“Our Senate is OK with Fascism” and 20 other Quotes to Think About Over Your Holiday Break
It’s been a long December, as a wise, dread-locked man once said. And we’ve been reporting/blogging/commenting on it as much as humanly possible. In light of that (and it being the Friday before Christmas and all) we’ve decided to give you some of those December-time quotes coming out of Philly and Pennsylvania politics, gossip and whatever else this blog...
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Rick Santorum Has Plan to Win Over Gay Voters
"...and I have gay friends. So there!" This week, we saw presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum get the endorsements of two of Iowa’s Greatest Anti-Gay Zealots. Then, Republican frontrunner (?) Newt Gingrich tells a gay Iowan to “vote for Obama.” Now, perhaps in light of Gingrich’s politically exhausted moment,...
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Santorum NOT Endorsed by Wacky Anti-Gay Group — Just Its Leaders
The FAMiLY LEADER, an anti-gay, pro-“slavery was better for blacks” Iowa group announced today they would not be endorsing one single Republican presidential candidate. Apparently, there’s too much wingnuttery to go around this year. On its surface, that’s a big blow for our former Senator and the current Presidential candidate, Rick Santorum, who’s...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: PW Reader Starts Petition for Law Change in Sex Abuse Cases
So, Dead Spin picked up PW writer Tara Murtha’s piece on Pennsylvania’s “ass-backward” laws as they pertain to sex abuse charges and expert testimony. Then, a reader started a Change.org petition urging Sen. Greenleaf, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to pass Bill 1264, which would allow experts to address questions about victim behavior in sex...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Councilwoman Discriminates Against Jehovah’s Witness?
Jehovah’s Witness and former Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell assistant Tyeisha Boulware has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Philadelphia and City Council for unlawful religious discrimination. Boulware claims being a Jehovah’s Witness barred her from wearing a Christmas-themed sweater to a holiday party and voting. Blackwell didn’t like that,...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Ex-Philly Police Captain Told to Stop Wearing Uniform at Occupy Protests
Philadelphia Police Chief Charles Ramsey sent a cease and desist letter to retired Philadelphia Police Captain Raymond Lewis, who was recently arrested at an Occupy Wall Street protest. Ramsey would like you to take off your shirt, Mr. Lewis. “It could give the mistaken opinion that somehow this is a statement being made by a member of the police department,...
Continue ReadingSantorum Offends Muslim Group, Grows Favor with Base
Though inadvertently, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has done a favor to the Rick Santorum for President campaign. See, in typical Santorum “look at me…please!” fashion, he remarked at Tuesday night’s Republican Presidential Debate how much he wants to take brown children, and force them into a strip search in the name of American Heroism. “Obviously...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Occupy Philly Told to Leave; Will they ‘Self-Evict?’
Occupy Philly received an eviction notice last night that may be more vague than it’s letting on. It reads: “Notice of start of Dilworth Plaza construction. Be advised that the permit for demonstration on city property issued by the City of Philadelphia effective 10/6/11 expires at the start of Dilworth Plaza construction project. The project’s commencement...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: What’s the Over/Under on Rick Santorum’s ‘Moneybomb’?
Rick Santorum has begun what’s called a “Moneybomb”—essentially a cool-sounding donation beg-a-thon—from now until the Iowa caucus, which is 50 days. In a fundraising email, Santorum writes that he’s “the only passionate conservative running for president. I am running hard to win the Iowa caucuses, spending more time in the Hawkeye state than any...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Philly Rep. Josephs to be Censured by GOP Radical?
The Harrisburg fighting between Rep. Daryl Metcalfe and Rep. Babette Josephs of Pennsylvania’s 182nd District (parts of South Philly, Center City, Fairmount) has reached its boiling point. Metcalfe, in the long, hard road to push through as many pieces of wingnut legislation as he can (Berfer bills, Voter ID, anti-immigration, etc.) has just had it up to...
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