Philadelphia Mayor 2023 - Official Thread (Parker, Wall: safety, arena, vacations)

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by Muinteoir

I think you misunderstand what happened. I accidentally called him a developer rather than a broker. I did not call him a slumlord. As far as I am aware, developer does not have negative connotations. Like I said, the only people I've heard or seen call him a slumlord are twitter trolls.

Yeah, and I wasn't saying you said that. Other candidates are pushing that narrative because it's out there.

The gentrification angle just kills me.

[JamesJay64]

Bernie and AOC have both endorsed Gym, and she released a poll today that shows her tied with Rhynhart for the lead. I don't want to speak it into existence but I've had a feeling since the very beginning that she would end up getting elected... because why wouldn't Philly vote for the worst possible choice?

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by JamesJay64

Bernie and AOC have both endorsed Gym, and she released a poll today that shows her tied with Rhynhart for the lead. I don't want to speak it into existence but I've had a feeling since the very beginning that she would end up getting elected... because why wouldn't Philly vote for the worst possible choice?

It (Gym) will absolutely happen. What a disaster. I understand the joke that the worst enemy of Philadelphia is people who live in Philadelphia but do you have to prove that joke to be true EVERY time?

This is an inflection point in this city's history. The absolute most important election in decades and we're going to screw it.

You get what you deserve, Philadelphia. Unbelievable.

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by JamesJay64

Bernie and AOC have both endorsed Gym, and she released a poll today that shows her tied with Rhynhart for the lead. I don't want to speak it into existence but I've had a feeling since the very beginning that she would end up getting elected... because why wouldn't Philly vote for the worst possible choice?

Uuuugggghhh.

First of all, I think the "nationalization" of local races is one of the worst trends we've seen in this country. This is a bi-partisan problem across the country, and it's exactly why political polarization and dysfunction is now filtering down to local government, which HAS to be the last line of defense against that nonsense. I really wish AOC and Bernie would have kept their noses out of this race, and I say this as someone who's moderately liberal.

I don't know who is going to be inclined to do it at this point, but one of the other candidates really needs to drop out for the good of Philadelphia and shore up support for a more reasonable candidate.

[MPK21]

Originally Posted by Muinteoir

Generally, someone's career prior to running for office is not framed as a conflict of interest. It may receive criticism, sure, but one is not beholden to a career of years past. And when the job was analyzing municipal governments, it is in fact highly relevant to changing careers in government. Domb on the other hand is a developer to this day. I am not personally criticizing his career, rather pointing out why it would make more sense for one to have concerns about conflict of interest for Domb rather than Rhynhart.

When did Rhyhart call herself an original progressive? I am genuinely curious, and would like more context.

Rhynhart did not "pocket tons of $$$ from the pre-2008 mortgage fraud era." She worked for Bear Stearns as a municipal credit analyst. She calculated the risk traders were taking with governments. She did not work with mortgages, lol. Bear Stearns itself having problems investing in mortgage-backed securities is not a reflection of Rhynhart's specific job duties.

Rhynhart is Jewish, which complicates the blanket criticism of "white privilege" so many lazily throw around. Do you have the same concerns about Domb's race? Besides Twitter trolls, who is calling Domb a slumlord?

Who said Rhynhart has a conflict of interest? After all, her Wall Street career ended 15 years ago; she's just b.s'ing and pandering about building the black community up with $$ handouts. Regardless, no one has brought up Rhynhart's Wall Street insider career to even criticize it.

Although I just saw the first TV ad mentioning Rhynhart's Wall Street career at Bear-Stearns...lol. As predicted upthread, there would be dirt thrown out as the primary election closes-in. My only problem with the ad is it doesn't mention Rhynhart's double-whammy on Wall Street; Bear-Stearns and Fitch Ratings, both hand-n-hand in the mortgage fraud induced Depression of 2008.

Who at Bear-Stearns worked with mortgages? lol...why the need to create that ''fact"? Rhynhart may have worked with municipalities or not, regardless, she was a manager in the credit derivative department and the most common type of credit derivatives are Credit Default Swaps (CDS). Rhynhart's CDSs were directly rooted in '00s fraudulent mortgages and the securities outfits like Bear Stearns created spawned from them.

From 2009:

''The TNT was the collapse of the housing market and the failure of complicated mortgage securities that the big investment houses created and sold around the world. But the rocket fuel was the trillions of dollars in side bets on those mortgage securities, called "credit default swaps."

''Eric Dinallo was insurance superintendent for the state of New York. He says credit default swaps were totally unregulated and the big banks and investment houses that sold them didn't have to set aside any money to cover potential losses and pay off their bets.''

"As the market began to seize up and as the market for the underlying obligations began to perform poorly, everybody wanted to get paid, had a right to get paid on those credit default swaps. And there was no 'there' there. There was no money behind the commitments. And people came up short. And so that's to a large extent what happened to Bear Sterns, Lehman Brothers, and the holding company of AIG," he explains.

''In other words, three of the nation's largest financial institutions had made more bad bets than they could afford to pay off. Bear Stearns was sold to J.P. Morgan for pennies on the dollar...''

This is the financial expertise Rhynhart brought to Philly in 2008? LOL.

So, you can rationalize any way you need to, but Rhynhart eliminated her Wall Street insider career from her bio. Why? Even if one doesn't criticize or say, ''beholden (her) to a career in the past''...she ain't mentioning it at all, only that she came to Philly in 2008 bringing her ''financial expertise''. Rhynhart doesn't want Bear-Stearns or her prior Fitch Ratings (the outfit that fraudulently rated the bad mortgage securities) on her resume. Why? Especially if as you say she has ''clean hands'' and will not be held to her past.

But Rhynhart didn't make tons of $$$ off this garbage as a credit derivative manager at Bear Stearns LOL...the CDS market had ballooned to $50 trillion by 2008 but Rebecca didn't make tons of $$...LOL..she jumped ship from working at Fitch Ratings where the fraudulent mortgage securities were rated top of the line investments to go cash-in on the tall money at Bear-Stearns where the fraudulently rated securities were peddled around the world....in your scenario Rhynhart was a ''credit analyst'' for this garbage LOL.

In the hypocrital world of today's ''-isms'' and ''privileges'', Rhynhart is exempt of ''white privilege'' because she's half-jewish? What about, say, Italian-Catholics? Are they exempt from white privilege? Domb is exempt because of his ''race''? So complicated to keep up with these overused terms although Rhynhart is playing up, for example, the overused yet fake general ''systemic racism'' and the ''systemic racism in banking'' b.s. in particular.

Regardless, the mantra in our mayoral race is ''we should have a woman as mayor''. As far as I know, all the women candidates still identify that way.

Since Domb ain't gonna win, has a conflict of interest being a real estate broker, and it's time we had a ''woman'' as mayor, of the 3, it'a gotta be Gym..''Asian woman''...identity politics ''Trumps'' experience and competency after all. Cherelle Parker is a black woman but Rhynhart is only a half-jewish woman...gotta go with Gym, since she gets a +1 since asian woman are the top $$ earners in this country today.

Btw, ask MSE about Rynhart being an ''original progressive''.

[Redddog]

If you're leaning Domb, I think you need to switch to Rhynhart. Domb isn't polling well and Gym's only chance is if Rhynhart and Domb split.

The problem is, politicians are so selfish, by definition, that they rarely do what's best for the party.

We're effed.

[MPK21]

Originally Posted by JamesJay64

Bernie and AOC have both endorsed Gym, and she released a poll today that shows her tied with Rhynhart for the lead. I don't want to speak it into existence but I've had a feeling since the very beginning that she would end up getting elected... because why wouldn't Philly vote for the worst possible choice?

Who wants that ''real estate developer'' who will gentrify Philly (again, whatever this means in 2023)?

For example, all that $$ flowing into UC institutions will create high-paying jobs and increase the tax base to the detriment of property owners in the city who will see the value of their properties increase. New residents with $$ in their wallets with collateral spending power post-Wuhan Virus.

Who wants that to happen?

So we have the communist Sanders, a VT Senator, and a ''thinks she's working class wannabe socialist'' from NY chiming in on the Philly mayoral race? Then again Red Bernie supported Krasner in both of his elections.

Why is anyone concerned that Bernie the Red endorsed Gym? Sanders was the leading 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee after all.

Mayor Gym...lol. Lots of people think it will be Gym by default. One of Gym's workers told me that Gym got something like 150,000 votes in her at large council seat, enough to win the mayor's race...don't know if that's true but...

White dudes (aka ''oppressors'') are toast in this country so it makes sense that old white dudes Brown & Domb are low in the polls.

After all, ''Philly should have a woman as mayor'' is the only real qualification in 2023.

[KansastoSouthphilly]

Originally Posted by Redddog

If you're leaning Domb, I think you need to switch to Rhynhart. Domb isn't polling well and Gym's only chance is if Rhynhart and Domb split.

The problem is, politicians are so selfish, by definition, that they rarely do what's best for the party.

We're effed.

Agreed, Philly desperately needs Domb to drop out, for the good of the City. Same with Brown. I can't fault Parker for staying in though.

[JamesJay64]

Originally Posted by KansastoSouthphilly

Agreed, Philly desperately needs Domb to drop out, for the good of the City. Same with Brown. I can't fault Parker for staying in though.

Shoot. I submitted my mail-in ballot for Domb awhile ago.

[Redddog]

Originally Posted by JamesJay64

Shoot. I submitted my mail-in ballot for Domb awhile ago.

Well that's just great.

How does it feel to single-handedly ruin the city of Philadelphia forever?