Here is my endosement list for today’s elections in Philadelphia. I live in the 2nd District, so my vote on city council went to Damon Roberts. There is little chance that he can beat Anna Verna. It’s a huge ballot, which is causing delays. I was the 75th person to vote in my polling station at 10AM. There were only two people in front of me but it still took 15 minutes for me to get in the voting booth. Even with a pre-prepared list, it still took me about five minutes to punch everything in and make sure I covered everything. I strongly suggest bringing a list.
Supreme Court
C. Darnell Jones – D.
Debra M. Todd – D.Superior Court
Christine L. Donohue – D.
Anne Lazurus – D.Mayor- Michael Nutter – D.
Sheriff- Michael Untermeyer – D.
City Council
(Contested races only)
At-Large
Caryn Hunt – D.
Matt Ruben – D.
Marc Steir – D. – (Button 81)
Andrew Toy – D. (Button 84)
Derek S. Green – D. (Button 86)District 1- Vern Anastasio – D.
District 2- Damon Roberts- D.
District 4- Matthew McClure – D.
District 5- Haile Johnston – D.
District 7- Maria Quinones-Sanchez – D.
District 8- Irv Ackelsberg – D.
District 9- Marian B. Tasco – D.Common Pleas Court
Ellen Green-Ceisler – D. (Button 26)
Beverly Muldrow – D. (Button 25)Municipal Court
Joe Waters – D. (Button 35)
Joyce Eubanks – D. (Button 37)Philadelphia Ballot Questions
No. 2 – Quit to run – NO
No. 3 – Youth advisory panel – NO
Nos. 4, 5, 6 – Planning and zoning reform – YES
No. 7 – Iraq troop deployment – NO
No. 8 – City bond issue – YES
No. 9 – Real estate valuation – NO
At a mimimum, I’d like to see us win the Mayor’s race, the seventh district city council seat, and at least one at-large city council seat. Anything more than that will be gravy.
the Chaka Fattah Funkmobile just drove by my house. They’re blasting a funk beat with a rap about how awesome Fattah is. I love Philly politics.
Is it better than the Obama ’04 parade music?
We had planes overhead yesterday here. Nothing today.
I’m splitting from you on a few of the CC at-large and two ballot questions in particular — I like getting rid of resign-to-run, b/c I’d prefer it if Nutter could have stayed on Council were he to lose. And while I regard the “change the Charter to protest the War” to be irredeemably stupid, I don’t mind voting for it anyway.
Wow, that is really bad. Fattah has a better beat.
I wish his van would play music in my neighborhood. All we get is the loudspeaker on top of the van blasting “Chaka Fattah is running for mayor. His campaign is in your neighborhood. Chaka Fattah is running for mayor. His campaign is in your neighborhood. Chaka Fattah is running for mayor. His campaign is in your neighborhood.” Over and over again. They stopped right in front of my place for half an hour the other day and just left it on. Fuckers. The worst this cycle have been the Dwight Evans motorcades. They have loudspeakers and and music and they blast their horns and blow through red lights making other people blast their horns and the thing is long – like 20 cars long. I can barely hear my neighbors cursing at each other and throwing shit with that kind of crap going on.
that’s what you get for going all art museum on us.
Man these ballot measures are a pain, the only one I had really given any thought to is number 1 and its been cancelled. I’m going to go vote soon, but I don’t really like going in without an informed opinion about the ballot. I guess I can follow my usual habit of voting NO if I don’t really have an opinion.
Out of curiosity. Why is it that the Iraq troop deployment is an amendment to our city charter? Who did that?
My favorite campaign tool is the car with loudspeakers.
When Street ran for Mayor the first time, there was this guy driving around the block 24/7 with speakers blaring “John Street for Mayor! Remember, if you don’t vote, you can’t complain!” over and over and over again.
i thought that was such a good incentive to vote, because after all, is there any population that complains more than Philadelphia? If we had a city-wide Festivus, the Airing of the Grievances would never end. Festivus would be a 365-day long holiday.
Besides, who caes what you think? After all, “Bowers, Booman and the rest of the Philly Bloggers won’t have had a god damn thing to do with it…The Blogosphere is fucking irrelavent in Philadelphia’s Democratic City Politics. Absolutely fucking irrelavent. Union Halls, Church Congregations, Activist Groups.
Not whitebread twinkies. The Reality is that Booman’s post, Bower’s posts-they can bullshit 99% of the people who read it who have no idea about how Philly and a lot of other towns like it work.”
As they say, BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Doood, live off the laaaand man, will dance on the ashes of civilization man and makes clothes of hemp.