PhillyNow Primer: May 21, 2013 Primary Elections
If you’re reading this the same day it’s published (Tuesday, May 21, 2013), then you’re in luck. Because today is Election Day in Philadelphia and you get a chance to vote for the future of your city—in an off off-year no less! Republicans and Democrats are holding primaries. And in some cases, they’re important. The most talked-about race this...
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Obama, Romney Trade Barbs Over Pennsylvania Vote
Mitt Romney hadn’t even begun licking up the “They Love Me, They Really Love Me”-themed Carvel Whale cake icing smeared all over his face before the Obama for America-Pennsylvania email blast went out last night. The theme of the blast (and many others like it): Mitt Romney sucks and the Pennsylvania primary proved it. “Despite having an essentially...
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DAILY GRINDER: Santorum Defeats Paul, Gingrich in PA Primary!
This morning, it’s all election results (almost). The most-watched races in the city were likely in the Republican Senate race (Tom Smith beat PA GOP-endorsed Steve Welch), Democrat Attorney General (Kathleen Kane beat Patrick Murphy) and the 182nd PA House District (Brian Sims beat Babette Josephs). Statewide, five state Reps. were ousted in their respective...
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Seventy Volunteer on Importance of Voter ID Education
Faye Anderson is volunteering for '70.' Faye Anderson, who we last spoke to about her web-based Voter ID app Cost of Freedom, is out volunteering for the Committee of Seventy outside polling places today. Their mission: Inform the public on the new Voter ID law. She says while she’s been handing out the Seventy fliers she was given—which explain which...
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The Ladies of the 8th Ward Sound Off on Voter ID
Ruth Rump has been working Election Day polling places in Center City for the past 25 years. A Committeewoman in the Eighth ward, she’s had to get a number of additional jobs done preparing for today’s primary, mostly due to the recently-passed Voter ID Act. “Each voter here got a memo from me about the Voter ID Act and people at the polls have been directed...
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DAILY GRINDER: Today’s the Pennsylvania Primary–Here’s What You Should Know
It’s Primary Day and time to fulfill your civic duty. That is, vote in today’s primary. No matter your party (ahem, if you’re a Democrat or Republican, that is), you’ve got stuff to do today. State offices up for grabs include Attorney General, Treasurer, Auditor General, and a number of state Senator and State Rep. seats. Click here to read all...
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2012 Election: DNC, Obama Response to Santorum Shows Race Changing
It wasn’t long ago the Democratic National Committee and Obama Campaign were sending out daily emails attacking Mitt Romney’s attacks on them, in between the former Massachusetts governor’s ‘America the Beautiful’ serenades at lowly campaign rallies. But things have changed. New polls show former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum leading all...
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2012 Election: Drudge? Palin? Cain? What Killed Newt?
In a Republican primary that’s become cliché in its weirdness, another candidate has seemingly crashed and burned over the last week. It’s former Speaker Newt Gingrich. And after winning South Carolina by double-digits, it looks like he’s set to lose Florida by a similar margin. It’s hard to tell how, exactly, this happened. But it might come down to...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Nutter Asks, ‘Can We be Nonviolent for Just One Day in this City?’
Mayor Michael Nutter held a Martin Luther King, Jr. event yesterday at Enon Tabernacle Church and offered this money quote: “Can we be nonviolent for just one day in this city?” He continued: “We need to be champions of non-violence ourselves. We are one city, one community. There is only one Philadelphia,” he said. “When someone gets shot,...
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2012: Report from Rick Santorum’s Tele-TownHall
NOTE: Being that 2012 is a big election year, and – for the time being – one of our own is in the race, PW is setting aside some of its online content for election coverage. This blog is part of that. On the eve of the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Rick Santorum held what was billed as a tele-TownHall event. It essentially boiled down to a phone call...
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