Finally, months after finding the FBI bugs in City Hall and learning that Philly Mayor John Street was likely up to no good his men are going down.
It turns out there was corruption abound money was used illegally, fraud, and lies you name it. Of course Street is pleading ignorance which is fairly laughable since most of the conversations on the wire were in his own office. Rumors of what was going on was all over the city, and the this the first the mayor is hearing about it?
Please.
Now I know I got heat for what I wrote about Janet Jackson saying that she did it to sell her CD. Of course I don't have direct proof of that and never it, but this is a web blog, not a newspaper column. Regardless if it takes me readers take me views a little more serious I will try to be fair and balance.
Now, I really don't have a smoking gun to tell you about but one just has to look at the body language of the Philly mayor to know that he isn't being honest. How can anyone explain that if he didn't know what was going on, how the rumors could not have reached him? Or if he was so innocent why on earth he didn't bother to try to get to the bottom of the ordeal after he found his office was being bugged (not by cicadas mind you) by the FBI? The dirty deeds (apparently not done cheap) continued for months after the election continued.
Now is there any paper trail that will lead to Street losing his job? Doubtful. Will anyone that voted for this loser care? No. Could he get re-elected if he could run again? Most likely.
Street, is an example of how we almost accept mildly (at least) corrupt politicians to lead this country. Why can't we make him pay? Or is too late is corruption and politics something that you can never separate?
Hopefully Street who I believe to not only be an arrogant SOB but a racist goes down hard. But I am not holding my breath.
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Here is another little tid bit for you...when my father worked for a company named Boro Construction who dealt with Majik Fire Protection (they sprinkler systems). The people my father worked with said that even before Mayor Street was elected he gave them contracts for both of the new stadiums, which he had absolutely no authority to do.
contracts were rewarded at inflated rates too. Which makes it worse contracts that were rewarded were almost double their worth. Terrible. What a disgrace to the city.
According to a quick search on the Philadelphia Inquirer Online, it doesn't look to me like anyone is even accusing Street of anything. He wasn't indicted, was he? It was made clear when the bugging story came out that Street was not the target of the FBI investigation.
Of course, having corrupt and criminal underlings certainly doesn't reflect well on the man. But from what I've been able to find, it doesn't look like there is any chance, or any reason, that any of this stuff would bring Street down.
No. They have clearly kept the paper trail clean. Do you honestly think that STreet is clean, though? Don't you think if he was clean, gave a damn, or had a brain would have tried to look into in bettween Nov. and June?
STuff kept going on after the bugs were found, if thought he was so inoccent why didn't he bother trying investigate himself?
It was pay to play, and there is no proof yet, but no doubt in my mind that STreet is dirty.
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