FBI Raid Boosts Mayor's Ratings

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FBI raids at City Hall would normally be a knock out punch to a mayor running for re-election.

But for Philadelphia's embattled mayor John Street, the raids, even the discovery of an FBI bug in his office less than a month before voters go to the polls could not have come at a better time.

"I think this is one of the best things that has happened to John Street," says Bruce Crawley, of Philadelphia's African American Chamber of Commerce.

Just as Street's financial records have been reportedly seized as part of an investigation into alleged corruption, the mayor has come from behind in the polls by mobilizing the city's African American community where there is deep suspicion that the timing of the bug and the raids amounts to a smear...

"I think there are some people here in this city and in this country who are very serious about the presidency and about the electoral votes in Pennsylvania and might be inclined to try to use almost any method in order to seek to get some kind of advantage," says Street.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/21/eveningnews/main579275.shtml

It looks like White Supremacists Asscroft and Bush. You know they conspired to put the FBI on this investigation.

Where's an IP to look into this? Obviously Asscroft can't investigate himself.

Is the liberal press calling for an IP?

I'm a little sad Dean wasn't the first to say Streets last quote.

Dean should be the first to call for an IP!