Daily News | Get to know the top candidates for Philly mayor
Brown, a longtime ShopRite proprietor, is billing himself as the anti-politician ahead of the May 16 Democratic primary, running in a crowded field of people who have been elected officials during some of the most turbulent times in generations. Brown is betting that Philadelphians are so frustrated with city government that they’ll take a gamble on a grocer who has never held elected office.Read the full story here.
The question is whether the man known as the Condo King can relate to residents in the poorest big city in America and handle the ethical entanglements that could come with electing one of the city’s biggest landlords as mayor.Through three decades in Philadelphia, Gym has evolved from a teacher into a leader of the city’s social justice movement and now a mayoral candidate running as a “tough Philly mom.
Gym has become a polarizing political figure, in part because she occupies a clear lane as a progressive in the mayoral field. It could also be because she has so often described herself in fighting terms. And fighters have opponents.The former Council member is running for mayor with a mission to help preserve the village that raised her and others like it.
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