OPINION: How Brady’s blind ambition could kill Obamacare
Until now. Reports surfaced last week that federal prosecutors are investigating whether Brady's 2012 re-election campaign secretly paid a rival
But regardless of what any criminal probe ultimately turns up, the political ramifications of what Brady has really been up to for nearly 19 years as a
Let me explain.
As the main political writer for the
Politically, those weren't even his biggest problems.
Still, one black elected official -- a state representative from North Philly named
As a congressman, Brady's been a mixed bag. He's good at mediating local disputes like labor strikes, terrible at passing legislation that doesn't involve renaming post offices -- even though he represents a district with the highest rate of deep poverty in America. Everyone who knows Brady -- myself included -- agrees he's been largely a positive force on most race-related matters, most famously when he rallied balky white ward leaders behind Goode in a 1987 mayor's race where many of them had been inclined to back
It came to a head in 2011-12, as congressional district lines were redrawn in
Yet one powerful state Democrat supported the gross gerrymander:
The end result was -- and this seems to be a theme here -- to thwart the will of the people. Even though the Democratic Party actually has a slight registration edge in the state,
Why didn't someone call Brady on this back in 2012? Some people did. One high-ranking pol called the move, in an open letter to Brady, "precisely the sort of self-serving backroom maneuver that is destroying confidence in our political process." The author of that scathing letter was
It's all connected -- the endemic corruption in the
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