When was there a Republican machine running Philadelphia? I’m 60 years old and with exception of Frank Rizzo who ran as both a Democrat & a Republican I can’t remember any Republican mayor of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia was run by one of the most corrupt Republian machines in America from the end of the Civil War until the election of 1951 when they were thrown out for good.
Before your time. The last true Republican mayor was in the early ‘50’s.
Only way I know this stuff was stories from grandfather. He was a Republican, and the reason why my father was a Republican, and hence me. He would laugh at Democrats when they got caught doing crap and then tell stories of “how to do it right”. My father would always get pissed at him for telling me those stories and then I would get a lesson in proper behavior.
He was a real character. He was a bootlegger during prohibition, played in a band and spent a lot of time in Mexico. I think hiding from something. He wasn’t good at the bootlegging thing. Our family certainly didn’t accumulate any wealth like the Kennedy’s.
Don’t get caught up on the party. It is just big city politics. They all have the same genealogy and did the same things. It is part of the reason I loathe cities.