Well, it seems like the Union League thinks that having a hot dog vendor on the corner in front of their building is dangerous. As one reader writes in:

Thought you might enjoy this piece of hypocrisy, courtesy of the Union League.

As you can see attached hereto, evidently, the Union League – or, at least, its president, Joan Carter – believes in the merits of free market capitalism as a pathway for the poor to become wealthy, as she writes to the Union League membership.

And she glibly concludes, apropos of nothing, that oh, by the way, the Union League ousted the hot dog vendor from the corner of Broad & Sansom. “We made a deal to buy our corner back” she wrote, making the corner cleaner, safer, and better than it was with a hot dog vendor.

So much for supporting the poor and their attempts to become wealthy. Wonder what the Mayor and the DA, who are both members, have to say about their club forcing a hard working Philadelphian from the corner of Broad and Sansom.

Attached was a look at the letter from Carter in which she indeed claimed that, without the hot dog vendor, the corner was now, “cleaner, safer, better.” After all, you never know how dangerous hot dogs can be, they are not to be trusted.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 29th, 2012 at 4:34 pm.