Pres. & Senate 2000 by Media Market

Senate 2000					R		D
	Total	%%%	Total		Rick	R	Ron	D			Plurality
Media Market	Reg.	Turnout	Vote		Santorum	%	Klink	%	Others		Santorum
Erie	252,518	61%	154,911		88,555	57%	63,291	41%	3,065	2%	25,264
Harrisburg	1,099,023	63%	692,146		450,840	65%	223,915	32%	17,391	3%	226,925
Johnstown	462,261	63%	291,031		178,092	61%	104,165	36%	8,774	3%	73,927
Other	207,705	62%	129,791		81,739	63%	45,630	35%	2,422	2%	36,109
Philadelphia	3,170,339	59%	1,863,160		881,691	47%	949,306	51%	32,163	2%	(67,615)
Pittsburgh	1,823,974	63%	1,143,636		540,157	47%	579,434	51%	24,045	2%	(39,277)
Wilkes-Barre	766,177	60%	460,441		260,888	57%	189,167	41%	10,386	2%	71,721
Pennsylvania	7,781,997	61%	4,735,116		2,481,962	52%	2,154,908	46%	98,246	2%	327,054
President 2000
Media Market	Total Reg.	Trnout	Total Vote		R	D	D	D	Total	O	Plurality
		%			Bush	%	Gore	%	Others	%	Bush
Erie	252,518	65%	163,197		77,175	47%	80,186	49%	5,836	4%	(3,011)
Harrisburg	1,099,023	65%	714,591		439,433	61%	254,838	36%	20,320	3%	184,595
Johnstown	462,261	64%	294,916		170,074	58%	116,151	39%	8,795	3%	53,923
Other	207,705	65%	135,360		80,328	59%	50,903	38%	4,153	3%	29,425
Philadelphia	3,170,339	61%	1,948,840		748,586	38%	1,145,908	59%	53,687	3%	(397,322)
Pittsburgh	1,823,974	64%	1,166,041		527,766	45%	605,248	52%	32,842	3%	(77,482)
Wilkes-Barre	766,177	64%	489,274		237,544	49%	232,731	48%	18,819	4%	4,813
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Pennsylvania	7,729,303	64%	4,912,185		2,281,127	46%	2,485,967	51%	145,091	3%	(204,840)

Allegheny County: Detail of Grants

Investments (By County) Allegheny

1. Citizens Job Bank............................... .$1,717,500
2. CFA Projects.........................................$46,898,552
3. DCED Projects.................................. $100,960,254
4. DCNR State Parks & Forests........................ $22,900
5. DCNR Projects....................................... $9,236,755
6. DEP Projects.......................................... $8,413,204
7. Downtown Leases................................. $16,118,389
8. Farmland Preservation.......................... $4,784,758
9. Keystone Innovation Zones...................... $969,424
10. Main Street/Elm Street......................... $4,150,890
11. PENNDOT Aviation..............................$13,677,041
12 .PENNDOT Hometown Streets...............$11,190,866
13. PENNDOT Projects........................... $484,756,120
14. PENNDOT Rail Freight.......................... $9,783,810
15. PENNVEST......................................... $13,640,420
16. Fish & Boat Commission.......................... $573,000
17. PA Game Commission........................................ $0
18. PHFA Projects................................... $201,330,974
19. PHMC Projects.......................................... $426,190
20. Redvlpmnt Assistance Capital.......... $132,775,000
21. Research Investments.........................$60,765,947
22. Tourism Grants................................ ...$11,508,709

Grand Total.......................... $1,133,700,703

Grants & Capital Expenditures 2003-2006

No...County..............Pop............Total Grants.......Per Cap

1	Snyder	37,546	$342,000,000	$9,109
2	Union	41,624	$330,000,000	$7,928
3	Juniata	22,821	$177,000,000	$7,756
4	Somerset	80,023	$376,000,000	$4,699
5	Tioga	41,373	$173,000,000	$4,181
6	Mifflin	46,486	$188,000,000	$4,044
7	Northumberland	94,556	$373,000,000	$3,945
8	Centre	135,758	$277,000,000	$2,040
9	Elk	35,112	$71,600,000	$2,039
10	Blair	129,144	$235,000,000	$1,820
11	Jefferson	45,932	$79,900,000	$1,740
12	Sullivan	6,556	$9,300,000	$1,419
13	Clinton	37,914	$52,600,000	$1,387
14	Fulton	14,261	$17,300,000	$1,213
15	Monroe	138,687	$157,000,000	$1,132
16	Lycoming	120,044	$135,000,000	$1,125
17	Columbia	64,151	$71,600,000	$1,116
18	Dauphin	251,798	$258,000,000	$1,025
19	Lehigh	312,090	$319,000,000	$1,022
20	Bedford	49,984	$50,200,000	$1,004
21	Cameron	5,974	$5,900,000	$988
22	Bradford	62,761	$61,300,000	$977
23	Cambria	152,598	$148,000,000	$970
24	Schuylkill	150,336	$144,000,000	$958
25	Clearfield	83,382	$75,900,000	$910
26	Greene	40,672	$36,600,000	$900
27	Butler	174,083	$151,000,000	$867
28	Potter	18,080	$15,600,000	$863
29	Allegheny	1,281,666	$1,100,000,000	$858
30	Lebanon	120,327	$100,000,000	$831
	State Average			$781
31	Forest	4,946	$3,800,000	$768
32	Luzerne	319,250	$240,000,000	$752
33	Carbon	58,802	$43,200,000	$735
34	Lawrence	94,643	$68,500,000	$724
35	Perry	43,602	$29,900,000	$686
36	Warren	43,863	$28,800,000	$657
37	Erie	280,843	$174,000,000	$620
38	Wyoming	28,080	$17,300,000	$616
39	Susquehanna	42,238	$25,700,000	$608
40	Montour	18,236	$10,900,000	$598
41	Indiana	89,605	$53,200,000	$594
42	Huntingdon	45,586	$26,700,000	$586
43	Northampton	267,066	$151,000,000	$565
44	Armstrong	72,392	$40,800,000	$564
45	Bucks	597,635	$334,000,000	$559
46	Franklin	129,313	$71,900,000	$556
47	Mercer	120,293	$65,400,000	$544
48	Philadelphia	1,517,550	$825,000,000	$544
49	Wayne	47,722	$25,600,000	$536
50	Adams	91,292	$48,100,000	$527
51	Cumberland	213,674	$111,000,000	$519
52	Fayette	148,644	$76,500,000	$515
53	Washington	202,897	$104,000,000	$513
54	Lackawanna	213,295	$108,000,000	$506
55	Clarion	41,765	$20,700,000	$496
56	Montgomery	750,097	$355,000,000	$473
57	Lancaster	470,658	$219,000,000	$465
58	McKean	45,936	$21,000,000	$457
59	Beaver	181,412	$81,200,000	$448
60	Chester	433,501	$178,000,000	$411
61	Westmoreland	369,993	$151,000,000	$408
62	Crawford	90,366	$36,200,000	$401
63	Berks	373,638	$135,000,000	$361
64	Pike	46,302	$16,200,000	$350
65	Venango	57,565	$17,000,000	$295
66	Delaware	550,864	$106,000,000	$192
67	York	381,751	$45,800,000	$120

Source: Rendell for Governor Committee, U.S. Census 2000

No "Race Card" Here

I'm not sure but I strongly suspect you have little or no history living in NE Philly.

As a 58 year resident of the NE, I can relate strongly to Bhakta's point and as far as the "race card" goes, it seems you have plucked that from the deck.

Bhakta's point about rising crime rates are right on target and any resident who knows the NE will tell you that it has seen a rapid decline in recent years.

Section 8 housing and absentee landlords bringing renters to neighborhoods which were previously occupied with home OWNERS has been a major contributor to this decline.

These folks (regardless of race) are far more likely to "not value the safety, cleanliness and civic mindedness" than the long time homeowners.

I realize that the liberal solution is to give everything away to those who are "underprivileged" but this practice has never been successful anywhere in the World, let alone in Philadelphia.

John Street has declared war on the NE by his lack of concern for the area, as far as city services (exemplified by his strong support of closing the NE branch of City Hall).

To make an issue of a "typo", John White vs Ron White, is a childish liberal cheap shot (a crook is a crook whether John or Ron) .

Obviously if Allyson Schwartz supports the Street administration, she is supporting widespread, rampant corruption, regardless of the names mentioned.

No concerned, honest citizen should ever cast a vote for someone who has supported a Mayor who should be in jail alongside his "pay to play" buddies.

Something tells me we haven't heard the last of Raj Bhakta and I think that is a real positive thing for this once great City.

The scandal ridden Democratic machine will probably be too strong for Bhakta to defeat this November, but his future is bright among hard working, responsible voters.

Let's hope for Philadelphia's sake, we've heard the last of John Street and his political supporters come November.

Denny Hannigan

A Giant Whooshing Sound

Why is it wrong for anyone besides African-Americans to play the race card in politics?

John Street said the brothers and sisters are running the city and barely a peep is heard. All of you apologists in the media say he was misunderstood. No he wasn't.

He has a lingering hatred for white people that he just cannot hide.

He has helped to wage war on the Northeast by implementing his NTI in North Philadelphia.

He has given free reign to developers there and in the process has displaced the population, largely African-American, and forced their move into Northeast Philadelphia.

While everyone is whistling by the graveyard downtown, saying property values are soaring, life is great, we here in the Northeast are preparing to leave our city.

Why? Because for the longest time, we were the only neighborhood worth a damn and due to the fact we have jobs and obligations, we haven't been able to organize and protest the fact that we get short shrift of city services. We could stand that. We took that as just a fact of life.

Now we're being inundated with the people displaced from North Philadelphia who move here, steal our children's toys, bikes, our lawn ornaments/furniture and threaten our well being and safety.

So that whoosh you hear will be all of us leaving, the cherished and irreplaceable middle-class, if we don't get someone like Raj to represent our needs.

Thanks for reading my comments,

Mike Ulrich.

The Most Ignorant Stupid Sort

Benjamin Franklin on German immigrants.

Excerpts from a letter written to his friend, Peter Collinson.
Collinson was an English Quaker, a botanist and a member of the Royal Society who was instrumental in having Franklin's experiments in electricity circulated in Great Britain.

Philadelphia May 9th 1753

Sir,

...I am perfectly of your mind, that measures of great Temper are necessary with the Germans: and am not without Apprehensions, that thro' their indiscretion or Ours, or both, great disorders and inconveniences may one day arise among us…

Those who come hither are generally of the most ignorant Stupid Sort of their own Nation, and as Ignorance is often attended with Credulity when Knavery would mislead it, and with Suspicion when Honesty would set it right; and as few of the English understand the German Language, and so cannot address them either from the Press or Pulpit, 'tis almost impossible to remove any prejudices they once entertain.

Their own Clergy have very little influence over the people; who seem to take an uncommon pleasure in abusing and discharging the Minister on every trivial occasion.

Not being used to Liberty, they know not how to make a modest use of it; and as Kolben says of the young Hottentots, that they are not esteemed men till they have shewn their manhood by beating their mothers, so these seem to think themselves not free, till they can feel their liberty in abusing and insulting their Teachers.

Thus they are under no restraint of Ecclesiastical Government; They behave, however, submissively enough at present to the Civil Government which I wish they may continue to do:

For I remember when they modestly declined intermeddling in our Elections, but now they come in droves, and carry all before them, except in one or two Counties…

Few of their children in the Country learn English; they import many Books from Germany; and of the six printing houses in the Province, two are entirely German, two half German half English, and but two entirely English; They have one German Newspaper, and one half German.
Advertisements intended to be general are now printed in Dutch and English; the Signs in our Streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some places only German: They begin of late to make all their Bonds and other legal Writings in their own Language, which (though I think it ought not to be) are allowed good in our Courts, where the German Business so increases that there is continual need of Interpreters; and I suppose in a few years they will be also necessary in the Assembly, to tell one half of our Legislators what the other half say;

In short unless the stream of their importation could be turned from this to other colonies, as you very judiciously propose, they will soon so out number us, that all the advantages we have will not in My Opinion be able to preserve our language, and even our Government will become precarious.

Yet I am not for refusing entirely to admit them into our Colonies: all that seems to be necessary is, to distribute them more equally, mix them with the English, establish English Schools where they are now too thick settled, and take some care to prevent the practice lately fallen into by some of the Ship Owners, of sweeping the German Goals to make up the number of their Passengers.

I say I am not against the Admission of Germans in general, for they have their Virtues, their industry and frugality is exemplary; They are excellent husbandmen and contribute greatly to the improvement of a Country.