Cesspool On The Delaware

The other day, a commenter from New Orleans asked if Philadelphia's Mayor John Street was really worse than Ray Nagin. Here is your answer:

Managing Director Loree Jones has named longtime administration aide Tumar Alexander as her chief of staff, choosing to look past a heated election-season confrontation in 2003 between Alexander and the landlord of mayoral challenger Sam Katz's North Philadelphia campaign office.

Alexander - who at the time was accompanied by a son of the mayor's, Sharif Street - was charged with making terroristic threats. He entered a program for first-time offenders, received six months' probation, and was suspended without pay from his city job for a week. (H/T - The Philadelphia Inquirer)

See, kids? This is what happens to a city after 56 years of Democrat rule: criminals are promoted to the highest levels of government.