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In yet another stunning display of blatant disregard for the economic plight of his constituents, the City of Philadelphia, and the state of Pennsylvania, Republican Minority Whip Frank Rizzo, Jr. (son of the ex-mayor depicted in the statue at right) is the lone City Council member intending to accept his cost of living raise this year. Other members—wiser, more informed, more considerate members—are planning to give the money back to the general fund, or to various city charities. They're primarily doing so in order to show solidarity with union workers who are shit out of luck being asked to decline pay raises for 4 years.

To be clear, Pennsylvania has banned same-sex marriage. So far, the courts have not done anything to put us on track with Connecticut or Iowa. So it is in a grand act of bigotry that State Senator Eichelberger held a rally in Hollidaysburg to announce his proposed amendment to the state constitution to "define marriage."

Who's going to best clean up our national mess? Phillyist can't decide. That's why we need you to endorse a candidate for us. Sure, on April 22nd you get to pull a lever, but only in Phillyist's People's Choice Endorsement do you get to tell the world why you made that decision. Democrats—will it be Hillary or Obama? Republicans—how are you feeling about McCain? Select your nominee in the poll below, then leave a comment to explain why your candidate deserves the golden ticket.

Often when Americans think of whom to vote for both in primaries and in presidential elections, we forget to consider the candidates’ lives before they were candidates. Here are some lesser-known bits about the presidential hopefuls:

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Rocky and Rambo have sided with the soldier: Sylvester Stallone told Fox News yesterday morning that he is backing John McCain in his presidential bid. We find his justification reasonable, though perhaps less elegant than it could be:

Haverford Township Commissioner Fred Moran went on trial yesterday for "his alleged attempt to extort $500,000 from the developers of the Haverford State Hospital site in exchange for granting them zoning approval." Thanks in part to the influence of Betty Thompkins, a microscopist in Albert Einstein Medical Center's pathology department and one-time U. Penn researcher, Central High School "will be the first high school in the nation to receive the Phenom, a $72,000 tabletop electron...

The Attorney General's Office has accused Former State Rep. Frank LaGrotta of giving his relatives fake jobs in order to pay them thousands in taxpayer dollars. A cheval-de-frise (an iron-tipped log that's placed in a riverbed along with many others in order to gore the hulls of enemy warships) was recently found at the bottom of the Delaware River at the Sunoco Logistics pier in South Philadelphia. It's a relic from the mid-1770s, and...

Oh, man. Did you see that Rick Santorum is writing an opinion column for the Inquirer now? Ugh. In vaguely related news, John Street's post-mayoral employment, beginning in January, will be at Temple University as a professor of urban politics and policy. Governor Rendell, who himself is an adjunct at U. Penn, encouraged Street to make the move. Officials responding to a report of a fire at a home in Upper Darby yesterday discovered...

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In another case of Republicans getting caught with their pants down (literally this time), The Times Leader's Terrie Morgan-Besecke is reporting that former U.S. Congressman Joseph McDade, widely considered THE man in the Scranton Wilkes-Barre neck of the woods, allegedly exposed himself to several people by a resort pool in Sanibel Island, Florida on January 18.