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
City of Brotherly Love bump!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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But you’d vote for him...again, wouldn’t you? Anyone but a conservative.
This country is becoming more and more an Idiocracy.
Story left out the part about the two policemen Street had saving his spot in line in the middle of the night.
“He said the new handheld technology would allow him to work some of the day outside of the office.”
What? No laptops in Philly?
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.
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.
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.
ha ha, I’m not surprised! I’m from Philadelphia and Mayor Street is a joke. Maybe Congress should tell Philly to stop the insurgency there or face a cut in federal aid.