Fumo Praised as a "Dealmaker"

March 13th, 2008, posted by genuinejake

The Phila. Inq. has plenty of good things to say:


In the 1990s, State Sen. Vincent J. Fumo created a secret economic-development fund, fueled by money from New Jersey commuters, that raised tens of millions of dollars for projects in Philadelphia.

Nearly two dozen community organizations, business projects and nonprofits in the city benefited. But so did the preschool his children had attended.

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What a piece of trash

On March 13th, 2008 Anonymous said:

Any Op-Ed article with phrase “love him or hate him” deserves to end up on the cutting room floor. I’m glad Fumo did nice things, but why is it that the Inquirer reminds us of this only when he’s on his way out? Soon he’ll be a convicted embezzler. I wonder what those charities could have done with the money he embezzled.

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