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by Rory McGlasson CONTRARY to popular belief, Lent is not a time to start a diet.

Fast by all means. But if your motivation is to shed vanity pounds, then you might want to look into a mirror and indulge in some serious self-reflection.

“Lent gives us a time to reflect, repent, restore and renew your faith,” according to a South Philadelphia cleric, Father (Cont. Page 2)

Legislation To Help Vulnerable Homeowners With Property Tax Hike LUIS LOPES, 28, a native of Guatemala, receives ashes on Ash Wednesday from Father Vincent Farhat, outside

by Rory McGlasson of St. Maron’s R.C. Church, 10th & Ellsworth Streets. Ash Wednesday opens Lenten season for Christians. It’s COUNCILMAN Kenyatta a time to reflect, repent, restore and renew.

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(Cont. From Page 1) Vincent Farhat, of St. Maron’s R.C. Church, 10th & Ellsworth Streets.

Ash Wednesday opened the Lenten season for Western Christians.

For the record, Lent is technically longer than 40 days.

Farhat took his blessed ashes to the streets of south Philadelphia last week. The leader of St. Maron’s R.C Church blessed dozens of people as he walked around 9th Street from Ellsworth to Washington Avenues, bringing his message of faith to the streets.

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(Cont. From Page 1) homeowners out of their homes.

The hardship-referral bill will provide relief to low-income families who are experiencing an extraordinary increase in real-estate taxes, Johnson said.

Taxpayers, under this bill, would be able to defer any amount over two-and-ahalf times their current bill.

For example, if a taxpayer pays $2,000 in 2012, but their reassessment in 2013 is $8,000, then they must pay $5,000, but can defer $3,000. Taxpayers can defer the money until next year or when the house is sold.

“I don’t want constituents to be priced out of

their home, whether they live in Point Breeze or Graduate Hospital,” Johnson said. “That’s why it’s important we introduce relief efforts for those who fear the new assessment might force them out of the city.”

Thousands of South Philadelphia homeowners have received a increase in their property-tax assessment in the mail from the City. Some have seen a 1000% increase.

1st Dist. Councilman Mark Squilla and Johnson have said their office has been flooded with constituents concerned they cannot afford the tax hike.

“Most of my constituents have expressed they don’t

“Johnson said. “However, clearly the initiative has

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negative input AVI will have on many constituents.”

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coworker. Her patient, meticulous attention to lawmaking detail earned her the respect of all her peers.

When Josephs entered the state legislature, Pennsylvania had the reputation as a hard place for women to find a place in the rough-and-tumble “boys’ world” of politics. It still has that reputation today, to some degree. In the last legislative session, Pennsylvania ranked 46th out of 50 states in the percentage of women legislators.

But Keystone State political women have come a long way since Josephs’ freshman term – due in part to her role model and her leadership. She was the convener of the Women’s Caucus of the General Assembly.

Now, in 2013, 42 of the General Assembly’s 253 members are women, one-

sixth of the whole. That’s a record for our state.

Josephs had a long-standing reputation as a lawmaker dedicated to civil rights, improving health care for all, fair taxes, and securing dedicated funding for mass transit.

She worked for a vibrant, green, beautiful Philadelphia.

She encouraged arts and economic development that have benefited millions of Philadelphians and Pennsylvanians. “I believe that civil liberties and a strong economy are inextricably intertwined,” she was fond of saying.

Josephs fought to make sure every child in Pennsylvania gets an adequate public education, and I believe that strong unions are essential to keeping families in the middle class. I struggled to ensure STATE REP. BABETTE JOSEPHS surrounded by her children and grandchildren for (Cont. Page 4) Passover 2012.

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A doyenne of the Pennsylvania legislature stepped down from office on Jan. 1.

First elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1984, Babette Josephs represented the 182nd Legislative Dist., which encompasses Center City and South Philadelphia, for 28 years.

As the senior woman legislator in the General Assembly, she served as the Democratic chairwoman of the House State Government Committee since 2001; this committee oversees elections and campaign laws, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and procurement of supplies and services by state government.

A tireless crusader for progressive causes, Josephs at the same time crafted a reputation as a cooperative bipartisan

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Josephs

(Cont. From Page 3) that all Pennsylvania voters have access to the polls, en-

courage small-business development, protect the environment, and ensure that citizens

on limited incomes, including seniors, receive the help they need while being treated with dignity.

In the darkest days of the Great Recession and the draconian budget cuts that followed, Josephs sought to restore safety-net services, tax Marcellus Shale gas-drilling companies, close the Delaware loophole and tax other tobacco products. I support non-discrimination and marriage for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered Pennsylvanians. She is a firm supporter of legal, medically safe abortion.

Josephs is affiliated with multiple organizations and boards such as the ACLU, League of Women Voters, Equality Advocates Pennsylvania, Franklin’s Paine Skatepark Fund, National Organization for Women, League of Conservation Voters, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Hadassah, Neighborhood Networks, and Center City Residents’ Association. She brought hundreds of thousands of dollars to my district to aid neighborhood, education, crime prevention, and cultural groups.

As the only elected official in Harrisburg who did not drive a car, Josephs was an avid backer of SEPTA. “I am pleased SEPTA is moving forward with updating our current payment technology to make riding the system easier and more efficient. I worked closely with SEPTA, DVARP, DVRPC, other transit related agencies and the unions across the city to gain a better understanding of how the new payment technology system will work,” she stated.

Throughout her career, Josephs has chaired or been a member of a number of legislative committees.

• State Government Committee, Democratic Chair (2001–2012) • Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, Member (2003–2012) (Cont. Page 5)

Duvall Education Fund 1978–1980 • Private law practice 1977– 1979 • English Teacher in the Philadelphia Public High Schools 1963–1964 Josephs is involved with a number of civic organizations, including the Pennsylvania chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. She is also

the co-founder of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League's Pennsylvania chapter.

Over the years, Josephs’ district became increasingly important as a center for the LGBT community. Mark Segal, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News and a supporter of Josephs, said, “We as a community cannot

and should not turn our backs on someone who has an exemplary record of protecting us.

We have fought discrimination all of our lives and have no right to discriminate against someone because of their gender or sexual orientation. Babette has done and continues to do the job exceptionally well. To vote any other way would reverse years

of fighting for gender and racial equality, and will do us all more harm than good.”

Josephs regularly received endorsements from Pennsylvania’s Fraternal Order of Police State Lodge, Pennsylvania State Education Association and Philadelphia Federation of Teachers. All three organizations expressed encouragement for her policy goals and

cited her exemplary voting record on issues important to working Pennsylvanians.

“These are the people who we entrust to protect us, to teach our kids and to keep them safe,” Josephs said. “I am so proud to have the support of the state’s teachers and police, but we should all show our support for them. They (Cont. Page 6)

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Babette. Thank you for all your service to Philadelphia & Pennsylvania over many years!

Philadelphia Black Republican Council (PBRC) Celebrates

Black History Month And Honors

Dr. Ethel D. Allen Dr. Allen, a Republican, was the first African American councilwoman elected to an at-large seat on the Philadelphia City Council Calvin R. Tucker Chairman Ronald Currie Secretary Joseph Thomas Assistant Secretary Ronald Holt Treasurer Lamont Foreman Financial Secretary Rev. Todd Johnson Chaplain Joseph Samuel Sergeant at Arms PBRC mission is to elect a qualified African American Republican in Philadelphia

IT WAS TRULY AN HONOR WORKING WITH YOU ALL THESE YEARS,

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(Cont. From Page 4) • Philadelphia Delegation, Co-Vice Chair • Democratic Policy Committee, Member • Women of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Convener • Select Committee on Information Technology Member (2008–2012) • Advisory Board on Statewide Uniform Registry of Elections (SURE), Member (2001–2002) • Joint Select Committee to Examine Election Issues, Member (2001–2002) • House Appropriations Committee, Member (1993–2002) • Health & Welfare Committee, Subcommittee Chair • House Judiciary Committee, Secretary (1989– 1990), Member (1987–1994 & 1997–2002) • House Health and Human Services Committee, (1985–1992 & 1995–2002) • Children and Youth Committee, Member (2001– 2002) • Intergovernmental Affairs Committee, Member (1999–2000) • House Urban Affairs Committee, Member (1997– 1998) • Game and Fisheries Committee, Member (1989– 1990) • House Insurance Committee, Member (1985–1996) • Professional Licensure Committee, Member (1985–1986) Prior to her election to the legislature Josephs was active in law and political organizing.

• Executive Director of Citizens Coalition for Energy Efficiency 1980–1981 • Co-founder and Executive Director National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League PA and its foundation, the Clara Bell

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Thank You Babette From The Bottom Of Our Hearts For All You Have Done For The People In This Commonwealth

Your Service Babette to the City of Philadelphia And The State Of Pennsylvania Has Been Invaluable. Thank You! Councilman

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Labor, Voter, Gender Rights (Cont. From Page 5) have some of the hardest jobs imaginable, and they work

every day to serve the public.”

“Pennsylvania students have endured deep, painful

cuts to education under Governor Corbett," said PSEA president Michael Crossey, calling Josephs “a reliable vote for public education, but because she routinely speaks out and calls attention to these irresponsible policies. The teachers and support professionals of Pennsylvania know that Babette is looking out for us.”

“The Fraternal Order of Police Pennsylvania State Lodge endorsed Josephs “because of her consistent support for the men and women in uniform. Josephs is a powerful and effective ally in Harrisburg and truly understands how cuts to police budgets around our Commonwealth have made us all less safe,” said Fraternal Order of Police Pennsylvania State Lodge president Les Neri.

Josephs routinely garnered endorsements from Gov. Ed Rendell as well as the political action committees representing Planned Parenthood and the Philadelphia chapter of National Organization of Women. She scored 100% on the Pennsylvania Marcellus Shale Scorecard issued by the state’s four top environmental groups and she was named a

2011 Legislative Hero by Keystone Progress.

Josephs received backing from an honor roll of oprogressive groups, among them: • Philly for Change • Liberty City • Planned Parenthood • Pennsylvania Women’s Campaign Fund • Association of Pennsylvania State Colleges and University Facilities • Pennsylvania National Organization for Women • Philadelphia Gay News • SEIU State Council • SEIU 32BJ • Ironworkers 401 • Laborers District Council of Philadelphia and Vicinity • AFSCME District Council 47 • AFSCME District Council 13 • Pennsylvania State Education Association • UFCW 1776 • Steamfitters 420 • Chapter 830 DRIVE • AFL-CIO She is the happy grandma of six gorgeous grandchildren and loves nothing more than spending time with her two kids and their spouses.

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Babette Josephs for Years of Liberal Leadership

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When Women Speak – And Vote

Another Opinion Cross-Lobbying: Key To Labor’s Success islation for charter-school and voucher bills that weaken public-school unions. This is part of the attack on public-sector unions. Other states, including Pennsylvania, have bills to privatize most school services, along with bills to privatize public transportation, water supply, port authorities, airport security, liquor distribution, prisons and prison medical services, Medicaid delivery, state-park vendors, kindergarten development and evaluation, and every municipal service imaginable, including even administering a state lottery.

At least 10 states have introduced so-called “paycheck protection” measures. These measures are designed to limit the use of voluntary union member contributions for political purposes, while placing few, if any, restrictions on corporate political spending.

Responding to these attacks, labor is placed in a defensive position of trying to protect the gains we have struggled and fought for.

While each of us as labor leaders naturally tends to focus on our own issues, we must start standing together and fight for our unions.

Our elected officials expect to hear from teachers when an education issue arises. They expect to hear from the building trades when a prevailingwage issue comes up. They expect to hear from the UFCW when they attempt to privatize the liquor stores. But they don’t expect to hear from a transit worker on any of these issues. We all have as much to gain and lose on these issues as those who are the direct object of these attacks.

That has to change! We must start cross-lobbying.

This was my message during the Pennsylvania AFLCIO Legislative Conference.

“Cross-lobbying” means when an issue threatens one group of union workers, union members from transit, hotel and hospitality services, the (Cont. Page 23)

Feb. 21- State Rep. James R. Roebuck hosts Birthday Bash at Warmdaddy’s, 1400 S. Columbus Blvd., 5:30-7:30 p.m. Jazz and good food.

RSVP (215) 724-2227.

Feb. 21- Council’s Got Talent! benefit supports hunger relief by Philabundance at Penna. Acad. of Fine Arts, 6-9 p.m. Tickets at Philabundance.org/CityCouncil and 100% of sales will go directly toward hunger relief.

Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky will MC. Feb. 21- 44th Ward Democratic Executive Committee hosts Jazz & Petition Party, at Danny Banquet Hall, 101 S. 50th St. 6-10 p.m. Featuring Napoleon Black Redeemed and 61st St. Band. Tickets $150.

For info (215) 429-4819.

Feb. 21- 5th Ward Democratic Executive Committee dinner/fundraiser at Bella Cena, 1506 Spruce St., 7 p.m.

Candidates welcome. $100 fee for all candidates. Checks payable to the 5th Ward Dem-

ocratic Executive Committee.

Feb. 21-22- Clothing and Items Giveaways at Mt. Hebron Baptist Ch., 1417 Wharton St., 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Items for kids, ladies, men and home and much more. For info (215) 326-8163. Bring shopping bag or shopping cart. No requirements or ID needed. Everything is free to all.

Feb. 22- Cindy Bass hosts Coffee with the Councilwoman at Wired Beans, 301 W. Chelten Ave., 3-5 p.m.

Feb. 22- Emilio Vazquez’ 43rd Ward hosts fundraiser at A Lounge, 4210 Macalaster St., 6-9 p.m. Tickets $40.

Feb. 27- Green Party holds elections at Chestnut Hill Friends Mtg., 100 E. Mermaid La., 7 p.m. For info (215) 243-7103 or email gpop@gpop.org.

Feb. 28- Fundraiser for judicial candidate Christine Hope at PFCU-PAC, 1600 Locust, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Donations $100/$200/$500. For info Pam Ewing (215) 460-5975.

Mar. 2- Italian American Political Action Committee Carnevale at Sheraton Society Hill Hotel, 1 Dock St., 6 p.m.12 a.m. Honorees Dr. Freder-

ick Simeone, Janet CantwellPapale, Gennaro J. Leva. and Dr. Nicholas L. DePace.

Mar. 3- John Sabatina, Sr. hosts 56th Ward Petition Party at Gas Workers’ Ha., 9091 Marshall St., starting 3 p.m.

Candidates $100. Checks payable to Friends of the 56th Ward. For info (215) 742-8600.

Mar. 5- Campaign Finance Training presented by Board of Ethics and City Commissioners Office at Board of Ethics offices, 1515 Arch St., 18th fl., 5 p.m.

Mar. 6- United Democratic Ward Leaders of Color host cocktail reception at 3801 Market St., 6-9 p.m. Tickets $100, $1,000 per table of 10. Checks payable to C & D PAC, 5409 Addison St., Phila. PA 19143.

No corporate checks.

Mar. 10- 23rd annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade kicks off at 12 m. from 16th & Parkway. For info Michael Bradley (610) 449-4320.

Mar. 12- Capt. James R. Roche, president of Pilots’ Ass’n for Bay & R. Delaware, honored at Spirit of Port Award Luncheon sponsored

by Seamen’s Church Inst. at (Cont. Page 23)

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by President John Johnson President, Transit Workers Union Local 234 Across the nation, antiunion Governors and state legislatures are seeking extensive, structural changes to weaken the bargaining power and political influence of unions.

Many Republican legislatures have promoted bills intended to weaken unions. So far, they focussed on building trades and public sector unions.

Fourteen states have introduced legislation against the building-trades unions. They are restricting Project Labor Agreements, which are agreements to pay union rates on construction projects in return for labor peace. Eleven states have bills attacking prevailing wage laws. Both of these laws protect building-trades union standards.

At least 28 states passed leg-

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The steady ascent of more and more women to positions of political leadership reflects basic changes in our society which cannot be undone. That’s because men depend on these changes as well as women.

Families are smaller, so few of them need stay-at-home mothers for a lifetime. Modern families need two working parents; single women must make their livings on their own. And women are more educated than men. It stands to reason greater numbers of women will be called to call the shots in Harrisburg, then.

Men and women are not totally different creatures and they share many political habits and concerns based on other shared allegiances. We don’t have a Men’s Party and a Women’s Party.

But women as a bloc do tend to have issues of their own.

They tend to have lower incomes, so they are more concerned about financial security and less impressed by social prestige and power. Health and education are high-priority matters for them.

Children and the elderly aren’t afterthoughts for them.

Women may be less taken with campaign metaphors of conflict and victory than men are. They like to see public problems worked out in an orderly, cooperative manner.

This year has seen an illustrious woman politician, State Rep. Babette Josephs, step down after a lifetime in the gritty trenches of political struggle. But the signs of the times are that she was not an anomaly, but a harbinger of greater changes to come.

Women increasingly will speak to Harrisburg. And increasingly, women will speak from Harrisburg as well.

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No Sugar In Kane For Battered Guv

by Joe Shaheeli 2014 could be a women’s year in Pennsylvania politics.

This is not good news for Pennsylvania’s first-term Gov. Tom Corbett, since he is (a) not a woman and (b) very unpopular, especially (c) with women.

There are ways the Governor can overcome this, and his actions since New Year’s Day suggest he has a women’s strategy behind key reform proposals.

Two of his boldest moves – to fund schools by selling Liquor Control Board stores and to fund senior programs by selling the Lottery – are aimed at elders and children.

In practice, women are the chief consumers of services to both young and old.

So if Corbett can deliver major goods to both these constituencies, he will deliver a strong message to women voters in 2014. If. He will have to give them something because he is down with them by a staggering 30%

at this season, according to the latest (Jan.27) Quinnipiac Poll.

If momma isn’t happy, no politician’s happy. No incumbent Pennsylvania Governor has ever lost reelection; but every cycle breaks some timehonored tradition, and Corbett could be the next tradition in line if he doesn’t do something big and soon about his standing with women.

The Governor’s budget address to the General Assembly proposed to boost school spending by $1 billion over four years by selling off the State’s wine-and-spirits stores.

A similar initiative to ditch the LCB’s retail stores in the last legislative session died because it dangled no carrot at the end of its stick. Corbett’s second try sparkles because it quits appealing to a big constituency with a small concern (drinkers) and reaches out instead to a big constituency with a big concern (parents).

That’s the sort of work Corbett has to do to win reelection.

In 2014, Corbett Needs Women

Kathleen Kane …

Corbett’s worst nightmare This proposal is being mulled by Republican lawmakers. It hasn’t drawn negative comment yet, which is good news for the Governor.

Pennsylvania’s parents are stung because they’ve seen Corbett’s budget-balancing cutbacks and his attempt to rebrand them as “maintaining core programs” persuaded few; after all, schools were getting fewer dollars, as any principal could show her Home-School Association.

Corbett needs a fresh start with this voter bloc – and he may get it, if they see, come next voting season, he has pumped good money into schools by

making it easier for them to buy a bottle of wine for dinner.

This is a message with statewide appeal. But it may pack a special punch in the populous suburbs of Southeastern Pennsylvania, where Republicans win statewide when they win and lose when they lose.

That can be one leg of the Governor’s campaign to regain the women’s vote. But he will need two to stand on in 2014. And the other one looks gimpy at the moment.

That’s the old folks. Forming a core pool of loyal Republicans and GOP-leaning independents for the most part, elderly Americans will still punish at the polls anyone who threatens their survival as they see it. Politicians play with senior funding at their peril.

Corbett’s pitch to privatize the Pennsylvania Lottery was designed to please senior voters, 57% of whom are women. He promises his plan will increase funding for community senior services by as much as $4 billion over the next 20 years, including $50 in the next fiscal year. But it quickly ran into political and legal obstacles.

The first was that most

STATE SENATOR

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Pennsylvania seniors are at peace with the State Lottery & see no need for a change – for themselves at least. Maybe 55-year-olders should be more concerned; but they aren’t.

Middle-age rage hasn’t lit a balloon for the Governor’s plan to contract out management of the Lottery to a British firm, Camelot Global Services, in order to make life better for seniors yet to come.

Enter the new Attorney General Kathleen Kane, a Democrat and a woman – and the first Democrat and first woman in that potent office.

State AG has historically been an easy base from which to take the governorship.

Not two months into her term, Kane launched two salvos across the Governor’s bow. She vetoed his move to privatize the Lottery as unconstitutional, as is her right. And she renegotiated with her out-of-state peers the notorious “Florida Loophole”, which gave Pennsylvania residents denied a local gun permit the right to buy an online gun permit from the Sunshine State Dept. of Agriculture – that had to be treated as legal by the same Pennsylvania cops who had wanted to stop that individual from packing heat in the first place.

In the aftermath of the Newtown massacre, this is not a good time to persuade sub-

urban moms of either party to ease up on gun regulations.

Kane caught the mood of the moment with this measure, and it is one Corbett can’t do much to deflect. He is wedded to National Rifle Association support, and since the NRA won’t concede an inch on this issue, Corbett can’t do much either. He did push a bill to stiffen penalties on people who attack public-safety workers with firearms. But that’s not the gun issue voters are talking about right now.

By shooting down the Lottery sale, Corbett’s biggest skeet, right after he’d launched it, Kane served notice she will gladly thwart his biggest plans from now until 2014 if she so chooses. In her view, he doesn’t have anything she needs.

That will make her hard for Corbett to cut deals with.

Main problem for Corbett in this is that if Kane knocks off his Lottery scheme, there goes his pitch to Pennsylvania’s seniors. Already eyeing it sourly, they will be apt to write him off if it goes down in flames.

No Republican can win if seniors are against him. And since even younger women are disproportionately involved in elder care as well as child care, Corbett will not find favor with them either if Senior Street views him dimly.

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Standing on the steps of Germantown HS, which his mother attended, fiscal activist Brett Mandel made his campaign for City Controller official.

A former employee of the Controller’s Office under Jonathan Saidel, Mandel vowed to “create unprecedented budgetary openness and governmental accountability” in the City’s independent auditing agency.

That makes three in the race: Mandel, attorney Michael Williams and, last but certainly not least, the incumbent Alan Butkovitz.

Petition circulating began Tuesday, Feb. 19. All three will focus on petitions from now until the Mar. 12 deadline for turning them in. The 2013 primary election will be on May 21.

It will be an uphill battle for either Mandel or Williams to unseat Butkovitz. The current

Controller is finishing his second scandal-free term in office.

He has kept himself in the public eye with audits, some of them hard-edged probes of controversial agencies like the School District and the Sheriff’s Dept. He enjoys undivided support from the Democratic City Committee (Butkovitz is himself leader of the 54th Ward in Northeast Philadelphia) and from the city’s labor unions. In a low-turnout municipal primary, these strengths tend to be decisive.

Conventional wisdom holds that two challengers weaken each other’s chances. But Mandel and Williams may boost their chances if they can energize independent-minded voters to show up. Both are strong communicators with a base of support in the city’s professional and managerial class, which should help their fundraising as well.

Mandel has name recognition of his own. He went against

will see petition-gatherers going door to door and at transit stops.”

Mandel is counting on a vigorous social-media effort, sparked by veterans of the Obama campaign, from which he has recruited many of his staffers and volunteers.

He has bases of support in Center City and South Philadelphia as well as the Northeast, where he grew up. He claims State Sen. Larry Farnese (D-S. Phila.) as a friend and supporter.

Williams has connections too. His specialty of forensic accounting has given him a rich network with which to tap the District Attorney’s Office, the court system, prominent private law firms and major nonprofit agencies.

Williams can also turn to two communities for support: African American voters and gay voters. If this candidate can energize some bloc support among these groups, that may bolster his cause.

“We’re thrilled with the progress that we’re making,” said his Campaign Mgr. Ben Schindler. “We’re going to pull votes from all over the city.

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Butkovitz in 2009 and has essentially been campaigning nonstop for this job for eight years.

A noted commentator on big city fiscal issues, his name is familiar to readers, Mandel is known for sharp, well-informed opinions on subjects like the Alternative Value Initiative, which has turned property-tax assessment methods into dinner-table talk for the first time ever.

Mandel has drawn attention for his website, budget.brettmandel.com, which, launched earlier this year, offers unprecedented access to line-item city expenditures – down to individual salaries.

But Mandel also took heat for these moves. Butkovitz has been critical of the AVI as it currently stands; Mandel is a staunch advocate of it. Butkovitz raked Mandel’s website for numerous errors (including its reporting of Butkovitz’s own salary, which the Controller charged Mandel had gotten wrong).

At this point, though, all controversy helps a challenger by raising his visibility.

Mandel’s dogged campaigning has paid off in other ways.

He has maintained continuous public advertising for several months and his “Bulldog” logo is now familiar to many. He closed out 2012 with more than $200,000 in the bank, ahead of both his competitors.

“We plan on pulling out all the stops,” said Mandel’s Campaign Mgr. Dan Siegel. “You

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Last Saturday, TERRY TRACY definitively announced his intentions to run for City Controller. The press conference was held at the corner of 23rd & Samson on a rather cold afternoon with light snow flurries. The weather was only fitting, as the event was only days away from the petition-circulating season that commenced on Tuesday. There a number of ward leaders predict every year it will snow the last weekend of the petitionsigning period, which this year will be Mar. 8-9.

Tracy noted, as a Republican in a heavily Democratic city, he is facing an uphill battle. However, he has chosen to run because our inefficient and far-from-transparent city government is chasing people from Philadelphia. He believes an effective City Controller who actually audits every city department can improve the city government.

Tracy, an executive for the retailer Ralph Lauren, oversees the operations of most of the company’s stores in the US. In the private sector, if you are not efficient and costconscious, you lose out to your competitors.

He told the crowd of his first-hand experience of dealing with our bloated and Byzantine city bureaucracy. He participated in the $1 million renovation of his company’s store at Broad & Walnut, an endeavor which used local contractors, supplies and labor. However, the store does not have a sign as of yet. The company applied for a signage permit over a year ago and recently found out that they need to apply again as the rules have changed. How can the City expect to keep, let alone attract businesses, if they cannot facilitate something as basic as signage?

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Christina Regusters, 19, was arrested and charges with 14 different criminal counts (11 of them felonies) in connection with the kidnapping of a 5-year-old girl.

The little girl was taken from her West Philadelphia elementary school by a woman dressed in Muslim garb who police now believe is Regusters, a worker at the day care center where the little girl went for an after school program.

When the girl was first found and returned to her parents, the full scope of what she had been through was unknown.

But later, when a group of community leaders began raising money for a reward designed to entice folks to come forward with information, a much more-harrowing picture emerged.

This child was abused. Really abused. Some of the harm that was done to her is practically irreparable.

And as the kids in my Third Period Media Arts class recounted that harm to me, I wanted to run to the bathroom because the toasted corn muffin and coffee I had for breakfast started to boil in my stomach.

To get the kids I teach to actually want to talk about news coverage usually requires that it hit them where they live.

In this case, it did.

You see, I teach teen parents.

I teach kids who are helping their parents or grandparents raise kids that their parents, for whatever reason, can’t.

I teach kids who believe little kids are off limits and that if you hurt them, you deserve to die.

So when they asked me if I was covering Regusters’s (Cont. Page 26)

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Long ago and far away, in a land that time forgot, before the days of Dylan, or the dawn of Camelot. There lived a race of innocents, and they were you and me, for Ike was in the White House in the land that made me – me.

I’m of that far-off country, that land where we were born, where navels were for oranges, and Peyton Place was porn. We danced to “Little Darlin”, and sang to “Stagger Lee” and cried for Buddy Holly in the land that made me – me.

Only girls wore earrings then, and three was one too many, where only boys wore flattop cuts, except for Jenny McKinney, and only in our wildest dreams did we expect to see a Boy named George with lipstick in the land that made me – me.

Miss Kitty had a heart of gold, and Chester had a limp, and Reagan was a Democrat whose co-star was a chimp. We had a Mr. Wizard, but not a Mr. T, and Oprah couldn’t talk yet, in the land that made me – me.

We’d never heard of microwaves, or telephones in cars, and babies might be bottle-fed, but they were not grown in jars, and pumping iron got wrinkles out, and “gay” meant fancyfree, and dorms were never co-ed in the land that made me – me.

We hadn’t seen enough of jets to talk about the lag, and microchips were what was left at the bottom of the bag. Hardware was a box of nails, and bytes came from a flea, and rocket ships were fiction in the land that made me – me.

Buicks came with portholes, and sideshows came with freaks, and girls’ bathing suits came big enough to cover both their cheeks. Coke came just in bottles, and skirts below the knee. We had no Crest with Fluoride in the land that made me – me.

Elvis was forever. We had no “Hill Street Blues”. We all wore superstructure bras designed by Howard Hughes. We had no patterned pantyhose or Lipton herbal tea or primetime ads for those dysfunctions in the land that made me – me.

There were no golden arches, no Perrier to chill, and fish were not called Wanda, and (Cont. Page 26)

A few years back there was an idea to LET YOU ASSIMILATE your A.V.I. Real Estate tax increase over four years instead of all at once. WHAT HAPPENED to that plan? Does the City want to GRAB all at once? You’re A.V.I. TAX INCREASE – I cannot understand a bill introduced by Councilmen GREEN and KENNEY to eliminate the Homestead exemption and replace it with means testing. Means-testing limits are always so meager, as to exclude many. A future Mayor would want the City to be in good fiscal shape before taking office. But neither of these men HAS DECLARED AS CANDIDATE for Mayor. I cannot understand why Green said the Homestead exemption “really doesn’t protect people from spikes in tax bills.” ??? Almost certainly it provides some protection and should be expanded! It seems that AVI coverage is slipping to the back pages in the media.

This vital news is NOT a LOW-KEY issue. How 40% of properties will get no increase or go down is curious, given their past valuations and sale prices (?). CAN WE SEE THE BOOKS? Raising some areas this time, will allow you to get COUNCIL APPROVAL votes from areas being lowered or with small increases... A way to accomplish this is to cast out sales that would drive up values. Increases can be gotten by utilizing TIME-ADJUSTED sales from boom real-estate sale years. This is VOODOO ECONOMICS. Market values are determined in an area known as a G.M.A. They are of different sizes and shapes. How they were determined is a mystery. Is it GERRYMANDERING? (Cont. Page 26)

The Inquirer gave CONGRESSWOMAN ALLYSON SCHWARTZ a front-page story on her potential run for Governor. The story gushes about a poll that has her ahead of GOV. TOM CORBETT by 8 points. Insiders think the poll was commissioned by Gov. Corbett rather than the National Governors Association. Although Schwartz plays well on the Main Line, she doesn’t play well in the mainstream of Pennsylvania’s blue-collar voters. Regardless of one’s position on abortion, the fact the Congresswoman ran a health clinic that performed abortions before elective office will not help a statewide candidacy. Nonetheless, the Congresswoman is an excellent fundraiser. She may be trying to raise her profile and campaign bank account. But political investors want their contributions to count. So the gambit to raise funds could backfire, should she later decide to run against SEN. PAT TOOMEY for the US Senate.

Former mayoral candidate TOM KNOX hosted a fundraiser for COUNCILMAN BILL GREEN at his swanky 2 Liberty Place apartment. The event was nicely attended and included former STATE SEN. BOB ROVNER. Knox has been mentioned as a potential gubernatorial or mayoral candidate. Knox ran for Mayor in 2007. Had the election been two weeks earlier, he would be called Mayor Knox now. But the other candidates, including CONGRESSMAN CHAKA FATTAH, unleashed relentless attacks on the leader. The door was opened for MICHAEL NUTTER who went from fifth to first in a blink of the eye and became Mayor.

Knox could run again – or help COUNCILMAN BILL GREEN become Mayor.

BLONDELL REYNOLDS BROWN will maintain both her leadership position and her seat on City Council. Her former campaign consultant JOHN McDANIEL pleaded guilty in federal court to fraud. But COUNCIL PRESIDENT DARRELL CLARKE has asserted nothing will happen to Reynolds Brown for her ethics violations regarding campaign finance.

ABBE FLETMAN is garnering momentum in her bid to become a Common Pleas Court Judge. She was recently seen at Tiffany Diner in Northeast Philadelphia. She lives in Mount Airy but was raised in the Northeast.

BILL GAULT, the president of the Fire Fighters Union, took on Mayor Nutter once again.

He held a press conference outside City Council decrying the Mayor’s unwillingness to pay (Cont. Page 26)

NAACP, African Chamber of Commerce, Union of Black Episcopalians, National Society of Black Engineers and the Pennsylvania Black Conference on Higher Education.

Treasurer McCord said the nearly $62,200 his department holds for these organizations represents just a fraction of the $1.9 billion in unclaimed property Treasury currently seeks to reunite with businesses, organizations, and citizens. The Treasurer encouraged everyone to search Treasury’s free unclaimed property database at www.patreasury.gov or call 1 (800) 222-2046, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. A member of Treasury’s Return Team will assist them with their search and the claim process.

Each year, Treasury receives millions of dollars in unclaimed property – things such as abandoned bank accounts, forgotten stocks, uncashed checks, and contents of safe de-

posit boxes. Since January 2009, the McCord Treasury has collected more than $858 million in property, returned more than $419 million to rightful owners, and generated about $439 million for the state’s General Fund through the Unclaimed Property Program.

Here is a sample of African American organizations with unclaimed property. For more information or to find out if other organizations have unclaimed property, please call (717) 787-2991.

Alpha Kappa Alpha; Alpha Phi Alpha; Black Contractors Association; Black United Fund of Pennsylvania; Cheyney University; Delta Sigma Theta; Iota Phi Theta Kappa Alpha Psi; Lincoln University; NAACP - Easton Branch; NAACP - Chester Branch; National Organization of Black Chemists; National Society of Black Engineers; Omega Psi Phi; PA Black Conference on higher Education; Phi Beta Sigma; Philadelphia NAACP; Sigma Gamma Rho; Tri-City African American Chamber of Commerce; Union of Black Episcopalians; United Negro College Fund; Zeta Phi Beta

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The Pennsylvania Treasury currently holds nearly $62,200 in unclaimed property that belongs to African American organizations and institutions, State Treasurer Rob McCord said as he encouraged these groups to search and claim what is theirs.

“Treasury’s Return Team has scoured our database and identified nearly $62,200 in unclaimed property due to African American organizations and institutions across the Commonwealth,” the Treasurer said. “As we honor the contributions of African Americans to our society during Black History Month, we want to return this property to the rightful owners so they can continue their important work.”

McCord asked his department to identify unclaimed property that belongs to historically African American institutions of higher education, fraternities and sororities, as well as organizations like the

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Grays Ferry’s own, Municipal Court Judge and now Bench Warrant Court Judge Joseph C. Waters, Jr. has thrown his hat into the ring and hopes to be elected to Superior Court Judge. Waters, who grew up at 31st & Tasker Streets with his parents Joseph and Margaret and four siblings, graduated 8th grade from St. Gabriel School at 29th & Dickinson Streets, then went on to Bishop Neumann HS, class of 1971. He is still very active in the alumna association’s Millay Club where he was recently awarded Man of the Year.

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civilian encounters. As an attorney, he practiced criminal and family law for 14 years.

Waters has shared his knowledge by teaching courses and giving lectures at Community College, Rowan University, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Rutgers University.

When Municipal Court Judge Ronald B. Merriweather went on senior status at the beginning of 2009, Waters was appointed to fill the position.

He won the election later that year. In 2012, Bench Warrant Court was established to go after fugitives who skip out on court.

“Our warrant unit has been WATERS FAMILY: daughter Erin, son Joe, Jr., wife MariJo, Joe Waters. Absent is son rounding up the most violent Brian.

Photo by Maria Merlino fugitives. An astounding 33% of people fail to show up for the case,” he said. “I’m now running for Superior Court.

It’s one of Pennsylvania’s two statewide intermediate appellate courts. Superior Court is often the final authority of legal disputes. Cases are usually heard by panels of three judges sitting in Philadelphia, Harrisburg or Pittsburgh, but may also be heard by nine judges.

The Superior Court often travels to locations throughout Pennsylvania to hear cases.”

With his deep experience, coupled with his street smarts and academia, Judge Waters will make a perfect fit to SupeA FIRE drum on 9th Street heats up market workers as frigid temperatures continue to rior Court. freeze Delaware Valley.

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We have a stake in their struggle.

Cross-lobbying means we recognize if a police officer or firefighter has to fight to maintain a decent living, it affects our safety, the security of our homes and neighborhoods and the wellbeing of our family.

These are just a few examples of how the struggles of our brothers and sisters affect us. We must take these struggles personally and let them move us to action.

(Cont. From Page 7) Sheet Metal Workers Union Hall, 11:30 a.m. For info (215) 940-9900.

Mar. 15- Pat Parkinson hosts St. Patrick’s Day Beef & Beer at Paddy Whacks, 9241 Roosevelt Blvd., 7-11 p.m. Music – and special dispensation!

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(Cont. From Page 10) A fundraiser was held for Tracy at Bonner’s Irish Pub following the press conference. Attendees included Executive Director of the New Majority Council ELLA BUTCHER, as well as WARD LEADERS MATT WOLFE, LINDSAY DOERING and LINDA KERNS. DAN ALVAREZ, who is eyeing another major political office, was also there.

Republican City Committee held a thinly attended meeting on Tuesday, as many LT. GOV. Jim Cawley paid visit to Keystone Hospice reward leaders opted not to atcently to meet with CEO and founder Gail Inderwies, as well tend and instead hold petitionas touring historically certified residence in Wyndmoor. Here signing events on the first day he is greeted by KeystoneCare staff members, from left, Inpetitions can be circulated for derwies; Debbie Mundy, director of operations; Richard the May primary. The 5th White, CFO; Cawley; and Susan Segal Bonavitacola, direcWard held its meeting in the tor of government affairs and special projects. Cawley disPennsylvania Republican cussed Keystone’s service, particularly in working with Party’s district office on S. 4th HIV/AIDS patients, as well as their pioneering work in peStreet. The 8th Ward had a Photo by Bonnie Squires diatric hospice care. more-festive event at the Warwick Hotel. Four West Philadelphia (27th, 46th, 51st and 60th) Wards joined forces to host local Republicans at the Mill Creek Tavern.

As this is an odd year, there will only be elections for some municipal offices and judicial seats. The only statewide petitions being cir26,000 Original Miles culated are for Harrisburg attorney VIC STABILE, who 5-Speed Manual • Sunroof • New Tires is running for Superior Court.

The only two Philadelphia Call: municipal offices on the ballot this year are City Controller and District Attorney. However, there are numerous open local judicial positions.

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pears the field has narrowed a bit. It had been rumored WARD LEADER LEWIS HARRIS, Ella Butcher, WARD LEADER CHRIS VOGLER, GARY GRISAFI and party activist JIM DiVERGILIS had been interested in Traffic Court. Harris has dropped out. We have not seen any petitions for Grisafi and DiVergilis, we have heard, has decided to run for Municipal Court instead.

BRIAN McCANN, a Republican activist from the North-

east, is now interested in running.

Attorney ANN MARIE COYLE and JUDGE KENNETH POWELL will both be running for positions on the Court of Common Pleas and Municipal Court. Powell is currently on the Court of Common Pleas. Powell has been appointed to fill out unexpired terms of judges who resigned by both Democratic and Republican Governors and is rumored to highly regarded by his fellow judges

including the President of the Court of Common Pleas. Yet he has run for judge but has not been able to be elected. Is this because the voter knows something Powell’s fellow judges and two governors do not? Or is it that the typical voter knows nothing about the individual judicial candidates and votes for the top names on the ballet of their party? Whatever the reason, it is a crying shame these fine individuals have not made it through the electoral process yet.

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(Cont. From Page 7) building trades, city services, law enforcement, education, janitorial services and all other parts of labor speak out to legislators about them, stand up at rallies with them and do whatever it takes to help our brothers and sisters win their struggles.

Cross-lobbying means we recognize if teachers lose job security, their hard-fought wages and benefits and the right to strike and to have a union speak for them, then our

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Mar. 17- Judge Jimmy Lynn hosts St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast at Plough & Stars, 1st block S. 2nd St., 8 a.m. Admission $25, Students $20, Youngsters under 12 free. Checks made payable to Plough & Stars. For info (215) 588-0046.

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Walk The Beat (Cont. From Page 10) YOU the TAXPAYER determine the value of your home by sales on your block. (Some blocks have high sales with the next street having lower ones).

When you file an APPEAL of your market value, get three comparable sales from your immediate area – not GMA. And WHO made the market values? Was it ONE MAN or assessors??? City Finance Director says AVI is a “straightforward” METHOD OF ASSESSMENT. Straightfor-

ward and CRUSHING, Rob. Rob has two incomes in his family, and any increase for him won’t hurt so much.

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BIG, BIG LOSS is hearing that KNUTE BONNER (Southwest) passed quietly at 87. Knute was in the Battle of the Bulge and other major WW2 fights. A Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient with lifelong wounds, and retired city cop. Knute was a guy with a sonorous singing voice, who helped run the St. PATRICK’S parade and was a Marshal himself! Greatness and humility. A great Bard described him: “The elements mixed in him so, that nature might rise up to all the world and say: THIS WAS A MAN…” A really great guy is HAROLD FISHER (Levittown) who served in WW2 and Korea, and has been Editor of his Jewish War Vets post newsletter for 40 years!

Harold also volunteered at the VA, Army Hospitals, and old Naval Hospital, as well as the Comfort House. I was honored to work with him to get legislation through to build the VET’S HOME on Southamp-

ton Road. Harriet, his lovely wife, gives top support, and a Jewish humor page. We call her “A-shana-madel.” Harold reports the VFW magazine is also now digital.

CITY CONTROLLER Alan BUTKOVITZ is working to wean the City off Reaganesque Supply-Side Economics and increase the City’s purchasing power.... FRACKERS: An oil company in LA gets 200 barrels of oil out of shale by utilizing natural rock fractures in California. No chemicals!!

A word on the MINIMUM WAGE: The USA is low by world standards in this area.

The real value of the $7.25 increase in 2009 has fallen to 1998 value (Not indexed to the cost of living).... $20 TRILLION are stashed OVERSEAS by Corporations.

CONCERN in the daily press that schools to be closed are cited as being in poor repair – yet the schools where students will be transferred are ALSO IN SAD SHAPE. But what happens when kids from one turf are transferred to schools in another gang’s turf?

When this happened some 30 years ago, violence occurred.... One editorial talks of unleashing the city watchdog – The Inspector General.

In another edition, that watchdog said the prison medicalcare contract renewal was “not

Out & About

(and still am) Denise Clay: Aunt.

While I’m a proponent of better gun-control laws, I’ll put a bullet in the middle of your forehead over my nieces and nephews and not lose 10 seconds of sleep over it.

Those young men and women are as close as I’m gonna get to my own kids and I’ve even gone toe-to-toe with their parents over them.

So could I sit in a courtroom where someone was accused of being the ringleader of a group of people who did some really vile things to a kid my great-niece Niajah’s age and not react?

I guess I could. I’m a professional and that’s the job.

But it might not be the easiest thing I’ve ever had to do.

(Cont. From Page 10) arraignment, I knew the reason they were asking me was because they wanted to know where she was being taken.

Child molesters are considered the lowest form of life in prison... and my kids have family in prison.

So they wanted to send her a special welcome.

Which is why Ms. Clay told them nothing and advised them to let the criminal-justice system take its course.

But one of my kids asked me how I’d handle covering this case....

And you know, I had to think about it.

Because before I became Denise Clay: Reporter, I was

(her) job.” Why would the City Solicitor NOT look into complaints by Councilman Jim KENNEY on prison medical care?? You can understand why KENNEY is upset. In earlier years there was MORE RESPECT by city departments for City Council. Does Council NOT APPROVE FUNDS for operating her department?

The casino developer for the 8th & Market site says that a casino there will enhance and improve all around it – including the Constitution Center.

Maybe, but it is hard to see young tourists or tourist parents with kids going from the Constitution Center to the casino...That committee looking at the County Board of Elections is headed by the Managing Dir. Richard NEGRIN. One paper says that he will “Challenge the infrastructure” of that agency (?). Huh? What does Negrin mean? Where do you get a challenge when the group was constituted as a FACT-FINDING COMMITTEE by the Mayor? Remember my wager on the committee report?? Did you read the headline where Corbett rejected expansion of Medicaid? Did you EXPECT OTHERWISE? And right on to the State Attorney General Kathleen KANE for her deep look at the Lottery sale plan by Gov. Corporate... HAPPY BIRTHDAY lovely Campaign Mgr. ELEANOR DEZZI (Roxborough). EL is pushing the candidacy of Chris Mallios for CP Judge.

BIRTHS: Welcome to Joseph Thomas RUSSIAN (S. Philly) who came in at 6 lb.!

He yawns like his dad.... And the $6M bill that Yuengling Beer got from the City is an estimate only. There are quotes from Councilman Green, but not the Mayor. It almost reads as if GREEN is the Mayor (?). If there were an “election” between Yuengling, Green and/or Nutter – Yuengling wins!

They are STILL ATTEMPTING to reconfigure the state Electoral College by legislation instead of a fair fight at the polls. One proposal by State Sen. Dominic PILEGGI (Delaware), and another by State Reps. Robert Godshall (Montgomery), and Seth Grove (York). These Republicans do not speak for Philly…. SCOOP USA did a great story for Black History Month on “BLACK WALL STREET” in Tulsa, Okla. where 3,000 died in racial violence in a LITTLEKNOWN event. Bravo!

PROFILE IN COURAGE?: The Senate vote on Traffic Court.... Traffic Court articles seem to EMBELLISH. One said that the CITY LOST UNTOLD revenue and let reckless drivers go free. But where is the dollar amount or actual EVIDENCE? Reckless Drivers – how do we know this? The merits of EACH case may say otherwise.... If TRAFFIC COURT goes to Municipal Court, where does Judge GLASER go? They could assign him to 1801 Vine Street.

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we tell our children’s children of the way it used to be, long ago and far away, in the land that made me – me.

(Cont. From Page 10) cats were not called Bill and middle-aged was 35 and old was 45, and ancient were our parents in the land that made me – me.

But all things have a season, or so we’ve heard them say, and now instead of Maybelline we swear by Retin-A, and now they send us invitations to join AARP. We’ve come a long way baby, from the land that made me – me.

So now we face a brave new world in slightly larger jeans, and wonder why they’re using smaller print in magazines, and

City Hall Sam

(Cont. From Page 10) the most-recent arbitration award. Two arbitration panels and one court ruling have mandated a contract for the firefighters. Although Nutter has finalized the FOP contract with JOHN McNESBY, he says the City can’t afford to pay the firefighters. He was joined by AFL-CIO PRESIDENT PAT EIDING and STATE SEN. MIKE STACK.

to be accomplished by the plan. Payments can include the mortgage on your house or a car payment. But the most troublesome part of the calculation is determining what, if anything, needs to be paid to unsecured creditors.

The mathematics of this calculation can be complicated. The amount to be paid is the lesser of the amount that the creditors would have received in a Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy or the greater of the amount identified in the means test as “projected disposable income” or what it would take to pay off the un-

Then take a look at whether or not there is any projected disposable income after doing the Means Test. This is the amount on the last line of the form, and is, theoretically, what is left at the end of each month after paying the mortgage, food, the car payment, and the rest of the living expenses. The debtor is expected to pay that each month to un-

secured creditors.

If that amount is not zero, multiply by 60 and compare it to the total amount of the unsecured debts. Pay the smaller of the two divided by 60 each month.

But the actual amount to be paid each month into the Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan is the amount just calculated plus administrative costs and any

other amounts to secured or priority creditors that are necessary to make the plan work (such as arrears on a mortgage, tax obligations or child support).

As I said, it’s complicated, and best for you to see a bankruptcy attorney.

Next Week’s Question: Can an illegal immigrant file for bankruptcy?

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by Michael A. Cibik, Esq. American Bankruptcy Board Certified Question: How to understand the Chapter 13 plan payment?

Answer: A Chapter 13 bankruptcy is a plan to reorganize a debtor’s liabilities and get a fresh start unburdened by mounting unsecured debt (credit cards, medical bills, etc.). Such a plan requires payments to a bankruptcy trustee. But how much are those payments?

To a large degree, the amount paid into the plan varies and depends on what is

secured creditors in full. Got it?

The first step is to determine what the unsecured creditors would have received in a Chapter 7 bankruptcy. That amount is, roughly, equal to the non-exempt value of the debtor’s assets less costs of administering that property. In many cases, this will be nothing or close to it.

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