He must... he tries to stop them both at every opportunity lately..


He fights against millions in revenue for the city and thousands of low and high skill jobs ..

..becuase a couple vocal activists emailed him a bunch.

ttp://www.philly.com/philly/business/12300691.html

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Meanwhile, Pennsylvania, which gets a 55 percent cut of the two slots parlors' take, stands to lose about $990,000 in tax revenue for every day the openings are delayed, according to the state Gaming Control Board.
The city loses $72,054 a day, or at least $26.3 million a year, from its share of the casinos' tax take.
The figures do not count the expenses the city and state will incur to host the casinos."






http://www.philly.com/inquirer/busin...sal_looms.html

Now.. he say **** you to the unions to make the news.

"The amendment is "death language" to union workers, said Philadelphia Building and Construction Trades Council business manager Patrick Gillespie. "Anyone who says they're a friend of organized labor can't be voting for this."

He says **** you to the Tourism President!

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"We'll deal with whatever that amendment says. We just need to get this thing passed," said Albert Mezzaroba, Convention Center president and CEO.
Tom Muldoon, president of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, said pushing the project's completion date to the end of 2010 would jeopardize all convention business for 2011. Conventions lined up for 2010 have already been canceled, he said, and others scheduled for the spring of 2011 would be compromised by a delay.
"Psychologically, you can't just keep going back to customers," Muldoon said. "I don't think we'd have any success in holding the balance of 2011.""

He says... "give me fake number I know you don't have so I can make you look like an ass in the press" to the head of the unions

"In addition, a leader of the International Laborers Union Local 332, which has a largely African American membership, came out against the amendment."

Good Job Frankie!


Frank will also waste your tax dollars to get relected!

February 22, 2007

http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com...frank_dicicco/

DiCicco: It's Irresponsible Not To Waste Money

When we last heard from City Councilman Frank DiCicco (right), he was complaining that the federal government put him in Vince Fumo's indictment just because he accepted free work from Fumo's people even though they were being paid by Citizens Alliance to, say, put in floors in a house he bought. Wah, wah, he said, the government is just trying to make their indictment sexier.
Well, yesterday, DiCicco was leading the charge in City Council against the casinos, hoping to thwart or delay their arrival and to make sure his constituents re-elect him come May. Casino Free Philadelphia sponsored a petition with 27,000 signatures saying we shouldn't have casinos.
The problem is, of course, that many of these proposals -- such as the one banning all casinos from the city, the one letting residents vote on the casino proposals or the one that bans all casinos that rhyme with "Box Goods" and "Booger Mouse" -- won't stand up in court.

City Solicitor Romulo L. Diaz Jr. warned that approval of anti-casino measures by City Council would only delay the arrival of the casinos, cost the city money in legal fees, and possibly sacrifice whatever zoning power the city now enjoys over the casino sites.

Zur Add: THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE **** HAPPENED!I#*&@*)*@


"The city's powers in this regard are limited," Diaz said at yesterday's hearing. "We must respect the Gaming Control Board's licensing decision, or else we will face almost certain defeat in the courts and inevitably will lose any local land use control."

Of course, DiCicco wasn't having any of it.

Diaz: "It is my conclusion that such a bill would be most likely struck down by the courts." DiCicco: "To take the position that we just basically have to roll over on this one and agree that we're going to lose in court and, therefore, let's not do these bills, I think is irresponsible."

DiCicco added, "It is a long tradition of City Council -- indeed, all government! -- to waste money on futile projects. Why not waste money on something that not only is something many people would like us to do but could also get me re-elected? If we can't waste money on this sensible proposal than, I ask, what can we waste money on?"
City Council was so impressed they agreed to vote on the proposals next month.



http://willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com...frank_dicicco/

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zur, its widely known that part of the polling that the Federal indictments say Citizen's Alliance paid for was about casinos. DiCicco did not shift gears from organizing job fairs for Foxwoods to taking bold stand against the casinos for no reason. The polling said he would be vulnerable to lose the election if he ran in support of them.

As a District Councilman his job is represent the voters in his district and by overwhelming numbers they oppose the process as its been laid out. Some oppose the locations, some oppose the combination of locations so close to eachother, some are just appalled at the way the state implemented the whole thing. The point is DiCicco is doing exactly what the majority of his constituents want him to do.

It's called a democracy - not the the Imperial Order of what Zur thinks is right.

If the casinos wanted to prove their support not just in the areas closest to the two casino sites, but ballanced over the city as whole, they had a very simple procedure to do it. They could have let the ballot initiative run and spent a small amount of what they have been spending in legal costs to educate the public on the casinos great economic benefits and won over the public. They chose not too and in fact sued in the PA Supreme Court to stop legally non-binding vote from being on the ballot. Why?

Because the casinos paid for their own damn polling and figured out there was a very good chance they would lose.

Translation: you support a system where the movement of money to state politicians takes precedence over the will of the Philadlephia electorate. That the same kind of logic behind virtually every totalitarian government. You need to tell the people what you think is best for them and you are afraid of letting them decide for themselves.

Being anti-casino is not anti-business anyway. Casinos are state licensed monopolies. They aren't freely competing agents in an open market. Every aspect of how they are organized is regulated by state to maximize the benefit for the politicians involved in approving and regulating the process. The casinos are about as "free-market" as AT&T before telephone deregulation.

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A song that says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqITJFGyq4s

Because they know what you and I know.

Everyone votes yes on ballot measures.

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Czar of the 26th Ward.

My point still stands that its silly to go after DiCicco for opposing the casinos. He faced a Dem primary challenger and a Republican challenger who both ran on being more anti-casino than he is and that happened for a reason. People in his district are opposed.

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A song that says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqITJFGyq4s

Well, if said person is in favor of the casinos (ie Zur), yes, I would assume it does make sense for them to go after him.

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Czar of the 26th Ward.

zur as I recall lives in O'Brien's district.

As a point of interest, DiCicco's move to being an anti-casino activist is exactly the type of transformation Fumo is going to run to try and win the Dem primary, as implausable as that sounds.

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A song that says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqITJFGyq4s

Sean..

DO you have this polling data?

Just wondering..


and the electorate does vote Yes on referendums..


and the electorate isn't always the best idea..

as the electorate is what.. 9-20% of the population?


It's always the "special interests" that drive the voting..

It's not actually democracy..

Look at suburban School Budgets... they get defeated all the time because the elderly vote more.. and families are at work.



Dude... Look at national voting..

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No, Dicicco LOVES his job, and is donig whatever it takes to keep it.


Either way, it been "fixed"

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"And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they're going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and Election Day."--Rev. Arnold Conrad

I think Lovebelow is right. This thread more accurately might by titled "DiCicco loves the extra benefits his job, outside revenues as as real estate agent". That might be tad more accurate to describing his motivation.

There are reasons to question DiCicco's motivations on various topics. Doing what the majority of the voters in his district want him to do on the casinos is not one of them. Really thats supposed to be his job.

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A song that says it all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqITJFGyq4s

I always doubt it's the "majority"

I always think it's just the "loudest"

a fault of democracy in general.

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