State Rep. Metcalfe Says Voter ID Opponents ‘Too Lazy to Get Up and Get Out There’
During a radio interview Wednesday morning, Western Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe managed to offend, well, basically everyone. He agreed with Mitt Romney’s ‘47 Percent’ comments, said low-income earners are “living off the public dole,” and called those who cannot obtain ID for voting “lazy.” “I don’t believe any legitimate voter that...
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DAILY GRINDER: Terrance Williams Denied Clemency
Image: Change.org Convicted, condemned murderer Terrance Williams lost his clemency bid yesterday when the five member clemency board did not vote to unanimously spare his life. Clemens murdered Mt. Airy churchman Amos Norwood in 1984 during, it was then claimed, an alleged robbery. Since then, claims have been made that Clemens had been sexually abused by...
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DAILY GRINDER: Nutter Vetoes Finnegan’s Wake Balcony Plan
Regular City Council sessions begin tomorrow. And first things first: Mayor Nutter has vetoed the zoning plan that would have allowed 61-foot balconies on Finnegan’s Wake at 3rd and Spring Garden streets, citing “dramatic dedication of the public right-of-way to a primarily private use” and neighborhood complaints. South Jersey bros revolt! The...
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DAILY GRINDER: LGBT Group Equality PA Releases Endorsements
Equality PA has released its list of endorsements for the 2012 elections this week. Locally, they’ve put their name behind Michelle Brownlee, of the 195th state House district; Larry Farnese, of the 1st state Senatorial district; Steve McCarter, of the 154th state House District; Allyson Schwartz, of the 13th U.S. Congressional District; Vincent Hughes of the...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Koch Brothers Group May Pull PA Ads After Low Romney Polling
Chuck Todd of MSNBC—or NBC News?—tweeted yesterday that Americans for Prosperity, a Koch Brothers-funded right-wing group, was pulling out of Pennsylvania after a series of bad polls for Mitt Romney’s campaign. Both an AFL-CIO and Inquirer poll showed Romney down by almost 10 points. Polls have consistently shown Pennsylvanians don’t care much for the...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Twitter Analysis Shows Philadelphians Rudest in Country
An online project monitored places in which people say “Fuck you,” and places in which people say “Good morning” for 10 days and found—surprise!—Philadelphia is the rudest place in the country. We are always saying fuck you, apparently. You know where they don’t say “fuck you” on Twitter very much? Montana. Check out the state map here. Philadelphia’s...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Almost 30 Percent of Pennsylvanians are ‘Obese’ and This is Bad
28.6 percent of Pennsylvania’s residents are considered ‘obese.’ That statistic makes us 20th in the country (in 1995, our rate was about 16 percent) and will likely be used by soda tax proponents, whenever that becomes a thing again, forever and ever. The executive director of the Trust for America’s Health, which analyzed obesity data from the Center...
Continue ReadingConservative Poll Shows President Obama Leading in Pennsylvania
A poll released Friday by Rasmussen Reports, a conservative polling outlet, has found President Obama still leading Mitt Romney in Pennsylvania, though both candidates poll below 50 percent. The telephone survey of 500 likely voters conducted last week found Obama leading Romney 48 percent to 44 percent—with 4 percent preferring another candidate and 5 percent...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Another Voter ID Analysis Shows Bleak Picture
An Inky analysis of Voter ID numbers shows more bad news for Philadelphia (not surprisingly). One in four Philly voters over 80 do not have photo ID from the state Department of Transportation. The state has also counted about 136,000 potential voters whose names “did not match those with PennDot IDs” in the city—and about 15.6 percent of the city’s registered...
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