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Your help is needed. Please take five minutes to write Governor Rendell and tell him you support City Council's right to insist that the casinos are done right.
City Council is currently locked in a public show down with our state's most powerful elected official: Governor Ed Rendell. The Governor is demanding that Council rubber stamp the two casinos proposed for Philadelphia's waterfront and he's not asking nicely, either.
The Governor had some exceptionally nasty things to say about City Council yesterday according to this Daily News story. Sounding more like a schoolyard bully than a Governor, Rendell told the Daily News: "Council should suck it up and move. One of the things I have learned in my 30 years in politics is you can't have everyone love all the time. If there aren't some people mad at you, you aren't doing your job."
This is wrong. The Governor has no business blaming Council for doing its job. The state Gaming Board selected the two worst casino sites in Philadelphia. Council has every right to insist that the problems caused by locating these casinos next to residential neighborhoods are solved before giving them the go-ahead to build their facilities.
Our City Council is not a rubber stamp. We elect our council members to protect us, not the Governor and his casino friends.
Thank you for considering this request that you urge the Governor to stop bullying City Council and allow it to do its job. I hope you will consider signing this petition by Casino-Free Philadelphia as well.
Copy this simple message, then click here and paste:
I am writing as one of the 1.5 million constituents of our courageous City Council led by Councilman Frank DiCicco and our elected representatives in the General Assembly (Senator Fumo, and Representatives O’Brien, Keller and Josephs) and of our newly-elected Mayor Michael Nutter, who are united with PNA in an effort to re-site the casinos.
Your intemperate and misplaced attack this week is not appreciated by the residents of Philadelphia, who have worked for over a year to relocate the two casinos in Philadelphia away from neighborhoods.
You, and the casino operators, stand alone in the way of moving these slots parlors to more appropriate locations. Please direct your efforts, and the considerable goodwill you have as the most popular politician in Pennsylvania in the last thirty years, to finding a better location for the casinos and for creating a waterfront which will be a valued legacy to good planning and good government.
Respectfully,
Ed Goppelt, Faxbank Manager
webmaster @ hallwatch.org
