WALKING THE BEAT: Seth Williams For Senate?

DID I TELL YOU: The press carried a story of DA Seth Williams possibly seeking to run for US Senate next year. I have been thinking of the DA’s blasting of State Attorney General Kathleen KANE, and the Ali-gate affair that could ruin four performing lawmakers. I have trouble sleeping (and maybe voters) with the horrible thought of an 81-year-old lawmaker cuffed. If SETH wants to run, I say PLEASE RUN.  If he became a US Senator, I hope he does not bring some of the strident Kane critics with him, and place them in constituent service!… To get ready for the campaign: Ensure the folks Seth hired from the State Attorney General’s Office have established residency in Philly as is required in six months. Also they should see to it that Ali should pay income tax on the reported $400k income. And run on the merits, not fallen officials.

Seth Williams… following Obama’s footsteps?

Should a candidate for Mayor get involved in district squabbles over City Council seats? Not ordinarily. The objective is to make friends. Yet the 2nd and 7th Dists. are pulling at State Sen. Anthony WILLIAMS so that he may not be able to avoid it – at least in the 2nd. Councilwoman Maria Quiñones Sánchez has called her opponent a puppet. HARD TO BELIEVE. She says she has beaten her own party twice. But maybe not this time. And why want to BEAT your OWN party?

A lively time was had at Democratic State committee over the weekend with Lt. Gov. Mike STACK seated next to Congressman Bob BRADY for the Kevin DOUGHERTY for Supreme Court vote…. Saw the City pension piece by Farah Jiménez, a member of the School Reform Commission. It seems that an SRC member would be more professional to STAY OUT of it, and work on improving education. And what the H does the Gas Works sale have to do with it. The proceeds from a sale would only make a WEE DENT in City pension underfunding over years. I begin to believe that there are a bunch of PGW sore losers out here. Given the quality of education, am I to believe this piece (?).

Speaking of the State Attorney General’s male critics – Judge William Carpenter asks that leak charges against her go forward. Why all the type over a ROUTINE reply to appeal action. What did we EXPECT him to say if not that?… Kane’s lawyer, LANNY DAVIS, is tops in his field. If you are in the opposition, you try to knock him down a peg. And I read Special Investigator Thomas Carluccio wrote that improper and unauthorized press conferences were held and releases issued. Who determines that – is that his opinion?

BIRTHDAY PEOPLE:  Bob DELLAVELLA, ESQ. has a birthday on the 24th, in what has been a year of accomplishment for him. On Mar. 1, we celebrate the birthday of Jeff BROWN, owner of ShopRite Markets. Let’s hope for plenty of Managers SPECIAL’s on that day. Also on Mar. 1 is birthday for powerful political consultant Eleanor DEZZI – working away on the Lynn ABRAHAM mayoral race on high in Liberty Place, but always down to Earth…. The plan for the first-ever Veterans’ Parade gains steam! Joe EASTMAN, Veterans Advocate, first came up with the idea. When the announcement was made, he was not among the bigwigs. He pushed so hard for the parade, that he did not endear himself to them. But like former House Speaker Tip O’Neill, he feels, “It is not important who gets the credit as long as the job gets done.”

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