{"id":1950845,"date":"2023-06-19T11:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-mayor-ignored-strange-area-code-after-i-95-bridge-collapse-six-words-from-staffer-instantly-changed-his-attitude\/"},"modified":"2023-06-19T11:14:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T15:14:54","slug":"democratic-mayor-ignored-strange-area-code-after-i-95-bridge-collapse-six-words-from-staffer-instantly-changed-his-attitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-mayor-ignored-strange-area-code-after-i-95-bridge-collapse-six-words-from-staffer-instantly-changed-his-attitude\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor dismisses area code, staffer&#8217;s words sway."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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%2Fdemocratic-mayor-ignored-strange-area-code-after-i-95-bridge-collapse-six-words-from-staffer-instantly-changed-his-attitude%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=1950845&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--><h2>If this was the mayor\u2019s way of reassuring his people, he could have picked a better approach.<\/h2>\n<p>When Philadelphia Mayor James Kenney took his turn Saturday at a news conference about the status of a section of Interstate 95 that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-95-section-collapses-catastrophic-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collapsed in the city<\/a>, he was trying to boost President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>He ended up making himself \u2014 and the president \u2014 look even worse.<\/p>\n<p>At the news conference, Kenney said his phone kept getting a call from a number in the 202 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woke-mob-attacks-kendall-jenner-for-cultural-appropriation-of-tequila\/\" title=\"Woke Mob Attacks Kendall Jenner For \u2018Cultural Appropriation\u2019 Of Tequila\">area code<\/a> in the aftermath of the collapse, but he declined to answer it, thinking it was spam, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/politics\/election\/live\/joe-biden-philadelphia-speech-time-road-closures-live-stream-20230617.html#card-242540441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, a staffer made him change his mind.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPlease answer, the president\u2019s calling you,\u201d the staffer said, according to Kenney\u2019s account, delivered at the event where he appeared with Biden, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/fetterman-struggles-short-speech-collapsed-bridge-fails-simple-words-sentences\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sen. John Fetterman<\/a> and other elected officials. (For those who are curious, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg wasn\u2019t in attendance \u2014 he was in Japan, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-18\/buttigieg-vows-to-reopen-philadelphia-i-95-bridge-within-weeks#xj4y7vzkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insider<\/a>, but confident reconstruction would begin within weeks.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-06-18\/buttigieg-vows-to-reopen-philadelphia-i-95-bridge-within-weeks#xj4y7vzkg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kenney wasn\u2019t getting spammed. The call he said he was ignoring was coming from the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe called me,\u201d the mayor said. \u201cI didn\u2019t call him \u2014 he called us. He called us about this. And he was always there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear whether the story is even partially true \u2014 it certainly doesn\u2019t sound like it. Clearly, it was supposed to boost Biden, but the impact was exactly the opposite.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of painting a picture of a hands-on chief executive reaching out from Washington, Kenney left the impression that Biden\u2019s White House lacked the wit to figure out how to make contact with a local official dealing with an emergency situation.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor also didn\u2019t exactly make himself look like a genius.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s assume Kenney knows the area code for Washington is 202 (any Democrat should). What kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-defund-the-police-killed-police-reform\/\" title=\"How \u2018Defund the Police\u2019 Killed Police Reform\">big-city mayor<\/a>, in the midst of a catastrophic road collapse that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/officials-reveal-cause-of-death-of-truck-driver-in-i-95-crash-and-collapse\/3585140\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed a truck driver<\/a> and snarled traffic on one of the country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-mayor-ignored-strange-area-code-after-i-95-bridge-collapse-six-words-from-staffer-instantly-changed-his-attitude\/\" title=\"Mayor dismisses area code, staffer's words sway.\">biggest automotive corridors indefinitely<\/a>, doesn\u2019t take a call from D.C. because it might be spam?<\/p>\n<p>Kenney is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat and a product of Philadelphia\u2019s Democratic machine. (The one that, in 2020, delivered votes for Biden against then-President Donald Trump by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/politics\/decision-2020\/philadelphia-to-announce-final-election-vote-tally-certification-next-week\/2601041\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 2-1 margin<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>To say he hasn\u2019t exactly covered himself with glory in his eight years in office would be giving him too much credit.<\/p>\n<p>His administration has stood by helplessly as one of the country\u2019s most historic cities \u2014 where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were born, where Sylvester Stallone\u2019s \u201cRocky\u201d made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KPhqU--Mq1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Museum steps<\/a> famous, for cryin\u2019 out loud\u2013 has allowed entire blocks to be overrun by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chilling-video-people-look-like-zombies-streets-philly-tranq-epidemic-explodes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drugged-out zombies<\/a>, to the point where it\u2019s being used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mexico-uses-scenes-democrat-run-us-city-psa-scare-kids-away-making-bad-choices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Mexico<\/a> as an object lesson in the dangers of drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Like other Democrats nationwide, he\u2019s pandered to the Black Lives Matter movement, to the point of insulting the city\u2019s Italian population by ordering the removal of a Christopher Columbus statue from a city plaza named for the Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi. After a court reversed that decision, Kenney opted to encase the statue in a plywood box. That move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-judge-orders-major-reversal-citys-progressive-action-racist-statue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">got overturned<\/a> by a state judge as well.<\/p>\n<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, like Democrats in power across the country, the mayor instituted strict restrictions. and he even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/philadelphia-abruptly-reverses-course-newly-instated-mask-mandate-citizens-business-refuse-comply\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tried to revive<\/a> a mask mandate in April 2022, long after most of the country had moved on.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s abused his executive powers to try to limit the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution when it comes to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftist-mayor-gloriously-2a-victory-thrown-right-face-permanent-changes-enacted\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right to bear arms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/philadelphia-homicide-shooting-crime-gun-violence\/\">crime<\/a> has overrun Kenney\u2019s city (with the assistance of District Attorney Larry Krasner, one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/veteran-columnist-stands-tall-attacks-calling-george-soros-role-lawlessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">plague of progressive prosecutors<\/a> inflicted on the country by billionaire George Soros).<\/p>\n<p>Kenney is, in short, a 21st-century Democrat, a slave to the political pieties of his party, enthralled by the idea of government power and utterly inept at using that power effectively for the true betterment of his population.<\/p>\n<p>And now, it turns out he doesn\u2019t even have enough sense to answer the telephone for a White House that doesn\u2019t have enough sense to make sure that the mayor of a city facing a catastrophe only miles from his offices in City Hall is going to be free to take a call from the president.<\/p>\n<p>Kenney might have been making a joke. He was definitely trying to make President Joe Biden look good.<\/p>\n<p>He failed miserably at both. And it\u2019s a better-than-even bet the reconstruction of the bridge is going to be miserable, too, no matter what Pete Buttigieg might be promising.<\/p>\n<h3>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/democratic-mayor-ignored-strange-area-code-95-bridge-collapse-six-words-staffer-instantly-changed-attitude\/\">Democratic Mayor Ignored Strange Area Code After I-95 Bridge Collapse, Six Words from Staffer Instantly Changed His Attitude<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the mayor wanted to reassure his people, he could have chosen a more effective approach. 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