I shared lunch with Fred Voigt, the longtime executive director of the Committee of Seventy, today.
Photo courtesy of Chestnut Hill Local, a community newspaper in northwest Philadelphia.
Interview: Fred Voigt, Committee of Seventy former executive director
February 7, 2008 by Christopher Wink
[...] Outside of election season, their small staff considers itself a think tank on municipal or other legislation affecting Philadelphia and has been active in citizen advocacy since the February 2005 hiring of former Philadelphia Daily News Editor Zach Stalberg as Seventy’s CEO, replacing retiring, longtime chief Fred Voigt, whom I interviewed for this project. [...]
[...] His grandfather, Austin Meehan, first took control of the city’s powerful Republican machine in the first half of the 20th-century. Meehan first brought about the city’s Republican Northeast focus, beating out other Republican machinists, guys like the Vere Brothers in South Philadelphia and the Hawthorne brothers in Roxborough, as I discussed after my interview with former Committee of Seventy CEO Fred Voigt. [...]