>>> Let’s talk about Philly Balls for a moment, shall we? You know, the BIG ones — the ones that start out like, “yeah, taxpayers, y’all’s my BITCH” and end in the inevitable extortion charges. Used to be, this was a councilman/state rep/senator’s game, but not so anymore. In this new version of Le Balls Grande, Donna Reed Miller’s assistant — that’s right, her gum-cracking, Dilbert-pasting assistant — is charged with extorting more than $5,000 in cash and a cell phone from some poor schlub. And they say we aren’t ambitious here in the 215. Pfft. I wonder if she got a Helio. [PBJ]
>>> But when all is said and done, look: If you need to pay a mountain of legal fees, just hope that when you do land in the clink, you get illegally strip-searched, which you can pretty much rely on happening anyway, costing the city millions. Something tells me you’ll end up owing them as much as they owe you. Or vice versa. Put your clothese back on, please. We’re done here. [Inky]
>>> Ed Rendell, continuing to make friends. Yesterday, he dodged a meeting in which he was gonna get clobbered for trying to do the Convention Center expansion sans union labor, which he jellyfished out of at the last minute and said OK, OK, unions can do but could you all actually hire some friggin’ non-whites? Sheezus. We’d like to say you can run, but you can’t hide from this kind of thing, but actually, dude, look at you: You’re a mess. You can’t run. Just sit down and sign these papers. [Inky]

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