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{"id":7054,"date":"2015-05-16T08:23:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=7054"},"modified":"2015-05-16T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-16T12:28:17","slug":"for-city-commissioner-carol-jenkins-and-lisa-deeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?p=7054","title":{"rendered":"For City Commissioner: Carol Jenkins and Lisa Deeley"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two candidates for City Commissioner stand far above all the others. Carol Jenkins and Lisa Deeley.<\/p>\n

City Commissioner is one of those row offices that carries out a really important function that is utterly unknown to most people. The City Commissioners are responsible for making sure that the machinery of our elections\u2014from the books that contain the names of registered voters to the voting machines that record our votes\u2014work and work fairly. When that machinery doesn\u2019t work, as it nearly didn\u2019t in 2012, people can be denied the basic right central to democratic politics. When the machinery of our elections is used to help one party or one faction or one candidate rather another\u2014when polling places are moved to help some candidates or you have to know someone on the inside to even get the results of previous elections\u2014then our elections are fundamentally unfair.<\/p>\n

When the Commissioners do their basic job well, and especially when they look for creative ways to encourage voting, they can play an important role in increasing turnout. And all of us\u2014and especially we progressive Democrats\u2014have a stake in doing that.<\/p>\n

After years of tension in the office, with one Commissioner rarely showing up at the office or the polling place and another creating havoc, and only one, Republican Al Schmidt, who seems both committed and capable of doing the job as it needs to be done, it\u2019s time for us to elect Commissioners who willing to work together to make the office what it should be, both the honest broker of our elections and the champion of high voter turnout.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s important to elect City Commissioners whose commitment to political fairness is unquestioned and whose knowledge of politics is deep. And that\u2019s why my first vote for City Commissioner goes to Carol Jenkins. Carol has the perfect qualification for this position. She\u2019s been involved in politics for years and is now the Leader of the 27^{th<\/sup> Ward. She\u2019s taught politics at Temple University. She\u2019s studied and written about politics.<\/p>\n}

Carol has the heart of a reformer and the head of a ward leader. She not only knows the proper direction to take the office of City Commissioner, she know how to get there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll also cast a vote for Lisa Deely for City Commissioner. Lisa has deep and varied experience in politics. She\u2019s worked in the offices of some of the political leaders I most respect in Philadelphia. She knows her way around our elections. She\u2019s smart and effective and would work well with Al Schmidt and Carol Jenkins to give us the most effective group of Commissioners we have had in years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"