Arrogance, They Name is Mayor John Street

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Thanks, Mr. Mayor, for giving Philly YET another black eye:

New drama in Northeast: The mayor & his black bag
By MARK McDONALD
mcdonam@phillynews.com

In these days of heightened post-9/11 security, most Philadelphians have grudgingly come to accept the scanners, the security checks, the requests to open their bags.

But apparently the mayor has not.

As Mayor Street, his wife and a female police officer tried to enter the movies at the AMC Theater at Franklin Mills Mall on a Saturday afternoon last month, Joseph Hood, 35, an AMC ticket-taker and 13-year employee who has cerebral palsy, politely asked to inspect the mayor's black bag.

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The matter should have ended there, but it didn't because Street had an attorney on his staff call the theater a couple of days later.

That, in turn, prompted Hood's mother to write a letter to the editor of a Northeast community newspaper, a letter that slammed Street in his political solar plexus.

Medic's Musings:

Nice use of highly-paid resources, Mr. Mayor! Instead of sic-ing one of your lawyers on a handicapped person doing his job, why don't you have him/her look to weed out more of the corruption that's going on in your office and that you so fervently deny having any involvement???


Oh, yeah, and while I'm at it, why did you have to travel all the way up to the farthest reaches of Philadelphia to see a movie? Wasn't the atmosphere down at the Riverview Plaza to your liking? You created the political and social environment that has allowed those urban knuckle-dragger to turn that place into a gang hangout! And what about Lower Main Street in Manayunk? Oh, I forgot,..they've taken over that place, too! Well,...look at the bright side: Netflix has a built-in market in this town!