I HAVE A DREAM.
I have a dream that the political crap that has been funneled down the collective throat of those of us still crazy enough to live in Philadelphia will suddenly cease.
I have a dream that all the tired political faces who have been here for too long and say the same old junk out of the same old script will simply disappear.
Dwight Evans. Robert Archie. Bob Brady. Frank Rizzo Jr. Alan Butkovitz. Milton Street. Jim Kenney. Marge Tartaglione. All the rest of the penny-ante feudal lords and their vassals.
Go to hell.
I have a dream that tomorrow we will wake up to new faces, new youth elected without committeeman politics and ward politics and consigliere politics.
I have a dream in which the first move will not be on the basis of looking good politically, but on the basis of what is right.
I have a dream that School Reform Commission Chairman Robert Archie, given his unjustifiable action in getting even remotely involved in any discussion over which charter company should run Martin Luther King High School, should not simply be forced to resign, but resign publicly in which the scarlet letter of shame is branded on his forehead.
I have a dream that the School Reform Commission, instead of bending over to protect Chairman Archie, will realize his blatant conflict of interest and oust him if he does not resign.
This after voting 3-0 in favor of Mosaica Turnaround Partners to run Martin Luther King. This after Archie took the oh-so-high-road BS of recusing himself from the vote because the competing charter company, Foundations Inc., was once represented by Duane Morris LLP, where he is a partner. This after Archie then held a private meeting with state Rep. Dwight Evans and a company official from Mosaica because Evans has close ties to Foundations and was disappointed with the selection
This after Mosaica withdrew shortly after the private meeting. This after Archie, in Philadelphia Spin 101, is blaming the media for not accurately reporting what happened at the meeting and will undoubtedly do his best to turn the meeting into a blither of confusion.
I have a dream that Evans, who I once thought was the most promising politician in the city but has now become a walking cesspool of self-interest, explains the real purpose of his private meeting with Archie, the Mosaica representative and Deputy Superintendent Leroy Nunery.
