What is up with the Philidelphia mayor

[commander bunnypants]

A heated race with a repuke, talk of corruption, a democrat.

Me thinks a dirty trick is going on. Anybody have insight?


DDQM

[T Wolf]

1. the repukes in DC

have unleashed the FBI on the mayor. The "scandals" have been known for over a year but just a month before the election the feds plant the bugs. Just a coincidence, I'm sure.

It's all part (along with CA) of the regime to go after states they lost in 2000. ANd it may very well succeed.

[LynneSin]

2. You mean about the FBI buggng Street's office???

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=3&u=/ap/20031009/ap_on_re_us/mayor_s_office_bugged

FBI Bugs Philadelphia Mayor's Offices
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By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA - Politicians from both parties are demanding that the FBI (news - web sites) explain why it apparently planted bugging devices in the mayor's office just weeks before the mayoral election.

Mayor John Street, a Democrat, is locked in a bitter rematch against Republican businessman Sam Katz, and the campaign has been marked by charges of intimidation and race-baiting.

"I think given this extraordinary situation with four weeks to go in the campaign, it is incumbent upon the FBI to say why they planted the device," Gov. Ed Rendell said Wednesday.

Rendell, a Democrat, and Republican U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) were among the politicians who called on the FBI to tell the public what it knows about the eavesdropping equipment. That list also included Katz, who called the discovery "breathtakingly shocking."

The FBI made no such public disclosure, and it was unclear what federal prosecutors revealed to Street about the investigation in the two days since the bugs were discovered.