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Friday, September 11, 2009

Nutter Hopes For Resolution in Harrisburg

Mayor Nutter just said that he has spoken with one of state Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi's top aides and he has high hopes that the state Senate will take action sometime next week to give the city's budget relief legislation final approval.

"We need them to vote quickly and put this matter to rest, put the bill on the Governor's desk, have the governor sign it and we can get back to governing the city in the way that best suits Philadelphia," Nutter said after thanking members of the state House of Representatives for their votes. He added that there should be no more amendments to the legislation, prompting a laughing state Rep. Dwight Evans to cup his hands around his mouth and shout: "Please!"

Nutter also said the "general view" is that the potential budget deal will make it easier for House Bill 1828 to pass the Senate. "We need this bill taken up as quickly as possible without any other further amendments or delays," he said.

Posted by Catherine Lucey @ 3:32 PM Permalink | 13 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:53 PM, 09/11/2009

Uh, Rendell just said he would veto the state budget. So Pileggi and the whole state GOP are as mad as hornets. Pileggi already said what he would do if the amendments were stripped out. Nutter and Evans won't live in reality, and this hurts people who think that this thing will pass without these amendments. It won't. Real Plan C is a go. What is the real budget?

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:56 PM, 09/11/2009

Pileggi already said this thing can't come back to the Senate with the amendments stripped out. Evans knows that. Nutter knows that. The press can't just ignore it. We know where this form of the bill really stands, and it has little chance in the Senate. Zilch. What is the status of the real Plan C that PICA hasn't seen yet?

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:57 PM, 09/11/2009

CleanupPhilly you are nothing but a loser and a troll it seems like you want Plan C to happen and I'm personally against the so called Doomsday budget because I have friends who are cops, I have a friend who uses the library in Andorra and if Plan C because a reality then crime would go up and I was attacked around my way 3 years ago and I worry about less cops because of you what you hope that happens. So get a life and this bill will be passed one way or the other I promise you the day its passed I will say I told you so.

— CVPI19

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:05 PM, 09/11/2009

Don't kill the messenger. I'm saying that if you buy the spin that Plan C has a chance of not happening, you're not really looking at what the players have said they'll do. I don't agree with cuts to cops at all. That's why people have to be smart, and vigilant. Nutter wants to assuage anger about the cuts by letting people have hope they won't happen, but he's not told us what he really wants Plan C to contain. He claims he'll cut cops, but that makes no sense. Pileggi said this bill can't come back to him with the amendments stripped out. That is what everyone in the House knew. What did they do? Stripped all the amendments out. You have consider that one way to kill a bill for the unions is to make sure you do thing that the Senate leaders said would kill the bill. The House and Nutter wants to blame the GOP here, but they are doing the very thing that dooms this legislation. Something will pass, someday. But let's look how the state budget is doing -- oh, Rendell will veto it, so we don't have one. Get it now?

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:13 PM, 09/11/2009

People can't keep hiding from this, it's childish to just believe Disney version. Obama rescues us, Rendell rescues us, the Democrats provide green jobs that save us ... did I leave anyone out? The math is still there. The city finances are hopelessly out of balance and the Philly Dems have DONE NOTHING. The press gives more credence to the Dem version than the stated reality. The Dems are letting this bill die because they could have just adjusted a few amendments. Instead they stripped it and sent it to its death. The form that passes won't resemble the House version now. We won't know what it looks like until 2010. It's amazing how when you are honest with people, they hate it. I know you're scared. But you need to be. The good news is that the city is not the only employer there is.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:15 PM, 09/11/2009

Poor CUP, wishing for disaster and she gets is hope instead. Give it a rest. The only one want who wants this to fail at this point is you.

— seand

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:19 PM, 09/11/2009

I don't think Nutter hopes for a resolution in Harrisburg at all. He's hoping for a fall guy -- he's praying for a fall guy. He's too smart to not know that there is only one way to get a sales tax hike, and that is to do it Pileggi's way. The House won't do it. We have our answer. No. I could see this coming, but I didn't see Rendell vetoing the state budget at this juncture. That throws me. That makes Philly's issues look like nothing. In the context of Rendell vetoing the state budget, Philly's prompt passage of sales tax hike legislation is something worse than doomed. It's cursed in the blood.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:26 PM, 09/11/2009

Ok I do not work for the city myself but all I got to say I hope Plan C is rejected personally. I blame Pileggi and the Sentate for this and he and those republican fools better pass this bill with or without the amendments no questions asked. I see this hurting his and the senate's chances for reelection personally for sure I would not vote for Pileggi or any of his republican pals in the Senate for ruining things for Philly.

— CVPI19

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:39 PM, 09/11/2009

OK, you guys can pretend that there is no Senate GOP and that they are not in charge if you like, and you can pretend that they are really happy, even though they don't exist in your world, that Rendell will veto their hard work. They don't exist, but they will love having the veto of the state budget and will roll over and vote all yes on the House bill. Sure they will! WOW. Seriously? You seriously think this? You guys have to wake up. This is really bad. Say it slowly, b-a-d. The city won't fail, but it will be a different city. It will rise again, but first the old form will be cut away. The first round of 3,000 cuts will feel easy compared to what will have to come next.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:42 PM, 09/11/2009

Why should the Senate Republicans approve the bill as amended by the House Democrats? They aren't going to face the backlash if Plan C (whatever it ultimately is) is put into place and 3,000 city workers (cops or otherwise) get laid off.

— PhillyTaxes

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:47 PM, 09/11/2009

Kids, the Historic Commission and the Planning Commission have announced that they will cease operations. Plan C is happening right now all around you while you are stuck in starry Hope and Change. So pretty! Plan C is a go not because I want it, but because the prognosis is so grim, if you can only bear to look at the disease. I hope you'll have some Change in your pocket. You can't afford to not assess this correctly. People who work for the city will have to. You can't be a political observer if you refuse to see.

— CleanupPhilly

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:01 PM, 09/11/2009

If 1,000 cops and 300 firefighters get laid off under Plan C, it will be their own fault, because they were unwilling to accept reasonable changes their benefits in the worst economic environment in recent memory. (Defined benefit plans have all but disappeared in the private sector.) John McNesby applauded the House bill because, in his opinion, it gave the city the pension relief it wanted without that relief coming on the backs of the city workers. Instead, he (and apparently the unions) prefer that any relief come on the backs of taxpayers, who already bear one of the highest, if not the highest, municipal tax burdens in the country. If Plan C comes to pass, the city workers will have no one to blame for their losses but themselves.

— PhillyTaxes

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