Seth Williams In Worst Feud Ever

Seth Williams — former Inspector General of Philadelphia and permanent District Attorney of the Internet — was lambasted by DA Lynne Abraham yesterday for his “baseless” charges against City Councilman Curtis Jones. Uhm, okay.

Abraham said the info Williams passed on about Jones was “poorly done” and based on “flawed reasoning.” Oh snap! Jones took some shots at Williams as well, claiming, “You want a fair and nonsensationalized investigation.” Ooh, an even bigger shot! Erhm, okay.

Seth Williams, any response: “It’s unfortunate that the district attorney is taking a political shot at me through this vehicle. Investigating fraud and waste in Philadelphia is a full-contact sport.” Boy, this sure is a heated political feud.

[Photo via Julie19144 on Flickr]

Abridged Daily News Columnists

Jill Porter: The police shot something on New Year’s last year, too, but everybody sorta forgot about that. Maybe before next New Year’s we can have an advocacy campaign for not shooting your gun into the air like Saddam Hussein. Oh, we also get a nice use of the word thug here.

Elmer Smith: Our first ever photographic Abridged Daily News Columnists entry!

Hey, look, the media’s interviewing Lynne Abraham’s cat! Oh, also, there’s a conspiracy to stop Seth Williams from becoming The Official DA Of The Internet.

Christine Flowers: Ooh, good, Flowers! You know how I get if I don’t get my daily dose of nonsense in the morning. Apparently Barack Obama (presidential candidate) and Alycia Lane (alleged cop puncher) have things in common. So it’s a nice shoe-horned in metaphor that clearly wasn’t re-written after Hillary won in New Hampshire.

Inspector General Will Work Holidays To Catch You

How did you spend your Halloween? Maybe a little trick-or-treating, a party or two, or just sitting at home and playing Nintendo. Whatever you did, it wasn’t as interesting of a Halloween party as City Inspector General Seth Williams, who took his daughters out to trick or treat in Lansdowne in order to catch a DHS employee who doesn’t live in the city.

The Inquirer’s Heard in the Hall blog reports Williams, dressed as a Rastafarian, took his two daughters, dressed as DeeDee Doodlebop and Violet Incredible — I only have a tenuous grasp of who these characters are — to the employee’s house in Lansdowne at 8:30 p.m. The man answered the door and said he wasn’t giving out any candy.

Eight-thirty? Aren’t all the trick-or-treaters gone by 8:30? Still, that didn’t stop Williams from giving out a lame pun: “The trick was on him.” Just wait ’til Thanksgiving, when Williams dresses up as a turkey in order to catch more employees who don’t live within city limits.

Can’t Trust those Trick-or-Treaters [Heard in the Hall]

Seth Williams Makes Us All City Employees

In a Young Philly Politics post gushing on Seth Williams, the man himself responds and lets us know only we can prevent forest fires municipal corruption:

I am deputizing all of you Assistant Inspectors General, you don’t get badges but you will get the thanks of all Philadelphians if you can help end our reputation of being “corrupt and contented”. If you have information regarding corruption, fraud or waste in the municipal government please contact me. If you have ideas or suggestions about sting operations I could initiate don’t hold back, the time is now to end municipal corruption in all of its forms.

Awwwwwesome! You see, this is how we’re going to end every problem in this city. Milton Street wants to deputize all Philadelphians as police officers and now Seth Williams has made us corruption cops.

I can’t wait ’til my first sting operation. Can I do it on John Street? That’d be a blast. Do we get health insurance now that we’re junior inspectors general or whatever? We don’t? How about if I slip you a cool $100 bill?

YPP’s One True Mission: Elect Seth Williams [Young Philly Politics]