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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Fox 29 Has Pics of Goode & Bryant On Island Get-Away
Fox 29 News says this photo of Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. and his chief legislative aide, Latrice Bryant, was taken in Jamaica in August 2005.

Fox 29 News took the whole City Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr. and Latrice Bryant thing to a new level tonight by revealing a series of vacation photos showing the pair looking pretty romantic in Jamaica three years ago.

Bryant has been the focus of incredible media attention for the last two weeks because Fox 29 News filmed her running personal errands this summer while being paid to work in Goode's office as his chief legislative aide.  She didn't handle that very gracefully, stiff-arming a Fox 29 News camera when reporter Jeff Cole tried to interview her at Council's Sept. 18 session and then holding up a series of hand-drawn signs that said "Fox 29 are racists" and "Jeff Cole KKK."

Pictures of that mess, which Bryant sort of apologized for on Sunday, have been zapping to and fro on the Internet for two weeks.  We here at PhillyClout have a feeling that some new photos might make the rounds as well.  Fox 29 News has a slide show of 14 candid snaps of Goode and Bryant looking very romantic in a tropical get-away.  Fox says the photos were taken at the Grand Lido Resort & Spa in August of 2005.

Nothing about that violates city rules - that we know of - on how Council members deal with employees.  But it was just a week ago that Goode told PhillyClout that he wasn't romantically linked with Bryant.  "Is there a social relationship? Yes," Goode said. "Is there a romantic relationship?  No."

Posted by Chris Brennan @ 9:03 PM  Permalink | 50 comments
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Posted 09:20 PM, 10/01/2008
ywontulisten
LIAR, LIAR, (and I hope your)PANTS ARE ON FIRE!
Posted 09:23 PM, 10/01/2008
ywontulisten
ROTTEN, DIRTY THIEF OF THE TAXPAYERS OF PHILADELPHIA!
Posted 09:25 PM, 10/01/2008
usn1223
Was Larry Mendte hacking computers again??
Posted 09:29 PM, 10/01/2008
give me liberty or death
nothing will happen. the people left in philly deserve the gov' they have, if they don't like it vote them out. the dem machine is fully entrenched.
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Posted 09:39 PM, 10/01/2008
Kristin M.
Out of all the things going on in the world right now, this should not be getting all my attention BUT this story makes me absolutely livid. My tax dollars are paying for Goode's mistress. Disgusting. Mayor Nutter, please look into this. The $90,000 this woman is getting paid could be put to much better use elsewhere. And they had to gall to throw in the race card. Absolutely disgusting.
Posted 09:41 PM, 10/01/2008
cygnus
Maybe the good councilman he should change his name to "Kwame."
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Posted 09:53 PM, 10/01/2008
Michael S.
Goode, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: Never p*ss off an investigative reporter when you've got skeletons in your closet!
Posted 09:55 PM, 10/01/2008
jtap1981
what barn said
Posted 09:57 PM, 10/01/2008
MikeP
This is what you get when you hand over Democracy to a handful of people. Whoever the local political machine backs in the primary gets elected. There are no competative races in Philadelphia. I don't even know why people bother to vote. When you allow a handful of local power brokers pick your representatives and they have no competition, you end up with mediocre, pathetic representatives like Goode. He's a racist bozo. "Don't disrespect a black woman?" he says. I think he's disrespected every person living in his district. Arrogant, dishonest, and stupid. Just the qualities we need in a representitive. Is it a stretch to say we can do better than this guy?
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About Chris Brennan and Catherine Lucey
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Chris Brennan, a native Philadelphian and graduate of Temple University, joined the Daily News in 1999. He has written about SEPTA, the Philadelphia School District, the legalization of casino gambling, state government, the mayor, the governor, City Council and political campaigns.

Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002. Since then she has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. For the past two years, she covered the 2007 mayoral election. Now that the battle is over, she has moved down to the City Hall bureau where she will report on the Nutter administration.
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