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Just as election ends, Independent and Green candidates throw their hat in the ring
This is the election that never ends, it goes on and on my friends ...
Just as election ends, Independent and Green candidates throw their hat in the ring
Fewer than 24 hours have passed since polls cllosed in this year's primary election and — already! — a couple Independent and Green candidates have announced that they're throwing their hat in the ring for November's general election.
In the 3rd Council District: A mailer from Alicia Burbage turned up at a friend's doorstep yesterday. She's running as an Independent in the 3rd Council District race, but her campaign materials don't get much more specific than that. She was running against incumbent Jannie Blackwell this year as a Democrat, but got kicked off the ballot. Blackwell won yesterday with 98 percent of the vote (against Tony Dphax King, a nearly invisible candidate.)
Burbage's mailer does mention that she's worked with state Sen. Anthony Williams' office on constituent services for more than a decade. Her motto? "NO MORE OF THE SAME!" (Her caps.) Read more about her here.
In the 8th Council District: Last night, while I was gabbing about the election on G-Town Radio with host Ed Feldman and other esteemed guests, a man named Brian Rudnick called in. He announced that he's running as a write-in Green Party candidate in the 8th Council District race, in November's general election. Cindy Bass won in that district yesterday, with 39 percent of the vote.
In 2007, he also ran on the Green Party ticket, and got 4 percent of the vote in the general election — or, put another way, 1,126 votes — against incumbent Councilwoman Donna Reed Miller.
Rudnick criticizes the city's Democratic machine, which, he says, is responsible for "unreformed taxes on small business owners," DROP and "puff about being the greenest tree-filled city in the country yet unable to pick up the fall leaves," among other things. He also touts the fact that more than 1,000 people voted for him in 2007 "despite overwhelming odds against my being elected." Read more about him here.
In the at-large Council and/or mayoral race: And, of course, former Mayor John Street is continuing to ponder a run for an at-large Council seat — and possibly for mayor — reports Philly Clout.
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