Here's the full release:

For Immediate Release
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
SATURDAY: Springsteen to Join Rally for Obama in Philadelphia  

Free concert for Pennsylvanians will be huge opportunity to register voters and sign up volunteers; preferred tickets must be picked up at campaign offices

PHILADELPHIA — Bruce Springsteen is coming to Philadelphia this weekend to perform an acoustic set at a rally on the Ben Franklin Parkway in order to assist the Obama campaign’s voter registration and volunteer recruitment efforts.
 
The concert will take place on the Saturday before Pennsylvania’s voter registration deadline on Monday.
 
“Senator Obama is a great fan of Bruce Springsteen and is honored to have his support. This will be a great opportunity to gather tens of thousands of our supporters together in one place as we register new voters and bring new volunteers into this campaign for change,” said Craig Schirmer, the Pennsylvania State Director of the Obama-Biden campaign.

The campaign has already registered and mobilized an unprecedented number of voters in the state, and the makeup of the electorate will be fundamentally different than it was in 2004.  In that election, John Kerry beat George Bush by 144,000 votes at a time when Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 580,000 voters.  This year, that advantage will be about 1.2 million.  

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Last week we noted that Obama had not visited the city or the suburbs since June.

City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. has made his own bet with a Milwaukee alderman.We can't wait to see who else lines up in the battle of the foodstuffs.

House rejects the $700 billion bailout. Will Bunch tells us what it all means.

Funeral mass today for slain cop. Gov. Rendell and the FOP yesterday called on the Department of Corrections to suspend all paroles until the process is reviewed.

Have Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. and aide Latrice Bryant made a bad situation worse with the media?

Anti-casino protests like this started more than two weeks ago in Chinatown.

Mayor Nutter, City Councilman Frank DiCicco and state Rep. Mike O'Brien have a meeting scheduled next week with the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corp. to discuss the proposal to move the Foxwoods casino from the Delaware Riverfront in South Philly to the Gallery in Center City.  From the talk at a PCDC meeting tonight, the community is very much opposed to the idea.

John Chin, PCDC's executive director, called the proposed casino a "very, very bad idea" for Chinatown.  Chin is concerned that the casino's investors have not shown any plans for what they hope to do at 11th and Market streets.  "Time is on our side," Chin told about 60 people gathered at Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church. "We can fight this and drag it out for a long time."

George Yep, owner of the East Asia Noodle Co., said traffic is already a problem for his business.  He offered up $500 on the spot to help PCDC hire an attorney.  "Fight this all the way," Yep said.  His wife, Cecelia Moy Yep, recounted the many fights Chinatown has faced for survival, from the expansion of the Vine Street Expressway to the construction of the Federal Detention Center.  The community stood up to then-Mayor Street in her first term and defeated a proposed baseball stadium in the neighborhood.  "It seems like very 10 years we have another battle," Moy Yep said. "And it's because Chinatown is adjacent to the central business district.  That works for us and it works against us."

The meeting will be on Thursday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. at Holy Redeemer Chinese Catholic Church at 915 Vine streets.

UPDATE:  Mayor Nutter will not be attending this meeting, according to his administration. Instead, senior staffers to the mayor who deal with casino issues and city planning will attend.

Curtis Jones Jr. can almost taste victory.

Three things are certain when professional sports teams reach the playoffs:  One team will win, one team will lose, and politicians will try to pile on with the rah-rah home team stuff.  Which brings us to City Councilman Curtis Jones Jr.  Feeling confident about the Phillies' chances against the Milwaukee Brewers -- the first-round playoff series starts Wednesday, go Phils! -- Jones has put his Tastykakes where his mouth is.  Er, wait, no.  He didn't eat them.  He bet them.

Jones made his bet with Robert Bauman, alderman of Milwaukee's fourth district.  [Just like Jones here in Philly. Get it?] If the Brewers win, Jones will send Bauman two Philly hoagies and a variety pack of Tastykakes.  When the Phillies win, Bauman will send Jones a pack of Usinger's sausages.  Mmm, victory.  Smells like sausages on the grill.

PhillyClout got a hold of a news release from Bauman's office about the bet.  There are three reasons why this guy should lose:  He calls hoagies "Philly style subs," he refers to Tastykakes as "baked snacks similar to Hostess products," and the Phillies are the better team.

The FOP wages war against "L judges," as in those who are lenient, liberal or light sentencers.

Three people killed in weekend violence.

Signe's take today on Latrice Bryant

Latrice Bryant, the City Council aide who held up signs accusing Fox 29 News of being racist and a reporter of being associated with the KKK during an Oct. 18 meeting, has apologized for her actions, which she calls "inappropriate and inexcusable."  Bryant, in a letter released last night through her attorney, also criticized the reporting methods the station used to follow her around to see if she was attending to personal business while logged in as working at her City Hall office.

City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. has acknowledged that mistakes were made in how his staff recorded the hours they worked.  Goode said that problem has been corrected.  He also lashed out last week at the media for following the issue rather than his legislative agenda.

One line in Bryant's letter really jumps out, cutting to the heart of the Fox 29 News report on whether she was showing up to work for her $90,000 a year job.  Bryant noted the television station followed her around while Council was on its three-month summer break.  "And this was a period in which I was not even contractually required to come to work. But I did," Bryant wrote.

PhillyClout has asked Bryant's attorney to explain the terms of a contract that allows a full-time Council employee to take the summer off.  We'll let you know when we get an answer to that.