{"id":1932749,"date":"2023-05-17T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cherelle-parker-wins-democrat-nomination-for-philadelphia-mayor-beats-progressive-favorite\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T17:56:08","slug":"cherelle-parker-wins-democrat-nomination-for-philadelphia-mayor-beats-progressive-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cherelle-parker-wins-democrat-nomination-for-philadelphia-mayor-beats-progressive-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherelle Parker Wins Democrat Nomination for Philadelphia Mayor, Beats Progressive Favorite"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcherelle-parker-wins-democrat-nomination-for-philadelphia-mayor-beats-progressive-favorite%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=1932749&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-->\n<p>Cherelle Parker won the Democrat primary for the Philadelphia mayoral race on May 16, paving the way for her to be elected\u00a0as the city\u2019s 100th mayor in November\u2019s general election.<\/p>\n<p> Parker, a former state representative and city council member, will face\u00a0Republican David Oh in the\u00a0Nov. 7 general election to replace\u00a0Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat who has been in office since 2016.\u00a0Oh ran\u00a0unopposed.<\/p>\n<p> A win for Parker in November\u2019s election\u2014which appears likely in a city where\u00a0registered Democrats far outnumber Republicans\u2014would make her the\u00a0first woman to serve in the role in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p> The city has not had a\u00a0Republican mayor\u00a0since 1952.<\/p>\n<p> Parker did not make a public appearance after her victory, which her campaign said was due to a recent\u00a0dental issue that required immediate medical attention.<\/p>\n<p> However, she did share a statement on Twitter thanking her supporters.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m so incredibly honored to have earned the Democratic nomination tonight,\u201d Parker wrote.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s been a long road, and to see the tireless work of my campaign team, supporters, and family pay off is humbling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to November and bringing our city together as its 100th mayor,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p> Parker\u2019s Campaign Promises Parker, 50, served for 10 years\u00a0as a state representative for Northwest Philadelphia from 2005 to 2015 and became chair of Philadelphia\u2019s delegation to the state Capitol in Harrisburg.<\/p>\n<p> She was elected to city council in 2015 and later elected majority leader in January 2020. Parker resigned from\u00a0Philadelphia City Council in September 2022 to run for mayor.<\/p>\n<p> Her campaign focused\u00a0heavily on safety, education, \u201ccleaning and greening\u201d the streets of Philadelphia, and bolstering economic opportunities.<\/p>\n<p> She pledged to hire 300 additional\u00a0foot and bike patrol officers to the streets of every neighborhood in the city, \u201cwithout any tolerance for misuse or abuse of their power,\u201d and to rehire retired police officers.<\/p>\n<p> She also pushed for schools to stay open year-round with extended hours\u00a0for before and after-school enrichmen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherelle Parker won the Democrat primary for the Philadelphia mayoral race on May 16, paving the way for her to be elected\u00a0as the city\u2019s 100th mayor in November\u2019s general election. Parker, a former state representative and city council member, will face\u00a0Republican David Oh in the\u00a0Nov. 7 general election to replace\u00a0Mayor Jim Kenney, a Democrat who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1932750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[8080,26995,4912,6920,4602,9134,9278,5522,3629,5745],"class_list":["post-1932749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-beats","tag-cherelle","tag-democrat","tag-favorite","tag-mayor","tag-nomination","tag-parker","tag-philadelphia","tag-progressive","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}