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 Some sad news to report via the Daily News:
Brian Hickey, former managing editor of the City Paper and manager of labor leader John Dougherty’s state senate campaign last spring, was listed in critical condition last night after a hit-and-run accident in South Jersey.
Collingswood Police Chief Thomas Garrity said Hickey, 35, of East Falls, was walking about 10:15 p.m. Friday on North Atlantic Avenue at West Linden in Collingswood, near a PATCO stop, when he was struck by a motorist who left the scene.
Hickey was found unconscious on the roadway with a bloody cut on his head, Garrity said. Police officers saw skid marks on the roadway. Hickey was rushed to Cooper University Medical Center in Camden, where he is still hospitalized.
Geeze. The article later updates his condition to critical but stable, a good sign.
Get well soon, Brian. I’m hoping that I’ll be able to make fun of your blog posts again any day now.
Ex-City Paper editor seriously injured in hit-and-run [Daily News]
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dmac | 9:43 AM | 2 Comments
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Sep
23
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 An item from the blog of Brian Hickey, the ex-City Paper editor and Johnny Doc campaign PR man:
From the “Shut the hell up and go the hell home” files, it seems local trannies have driven the Commission on Human Relations to take up a case challenging whether SEPTA is being discriminatory because the stickers on their travel passes only come in Male and Female and not “In Between.” People, we live in a world with real problems. Gargantuan problems. Last time I checked, the stork doesn’t drop off babies with signs celebrating, “It’s neither a boy nor a girl!” Pathetic. A waste of time and energy. My tip: Go with whichever gender you more closely resemble, sirma’ams.
I bet that stork joke just kills Johnny Doc and the union guys. Ha ha, get it? The stork! Doesn’t bring signs! That say! (Wait for it…) “It’s neither a boy nor a girl!”
Don’t quit your day job, Brian. Oh, wait, you already did!
Weekend reading roundup [Hickey Blunt]
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dmac | 10:20 AM | 0 Comments
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Aug
13
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Look! Everyone’s favorite City Paper columnist-turned-Johnny Doc PR man, Brian Hickey, has a new column in Metro! His first column is about how Vince Fumo should cut a deal to avoid going to trial.
What? That’s, like, the one staunch opinion I actually have: Fumo should go to trial because it would bring Mayor Milton Street-level hilarity. I don’t care if the trial costs a billion dollars. For the amount of money the government wastes, Fumo’s trial would be the best entertainment money can buy. Please, oh please, let there be a trial.
Correction: Aw, it’s just a freelance piece, and not a regular column. But he had a whole giant photo and all!
Voices: Fumo can save us all [Metro]
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dmac | 3:46 PM | 5 Comments
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Jun
23
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Ex-City Paper editor and Johnny Doc spokesman Brian Hickey made his picks for Euro 2008. Let’s see how he did in the first round:
Portugal vs. Germany [Already complete 2-3]
Croatia vs. Turkey (2-2, Croatia advances on PKs)
Netherlands vs. Russia (3-1)
Spain vs. Italy (1-0)
Not to be nitpicky or anything, but the only one he got right was the one he picked after the game was over. Predicting sports is hard, which is why I like to stick to betting on sensible things where you can get good odds, like American Gladiators.
Photo by gereg, Creative Commons license
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dmac | 10:33 AM | 3 Comments
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Apr
25
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I feel bad for Brian Hickey, who left his job at Citypaper to work for Johnny Doc only to have Johnny Doc lose to a dude with the most annoying commercials ever. Ah, but such is politics, I suppose, and at least we have promises of an awesome blog post:
Coming later today, or maybe tomorrow, depending on how much work we have to do today to keep our fledgling organization to push John’s initiatives going strong, I’ll be offering a full breakdown on why the residents of the First District made out worse on Tuesday than either John or Anne Dicker; complete with a breakdown of how the city’s established media used a disgusting, all-out smear campaign to keep a good man down.
The bolding is his; God, that is pretty much the best sentence ever. I am so excited for this blog post and the detailing of the established media’s smear campaign to help Vince Fumo defeat Johnny Doc. Or something.
The Second Day After [Philly Blunt]
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dmac | 11:18 AM | 0 Comments
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Apr
22
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Early last month, local conservative radio host and Bulletin columnist Dom Giordano decided to switch his party affiliation to Democratic in order to vote for Hillary Clinton. Since we don’t have any celebrities in this town, even the local gossip columns wrote about this move!
He said he was switching because he felt Clinton was the best candidate and that she’d be easier for John McCain to beat in November. “It might be the vote I remember for my lifetime,” Giordano wrote. “And it might be my best vote.”
Well, ha ha, Dom Giordano, get this: I specifically switched from not affiliated to Democrat to vote for Barack Obama to cancel out your vote. Your vote didn’t count! I did this not out of any affinity for Barack Obama or distaste for Hillary Clinton, or even really out of any hatred for you or John “Walnuts” McCain. I pretty much just wanted to ruin your plan just for the fun of ruining it. And, oh boy, was it fun!
I didn’t even want to vote for Obama. He annoys me with his message of hope and change and his supporters are almost as annoying as Ron Paul’s. I wouldn’t have switched over to Democrat to vote for the Hopemonger if not for the opportunity to ruin this dude’s plan. (I’ll have no problem voting for Obama in the general, if only to vote against John McCain.) Now somebody tell him. Or don’t, really, because I’ll know his vote didn’t count and that’s really all that matters. (Unless my plan didn’t work; I was still marked as “not affiliated” in the book at my polling place. But, if that’s the case, then I exposed a flaw in the state’s voting system. A hero either way!)
In my brief time as a Democrat — I’ll be switching back when I get a chance — I voted for Brian Hickey for First District Senate and Chrissmari for State Treasurer.
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dmac | 1:00 PM | 17 Comments
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Mar
25
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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?
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dmac | 1:27 PM | 5 Comments
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Mar
3
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Okay, now that Vince Fumo apparently going to be okay, we can begin speculating: Does the heart attack make him look weak? No no, wait, let’s hold off; Johnny Doc has put off his campaign announcement at the South Philly playground.
For Immediate Release
Contact: Brian Hickey 215-400-xxxx
DOUGHERTY FOR SENATE CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES POSTPONEMENT OF LAUNCH EVENT OUT OF RESPECT TO SENATOR FUMO’S CRITICAL HEALTH CONDITION
PHILADELPHIA, PA (March 3, 2008) — The campaign of John Dougherty, Democratic candidate for the Philadelphia’s First District Senate seat, has announced the postponement of its Tuesday, March 4th launch event at the Edward O’Malley (EOM) Recreation Center in South Philadelphia out of respect to the critical health condition of incumbent Senator Vince Fumo, who suffered a heart attack Sunday night, and his family.
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dmac | 12:35 PM | 2 Comments
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