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Originally Posted by cardeza
He has gone around touting his landslide victories as if he beat out tough competition in high turnout elections- he has not. He had a primary challenger last year who he beat and then basically no competition in the general and participation was low. So he probably got the votes of 20% of Philadelphia's adults and he is going around talking about how he has a mandate and if anyone disagreed with him he wouldn't have racked up landslide margins. On Fox29 he actually said the city agrees with his positions and his job performance because he was elected by huge margins- if there were any issues he wouldn't have been re-elected so he is not changing course on ANYTHING.
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They don't post on this board apparently but there are obviously a lot of people who agree with him. And what do you want him to do? He can only run against the people he's running against. Don't like him? Put up some better candidates. He crushed his competition regardless of what you think of it.
Do I think he's done a great job? No, not really. Overall, pretty disappointing. When you're trying to change the system the odds are stacked against you and you need to not get in your own way. He's had a lot of own goals and he's needlessly made his job harder. He reminds me a lot of deposed Sixers GM Sam Hinkie. I agreed with what he was trying to do 100%, but it's dispiriting to support someone who isn't helping themselves. Like Hinkie, I wish Krasner was better at PR and could better articulate his policies and goals to the greater public.
Though I will say, I have no idea why McBane is lumping him in with a who's who of corrupt Philly politicians. There is no indication Krasner is corrupt and he's doing exactly the job he said he would do when he was elected in a landslide victory. And again low turnout, blah blah, it doesn't matter, he won.
At the end of the day his views on prosecution and public safety align with my own and so even though he's imperfect, I'd continue to support him, unless a better candidate ran who supported the same policies. I understand if people here disagree, and they're well within their rights to support someone else in the next election. This impeachment however is an illegal sham and regardless of what your think of Krasner you should all be fighting against it unless you want some hicks representing some podunk nowhere place having final say over who we democratically elect in our own city.