Too many candidates splitting the vote is exactly how Krasner got elected.

Anyone but Gym. Please. Even Amen Brown would be better.

those other candidates should be ashamed of themselves

Didn't help the Republicans ran a candidate with a page titled "About the dead girl in my apartment"

I dunno but i would say careful ( due diligence) on who Reddit pushes thats how we got Kras in office...They will start to push heavily for their candidate in the upcoming few weeks....

The possibility of somebody being elected Mayor of Philadelphia ultimately by winning a fraction of the primary vote makes me uneasy. That just doesn't seem like democracy in a substantive way.

I don't believe that the next Mayor will win with as outrageously small of a vote share of 11 % or whatever the necessary minimum turns out to be, but it could still conceivably be quite small. Philadelphia isn't going to become Peru, but the shiftless failure that Jim Kenney turned out to be and a primary election that seems poised to give somebody executive office with a dubious mandate should be a clear sign that the system is bad.

Tangentially, Helen Gym should fire her graphic designer. Her logo looks like it belongs on the side of those coolers at gas stations that you buy bags of ice out of.

When is the 2023 mayor primary?

May 16

Different year

Idk what this says about me but I still voted for Peruto, one of the few Republicans I've ever voted for. A couple of days before voting I watched an interview with Krasner where he was asked how he felt about a specific homicide, and his response was something like "crime prevention is important, but what I really want to focus on is the great strides we are making with regards to reform" and just started rambling about that. It was at that moment he lost me, as despite his occasional televised "emotional" pleas, that showed me who he really is and how little he cares about anyone/anything beyond his agenda... which is NOT public safety.

Haha I like that logo actually. It reminds me of the "dude, give up your seat" signs on SEPTA for someone reason.

I don't know about that. I don't like both but Brown seems worse

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Also lagwagon day

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It’s going to be an embarrassment to Democracy how few people decided who the mayor of the sixth largest city in the country is going to be. We need open primaries ASAP

I'm not voting for Kenney nor his endorsements (if any).

And/or Ranked Choice voting...

How come our elections are on the odd year and not with federal elections?

Why not just register Democrat?

Because that's when they're held.

The local Democratic Party is an embarrassment of corruption and ineptitude and I want no part of it.

Well then I'm sorry but your best course if action is to register Democrat and vote for the candidate that best suits your interests. Wishing for open primaries and ranked voting will get you nowhere unless you can elect Democrats who will push for those changes.

Our local Democrats would never support open primaries or ranked choice voting because it would diminish their power. It doesn’t matter anyway because those changes would need to be made at the state, not municipal, level.

Ok, just sit on the sideline and complain then.

I may very well re-register as a democrat simply to vote in the primary. It is the actual election at this point. Hopefully Jeff Brown or Rhynhart wins. Will begrudgingly accept Domb. Will be upset if any of the former city council members besides Domb win. Will giggle if Jimmy DeLeon wins.

I’m not sitting on the sideline, I actively oppose the local Democrats at every available opportunity. I hope you enjoy perpetuating a single party government and all of the corruption that comes with it.

Microsoft Word 95 graphics there

Philly is a one party town and has been since the late 50's. Maybe someday you'll realize that the only way to make changes is from within. The current crop of mayoral candidates is actually eclectic. I have to think that there's one candidate that checks most of your boxes. You can register D and vote for them or hope that they win in May and then you can vote for them in November when it will be uncontested.

It's probably an accident of history. I haven't done a detailed historical analysis, but a casual look at the list of Mayors since the Act of Consolidation suggests that they have been elected in odd years since the middle of the nineteenth century.

I find it simple. In PA, we vote for a primary and a general election every year. Every May and every November, go vote!

i'd guarantee you that nearly every democrat agrees with your assessment regarding corruption and big city politics.

but pretending that dynamic would change with the leadership swapping political parties is pure copium, especially in the context of the current national and local GOP platforms, which are comprised solely of

1. resorting to childish contrarianism to own the libs; and
2. resorting to item 1 to avoid the responsibility that accompanies having actual fleshed out policy positions

nobody likes corruption except for the people directly benefiting from it (i.e., not most voters, including democrats). why not fight to end corruption in politics instead of pretending it's coming from a singular source?

Who are the moderates and who are the progressives? What are their policy positions? Feels like I always gotta hunt for this info behind paywalls and platitude ridden campaign sites, hopefully will get easier before the election

Great song

Completely disagree with your argument that the only way to make changes is from within. Major shifts in history rarely happened from people playing nice and playing by existing rules.

If Domb wins, I'm filing for asylum in Canada.

There's one person running who's been posting receipts for the city budget for a decade, and a bunch of fucking grifters.

Be a Reub. Not a noob.

That's true

U r right about the first part, and all these people who are down voting u for that are dumbass

We need ranked choice voting

We need to be united behind a Republican who would support that if necessary

I don't think there's any chance he runs again

I never said or even implied the dynamic would change if the GOP was in charge of Philadelphia. Our city council has a veto proof Democratic majority and zero interest in reform and that’s a major problem. We need a real opposition, not the WFP pretending they’re not Democrats while voting in lockstep with them at every available opportunity. The two Republicans we have on council aren’t much help. David Oh SOMETIMES stands up to the majority but O’Neill is just short of useless.

Nationwide the two party system we have is the source of many of our problems. Open primaries and ranked choice voting would help break their stranglehold on power by allowing third parties and independents a real chance at being elected.

Unfortunately, the big winners will be entities like 6 ABC, FOX29, etc., as we will all be subjected to a high advertising load this spring.

bath tub. the dead girl was in a bath tub

billy penn has a pretty good write-up and coverage.

https://billypenn.com/?s=mayor

We need to vote him out. His refusal so fail prosecute violent criminals like the mentally ill lady punching/attacking random women in the City is not ok.

Gym favors a wealth tax which is the stupidest policy ever. It'll incentivize professionals and business owners to move to the burbs.

You say that like it's a fact of life. A number of states and municipalities are changing off your elections because they realize how unrepresentative the results are.

Just read about Brown in this billypenn write up. It really seems hard to get worse then this.

I meant Jeff Brown. Forgot there were two Browns running.

If Domb win's I'm filing for asylum in Canada. Cherry Hill.

Kidding aside I think domb is decent.

Robust riverfront; good public schools, legal cannabis sales.

Not awful. However, I have an appreciation for Alouette armpit hair 🥰😍🤩 that is only found in places where it might be more common to acquire venison jerky.

Well, venison jerky that isn't fireproof.

I am dumb. I didn’t realize you were referring to a different Brown. My mistake.

No, you’re not dumb, I didn’t specify which Brown. Totally my fault.

Fortunately it’s an idea so stupid that the State General Assembly would probably intervene to end it.

Exactly. Progressives want changes but are blind to the fact that changes are more easily made from within. The progressive council people who were elected fully understand this. Their constituents are slow to comprehend.

The tax is on the books and has been since the 1800's. Philly and other counties stopped collecting it in the late 90's but I think that all city counsel has to do is reauthorize it.

He had printed out signs all over our building for his “big announcement” Friday. I saw the signs, thought to myself this guy’s going to run for mayor and cracked up. Please let him not get in. I don’t want rich developer Domb either. It’s down to Jeff Brown or Rhynhart right now, will keep trying to dig for good information on both.

Be careful what you wish for. I don’t like Gym, but A. Brown? Nope

Brown is just another Kenney in the making, just total incompetence.

Gym is worse, she's both incompetent and an ideolog who keeps conflating national issues as local issues.

Ya it's incompetent, corrupt, and running the city into the ground. However until open primaries and or ranked choice voting get approved in PA you're intentionally removing yourself from voting for any reform on ill-founded moral superiority.

It's certainly not coming from removing yourself from effectively participating in the election.

The candidate who wins will do so with a very slim amount of votes. I'm gonna beg here and ask you to re-join the democratic party to vote in the primary to get Rhynhart across the finish line.

Domb would be fine as mayor, Rhynhart would be better. Jeff brown doesn't have any relevant experience.

We must all work together to push Rhynhart as hard as possible. She's the only candidate running who is both intelligent, lacks conflict of interest, and has the will to get the city government functioning again.

We have 1M registered voters - turnout on that primary will be maybe 30%, which will be split among 8-10 Candidates - the top winner may only get 20% of that 30% so - about 60,000 votes needed to be Mayor of a 1.5M population city

I haven’t decided between Rhynhart or J. Brown yet, but I did decide to register.

Edit: I have just re-registered as a Democrat, but I feel dirty about it since I personally believe that political parties are detrimental to true democracy.

Rhynhart is the way, I don't think anyone else has the experience, the knowledge, or desire to fix the problems the city faces.

Sadly true democracy can't be achieved without an overhaul of the election system, until that happens the most likely outcome of any election for Philly is, whoever wins the democratic primary will win the office. So it behooves you to register for the time being to have a say on who will be elected to the city government.

Prisons and hard line policing are not the solution to crime. If they were USA would be safest country in the world

>Prisons and hard line policing are not the solution to crime. If they were USA would be safest country in the world

It is EASY to say this when you haven't been the victim of a heinous unprovoked crime. I have been assaulted in the El. My neighbors have been burglarized. My neighborhood's ATM is bombed repeatedly. Try raising children in that environment. I say throw all the VIOLENT low life criminals in jail - and ban guns permanently - (this will never happen).

I am literally born and raised Philadelphian. And yes I have been robbed multiple times. Locking everyone up perpetuates the problems we both experience. Raising the minimum wage would go further to reduce crime than any tough DA would

That I agree with you 100 percent. Minimum wage and high quality education and free extracurricular activities for all youth. That being said, anyone reckless enough to bomb an ATM in a residential neighborhood or randomly shoot or harm innocent people needs to suffer consequences. It is not ok to hurt people.