Joe Clarke wrote:
Sometimes when we attribute too much power to an entity, we succeed in
giving it credit for manipulating everything. That's ideological
thinking: seeing everything in terms of either for or against Penn
interest. I don't think that they are that powerful. I'm no fan of
Penn and have worked for them and with them - that is certain
departments - but do not think that they engineer our elections.
you raise some interesting questions. given that you don't
think penn is that powerful, and that they don't engineer
our elections, where would you draw the line, the line in
our civic lives here in philly, where penn's power and
influence aren't promoting penn's interests? at what level
in city government/urban planning/business development etc.
would you say penn's power and influence stops, ceases to
have any effect? what are the mechanisms in place that
provide a public check, or accountability, for penn's power?
[open question]
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UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
[aka laserbeam®]
[aka ray]
SERIAL LIAR. CALL FOR RATES.
where was that line drawn, say, when jannie blackwell and
andy toy showed up at ucd's party for dock street, after ucd
took sides in the re-zoning of the firehouse?
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