Fight For Philly, Veterans Rally Against Pat Toomey
This is still creepy. Fight For Philly held a small rally today in front of Senator Pat Toomey’s office. This time they were there for the veterans portion of the American Jobs Act, which may be up for a vote today. Every Republican and self-hating Democrat (Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson; both of which have no real successes in their entire careers) blocked the...
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Toomey Helps Block Bill Which Would Fix Philly’s Deficient Bridges, Create Jobs
Yesterday, Mayor Michael Nutter took to the 40th Street Bridge to “to advocate for sustained infrastructure investment by the Federal government”—specifically, the Rebuild America Jobs Act, a portion of the Congressionally-rejected American Jobs Act of 2011 President Barack Obama introduced earlier this year. The bill was up for a vote in Washington later...
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Fight for Philly Job Advocates told to ‘Occupy a Bathtub’ at Rally
Only four counter-protesters made it to Fight For Philly’s ‘Toomey Monopoly’ rally yesterday. That’s about half the number from the last time protesters came out to his Philly office at 8 Penn Plaza—though they wielded many of the same homemade signs, including “Cut Taxes and Spending” and “We Are the 53 Percent,” the latter of which...
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Occupy Philly Day of Action Ends in Arrests (Updated)
Two women and seven men were arrested. Nine members of Occupy Philly were arrested today during a national day of action – a general strike and march to GOP Sen. Pat Toomey’s office – that culminated in a number protesters sitting down in the lobby of the Comcast Center, linking arms, refusing to move. Bike police quickly barricaded the glass lobby...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: More Philly Taxpayer Automobile Smears
Councilman Brian O’Neill took the Joe Duda way out of the City Council Car Debate last night during a debate with rival Bill Rubin. It’s not that O’Neill necessarily needs, or even wants a taxpayer-funded car, people! But the car is there! It’s free and a pine tree hangs from the rearview! It’s got new rims! Would YOU turn that down? I don’t...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Rizzo Goes Indie! Kenney and Nutter! Ethics Charges! Council is Nuts!
The Frank Rizzo-Brian O’Neill City Council Republican hilarity has come to this: Rizzo now lists his party as “no affiliation.” Count it! The ordeal started when Rizzo voted for the Council redistricting plan that will result in O’Neill having a run for his money in the November elections. O’Neill then stripped Rizzo of his minority whip status. Then...
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Another Center City Rally For Jobs That Aren’t Coming
Liberal activist group Moveon.org and several others held a rally at Senator Pat Toomey’s Philadelphia office today, calling for healing America through higher taxes for Wall Street brokers and banks. An audience of about 50 listened and chanted as speakers from groups like MoveOn, the Communications Workers of America, National Nurses United and HealthCare4AllPA...
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J Street Activists Call for Ending Israel-Palestine Conflict With U.S. Support
Before the tremors of the earthquake were felt in Center City yesterday, a group of activists with an international agenda met to discuss other land issues, perhaps of a greater magnitude. Backing President Obama’s vision for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, which has roots over 100 years old, J Street Philadelphia, a branch of a national...
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DAILY GRINDER: PLCB Knew Wine Kiosk Plan Sucked, Went Through With it Anyway
The Liquor Control Board is just this beacon of greatness. And competence. Case in point (on opposite day): Those wine kiosks, which everyone hated and basically served as a reminder of how fucked our alcohol laws are. The LCB knew they weren’t going to be worth a damn (in their existence, the 30 kiosks’ sales totaled $1.2 million), and explicitly said so...
Continue ReadingUpdate: Toomey’s Budget Released
It happened yesterday: Pat Toomey released his budget to some fine fanfare and heat from the obvious sides politics nerd-o-sphere. As stated Monday, Toomey’s budget would set a goal of balancing the budget by 2020, half the time Paul Ryan’s controversial budget sets to do the same. His tactics are the usual. A series of harsh domestic cuts, which include...
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