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*Magazine calls Street one of worst mayors
Time's not on his side.
Inquirer staff and wire reports*
According to Time magazine, Mayor Street is one of the country's worst mayors.
According to Street supporters, the magazine has it wrong.
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The issue singles out Street for criticism because of the corruption allegations involving his administration. Former City Treasurer Corey Kemp is on trial over allegations that he took bribes. Jury deliberations in the case are expected to resume today. Street has not been charged with any crime and has denied any wrongdoing in the city corruption investigation.
"The scandals have turned Street into a lame duck a year early," the magazine states.
The article, also available online, goes on to quote former Philadelphia Daily News editor Zach Stalberg, now the executive director of the watchdog Committee of Seventy: "The city is in a kind of suspended animation as long as the trials go on."
Well, this shows how often _Time_ even looks at Philadelphia. Here's what they actually wrote about Street:
"John Street came into office in 2000 with an ambitious agenda to improve Philadelphia's worst neighborhoods, and even his critics agree he has made considerable progress. But, says Otis White, of the public-policy consulting firm Civic Strategies, "whatever his grand visions have been, he will not be remembered for them. He will be remembered for the corruption [around him]."
"There has been no evidence that Street, 61, himself is corrupt, but federal prosecutors say the mayor's close friend and fund raiser, Ron White, partially took control of city contracting and turned the process into a naked shakedown for donations to Street's 2003 re-election campaign. White died before going to trial, but former city treasurer Cory Kemp, a member of Street's administration, and four other defendants await a jury's verdict. The scandals have turned Street into a lame duck a year early. "The city is in a kind of suspended animation as long as the trials go on," says former Philadelphia Daily News editor Zack Stalberg."
I love this. They say that he has an "ambitious agenda," and that "even his critics agree that he has made considerable progress." They even go so far as to say that there is no evidence that Street _himself_ is corrupt. Yet somehow, this makes him one of the country's three worst mayors.
By the way, the magazine's cover story's on Ann Coulter, so it's not worth paying for.
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