Brady badmouths city election figure
With scant evidence, the city's Democratic chairman takes a shot at Stephanie Singer for alleged ballot problems.
Brady badmouths city election figure
BOB WARNER
The city's Democratic Party chief, U.S. Rep. Bob Brady, rarely says anything negative about his compadres in public life, at least to reporters. It's one of the principles that have kept him in power the last 25 years.
So we were surprised to hear this comment to The Inquirer's Washington correspondent, Jonathan Tamari, who asked Brady on Thursday about Election Day problems.
"We had minimum problems, other than the provisional ballots that our commissioner screwed up, but she can't screw it up no more," Brady said.
The clear reference was to City Commissioner Stephanie Singer, who was unceremoniously dumped as the city's election chief Wednesday by the two other commissioners, Republican Al Schmidt and Democrat Anthony Clark, who made themselves cochairmen.
Whether anybody "screwed up" provisional ballots is questionable. We haven't heard of a single polling place that ran out of provisional ballots on Election Day, despite a panicky court filing in mid-afternoon by Democratic lawyers seeking emergency-ballot deliveries to all 1,687 divisions in the city. The list was eventually pared down to 91 divisions, and when the ballots arrived late Tuesday afternoon, 26 polling places said they weren't needed and sent them back.
While the three elected commissioners oversee city elections, the nuts-and-bolts machinery is still run, capably, by the civil service staff assembled by Marge Tartaglione, who ran the office for 36 years (minus a four-year period when she was not the commissioners' chair) until Singer beat her in last year's Democratic primary. Whatever happened on Election Day, Brady's comment signals Singer may have a rocky road to reelection in 2015.
Poorest district in the country, and Fat Bob Brady criticizes someone else for screwing up. Hey Bob, how's your district doing?— LouDiamondPhillipsheadScrewdriver- I have some problems with Bob Brady,but at least he is honest enough to admit what a total disaster Stephanie Singer has been.— GREEKPICNIC
- The illiterate head of the Democratic Party in Philly strikes again.— fightins4ever
- Agree w/all the above. Congressman dopey!!— CHARLES MANSON
- I love the fact that countless fat and stupid union dolts listen to this fat and stupid loser.— Nipsey Russell
Brady isn't qualified to manage a Bridesburg taproom, let alone serve in Congress— hannibal barca- One of the poorest Congressional Districts in the Country and yet they keep re-electing him. I guess all those lemmings think that 50+ years of promises of prosperity is coming any day now. News Flash: It ain't coming unless you free yourselves and WORK for it.— keapitreal
This guy is a real dummy.- You think bob made it to the fifth grade?— bannedrepublican
- Commenters 8 /Brady 0.This one will be worth watching.— Yankee Air Pirate 12
- Nine nothing now.Gotta be a Brady fan out there somewhere.— Yankee Air Pirate 12
- Bob Brady/s Dog does not even like Bob Brady— Wildwood Crest
- By the way Bob,push back once in awhile,will you ? That or opt for the salad on occassion.Another option would be to change your name to Blob.Just sayin'.— Yankee Air Pirate 12
- Brady's fans can't read. He'll getno support here.— Bede19025
- Tomorrow, we will be flooded with comments from union hacks (on the clock, of course) defending Mensa Bob.— Nipsey Russell
