Philadelphia Public Record

3ol. II No. 162 (322)

Keeping You Posted With The Politics Of Philadelphia

October 17, 2011

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Singer The Swinger

KICKING OUT at New Palladium in N. Phila. Saturday night was City Commissioner candidate Ward Leader Stephanie Singer. Event was billed as a fundraiser, but Singer, a huge salsa fan, made no bones about the fact she was there to trip the light fantastic.

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Oct. 20Fundraiser for State Rep. Rosita Youngblood at Finnigan’s Wake, 3rd & Spring Garden Sts., 7:009:30 p.m. Dinner & open bar.

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Oct. 20HAVE A BEER WITH SCHMIDT AT SCHMITZ! Donation - $100. Includes authentic German food and beer (wine, soda) Please make checks payable to: “Friends of Al Schmidt”. Checks can be mailed to: P.O. Box 18538, Philadelphia, PA 19129 Or contribute online at www.SchmidtforPhilly.com For more info, call: 215-624-1930 Oct. 20— Fundraiser for Al Taubenberger for City Council at-large at Gary B. Freedman Law Offices, 7909 Bustleton Ave., 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Guest: Former City Controller Jonathan A. Saidel. Call 267-5074282.

Oct. 20Elwyn Education Services’ 10th Annual Student Art Exhibit and Auction benefitting students with special needs at White Manor Country Club in Malvern. 5:30 to 8:30 pm Folr tickets and info call Susan Kroungold at 6100-8917624.

Oct. 21Fundraiser for Council candidate Bill Rubin at Stevenson’s Tavern, 4300 Comly ZSt., 6-8 p.m. Copntribution $35.

Oct. 2126th Ward GOP Fabulous Fall Festival at Waterfall Rm., 2015 S. Water St., 7 p.m. For info (215) 468-2300.

Oct. 2119th Ward Democrats host Meet the Candidates Beef & Beer fundraiser THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY RECORD

at New Palladium, 229 W. Allegheny Ave., 7 p.m.-12 a.m. Sponsors $100, community businesses $25. For info Leslie Lopez (484) 988-2422.

Oct. 22Philly Cares Day targets S. Phila. HS at Broad & Snyder Ave., 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. For info or to volunteer call Matthew Mumber (215) 564-4544.

Oct. 22State Sen. LeAnna Washington hosts Walk To End Domestic Violence at W. River Dr. & Ben Franklin Blvd., 9 a.m. registration, Walk starts 10:30 a.m. Pre-register at http://conta.cc/Walktoenddomesticviolence or call (215) 545-4715.

Oct. 23Men’s Club of Congregations of Shaare Shamayim, host Candidates Brunch at Karff Auditorium, 9768 Verree Rd., 9 a.m. Free brunch. For info and reservations Harris Popolow (215) 676-7486.

Oct. 23Wine and Cheese fundraiser hosted

by Louis S. Schwartz for Lewis Harris, Jr., GOP candidate for Traffic Court Judge. $50 donation. For info, call 215-651-4757. 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at 7112 N. Broad St. Oct. 24State Rep. Michelle Brownlee hosts Older & Wiser workshop for seniors on retirement benefits at University Sq., 3901 Market St., 10 a.m.-12 p.m. For info (215) 6843738 Oct. 25Fundraiser for judicial candidate Angelo Foglietta at offices of Stephen A. Sheller, 1528 Walnut St., 3rd fl, 5-8 p.m. Supporter $150, Friend $250, Patron $500. For info Thomas P. Muldoon, Esq. (215) 545-1776, ext. 3.

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Another Opinion: Getting Tough on China

by Sen. Bob Casey I joined a bipartisan group of senators to introduce legislation that will crack down on China’s currency manipulation. This week, the Senate passed the legislation by a bipartisan margin of 63-35.

By confronting China on its currency cheating, we will create jobs in the United States.

to take on China on currency manipulation. That’s why I urged Treasury Secretary Geithner this spring to focus on the Chinesecurrency issue when meeting with his counterparts at global meetings and pressed the Treasury Dept. to identify China as a currency manipulator in its semiannual report to Congress.

China has kept its currency - the yuan - artificially low for years to make it easier to export their products to the United States and other parts of the world. The result is a massive and growing U.S. trade deficit with China that is costing our country millions of jobs.

US unwillingness – so far – to crack down on China’s currency manipulation is just one piece of a flawed trade policy that has failed our workers and our companies.

NAFTA and other NAFTA-style free-trade agreements have cost the US jobs and our state has borne a significant share of these job losses. When NAFTA took effect in January 1994, more than 875,000 Pennsylvanians were employed in manufacturing. Today, Pennsylvania’s manufacturing sector employs 575,000 workers – a loss of more than 300,000 manufacturing jobs.

Consider these facts: The US trade deficit with China grew from $83 billion in 2001 to $273 billion in 2010, largely because of the undervaluation of the yuan.

A report from the Economic Policy Institute finds the US trade deficit with China has resulted in the loss of 2.8 million jobs over the past decade (2001-2010), including almost 107,000 jobs in Pennsylvania.

EPI also found if the yuan and satellite currencies in the region were revalued to equilibrium levels, we would create up to 2.25 million US jobs.

The Currency Exchange Rate Oversight Reform Act is bipartisan legislation that will trigger actions against China and other countries if they use their currency for unfair competitive advantage. The legislation will impose stiff new penalties, including duties on countries’ exports, making it more difficult for China to export its products to the United States.

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I have fought to ensure that workers who lose their jobs because of global trade get the training they need to build skills and find new jobs. In September, the Senate passed legislation extending many of the improvements made to the Trade Adjustment Assistance program in 2009. These changes expanded access to workers in the service sector and to workers whose jobs were offshored to countries – such as China – which do not have trade agreements with the United States. I am pleased this help for Pennsylvania workers will now be signed into law.

The hard reality is our country doesn’t have a strategic trade policy. It’s an ad hoc approach that hasn’t worked. China has taken advantage of our lack of focus and it’s clearer than ever the United States needs a fresh approach to trade policy. People who have seen THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY RECORD

their jobs offshored and companies who have faced unfair competition from abroad must have a seat at the table. Reshaping US trade policy will take time. But there are actions we can take right now to support our workers and companies by: cracking down on China’s currency manipulation; ensuring workers harmed by international trade get the support and training they need through TAA; and rejecting any free-trade agreements that will cost American workers their jobs.

This week, by tackling China’s currency manipulation, the Senate has sent China a message its unfair trade practices will no longer be tolerated, while showing the American people Democrats and Republicans actually can work together to create US jobs.

Poll: Cain Keeps Pulling Away, Perry & Bachmann Fading Herman Cain is now the runaway leader among Republican presidential primary voters with 45%, more than twice that of 2nd-place Mitt Romney (21%). Rick Perry, who led with 41% in late August, has fallen to 7%, and Michele Bachmann, who led in June and July, now gets just 1%.

President Barack Obama’s approval rating among all voters is 43%, and the percentage saying he deserves re-election is 39%.

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Honkala Calls For Open Books In Sheriff’s Office Philadelphia Sheriff candidate Cheri Honkala, www.cherihonkala.com, vows to create full transparency and accountability if elected. Her announcement follows reports that the Sheriff’s office will be transferring $40M of the $56M it has accumulated of unclaimed money from Sheriff’s sales going as far back as 1999.

The Sheriff’s office under John D. Green had been withholding money from properties sold for larger sums than the owed on past-due mortgages, unpaid taxes and utilities. The office had been keeping the money in 13 separate bank accounts.

“That money is owed to the people who put years of sweat and labor into their homes before being thrown

out.” said Honkala, the Green Party candidate. “I plan on working to make right with these people.”

Acting Sheriff Barbara Deeley has stated, “People who believe they have money coming to them should contact the Sheriff’s office.” Honkala feels it is the responsibility of the Sheriff’s office to find those they are indebted to and pay them what they are owed.

Once elected, Honkala will come in as a true independent and work with local, State and federal law enforcement agencies to uncover what went afoul and to take the necessary steps to ensure it will not happen again.

Honkala said, “The Sheriff’s financial records should be open and

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Retirees Alliance Holds Social Security Forum Today Local residents gathered this morning to participate in a policy discussion on Social Security, Medicare, and retirement security for America’s middle- and working-class seniors. The meeting took place at Nazarene Baptist Church, 3975 Germantown Avenue.

Eric Kingson was the special guest at the forum, which will featured Jean Friday, president of the Pennsylvania Alliance for Retired Americans. Kingson is the co-director of Social Security Works.

He is a professor of social work at Syracuse University and a senior research associate in the Maxwell School’s Center for Policy Research. Kingson served as policy advisor to two presidential commissions — the 1982-3 National Commission on Social Security Reform and the 1994 Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement & Tax Reform.

Tomorrow Kingson will testify at a US Senate hearing called “The Recession and Older Americans: Where Do We Go from Here.”

PA ARA President Jean Friday said, “As Congress grapples with ways to reduce the federal deficit, we need our seniors to understand the facts and the details of Social Security, as well as what is at stake. Social Security has its own trust fund, so it doesn’t contribute to the deficit. In fact, the Social Security Trust fund ran a surplus in 2010, despite the economic situa-

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tion. Seniors should make it clear to their representatives, including Sen. Toomey who is a member of the so-called ‘Super Committee, that we will not support deficit reduction on the backs of seniors, and will therefore oppose any package of cuts that includes cuts to current or future Social Security

benefits – including a hike in the retirement age or negative changes to the COLA formula.”

Friday added, “Furthermore, Congress should focus on what Americans need most right now – JOBS. Cutting the deficit is important, but it won’t create jobs. Congress needs to make sure that any cuts

made to government spending don’t hurt the economy. That’s why Social Security should be left alone. Seniors spend what’s left of their Social Security checks after medical expenses at local businesses. Any cuts to Social Security benefits will only hurt those businesses.”

Auto Dealers: We’ve Got The Kids Covered

AUTO DEALERS CARing for Kids Foundation kicked off its 4th annual “Driving Away the Cold” program, which will donate 22,548 coats to children in need throughout the five-county Philadelphia region. From left are Auto Dealers Association of Greater Philadelphia Director Kevin Dunphy of Dunphy Ford; ADAGP Director Maria Pacifico of Pacifico Hyundai and Pacifico Mazda; Nick Iervolino of Chapman Ford Lincoln Volkswagen; and Susie Pesin of Central City Toyota.

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Liberty Museum Funders Aim To Free Children NAT’L LIBERTY MUSEUM’S “Glass Now” auction, part of a three-day weekend itinerary, attracted hundreds of supporters to Marriott in Center City Saturday night.

Gala raises funds to empower children and teachers to celebrate diversity and defuse violence. Throughout eight galleries, Museum uses glass as a metaphor for freedom, reminding visitors to realize its fragility. Seen here admiring Dale Chihuly piece are, from left, Gold Sponsors Norman & Suzanne Cohn; Laurie Wagman and Museum founder Irvin Borowsky; and Jonathan Cohn. Photos by Bonnie Squires

ENJOYING fantastic display of glass sculpture which was auctioned off for benefit of Museum Saturday night are, from left, Sandy Sheller; Gwen Borowsky, executive director; and Steve Sheller, Esq. Hundreds of artists donated their glass sculpture for benefit.

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Central Free Library Photo Show Features City’s Entertainers Beginning last Saturday through Nov. 27, the Free Library of Philadelphia is mounting a new photography exhibition in the West Gallery of the Parkway Central Library. “Celebrate Philadelphia Performers” features iconic images of Philadelphia-area vocalists, musicians, and bands from a wide range of musical genres, from blues to classical to New Orleans funk and more.

Curated by Sabina Clarke with photographs by Katharine Gilbert, “Celebrate Philadelphia Perform-

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ers” illuminates the lives and craft of these diverse and talented musicians and entertainers.

“As the Free Library of Inspiration, we are proud to host exhibitions throughout the year, many of which pay homage to creative minds from around the world,” said Siobhan A. Reardon, president and director of the Free Library. “This most-recent exhibition focuses on the talented artists who have given our city such a robust musical legacy.”

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The Music Dept. at Parkway Central Library has a large number of CDs, LPs, and books about music and dance, as well as musical scores ranging from classical to contemporary pop music. It houses four large special collections, including the Edwin A. Fleisher Collection of Orchestral Music, which is the largest lending library of orchestral music in the world; the Drinker Library of Choral Music; the Chamber Music Collection; and the Sheet Music Collection.

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