[MIchaelTArchangel]

Doesn’t the historical record show that Attila the Hun was a faggot?

[Menehune56]

I never realized Mayor Rizzo was a democrat. Wow!

[gusty]

Before anyone waxes all poetic on Frank Rizzo, read this recent article first.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/385518/who-lost-cities-kevin-d-williamson

[TexasGator]

“Unlike Ferguson Mayor James Knowles, “

I thought the mayor was trying to protect till the governor (and Holder) took over.

[Prov1322]

No one should "romanticize" the reign of Frank Rizzo as Police Commissioner. He was not a Constitutional, law and order guy...he was an iron-fisted, power-hungry fascist.

No one should confuse his sometimes interesting musings about hippies, protesters, drugs and race rioters as those of a genuine conservative.

Lived in Philly during that time.

[kitchen]

"Throughout his career, Mr. Rizzo seemed to embrace controversy. "I'm going to make Attila the Hun look like a faggot," he once told a newspaper reporter."

Missing here is the rest of the quote, '... when I'm back in office, ...' Rizzo fully intended to exact severe revenge against those who had abandoned him and his last campaign.