Your notion that all Mayors have been empty-headed automata who showed
up for work without a single thought or opinion or plan, waiting
passively for Macchiavellian functionaries at PennPraxis to whisper
policy into their ear, is rather flattering to those functionaries ..
but an utterly unrealistic depiction of Ed Rendell, John Street and
Michael Nutter. It's safe to assume, when these gentlemen hired an
outside contractor to help develop a plan for them, this plan was driven
in directions these gentlemen already wanted it to go.
Rendell had a productive peace with Fumo; he had, then, no beef with
Penns Landing Corp. Street and Fumo were less cozy, though, and it was
Street who hired PennPraxis to gin up some 'civic vision' for the
waterfront.
I just hired a roofer to fix my roof. Only a fool would say the roofer
was 'framing and crafting' my 'vision' to get my roof fixed. If roofer A
wouldn't do the job, then I would just hire roofer B, wouldn't I?
In the end, the Mayors got what they wanted: a new corporation that gave
them more power, and more power over more things.
One day, George Perrier over at Le Bec Fin got a box of kabocha squash,
cheap. Plus he had a bag of scallops that would go bad soon. So he
chucked the squash into his Cuisinart and puréed them; experimented with
seasonings and garnishes a little; and served up his new "Kabocha
Scallop Bisque". Everybody wanted to try it. So when Ray got paid, he
took Al and Tony to Le Bec Fin, his treat, and they all ordered the soup.
Tony takes a sip and says, "Yum! How does Perrier think up these things?"
Al sips, grimaces and says, "Yuck! What did Perrier think he was doing?"
Ray sniffs the soup, glances suspiciously around and says, "Hm. What was
that Cuisinart really up to?"
-- Tony West
Anthony West wrote:
However, it is the Mayor that got to pick and choose PennPraxis in
the first place, for any of its 'engagements' with the public. No
Mayor, no PennPraxis.
you're leaving out how it was penn praxis that first framed and
crafted the 'civic vision', which was then used by penn praxis and the
mayor to disapprove the existing plans for the waterfront. no penn
praxis, no choices for mayor.
the casino developers knew this and called it a 'rigged game'.
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