Council District 2 (Kenyatta Johnson leads Barbara Capozzi by 72 votes). The recounts begin tomorrow and will be done Wednesday. And we wait. [CBS]

Yeah, a tornado hit Northeast Philly. [CBS]

And on the count of three, the media is going to stop talking about this idiocy that is “planking.” Not just because everything about it is stupid, but because it’s an entirely media-driven-slow-news-cycle-wait-a-minute-we’re-still-in-Libya? phenomenon. 1…2…