Philly mayor John F. Street gets iPhone [And an earful from angry residents!]

AP via Yahoo ^ | 6/29/2007 | RUBINA MADAN

[Incorrigible]

 

Ha! Ha!

See a news video of Mayor Street confronted by hard working, tax paying, Philly residents!

http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=952695&cl=3202261&src=news

 

[Incorrigible]

City of Brotherly Love bump!

[John Jorsett]

Frankly, I can’t get too worked up about this. If the guy wants to wait in line for an iPhone, big whoop. He’s right that these days you can transact business pretty much anywhere. At least he’s not one of those elites who’d have a city-paid “assistant” waiting in line for him. Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Del Gadillo comes to mind.

[montag813]

Why can’t he sit there? If it were up to me, Americans would see a lot more of their representatives. Because I would ban all travel using luxury means. Reps should be required to take the subways, buses and commercial air in coach seats.

[L98Fiero]

And out come the apologists.

I’m sorry but he is a grown man, the mayor of a major city with a skyrocketing crime rate and he sits in line all day for a FREAKIN’ TOY, like some kind of addict.

[Incorrigible]

I’m with you.

Street listens to his iPod while Philadelphia burns.

[TXnMA]

"I’m sorry but he is a grown man, the mayor of a major city with a skyrocketing crime rate and he sits in line all day for a FREAKIN’ TOY, like some kind of addict."

Apparently, neither of you have ever managed anything. Competent managers set the aganda, delegate responsibilities, and remain available for contact re developments.

No doubt, the Mayor had his Blackberry with him. IOW, he was effectively "at work" while standing in line.

Your disdain for Apple and its latest development is very thinly veiled, indeed. Grow up.

[bigfootbob]

People are getting what they voted for, where’s the beef?

[L98Fiero]

“Your disdain for Apple and its latest development is very thinly veiled, indeed. Grow up.”

“Thinly veiled?” I’m not working hard enough, then. What’s not thinly veiled and quite obvious is the obsessive cult-worship some people have for any toy with a lower case ‘i” in front of it.

Funny you suggest I “grow up” when I chastise a grown man, an elected official on the taxpayer’s dime, for sitting in line all day waiting for a toy.

For you info, I recently started a property management company, which I care about. I prefer to be there because I actually give a damn, unlike this POS “mayor”.

[chiefqc]

Could have used that toy time to work on an answer for the skyhigh crime rate in Phila.

I guess the toy was more important, just like the law about serving tras fat.

[napscoordinator]

I don’t think he would have a positive outcome on this no matter what he did. If he sent one of his staffers out to stand in line, he would be criticized for that. I guess he was in a no win situation. Mayors have the right to have some time off. Did he work the past Saturday to take the day off. He may have. I know I will be blasted because he is a democrat but these stories are just ridiculous. Now we have nonstop coverage about Romney and his dog on top of the car in 1980’s.

[Tribune7]

ping

[Krankor]

Well, then he could go to a ball game every time the Phillies are at home and do city business there. On the off game days, he could go to a bar and conduct city business there. Hell, he could go to the Bahamas, sit on the beach and send his 40 emails from there.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

a 22-year-old man sporting a mohawk asked him, “How can you sit here with 200 murders in the city already?”

But you’d vote for him...again, wouldn’t you? Anyone but a conservative.

This country is becoming more and more an Idiocracy.

[PhillyRepublican]

Story left out the part about the two policemen Street had saving his spot in line in the middle of the night.

[toddlintown]

“He said the new handheld technology would allow him to work some of the day outside of the office.”

What? No laptops in Philly?

[joebuck]

I guess it would be totally unreasonable to suggest that he just wait a couple of weeks when he could walk right into the store and buy his Iphone in about 5 minutes.

[Biblebelter]

When he left the store, Street held the phone above his head to the cheers of about 100 people still in line. He then headed home to activate the phone.

Philadelphia has a legendary antipathy toward entertainers and athletes, but for the political class which is the lowest of the low, they are pushovers. Cheering a political hack buying a iIphone, somewhere Chwissy Mathews is smiling. Philadelphia ain't my kind of town.

[cspackler]

He said the new handheld technology would allow him to work some of the day outside of the office.

Yeah.. riggghhhhttttt...

Give up the Blackberry, which is a fully functional PDA with the ability to synchronize email, calendars, contact and tasks with the city's systems to keep him connected and up to date and effectively do his job, with an iPhone which, while a cool gadget, will get his POP3 email if he's lucky? Yeah, that will be a good trade off.

[dfwgator]

Come to think of it, if only we could get Congress to waste more of their time waiting in line for gadgets, then they won’t be passing any stupid laws.