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Clout: Controverial Goode aide draws fuss over Facebook postings

LOVE HER or loathe her, you have to admit that Latrice Bryant knows how to get noticed.

City Hall was abuzz this week over postings on a private Facebook page that appeared to belong to the controversial aide to Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. Several posts from the page were provided to PhillyClout by multiple sources.

"Is it okay for your boss to ask you to marry him or her? What happens if you say no?" asked one posting.

A later post read: "Would you sell your soul to the devil for 90k? Would you sell it for less in the recession?" Both posts were quickly deleted.

Bryant earned $90,000 last year, but took a pay cut like other Goode staffers and this year is making $85,500.

We stopped by Goode's office to ask about the Facebook fuss. After telling Bryant to leave the room, Goode said he hadn't read the posts and didn't want to know what they said about him.

"I could care less about any of this," Goode said. "After the nonsense from last fall, I got back to work on my legislative agenda."

Bryant drew media attention last September for holding up signs in Council calling Fox 29 racist after a reporter pursued her for a story about her attending to personal business while logged in as working at City Hall.

Goode intervened this week when we tried to ask Bryant about the Facebook postings.

"My staff is not allowed to talk to the media," Goode said, stepping between PhillyClout and Bryant. "The matter is closed. It's over. It's done with."

We're still waiting to hear if the Bryant site will approve us as a Facebook friend. The site has 322 friends who could see her posts. That includes other Council staffers, one Council member, state representatives, ward leaders, reporters and others active in city politics.

Goode, who has his own Facebook page, is not listed as Bryant's friend. On his page, Goode later proclaimed: "When I get engaged, I'll tell the world."

D.A. to bury hatchet Monday?

We told you last week that District Attorney Lynne Abraham and her one-time protege, Seth Williams, both sounded OK with a face-to-face meeting to heal some old political wounds.

Abraham felt betrayed four years ago

when Williams mounted a primary-

election challenge.

U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, chairman of the Democratic City Committee, has apparently succeeded in getting Abraham and Williams to meet Monday. Brady didn't deny setting up the meeting when we asked earlier this week at a "unity lunch" he arranged at The Palm.

Williams and three other candidates - Dan McElhatton, Michael Turner and Brian Grady - attended the lunch but Dan McCaffery, who finished second in the race, was noticeably absent.

Brady predicted Abraham will be in Williams' corner for November's general election against Republican Michael

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