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Mayor Nutter to be indicted on Tuesday
The Coalition to Save the Libraries will hold a people's indictment of Mayor Nutter over the library closures, this Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. at the Northeast corner of City Hall. They'll be reading a list of 11 indictments against Nutter, including increasing joblessness and eliminating safe havens for children.
Here's the info from the Coalition site:
Tuesday, Dec. 30th, 9:30 am: People's Indictment of Mayor Nutter at the northeast corner of City Hall. The Coalition to Save the Libraries will formally indict Mayor Nutter on the crimes he has committed against the City of Philadelphia. Bring signs!
Tuesday, Dec. 30, 10 am: Hearings at City Hall in Room 426 to hear the cases of the class-action law suit being brought by Irv Ackelsberg and the lawsuit being brought by Councilpersons Green, Blackwell, and Kelly. Bring signs! (We'll leave them outside of the courtroom.) We'll hear the City's arguments today.
Get acquainted with the ins and outs of the library closings by reading staff writer Isaiah Thompson's coverage and by visiting the Friends of the Free Library site.
[...] WWFRD. What would Frank Rizzo do? Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter faces a “people’s indictment,” for crimes against libraries and children; [...]
Dear Mayor Nutter
Did anyone think to limit the hours of operation for the 11 libraries that are part of the budget cut?
If you stagger hours and days open you may be able to keep all 11 libraries open. Operating hours can vary along with days open. Have someone coordinate all the libraries in the surrounding area, so that people will always have acess to a library
Have volunteers from the community donate their time and talents.
What would Frank Rizzo have done? Probably he would have had the mounted police charge the crowd, crack a few heads and then make some ignorant remarks to the press afterward. Let’s not go back to the bad old days. Nutter made a bad decision to go after services rather than collect the debts owed the city and clean out the refuse from City Hall, but he is a Philly politician, after all. We get what we deserve. He’s still better than the Streets and Rizzo. After he figures out he can’t close the libraries if he wants to risk being seen in public again, he’ll figure something out.
It’s still early in his term. If he fixes this big misjudgment, and maybe admit he made a mistake, it will be forgotten by the end of another three years. If he’s smart, that is.