How the Democrats Destroyed Camden

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Didn't they also destroy detroit...

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
635965850816347195-camden-city-police-car_1.jpg


A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.

Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.

But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.

Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.

...

Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
 
:lol: Virtually ALL cities are run by Democrats, Jizzhat. Rich ones, poor ones, safe ones, scary ones, eastern ones, western ones, northern ones, southern ones, long ones, short ones, medium ones, and everything in between. You could look it up. It's the way the world works.

All I can add is .. "Duh".


/thread
 
Didn't they also destroy detroit...

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
635965850816347195-camden-city-police-car_1.jpg


A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.

Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.

But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.

Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.

...

Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
Socialism sucks the life out of living.... Lol
 
:lol: Virtually ALL cities are run by Democrats, Jizzhat. Rich ones, poor ones, safe ones, scary ones, eastern ones, western ones, northern ones, southern ones, long ones, short ones, medium ones, and everything in between. You could look it up. It's the way the world works.

All I can add is .. "Duh".


/thread


Wonder why?


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:lol: Virtually ALL cities are run by Democrats, Jizzhat. Rich ones, poor ones, safe ones, scary ones, eastern ones, western ones, northern ones, southern ones, long ones, short ones, medium ones, and everything in between. You could look it up. It's the way the world works.

All I can add is .. "Duh".




/thread


When in doubt play dumb....


Chicago's most gerrymandered wards

The most entertaining part about this year in Chicago politics hasn't been Chuy Garcia's mustache, Rahm Emanuel's nub finger or even the biggest property tax hike in the city's history—it's been the breathtakingly artistic ward boundaries that went into effect when the new city council took office in May.


The city redraws its ward boundaries every 10 years when a new census is conducted. The new map isn't aimed to be egalitarian or practical, but rather another gear in the good 'ol Chicago political machine. The term "gerrymander" hardly cuts it when describing the strange shapes produced by City Hall's cartographers. Here are some of the most creative ward shapes you'll find around town.

First Ward
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Alderman Proco Joe Moreno barely avoided a runoff in February's general election, and his domain's new borders might have been the reason. The shape resembles a wispy ghost of Pinocchio or maybe even Jennifer Beals gyrating in the hit 1983 movie Flashdance.

Second Ward
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Alderman Bob Fioretti annoyed Rahm so much that he was mapped out of his own ward. He then proceeded to run for mayor, lose and then endorse Emanuel so he could pay for his campaign.


Read more @

Chicago's most gerrymandered wards
 
Didn't they also destroy detroit...

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
635965850816347195-camden-city-police-car_1.jpg


A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.

Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.

But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.

Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.

...

Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
Socialism sucks the life out of living.... Lol

You put exactly the same post in the Darletta Scruggs interview. I knew you didn't even watch it, but this is what you're reduced to? Posting a juvenile meme in every thread? That's IT?
 
:lol: Virtually ALL cities are run by Democrats, Jizzhat. Rich ones, poor ones, safe ones, scary ones, eastern ones, western ones, northern ones, southern ones, long ones, short ones, medium ones, and everything in between. You could look it up. It's the way the world works.

All I can add is .. "Duh".


/thread


Wonder why?


Fair question and worthy of a thread. But for now the point is Jizzhat is milking a tired old Association Fallacy that ain't never worked before, expecting different results.

Left-right political spectrum doesn't apply to local-level government whose job is to decide which day the trash gets picked up and when it's time to run the snowplows. The OP is a partisan hack who's never had an original thought in his life.

My job --- remind him of that.
 
Didn't they also destroy detroit...

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
635965850816347195-camden-city-police-car_1.jpg


A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.

Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.

But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.

Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.

...

Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
Socialism sucks the life out of living.... Lol

You put exactly the same post in the Darletta Scruggs interview. I knew you didn't even watch it, but this is what you're reduced to? Posting a juvenile meme in every thread? That's IT?
Tissue?
 
Didn't they also destroy detroit...

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
635965850816347195-camden-city-police-car_1.jpg


A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.

Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.

But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.

Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.

...

Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
Socialism sucks the life out of living.... Lol

You put exactly the same post in the Darletta Scruggs interview. I knew you didn't even watch it, but this is what you're reduced to? Posting a juvenile meme in every thread? That's IT?
Tissue?

I see. So you're here to waste bandwidth. On to Ignore. Later, juvenile hack.
 
Didn't they also destroy detroit...

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
635965850816347195-camden-city-police-car_1.jpg


A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.

Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.

But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.

Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.

...

Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
Socialism sucks the life out of living.... Lol

You put exactly the same post in the Darletta Scruggs interview. I knew you didn't even watch it, but this is what you're reduced to? Posting a juvenile meme in every thread? That's IT?
Tissue?

I see. So you're here to waste bandwidth. On to Ignore. Later, juvenile hack.
Hanky?
 
:lol: Virtually ALL cities are run by Democrats, Jizzhat. Rich ones, poor ones, safe ones, scary ones, eastern ones, western ones, northern ones, southern ones, long ones, short ones, medium ones, and everything in between. You could look it up. It's the way the world works.

All I can add is .. "Duh".


/thread


Wonder why?


Fair question and worthy of a thread. But for now the point is Jizzhat is milking a tired old Association Fallacy that ain't never worked before, expecting different results.

Left-right political spectrum doesn't apply to local-level government whose job is to decide which day the trash gets picked up and when it's time to run the snowplows. The OP is a partisan hack who's never had an original thought in his life.

My job --- remind him of that.



You are So God Damn full of shit it is not even funny.
 
:lol: Virtually ALL cities are run by Democrats, Jizzhat. Rich ones, poor ones, safe ones, scary ones, eastern ones, western ones, northern ones, southern ones, long ones, short ones, medium ones, and everything in between. You could look it up. It's the way the world works.

All I can add is .. "Duh".


/thread


Wonder why?


Fair question and worthy of a thread. But for now the point is Jizzhat is milking a tired old Association Fallacy that ain't never worked before, expecting different results.

Left-right political spectrum doesn't apply to local-level government whose job is to decide which day the trash gets picked up and when it's time to run the snowplows. The OP is a partisan hack who's never had an original thought in his life.

My job --- remind him of that.



You are So God Damn full of shit it is not even funny.
socialism.jpg
 
:lol: Virtually ALL cities are run by Democrats, Jizzhat. Rich ones, poor ones, safe ones, scary ones, eastern ones, western ones, northern ones, southern ones, long ones, short ones, medium ones, and everything in between. You could look it up. It's the way the world works.

All I can add is .. "Duh".


/thread


Wonder why?


Fair question and worthy of a thread. But for now the point is Jizzhat is milking a tired old Association Fallacy that ain't never worked before, expecting different results.

Left-right political spectrum doesn't apply to local-level government whose job is to decide which day the trash gets picked up and when it's time to run the snowplows. The OP is a partisan hack who's never had an original thought in his life.

My job --- remind him of that.



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Didn't they also destroy detroit...

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
635965850816347195-camden-city-police-car_1.jpg


A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.

Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.

But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.

Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.

...

Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
This fails as a straw man fallacy.
 
Didn't they also destroy detroit...

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
A city's unwavering allegiance to the Party that ruined it.
April 21, 2016
John Perazzo
635965850816347195-camden-city-police-car_1.jpg


A century ago, Camden, New Jersey was a thriving model of prosperity. Indeed, the city was home to 365 active industries that employed scores of thousands of people in companies like RCA Victor, Campbell’s Soup, and the New York Shipbuilding Company. But today, Camden is an economic and social basket case. Virtually wherever one looks, one can readily see evidence of its decline: abandoned houses with collapsing roofs, crumbling facades, missing or boarded-up windows, and “lawns” choked with several years worth of weeds and brambles; churches with bullet holes in their stained glass windows; walls of buildings defaced by all manner of graffiti; the stench of sewage pervading run-down streets and avenues; and small, melancholy shrines (often adorned with empty liquor bottles) marking the spots where someone was once murdered.

Camden has not had a Republican mayor since 1936. The first mayor of this Democratic era was George Brunner, who served six terms from 1936-59. He was followed by Alfred Pierce (1959-69), a native of Camden who was raised in poverty and grew up to practice law. As mayor, the white liberal Pierce emphasized the need for racial diversity in city government, urging blacks and Hispanics in particular to run for City Council.

But Pierce's efforts to promote racial harmony were unable to quell the black militancy that was rising in Camden, as in so many other American cities, during the Sixties. Violent race riots—complete with arson and looting—struck Camden in 1969 and again two years later. Though some degree of “order” was eventually restored, the city has never been the same since the riots. In the aftermath of those uprisings, legal businesses left Camden in droves and were replaced, to some degree, by unlawful ventures. It is estimated, for instance, that the city today has approximately 175 open-air drug markets—outdoor locations throughout Camden where dealers make rapid, furtive transactions in streets and alleyways—through which some $250 million worth of narcotics move each and every year. Most of these illegal dealers are affiliated with gangs like the Bloods, the Latin Kings, Los Nietos, and MS-13.

Also in the decades that followed the riots, Camden's government was beset by high levels of malfeasance and mismanagement as the Mayor’s office took on some of the qualities of a police line-up. Mayor Angelo Errichetti (1973-81), for instance, was convicted of federal corruption charges and went to prison in 1981; Mayor Arnold Webster (1993-97) pleaded guilty to federal wire fraud charges in 1998; and Mayor Milton Milan (1997-2000) was convicted in 2000 on 14 counts of drug-money laundering, insurance fraud, and taking bribes from organized crime leaders. All were Democrats.

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Camden is a pathetic, dying testament to the decay and destruction that decades of Democratic leadership have brought to city after city after city across the United States. But the residents of Camden have not, by any means, been unwitting victims of those Democrats. Rather, they have been their willing partners in a dance of death, where an endless parade of Democrat victories at the ballot box predictably bring ever-greater levels of pathology to a population that simply refuses to abandon—or to even question—its blind faith in the Democratic Party.

How the Democrats Destroyed Camden
This fails as a straw man fallacy.
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