Applause, raised voices, and shouts of “No!” could be heard during the hour-long, closed-door meeting in Kensington. And when it ended, Goggins was still the local party leaders’ pick for mayor.
“All families fight,” Goggins said after 29 ward leaders voted against reconsidering her nomination, 18 voted in favor of it, and four abstained. “We made up. It’s time for us to go out here and take it to these Democrats.”
First, Goggins will have to face Billy Ciancaglini, a Democrat-turned-Republican mayoral candidate who paced outside the meeting and left in disgust when he heard Goggins had retained the endorsement.
“I wish him well,” Goggins said of Ciancaglini, who still plans his own primary bid for the GOP nomination. “I just wish he would leave me alone, because I’m not his enemy.”
Ciancaglini last week questioned whether Goggins, a North Philadelphia ward leader who has been on federal disability payments since 2010, could handle the “rigors” of being mayor.
That prompted concerns in the party, and a call by Republican City Committee Chairman Michael Meehan on Friday for the meeting to reconsider the endorsement.
That prompted concerns in the party, and a call by Republican City Committee Chairman Michael Meehan on Friday for the meeting to reconsider the endorsement.
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If recent acitivity by the Rs is taken into account, Giancaglini will be chastised and the party will ‘cut off his funding’ for ‘picking on’ a ‘sick woman’.
G hit the trifecta...She be Black, unstable and on public assistance, if she be a ‘L’ she would be a shoo in.
Either way, I will venture to say the Ds couldn’t have picked a better person to run against.
The Rs are trying to take a page from the D book...run someone so disgusting that she/he will run just to spite themselves and keep enough people home to ensure his/her defeat....only difference is the Rs won’t bus in enough outsiders to pick up the voters who sit at home and won’t be ‘counting’ the votes...