Stu Bykofsky | This observer thinks Brady can fix the city

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, April, 2007

AS A COG in the Democratic Machine, I may have a different view of politics from you.

As an elected committeeman - even though I am the lowest rung on the political ladder - I am an "insider" in a Center City gay-friendly, nonsmoking, wine-sipping, cheese-nibbling, progressive-talking, silk-stocking ward.

As a committeeman, I'm expected to show Eternal and Unquestioning Loyalty to the Democratic Party. I must be a bad seed, because I do not.

I consider myself an envoy from my neighbors to the Party. I am  their  guy, not the Party's guy. I have my own mind, my own hopes for Philadelphia.

That's why I (and many other free-spirit Democrats) voted for Sam Katz last time.

 

I won't say a bad...