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Last weekend, some of the Philadelphia herd thundered up the Pennsylvania turnpike to Harrisburg for the winter meeting of the Pennsylvania Republican Party’s State Committee. Philadelphia Republican voters elected 12 people to represent them on the State Committee and a number of them were seen there last weekend including PAGOP Coordinator for Philadelphia JOE DEFELICE; General Counsel of Republican City Committee Mike Meehan: Leader of the 35th Ward AGNES “CHUCKIE” TILLEY; leader of the 53rd Ward CHRIS VOGLER; leader of the 21st Ward WALT VOGLER; and the President of the Pennsylvania Federation of Republican Women, PEG RECUPIDO. Leader of the 27th Ward MATT WOLFE held State Committee member LT. COL. KEVIN KELLY’S proxy. Kelly, an Air Force pilot, was on duty. There were a series of PAGOP committee meetings on Friday including the New Majority Council. Its CHAIRWOMAN RENEE AMOORE could not be there, so NMC EXECUTIVE DIR. ELLA BUTCHER conducted the meeting. Much of the meeting focused on recent successful outreach programs into the Hispanic community, especially in Lebanon Co. DeFelice introduced DANIEL ALVAREZ, who is exploring running for Philadelphia District Attorney this year; also DR. ORALIA GARCÍA DOMINIC, who is on the short list to be the next Pennsylvania Secretary of Health, addressed the group. The annual Lincoln Day Dinner was the highlight of the Friday night. PAGOP CHAIRMAN ROB GLEASON was the master of ceremonies. The keynote speaker was Virginia GOV. BOB MCCONNELL. The event was held in the (Cont. Page 29)
My mom would be happy (and a little shocked) to know I’ve been spending a lot of time at the Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal church lately. Mother Bethel, one of the many stable institutions in Philadelphia’s Black community, has played host to a lot of things I’ve been covering lately. From a discussion held by Temple University’s Center for Public Interest Journalism on coverage of communities of color to a panel discussion on gun violence, Pastor Mark Tyler has made sure that the church is not only the spiritual home for its members, but also a community hub. So when the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists decided it was going to hold its monthly meeting there, and invite members of the community to come and hear from Tyler, Michele Stevenson, executive director of the Christian Street YMCA, and Lois and Bumi Fernandez, founder and executive director of the Odunde Festival, about what they would like to see in terms of news coverage, it made sense. It also made sense that afterward the church remained open so folks could grab some cookies and pizza and watch President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union address his second term. When it was brought to his attention that the monthly meeting was scheduled for State of the Union night, PABJ President Johann Calhoun, an editor at the Philadelphia Tribune, decided to extend the meeting a bit. “I try to be accommodating to my members,” he said. “This was a two-for-one for them....” Next week, I'll share the responses from the audience at Mother Bethel with you.
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Yo! Here we go again with this test for us “older kids”. The answers are printed below, but don’t cheat! Answer them first … if you can. 01. After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, “Who was that masked man?” Invariably, someone would answer,” I don’t know, but he left this behind.” What did he leave behind?______________. 02. When the Beatles first came to the US, in early 1964, we all watched them on The ________ Show”. 03. “Get your kicks, _______________.” 04. “The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to ____________. 05.”In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ___________.” 06. After the Twist, the Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we “danced” under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the “_____________.” 07. “Nestle’s makes the very best _______________.” 08. Satchmo was America’s “Ambassador of Goodwill.” His name was _____________. 09. What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? ______. 10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named _______. 11. Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their____________. 12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? __________ &__________. 13. In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about “the day the music died.” This was a tribute to __. 14. We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ______. 15. One of the big fads of the late ’50s and ’60s was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the ________________. 16. Remember LS/MFT _____ _____/_____ _____ _____? 17. Hey Kids! What time is it? It’s _____ ______ _____! 18. Who knows what secrets lie in the hearts of men? The _____ knows! 06. The limbo 13. Buddy Holly ANSWERS: 01. A silver bullet. 02. The Ed Sullivan Show 03. On Route 66 04. To protect the innocent. 05. The Lion Sleeps Tonight
07. Chocolate 08. Louis Armstrong 09. The Timex watch 10. Freddy, the Freeloader 11. Draft cards 12. Beetle or Bug
14. Sputnik 15. Hula hoop 16. Lucky Strike/Means Fine Tobacco 17. Howdy Doody Time 18. Shadow
DEMOCRAT STATE COMMITTEE met last weekend in Hershey, Pa. By a vote of 199-52, Judge Joe WATERS was endorsed in his run for State Superior Court. Waters once served as a police officer, and his run could signal a wave of police-turnedjurists seeking higher office in the courts (?). Justice McCAFFERY was first. Waters is a good choice!... Congressman Robert BRADY testified before City Council for the casino site to be located on Packer Avenue at 3rd Street. This site has perhaps the largest building footprint, so as to ensure revenues of scale to help the City stay SOLVENT. City Controller Allan BUTKOVITZ attended the casino hearing to ensure the best decision for Philly. How about all the publicity over Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds BROWN and that McDaniel fellow? It is as though SOMEONE does not want the Councilwoman to run for Mayor (?) Then there was an editorial which looked at the McDaniel job at the Airport. It seemed to refer to a bottomless patronage pit there: Why do we need volunteer question-answerers and a director for them in the airport? But there are approximately 100 administration jobs that pay over $100,000 a year (Up to $265,000). That’s near to TWENTY MILLION. And the media and City fretted over $23,000/year “political” jobs in the old Board of Revision of Taxes. Now, I hear six exempt jobs will be appointed there – at $100,000 each (?). Will AVI help pay these wages? Take the Parking Ticket hearing chief at around $130,000. Five thousand $26 Parking Tickets would have to be written to equal that amount! So is “REFORM” replacing ONE FORM OF POLITICS WITH (Cont. Page 26)
JUDGE JOE WATERS had one mission this past weekend: Get the endorsement of Democratic State Committee. Mission accomplished. The quarterly gathering of State Committee took place amid the remnants of a snowstorm at the Hershey Lodge. A late entry to the race for Superior Court predictably emerged. Also predictable was that the challenger was from the West. Many insiders thought the Committee would decide to not endorse. But CHAIRMAN BOB BRADY was able to lead the Philadelphia Delegation and then the majority of other voters to endorse Waters. It remains to be seen if the West will deliver the votes like Philadelphia surely will. Staffers for CONGRESSWOMAN ALLYSON SCHWARTZ gave out free drink coupons at the State Committee reception. This led some pundits to proclaim she’s absolutely running for Governor. In fact, Montgomery Co. CHAIR MARCEL GROEN said, “She’s absolutely 80% sure she is running.” But why would she? She would have to resign her very-important post as House Democratic Campaign Committee’s Finance Chair. She’s on the fast track to leadership. Or she could run against US SEN. PAT TOOMEY. But all of these things go overboard if she gets into the Governor’s race. City Hall Sam thinks she is using the opportunity to float her name to raise even more money. STATE SEN. MIKE STACK is considering a run for Governor and utilized his grassroots style to shake every hand he could. Many delegates commented that he “looked like a Governor.” One chairwoman pointed out that Stack “could not only win the primary but get the moderate votes to actually beat Corbett.” ROB McCORD, the State Treasurer, was his usual affable self and made a nice speech in addressing the delegates. ED RENDELL is a fan of TOM WOLF. Wolf is considering a run for Governor and since he’s very rich, he may be able to self-fund. But look what happened to TOM SMITH who self-funded in the Senate race against Bob Casey. Tom who? Back in Philadelphia, ALAN BUTKOVITZ kicked off his reelection campaign. It was a nice turnout, but it could have been better had VP JOE BIDEN not come to town to talk guns. The VP took a lot of the media and CONGRESSMAN BOB BRADY. But Bucko still drew JOHN DOUGHERTY, PAT GILLESPIE, SHERIFF JEWELL WILLIAMS, COUNCILWOMAN MARIAN TASCO, labor leader HENRY NICHOLAS, and WARD LEADERS JOHN SABATINA, BILL DOLBOW, BOB DELLAVELLA and MATT MYERS.