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Ed Rendell and Wilson Goode, Now Paying Chaka Fattah Jr.’s Legal Bills
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/13/2013
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Rep. Chaka Fattah's 30-year-old son Chip has been under investigation by the F.B.I. since 2012, apparently for financial improprieties. (The feds have also shown interest in possible political corruption.) In order to help him pay the legal bills necessary, Ed Rendell and other political players are starting a legal defense fund that includes several other big-time political players. Also involved in the fund are former Mayor W. Wilson Goode and George Burrell Jr., a former councilman and top mayoral aide to John Street. Rendell said the initial plan was not to release any names of donors, or their donation amounts. After feeling
Ed Rendell, Buzz Bissinger, and the Indignity of Having Done It All
By Joel Mathis 4/10/2013
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It was Tuesday afternoon, April 9, when we realized that something both inevitable and unexpected had occurred: Ed Rendell had finally lost his touch.
The signal came in the form a tweet that, on its own, seemed innocuous enough:
What’s wrong with this message? Three things come to mind:
Sad to hear of about the passing of Margaret Thatcher. Love her or hate her, she was one politician who was definitely not a WUSS!— Ed Rendell (@GovEdRendell) April 9, 2013
Rendell Writes Pro-Fracking Op-Ed, Fails to Mention Enormous Conflict of Interests
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/28/2013
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Yesterday, Ed Rendell wrote a big pro-fracking op-ed for the new New York Daily News, in an attempt to sway on-the-fence-and-has-presidential-ambitions Andrew Cuomo to approve fracking in the Empire State. And there was much cheering in gasworld. The Daily News, after learning that Rendell failed to disclose his own ties to the natural gas industry, was less pleased. Rendell is paid $30,000 a year by Element Partners, a private equity firm that invests in natural gas.
“Had I known, I certainly would have disclosed that and conceivably would have made a different judgment on the piece,” Daily News op-ed page editor Josh Greenman
Former Rendell Consigliere David L. Cohen Backing Tom Corbett in ’14
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 2/15/2013
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Comcast VP David L. Cohen, the one-man political machine (and not in the Tammany Hall way) who ran Rendell's early-days City Hall operations, will be backing Tom Corbett in the 2014 gubernatorial election. Cohen's never quite been a Jacobin, but allying oneself with the man who may go down as Pennsylvania's most right-wing governor ever? And super unpopular at that? Is this really the same man this magazine described as the "go-to-Democratic fundraiser" in the state three years ago? [Capitolwire]
Ed Rendell’s Top 10 Reasons He’s Not Running For New York Mayor
By Joel Mathis 1/10/2013
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It's not enough that he's being mentioned as a future mayor of New York—Ed Rendell is clearly trying to parlay the attention into an appearance on David Letterman's New York-based talk show. Otherwise, why else would he create this Top 10 list of reasons he can't replace Michael Bloomberg?
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I can't be Mayor of NYC and root for the Eagles and Phillies
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I don’t look as good in casual clothes as Mayor Bloomberg does
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Dealing with a 17 member City Council in Philadelphia was tough enough, New York has 51!
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There's no Rocky statue in New York; No Rudy statue either
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New York City cabbies
Should Ed Rendell Go to D.C.? Or Stay Home to Defeat Tom Corbett? Or Be New York’s Mayor?
By Joel Mathis 1/08/2013
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One thing Ed Rendell doesn't lack for is career options. The former governor is being mentioned by National Journal as a candidate for Transportation Secretary if the office's current occupant steps down. Given his long history of criticizing President Obama, though, it's maybe a little easier to imagine Rendell staying home and instead trying to reclaim his old office from Gov. Tom Corbett—a task he might accomplish easily, according to a new poll. Public Policy Polling, a Democratic research firm, finds that "in a head to head match-up … voters would prefer former Democratic Governor Ed Rendell to incumbent Republican
Rendell Loves Him, Gay Republicans Hate Him: Obama’s Defense Pick
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 1/07/2013
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It looks like Obama's new Secretary of Defense pick, the former Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, is going to face a tough confirmation fight. First, he's roused the ire of assorted neoconservative types, for his "no" on the Iraq war, his eyebrow raising on the Afghanistan troop surge, his call for reduced defense spending, and his perceived doveishness on Iran. He's also pissed folks off on both sides of the aisle for calling the American Israel Public Affairs Committee the "Jewish lobby." (Said Bob Casey: "Any comment that undermines our relationship [with Israel] concerns me.") Finally, he's got gay rights
Ed Rendell’s Calling Everybody Wusses Again
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 1/04/2013
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Ed Rendell, in his book A Nation of Wusses, calls out politicians for their cowardice on gun control. Today, he reprises the act in a Daily News column ("Listen, wusses: It's time for new gun laws") that reiterates what he told the Patriot-News last month: 1. Ban possession of assault weapons (including the kind used at Sandy Hook, which wouldn't have been covered by the ban that expired in '04); 2. Ditto for high-capacity magazines; 3. Close the gun-show loophole; 4. Ban internet gun sales; 5. Mandate better mental health reporting. What's different now is that Rendell is asking U.S
Corbett Has Signed Wayyy More Laws Than Rendell
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 12/31/2012
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In a cool new Pennsylvania contest we'll call "law signing," Tom Corbett is blowing Eddie Rendell out of the water. In his first legislative session, the Republican signed a whopping 373 laws, compared to Rendell's pitiful 226 in '09-'10. Still, the Patriot-News reports, the "record still belongs to Gov. Robert Casey, who can be credited with 439 new laws from 1989-90." Yeah baby! Gov. Corbett, given the fact that your party controls the state legislature (and Rendell's did not), you've got work to do. Remember, quantity, not quality. [Patriot-News]
The Difference Between Nutter and Rendell, in Four Words
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 12/21/2012
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In the hours since NRA VP Wayne LaPierre unleashed a looong tirade against his critics this morning (in the form of statement on the Newtown shooting), Ed Rendell and Michael Nutter have both weighed in. Nutter called LaPierre's suggestion to stock schools with more guns and police officers "insane" and "ludicrous." Rendell, true to form, went with "whacked" and "nuts." They've got their own ways of saying it, but they both agree that the proposal is out there. Rendell, always happy to inject national politics into the conversation, told MSNBC, "Look, the Republicans have a very difficult choice: break with
