Up until about nine months ago, if some asshole left a couch on your street or the gutters were overflowing or the trash men decided they didn’t like your trash, there was pretty much only one thing to do: Call your Philadelphia City Council rep, act like you voted for them even if you didn’t, and wait for that sweet old fashioned Philly political grease to work its magic. (Or, just set the couch on fire, join in the fun stuffing Arctic Splash containers into the gutter until the City was forced to come out, or slide the trash men a crisp twenty.) Not so anymore! With the City’s new 311 number, you just ring ‘em up, tell ‘em your problem, and they see what they can do. As you can imagine, this small, non-Luddite advancement has naturally totally endangered the entire City Council political eco-system. Tell me this: If a City Council Member now cannot act like he is doing you a massive favor when in fact HE IS MERELY DOING HIS JOB, how is he supposed to expect political renumeration in the form of votes next time around? Why, it’s un-Philadelphian! MICHAEL NUTTER ARE YOU A COMMUNIST? Just kidding. When tapped for a quote by KYW (see earlier link), Dude basically said, “Whatever.” To which we say: Thanks, Dude.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 at 11:49 am.