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O'Brien backs Clarke for Council presidency

State Rep. Dennis O'Brien, who won a GOP at-large Council seat Tuesday, said Wednesday he will back Councilman Darrell Clarke for president of that body.

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O'Brien backs Clarke for Council presidency

POSTED: Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 5:54 PM

Miriam Hill

The race for president of Philadelphia's City Council just got a little narrower.

State Rep. Dennis O'Brien, who won a GOP at-large Council seat Tuesday, said Wednesday he will back Councilman Darrell Clarke for president of that body.

O'Brien said he sided with Clarke over his primary rival for the presidency, Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco, because he felt they could work together on key issues. O'Brien is a key advocate for children with disabilities, and he said Clarke had promised he, too, would work to help them.

"I just feel there are wonderful opportunities for cooperation," O'Brien said.

Both men also are connected to electricians' union leader John Dougherty, who is backing Clarke for Council president. A Dougherty-linked political action committee gave O'Brien $10,000 in the last weeks of his campaign.

Mayor Nutter supports Tasco, but doesn't get a vote. Only Council members do.

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Comments (46)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:08 AM, 05/24/2012

Denny O'Brien is an excuse for a haircut to get around town. Nothing more.

— Kaiser Sosa

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:38 PM, 05/27/2012

not sure mayor nutter deserves a vote, glad they've addressed that.

— dipper23

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:22 PM, 06/06/2012

Don't you wonder what they do there in the back of their Pink Cadillac? Pink Cadillac? Oh yeah! Oh yeah! ...

— EGGHEAD.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:38 PM, 06/06/2012

You left out that freckle-faced Howdy-Doody in charge of the Police Department.

— EGGHEAD.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:20 PM, 06/06/2012

Darrell Clarke? I suppose I'd give him a thumbs-up too if I didn't want someone with intelligence and backbone in charge of things up there. That man doesn't even speak colloquial English. The only other moron I WOULDN'T want in charge is that one blowhard with the nervous condition and tunnel-vision, Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell. Back to sleep now ...

— EGGHEAD.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:44 AM, 06/16/2012

a nice point, thanks for your sharing

— fashionlifestyle

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:20 PM, 06/18/2012

Darrell Clark can't even speak colloquial English.

— EGGHEAD.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:50 PM, 07/01/2012

Darrell Clarke cannot possibly be worse than Anna Verna...and I'm Italian. Tasco is a clone of Verna but I guess Nutter can control her. Doesn't matter much. They all walk on their hind legs.

— The Monk

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:06 PM, 07/03/2012

Title to this report should be: "The Blind Leading the Blind".

— EGGHEAD.

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:57 PM, 08/25/2012

Does it really make any difference who support Who on city council??? The whole of city council is a bunch of Non performing idiots who spend there days calculating their DROP benefits and how many days till retirement. Once they have done all those calculations then they proceed to set up their reelection to concil campaign so they can begin to Double dip at the tax payer's expense. Won't philly ever wake up???

— rduexpress

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 7:29 PM, 09/07/2012

135,000 philadelphians voted for nutter in the last elections what does that tell you of confidence of city government

— chesterfield

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:22 AM, 09/30/2012

Denny O
Brien is a bad excuse for a haircut to get around town. A total hack.

— Kaiser Sosa

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:00 PM, 12/10/2012

It doesn't make any difference who is council President. They are all clowns if you leave them to their own devices they will all get arrested by the feds for some fraudulent activity or from outright stealing from the citizens of philly. Until the citizens of philly wake up and kick these clowns out of office, the antics will continue.

— rduexpress

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:16 AM, 01/31/2013

Tired of arrogant, lazy and stealing city council members? Clean-up Philly and start with City Council. WWW.RECALLBLONDELLREYNOLDSBROWN.ORG

Lets start cleaning up city hall one council member at a time....

— SPENDSPEND