Tasco Defends Ally Evans
Quoting from Martin Luther King and the Bible, Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco made a forceful defense today of state Rep. Dwight Evans, a political ally and founder of a nonprofit that has been under scrutiny since a state investigation said it misspent or mismanaged portions of $12 million worth of state grants since 2006.
Tasco Defends Ally Evans
Troy Graham @troyjgraham
Quoting from Martin Luther King and the Bible, Councilwoman Marian B. Tasco made a forceful defense today of state Rep. Dwight Evans, a political ally and founder of a nonprofit that has been under scrutiny since a state investigation said it misspent or mismanaged portions of $12 million worth of state grants since 2006.
Tasco particularly attacked the motives of The Inquirer for running a series of articles, including one last Sunday, on Evans and the investigation into the non-profit, the Ogontz Avenue Revitalization Corporation (OARC).
“If you look beyond the deliberately misleading headlines and the numerous inferences and innuendos, there’s not much there in their story,” she said. “They reduce 30 years of Dwight Evans’ hard work to revitalize this formerly blighted community to a headline of indictments.”
Tasco, speaking in Council chambers, noted that Evans, once the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, was “arguably one of the most powerful state legislators,” who “brought home the bacon” to his constituents.
She suggested that he bumped heads and angered opponents through his devotion to securing funds for minority communities, and she blamed the media for perpetuating the myth that “government in our hands is something more corrupt.”
“If he were a white legislator and this were a white neighborhood, The Inquirer’s headline would read committed state legislator turns neighborhood around after 30 years of hard work,” Tasco said.
She said that, if these allegations had been leveled against former Gov. Rendell, The Inquirer would have questioned why the audit was leaked to the media and never shared with the subject of the audit – OARC.
“If there’s a real smoking gun, where are the charges?” Tasco said. “Or is it the true aim to kill off these effective organizations by rumors, allegations and legal fees?”
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Having Marian Tasco defend you is like having a 5 year-old as your attorney. Too funny!— joeingoal- amaxing isn't it, i haven't posted for months but the DROP QUEEN TASCO brought me back in, the city is broke, schools are a joke, taxes out of control, muggings, killings and look what this greedy old lady is worried about, please retire and give us back your undeserved unethical DROP MONEY— the commodore
- The onlt "turning around" Tasco and Evans have done for their community has been to get them facing away so they can stab them in the back.— DonQ
- Again? The race card? C'mon..deal with reality. There is thievery and misuse of public funds here. Let justice take its course.— oblekr
- TIME TO INVESTIGATE TASCO ALSO!! SHE IS INVOLVED IN THIS VENTURE ALSO YOUR A CREEP TASCO— wallycleaver
- Great play of the race card Tasco...seriously...this is only scratching the surface of Evans 30 years of theft, misappropriation, waste and cronyism..
Of course this is Philly, nothing will happen to him or to anyone connected with him.
— rpr333 
Tasco defends Evans. Now that is interesting...I wonder who is dirtier between the two....Just a thought.- UN-FIN-BELIEVABLE— callitlikeiseethem
- Yes, the proper analog is Fumo, not Rendell. Where is Vince again, Marion? Silly stuff. Although America has a deserved history of inlaming paranoid delusions among minority politicians. In other words, Tasco's irrational silliness is either a cynical, self serving call to long held racist conspiracy theories in the African American community, or more likely, because of her age and experiences, she really believes this. Not sure which is worse.— bobcitydoc
- No Roger got it right from the getgo! Nobody does it better than the black politicians and activists when it comes to circling the wagons to "defend,"i.e., cover for one of their own. Ackerman's recent love fest is an example of how far they'll go to alter history. Oh, yes, these black racists learned the technique well from a particular white minority religious/ ethnic group that copyrighted it!— Right To Be Heard
- It's a grant, and NOT a gift. Therefore, auditors or anyone in that is authorized, can and SHOULD review all monies spent to see if they were spent correctly. If they were not spent corrrectly, they should be repaid. End of story.— TheGuyfromPhilly
- What else is new? All the crooked pols stick together. There is more power by sticking together. They are all scumbags and the stupid people in Philly keep electing the same crooks, most of them being domoRATS. Enough said!— oneway
- Meant to say 'demoRATS'.— oneway
- How DARE Tasco play the race card! She's like an old bullfrog stuck on one note. As for dirty politicians, seems to me only the white ones go to jail lately - Fumo, Mariano, Tayoun, while dirtbags like Evans and The Lady Thief of City Council, AKA, Blondell Reynolds Brown get a free pass out of jail.
www.recallblondellreynoldsbrown.org— Themonkofmagdalena - LOL, The woman is a joke. The drop queen is pulling the race card to create a smoke screen to hide her hand in the pot. Hey she stood up for Blondell too. Greedy sisters need to stick together. Perhaps an al and Jesse show will take attention away from her.
Notice all the blacks caught helping theselves to the public pot are still on the loose. The white guys, Fumo etc are behind bars, where they belong. The city is a joke. A little more diging and I`m sure another city agency will be wrapped in scandle too.
With all thetalk of money problems in the city and schools, Nutter goes and creates a new dept. Immigration. Appoints a women to head it at 100K and her sidekick will get 90K. That is a nice starting salary. The purpose of the new dept is to help those that can`t speak English navigate the city agencies.
LOVE IT!
— patty b
