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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
Rendell was what Philadelphia needed at the time.
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I second that and even had a picture taken with him.
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Nutter was exceptional. I think often about how much progress the city would be making on these problems if Nutter had Kenney's (growing) tax revenue. It would be night and day, the output.
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I talked to different people about Nutter and all I can say is that Nutter was very underwhelming. From property tax increases to gentrification, to major businesses leaving the city either for the suburbs like Lincoln Financial or other cities like Sunoco to Dallas, I was never impressed with Nutter. Kenney is better and even then, there are issues with him such as the beverage tax and the failure to lower business taxes to keep this city competitive.
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Everyone else was varying degrees of garbage. Street was by far the worst, but Kenney isn't far behind. I was too young to have a perspective on Wilson Goode.
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Opinions. I can understand Street being just as polarizing as Rizzo, but I'll admit that Street did maintain the number of reputable businesses here during his watch from 2000 - 2008 and Nutter doesn't have that cache other for being too aloof for not just blacks, but even whites and Latinos. And you have to remember, during Street's councilman years, he was Rendell's right hand man and Rendell did endorse Street in the 1999 election.
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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
Reinhart and Domb both have the potential to be very good mayors.
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Not acquainted with Reinhart but selecting a real estate developer is dicey, especially since people from all walks of life are complaining about gentrification. As far as mayor goes, I'd love to see Rendell come back for maybe 4 more years at the very least.
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Originally Posted by 3rd&Brown
I like Helen Gym where she is. I know she is the most popular politician in the city but I think she's too progressive to be the executive in a city which has to make difficult decisions to cut waste and fat. I like her more on council to hold people accountable and come up with good policy. She'd be a good Council President.
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I like Gym personally, but I can see a Latino being mayor before an Asian. There's more of a black/Latino coalition in Philly than there is a Black/Asian one and the Black/Asian one is one where blacks are the consumers and Asians are the business owners.
This isn't running on stereotypes, but as a black man that has lived in this city for almost two decades, I've noticed these things going on in not just Philly, but in my birth city of NYC, especially with Koreans. Gym is Korean, and her ethnicity has no bearing on my opinion of her, but Koreans have been known to be the most "white worshipping" of the Asian diaspora.
There are Chinese and Japanese that want to stay Chinese and Japanese, and it seems like groups like the Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians who tend to be more "urban" than the typical Asian in terms fashion, lingo, and even income, but with Peter Liang in Brooklyn, and now Tou Thao in the Twin Cities, I see it to be vey tough politically for Asians to make it to statewide and executive offices outside the West Coast, let alone Philadelphia for at least 20 - 25 more years.
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