Posted on 07/23/2016 6:56:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
FILE - In this June 21, 2016, file photo, Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa., center, leaves the federal courthouse in Philadelphia. With the Democratic National Convention looming, Philadelphia is ready with freshly swept streets, pristine hotel rooms, lavish party invitations and extra police patrols. Tougher to clean up are the recent political corruption cases that have implicated many Democrats across the state. In June, Fattah was convicted of laundering federal grants and nonprofit funds to repay an illegal $1 million campaign loan and help family and friends.
Philadelphia is ready for the Democratic National Convention.
Tougher to clean up and shine, however, is the states political image, tarnished by recent political corruption cases that have implicated many Democrats across the state.
In June, a longtime Philadelphia congressman, Chaka Fattah, was convicted of laundering federal grants and nonprofit funds to repay an illegal $1 million campaign loan and help family and friends.
Last year, former state Treasurer Rob McCord left office and pleaded guilty to attempted extortion in a campaign fundraising scandal.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane is awaiting trial on charges that she unlawfully leaked secret grand jury material to a newspaper and then lied about it under oath.
And those are just the high profile cases.
The former sheriff of Philadelphia has been charged with conspiracy; traffic judges have been convicted of ticket-fixing; state lawmakers have admitted taking bribes.
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The Chicago Liberty Bell.
the Democrat party is a criminal enterprise
Islamic
What could possibly go wrong?
Hillary is going to feel right at home, isn’t she?
Do my eyes deceive me? Did the author put "democrats" front and center in his story? Look out, Lucifer! Cold wave incoming!!
“The streets are freshly swept, the hotel rooms are pristine”
Democrats are swine. Irate Bern supporters, uninspired Shrillary drones. BLM thugs lacking Trump supporters to attack—like muslims, they will turn on one another and trash the city of Brotherly Love.
Bill Clinton=LBJ
Hillary Rodham=Humphrey
2016=1968
Would love to have a whole section of girls with blue dresses and berets at her convention.....like 200.
lol
Any Freepers going to the convention? (outside of course)
With the WikiLeaks, Bernie Bots and all this freak show seems almost too good to pass up.
Don’t give me any ideas. I’m only about 35 miles away. Then again, somebody has to go to work.
Please be careful if you do go. Those leftists will pummel you in a heartbeat.
Curious to know who the woman to his left is. A local reporter?
“Please be careful if you do go. Those leftists will pummel you in a heartbeat.”
I’m curious by nature and sort of a history buff. IMO this event has the potential of Chicago 68! I was in HS at the time. I’m on the other side of the state but have relatives in Philly.
If I go I’ll just look to observe but I have no fear of leftists and neither should anyone. I am wary of some Philly natives but I’ve dealt with them before.
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