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Johnny Doc says Nutter would have deprived past children of ice cream, fish sticks
In a raucous protest of the the Nutter administration's hardline stance on contract negotiations with the city's various labor unions, John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty, the electrician's union powerbroker and Christmas enthusiast railed against the mayor before an angry crowd. His topic: fish sticks, time travel.
Johnny Doc says Nutter would have deprived past children of ice cream, fish sticks
In a raucous protest of the the Nutter administration's hardline stance on contract negotiations with the city's various labor unions, John "Johnny Doc" Dougherty, the electrician's union powerbroker and Christmas enthusiast, railed against the mayor before an angry crowd of fellow union members. His topic: fish sticks.
His screed, delivered on Wednesday, described a plausible if physically impossible scenario in which a presumably transdimensional Mayor Michael Nutter traveled back in time, won a previous mayoral election and, as Nutters are wont to do, cut municipal workers' salaries. The ensuing chain reaction from Nutter's meddling would thus have lead to leaner times for Dougherty's father, a former court employee, retroactively depriving a junior Doc of the trappings of a privileged childhood, namely, fish sticks, pizza, and ice cream.
"This has become personal with me," said Dougherty, noting his father's status as a former city employee.
"There would have been no John Dougherty, there would have been no Kevin Dougherty, there would have been no Maureen Dougherty," continued Doc, naming his siblings, although it was unclear if he was referring to the financial ruin his family would have faced or the potential destruction of the known universe that a successful attempt at time travel by Nutter could have entailed.
"Our life [was] wrapped around fish sticks on Friday during Lent, pizza on other nights. On your birthday you and your brother and his friends got ice cream off the truck," said Doc, his voice rising, as a crowd member cheered in approval of fish sticks consumed during Lent.
Summarizing, Johnny Doc said, "Fish sticks. Pizza, okay? Ice cream off the truck. There would have been none of that if this guy was the mayor when my dad was in the city."
Unfortunately, Dougherty's claims could not be independently verified as the City Paper's Chronoscope, a device used to examine alternative past and future time lines, was destroyed last year in a catastrophic incident that also led to the dematerialization of Isaiah Thompson after he unwittingly glimpsed information related to his own future. However, we present audio of Johnny Doc's speech below for your own consideration.
Can City Paper’s “Chronoscope” attempt to verify this scenario: The real cost to contractors, developers and anyone even contemplating a construction project in Philadelphia when a union business manager calls from the Building and Construction Trades Council? Maybe even ask the owners of the Goldtex site at 12th & Wood or the Quaker meeting House in Chestnut Hill about their experiences with bullying, extortion and sabotage.
http://www.phillymag.com/articles/busting-philly-unions-pestronk-brothers/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/18/us/philadelphia-vandalism-seen-by-some-as-union-intimidation.html
— Ray10- Ray,
This article is (I hope) clearly written in a tongue in cheek manner, and not really the place for a detailed analysis of union costs or alleged vandalism. You may have missed it, but I actually covered the union dust up you're referring to, and associated costs to the city. Here are several articles I invite you to read: http://hiddencityphila.org/2012/06/at-goldtex-union-dominance-in-construction-called-into-question/
http://hiddencityphila.org/2012/09/goldtex-protests-at-an-end/
City Paper has also addressed this issue directly before and how it affects housing costs:
http://archives.citypaper.net/articles/2010/07/15/the-high-cost-of-affordable-housing
There are probably more you could discover with some quick googling. Thanks for reading.— blurb
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