{"id":1539812,"date":"2022-07-05T12:50:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539812"},"modified":"2022-07-05T12:50:15","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T16:50:15","slug":"mayor-of-philadelphia-admits-on-camera-ill-be-happy-when-im-not-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayor-of-philadelphia-admits-on-camera-ill-be-happy-when-im-not-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Of Philadelphia Admits On Camera \u2018I\u2019ll Be Happy\u2026 When I\u2019m Not Mayor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmayor-of-philadelphia-admits-on-camera-ill-be-happy-when-im-not-mayor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539812&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/philadelphia\">Philadelphia<\/a> Mayor Jim Kenney (D) admitted on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fourth-of-july\">Fourth of July<\/a> that he would \u201cbe happy\u201d when his term is complete and he is no longer leading the city.<\/p>\n<p>During an Independence Day fireworks display put on by the City of Brotherly Love, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/mass-shooting\">shooter<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-crowds-panic-and-flee-as-shooter-disrupts-philadelphia-fireworks-hits-two-officers\">hit two police officers<\/a> \u2014 grazing one on the forehead and the other on the right shoulder. Footage of the attack shows civilians near the city\u2019s art museum fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATCH: Chaos erupts on the streets of Philadelphia after a shooting during a Fourth of July fireworks display. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UGelIRcdi1\">pic.twitter.com\/UGelIRcdi1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BNN Newsroom (@BNNBreaking) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BNNBreaking\/status\/1544148559607767040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In subsequent comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/philadelphia-july-4th-shooting-philly-police-officers-shot-party-on-the-parkway-officer\/12019494\/\">6ABC<\/a>, Kenney admitted that incidents like the Fourth of July shooting make him look forward to no longer serving as mayor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s not an event or a day where I don\u2019t lay on my back and look at the ceiling and worry about stuff. So everything we have in the city over the last seven years, I worry about,\u201d Kenney remarked. \u201cI don\u2019t enjoy the Fourth of July, I don\u2019t enjoy the Democratic National Convention, I don\u2019t enjoy the NFL draft \u2014 I\u2019m waiting for something bad to happen all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I\u2019ll be happy when I\u2019m not here, when I\u2019m not mayor, and I can enjoy some stuff,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\u201cI\u2019m waiting for something bad to happen all the time. So I\u2019ll be happy when I\u2019m not here, when I\u2019m not mayor, and I can enjoy some stuff,\u201d Philly Mayor Jim Kenney said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZkvrGTmwKH\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZkvrGTmwKH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R9X4TIBMcR\">pic.twitter.com\/R9X4TIBMcR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Petrillo (@MattPetrillo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattPetrillo\/status\/1544253177461088256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bewildered reporter clarified, \u201cYou\u2019re looking forward to not being mayor?\u201d Kenney replied, \u201cYeah,\u201d before appearing to laugh awkwardly.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney assumed office as mayor of Philadelphia in 2016 after serving on the Philadelphia City Council since 1992. His current term expires in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his pessimism, Kenney took a different approach on social media. \u201cOur traditions cannot and will not be ruined by the scourge of gun violence,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhillyMayor\/status\/1544183263584976896?s=20&#038;t=oteafu0lr1wPaspEQCsnyQ\">said<\/a> after the shooting. \u201cI love this city, and as Mayor, there\u2019s nothing more I want than to help solve this problem and keep our residents and visitors safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet Philadelphia has languished in recent years. The city experienced its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/04\/01\/1089406018\/philadelphia-set-a-homicide-record-in-2021-now-police-hope-a-new-tactic-deters-c\">highest level of homicides<\/a> in 2021, with 562 murders. The most recent surge in killings began in 2020, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillypolice.com\/crime-maps-stats\/\">Philadelphia Police Department<\/a> data.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, three people were murdered and 11 wounded in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/three-dead-11-wounded-in-late-night-mass-shooting-in-philadelphia-restaurant-and-bar-district\">mass shooting<\/a> involving multiple gunmen in a neighborhood of Philadelphia known for its bars and restaurants. \u201cThe events that transpired last evening on South Street are beyond devastating,\u201d Kenney said at the time. \u201cOnce again, we see lives senselessly lost and those injured in yet another horrendous, brazen and despicable act of gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Economic woes have also struck the city as soaring gas prices impact low-income residents. The Daily Wire recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/everything-is-too-high-right-now-in-west-philadelphia-residents-battle-inflation-and-gas-prices\">interviewed<\/a> residents of West Philadelphia \u2014 where median household income is 43% of the national level \u2014 about their struggles to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s too high. I don\u2019t know what happened, because the price of everything is too high now,\u201d Mohamed, a West Philadelphia resident and immigrant from French-speaking Africa, told The Daily Wire. Gas prices have significantly impacted him due to his daily commute to nearby New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was using maybe $30 per week. Now I use almost $100,\u201d Iliassou Koukpelerou, who drives a Hyundai Ioniq hybrid, told The Daily Wire. \u201cIt\u2019s too much. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re going to do about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have to do something to lower the prices, so we can enjoy the way we were before,\u201d he continued. \u201cPeople don\u2019t have money in their pockets anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) admitted on the Fourth of July that he would \u201cbe happy\u201d when his term is complete and he is no longer leading the city. 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