Johnny Doc Drama Online And Off

Sometime between Sunday and Monday, the campaign office of Christian DiCicco was broken into by nefarious thieves who cut a phone line and stole some polling data and position papers. DiCicco’s campaign says that polling data that cost $24,000 was stolen as well.

Oh, and his campaign also says it was Johnny Doc. DiCicco’s people are angry that a flat screen TV and a $500 radio weren’t taken. Well! Looks like DiCicco has the election locked up, since he’s spending five hundred dollars on radios. It must be a radio that can hear the secret burglary plans of political rivals.

Johnny Doc spokesman Frank Keel says the campaign had nothing to do with it. (Basically, Johnny Doc is too smart to hire a guy to break in to a rival pol’s office that he could be connected to, so there’s no sense worrying about it anyway.)

DiCicco says it’s “voter intimidation.” Remember when Sam Katz was intimidated with a bomb? Yeah, come on, whoever broke in. Nowadays politicians do cocaine off the asses of prostitutes on live television. You’re going to have to do better than this to get our attention. How about some white guys with clipboards in dark suits?

Meanwhile, ex-City Paper editor Brian Hickey continues to be unable to resist the urge to debate idiots on the Internet.

Back when I responded to things written about me on the Internet, Hickey even sent me angry emails. Then I remembered the eternal wisdom of that modern day Confucius, 50 Cent: “If they hate, then let ‘em hate and watch the money pile up.” That’s what I’ve done, though the only things piling up are bills. (Ba-dum-pum.)

Hickey battled it out with commenters on The Clog, Will Bunch-style, only much, much angrier.

Sorry, but I’m done worrying about civil rights and people whining about inequities in death-penalty convictions.

If you kill a cop, you should lose your life.

Anybody who says otherwise is an enabler, with the blood of two beloved police officers on their hands.

It’s no longer up for debate.

Pretty awesome. Once Hickey left the world of journalism for that of politics, I wondered if he’d be prevented from duking it out in online comments section and calling for extrajudicial capital punishment. Nope! What makes this new argument extra-special is it’s against YoungPhillyPolitics‘ Daniel Urevick-Ackelsberg, who also gets incredibly angry in blog comments sections.

Follow the bouncing ball:

• Daniel U-A writes Johnny Doc gives money to nearly everybody, including people not progressive enough for his taste: “John Dougherty can talk about his long record of public service. But if running a union and accumulating power are the main points of reference we have for him, and he has supported politicians with explicit anti-Gay and anti-gun control agendas, why should be believe what he says now? And considering that Doc has said he will not give up control of his union and its piggybank, it is time for everyone to start asking him some tough questions.”
• Hickey volleys back with a post titled “Responding to Online Biased Critics” and lists every single good thing Johnny Doc has ever done except for that time he saved a puppy: “If you’re keeping it real, and not perpetuating tired myths, the answer is simple: John Dougherty.”
• U-A with a sarcasm-laced return: “To their credit, that was a line that could easily be missed. It was buried all the way in the 6th sentence of the post.”

And the argument will continue on, forever and ever until the end of time.