Daily News | With Kenney in hot water, candidates swear to do better
“Unacceptable” was the word two mayoral candidates used to describe the is-it-safe-or-not water situation in Philadelphia over the past two days. A handful of the contenders slammed the City Hall response to the problem, saying the communications were haphazard andThey of course vowed that — if elected — they’d do things differently.
That’s what Megan Reed, a public health professor at Jefferson, told The Inquirer in response to recent polling that shows Philadelphians are rejecting policies that criminalize people with addiction. Republicans had a grip on power in Philly for 70 years until 1952, when the city adopted the Home Rule Charter, a document that’s akin to a constitution and created the form of government the city still operates under today, which includes term limits for mayors. Only Democrats have been elected to the mayor’s office since. Here are some fun facts about Clark:
When he was campaigning, he used to carry around a broom to symbolize how he’d clean up City Hall and “sweep out” corruption.
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