If you live in Philadelphia, you're already inundated with daily spoutings from the half dozen or so guys jockeying for position in the May primary for mayor. Michael Nutter, Chaka Fattah, Dwight Evans, and Tom Knox have already declared their candidacies and hit the ground running, while Bob Brady is expected to announce within the week.
Knox, with some $5 million of his own dough to spend, is the first to hit the TV airwaves in a series of slick, well-put together commercials designed to answer the voters' burning question of just who the hell is Tom Knox.
The overarching early campaign issue, unsurprisingly, is crime. There were 406 homicides in Philadelphia in 2006, and crime tops every issue poll. People are tired of living in fear of thugs, and afraid to even speak out, since witnesses who testify in this town have an alarmingly short life expectancy. We need someone who won't coddle criminals - someone who understands the meaning of justice. We need someone who understands that nothing effects a city's quality of life like fear of crime, and whose love for the city is surpassed only by his hatred of evildoers.
We need... Batman.
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