For those most interested in the seeming hesitance for black voters, particularly, to resist voting for the Republican Party, one of the most interesting thoughts is if a black candidate outside the Democratic Party ran. I was asked one question after my TURF presentation and defense of this thesis project and that was just it.
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Pennsylvania: a review of racial politics displayed in Rendell and Swann battle of 2006
Posted in Political History, tagged Ed Rendell, Republican City Committee, Topic on April 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Committee of Seventy: a century-old political watchdog
Posted in Political History, tagged Committee of Seventy, Ellen Kaplan, Fred Voigt, Zack Stalberg on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tomorrow I am interviewing Ellen Kaplan, vice president and policy director for the Committee of Seventy, and it occurred to me that it is worth posting just on the organization.
Seventy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit political group, has been a self-proclaimed political watchdog for Philadelphia since 1904. For every election, the group trains and organizes hundreds of [...]
What patronage means
Posted in Political History, tagged John Perzel, Republican City Committee on March 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
State Rep. JOHN PERZEL is an integral figure to understanding Philadelphia’s Republican Party.
He is a power player in the city’s politics, even if he does his work in Harrisburg. Perzel still works with the Republican City Committee and its general counsel and de facto leader, Michael Meehan.
One doesn’t need Meehan’s permission to run, of course. [...]
Post-racial urban politics: hardly
Posted in Political History, tagged Al Taubenberger, Carl Singley, John Street, Michael Nutter, Politicians, Sam Katz, Topic on January 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We have called for and expected the end of mainstream institutional racism in the United States since about the third day after it was exported to this country, maybe 400 years ago.
Back in 1999, when white Republican Sam Katz was challenging black Democrat John F. Street, Katz’s surging success in a city that had nearly [...]
Philadelphia taxes created King of Prussia, lost jobs
Posted in Political History on January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It frustrates me that so much of the Delaware Valley’s gain is Philadelphia’s loss. That is, much of what makes this metro region great is development that could have helped make this city even greater.
In researching this thesis and making mention of the 2003 mayoral election between John F. Street and former oft-Republican mayoral [...]
Ronald Reagan and racial politics
Posted in Political History on December 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A central requisite of my paper is trying to disentangle national and local politics as best I can.
Racial politics, however present in both forms, have to be more important in a city like Philadelphia, so much more diverse racially than the United States as a whole.
Last month, Paul Krugman wrote a commentary piece for the [...]
When national politics haunt Philadelphia candidates
Posted in Political History, tagged John Street, Sam Katz on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
July 4, 2001
Photo by William Thomas Cain for Getty Images on Oct. 21, 2003, not to be distributed.
The effects of national politics in the local scene
Posted in Political History, tagged Topic on September 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Photo courtesy of JFK Library.
Eight years next month, then-U.S. President Bill Clinton was stumping for then-outgoing City Council President John F. Street in his bid to become Philadelphia’s next mayor, as election day was nearing and Street was facing hot competition from Republican challenger Sam Katz.
Rallying at LaSalle University, Street at his side, Clinton campaigned [...]
City Hall
Posted in Political History on August 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Photo courtesy of SkyscraperSunset.com via Gloucester City News.
