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The lead story, in other words, should have been about who was not in that City Hall courtyard. It’s that a mayor, ever loyal to his disgraced political benefactor, shamefully suggested he has “an opinion” that differs from the jury’s-a slap in the face to every citizen of the city. It’s that no other elected official joined them.
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The story this week was not that Solomon and Quiñones-Sánchez were speaking up. It’s always Groundhog Day when it comes to municipal corruption in Philadelphia. We see the pattern in our history-our halcyon days of reform, under Richardson Dilworth and Joe Clark in the 1950s, lasted all of 11 years in 2007, Michael Nutter cleaned up pay-to-play in City Hall, but in the years since, we’ve again reverted back to our mean. The mayor, ever loyal to his disgraced political benefactor, shamefully suggesting that he has “an opinion” that differs from the jury’s-is a slap in the face to every citizen of the city. And soon we’re off to the next headline du jour. Other pols, terrified of violating an Omertà-type code, remain silent. Good government types suggest systemic fixes-tweaks, really. A pol is carted off in handcuffs or convicted.
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Call me jaundiced, but we’ve seen this movie before. “The People Over Politics Petition starts new conversation around Philly corruption reform,” wrote Al Día. “Government Watchdog Groups, Elected Officials Call for Reform in Philly,” blared NBC10. “City Council Will Debate Limits on Outside Employment in Wake of Bobby Henon’s Bribery Conviction,” read the Inquirer headline.
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The news coverage of the press conference was… dutiful, and missed the real story. They announced their “People Over Politics” petition and a plank of three modest (yet, sadly, still unlikely) reforms in the aftermath of the recent corruption conviction of labor leader John Dougherty and Councilmember Bobby Henon. Talk about missing the story.Earlier this week, State Representative Jared Solomon and City Councilmember Maria Quiñones-Sánchez joined good government groups like Committee of Seventy ( now helmed by Al Schmidt), Common Cause, and the League of Women Voters for a press conference outside City Hall. Golden, Corruption: What Everyone Needs to Know That is, you need a critical mass of disapproval to be effective. Not only would denunciations lead to social disapproval and perhaps even physical danger, they don’t do much good unless others join in. In a society where corruption is common, few dare to speak out against it on their own.