Your Mayor!

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Oh brother... our country is in the state it is because people value anecdotal evidence and clearly biased and one-sided experiences. I really wish we could get away from this rubbish of worshiping personal experience, as if it really counts for anything. Vague life experience and anecdotes from provincial people does not trump scholarly experience. What a silly notion that is!

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Originally Posted by frankgn87

That he was.. He was widely loved. How many people will go to Goodes or Nutter funeral?


"Rizzo's funeral was large, with tens of thousands of people lining the streets of the motorcade from the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul to the cemetery. He was interred at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. There was no funeral larger than Rizzo's in the history of Philadelphia. people lined the streets five deep from the Cathedral to the cemetery in Cheltenham.
A statue of Mayor Rizzo waving one of his arms in greeting, created by Zeno Frudakis, stands in front of Philadelphia's Municipal Services Building. The 10-foot-high statue was paid for by contributions from Rizzo's family, friends, and supporters. Also, in his stronghold neighborhood of South Philadelphia, where he received a great deal of Italian-American support, a mural portrait of Rizzo is located on the 9th Street Italian Market."

Having a lot of people at your funeral does not necessarily equal well-loved, but really only signals celebrity status. Perhaps, though, he was well loved, but certainly that has no bearing on whether or not he was actually a "good" mayor, right?

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Obviously this thread has run its course from the original topic.
Closed.