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In February, Philadelphia Forward’s Brett Mandel — he of the incessant emails about tax reform — won a charity auction for a bike ride with Mayor Street.
Mandel bid $400 too much on the ride (his bid: $400), but for a chance to ride with John Street himself and discuss tax reform, Mandel clearly thought it was worth it. Only, well, he’s not going to get to do it:
Now — after months of cancellations — Street has put a kibosh on the ride altogether.
“What concerns me is our highest elected official in the city of Philadelphia won’t keep his word,” Mandel said. “I’m sure the idea must have crossed his mind that it wouldn’t be someone who was going to come and just tell him how wonderful things are in the city of Philadelphia.”
According to Loree D. Jones, Street’s secretary for external affairs, the mayor proposed dates that didn’t work for Mandel and vice versa.
“The mayor had to cancel not because of the nature of the outing or the person that it was with but mainly because it’s the mayor of the fifth-largest city [in the country] and having other things to do,” Jones said.
And what more important things is John Street doing? If you answered “Declaring Tuesday an official Madden holiday i Philadelphia,” you win!
No dice on bike ride [Metro]
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That afro doesn’t tend itself, you know.
I’ve only lived in this city for a month and I know that there’s something not quite right about Street. Maybe the fact that everything he says sounds canned. I just don’t trust him.