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	Article \| In the Rendell era, city's image rose, but key problems remained by Fred Siegel and Kay S. Hymowitz
		Rendell at first seemed a Hercules of a mayor, able to tame mighty unions and bring a dying city back to life.
		Rendell's finest hour came in the summer of 1992, in his victorious contract negotiations with the four primary municipal unions.
		Rendell has made job creation a top goal, yet in response to what he himself calls Philadelphia's "oppressive tax structure," he has managed only a fractional reduction of both the wage and gross-receipts tax.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /html/_philainq-in_the_rendell_era.htm (1082 words)

	Ed Rendell: Pennsylvania's balanced choice for governor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ed Rendell negotiated a gambling law that will cut property taxes, mainly for the elderly, by up to $1 billion.
		Rendell has also tightened state operations and saved $180 million by bundling contracts and maximizing purchase power.
		On education, Gov. Rendell made a crucial investment in early-childhood learning and full-day kindergarten to get children on track in their formative years.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06302/733623-192.stm (668 words)

	Ed Rendell at AllExperts
		Rendell was elected District Attorney of Philadelphia in 1977, defeating the incumbent Democratic DA, F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, in the primary election.
		Rendell's cost-cutting policies brought him strong opposition from labor unions; however, he was re-elected in 1995 with 80 percent of the vote.
		Rendell's popularity, particularly in the suburban ring of counties around Philadelphia, was a key to Kerry's victory in Pennsylvania, one of the most hotly contested "swing states" in the 2004 presidential election.
	en.allexperts.com /e/e/ed/ed_rendell.htm (1872 words)

	Rendell admits frequent flying on the freeway - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Rendell's news release on Monday said he had asked state police Commissioner Col. Jeffrey Miller to investigate the speeding reports and state policy regarding the operation of his state vehicle by the executive detail of the state police.
		Rendell was not signaling a halt to the investigation on his limo's speeding, said Kate Philips, his press secretary.
		Rendell said when he's in the limo he is frequently reading or on the phone and doesn't pay attention to the speedometer.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_187421.html (523 words)

	Why Did Ed Rendell Fizzle Out? by Fred Siegel, Kay S. Hymowitz, City Journal Autumn 1999
		Rendell understood that, in a city that had raised taxes 19 times in 11 years, this approach was no longer an option.
		Rendell's finest hour—his pivotal struggle over the city's fiscal future—came in the summer of 1992, during contract negotiations with the four primary municipal unions.
		Rendell's personalized deal-making, though, has an old-fashioned, big-city-mayor quality that has blinded him to the opportunities that the new biotech and finance firms blossoming in nearby Chester and Montgomery Counties present, even though many of these firms along booming suburban Route 202 had their start at the city's universities and medical schools.
	www.city-journal.org /html/9_4_a1.html (5701 words)

	Online NewsHour: The Pennsylvania Governor's Race -- Ed Rendell Biography
		Rendell is considered a natural political salesman, with an inexhaustible determination to achieve his goals.
		Rendell boasts that despite those troubles, he balanced the city's budget for the first time in seven years, and set up a fiscal plan to wipe out the city's projected $1.4 billion budget deficit.
		Rendell decided not to seek a third district attorney term in 1986, instead attempting a run for governor.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/vote2002/races/pa_rendell.html (817 words)

	Rendell to ask sales tax increase (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rendell wants to use about half of the additional sales tax revenue, or $700 million, to reduce property taxes, with the rest going for rising state expenses, such as medical assistance for the poor.
		Rendell thinks that up to $1 billion in relief will become available in about two years, once all 14 slot machine casinos are fully operating in the state.
		Rendell is not expected to propose expanding the base of the sales tax by taxing items that are now tax-exempt, such as food and clothing.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/07036/759551-85.stm (854 words)

	'Teflon Ed' Rendell unbruised despite tough year (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rendell boasts that 200,000 low-income seniors already have had their property taxes eliminated as a result of the anticipated slots revenue, and more modest reductions for the bulk of the state's seniors already have been enacted.
		Rendell having state troopers patrol state roads in Philadelphia and help the city reduce costs; advancing planning funds for a major expansion of the city's 13-year-old convention center; and the $42 million from the state for a new Comcast skyscraper being built in Philadelphia.
		Rendell is pleased about his continuing lead in the polls, but when talking to supporters he downplays it, noting that in 2002, he trailed his Democratic primary opponent, then-Auditor General Robert P. Casey Jr., but came back to win the Democratic nomination for governor.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06260/722520-178.stm (1365 words)

	Ed Rendell for Governor
		That's when Rendell took over a moribund city on the verge of complete collapse and, through sheer force of will, broke through the prevailing loser mentality and engineered a turnaround that, by any standard, was remarkable.
		Rendell's drink-tax gambit is a perfect example of his ability to find answers.
		Rendell, on the other hand, is calling for increasing the state's share of funding from 35 percent to 50 percent and paying for it via slots at racetracks, doubling the cigarette tax and efficiency-generated spending cuts, all of which would allow the state to pick up a greater portion of school funding right away.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2002-05-16/slant.shtml (790 words)

	Ed Rendell to speak at Bucknell Commencement \|\| Bucknell University
		Rendell's Plan also outlines an economic stimulus program that will invest nearly two billion in bonds and loan guarantees to leverage an additional five billion in private investment in economic development projects across the state.
		Rendell, who has been active in the community through a variety of memberships on boards, also teaches two government and politics courses at the University of Pennsylvania.
		Rendell and his wife, First Lady Marjorie O. Rendell, a Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, have one son, Jesse.
	www.bucknell.edu /x17248.xml (307 words)

	The Mercury - Rendells legacy: Three years of failure
		Ed Rendell appears to be the governor of the state of dementia.
		Rendell has made property tax relief his primary goal in each of his first three years as governor and has failed to deliver on his promise three years in a row.
		Rendell and his insurance secretary, who is supposed to be looking out for Pennsylvania taxpayers, have been silent on this issue for three years.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=15873920&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=164632&rfi=6 (917 words)

	Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell: 1996 Municipal Leader of the Year
		Philadelphia was foundering in an ocean of red ink when Ed Rendell decided he had the stuff to save it.
		The city was foundering in an ocean of red ink; it was running at a $250 million deficit, its bonds would not have supported construction of a phone booth, it had suspended contributions to its pension fund, and its residents had seen 19 tax increases in little more than a decade.
		In his 1995 re-election bid, Rendell was strongly opposed by all four municipal unions but still got nearly 80 percent of the vote, the largest post-Depression margin of victory in the city.
	americancityandcounty.com /mag/government_philadelphia_mayor_ed (923 words)

	Ed Rendell - The Huffington Post
		Ed Rendell provided those statistics last Tuesday when he tried to persuade the state House Judiciary Committee to do something constructive...
		DROP was promoted in 1999 by then-Mayor Ed Rendell's administration as a way to retain senior fire and police officials, many of whom would hit retirement age simultaneously....
		He likens the proposal to Gov. Ed Rendell's expansion of duties some health care workers, such as nurse practitioners, are allowed to perform.
	www.huffingtonpost.com /people/Ed+Rendell (1013 words)

	Angry Ed Rendell Snatches Interview Tape (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rendell called Lieberman several hours later and apologized for his remarks, saying he was frustrated by politics and insisting that he is a "straight shooter," according to the newspaper.
		Rendell, who appeared with Hoeffel on Wednesday before he spoke with Lieberman, said he changed his mind after Democratic officials in southwestern Pennsylvania warned that Knoll, a Pittsburgh-area native, would offer his re-election campaign more geographic balance than Hoeffel, who, like Rendell, is from southeastern Pennsylvania.
		Rendell has been involved in other confrontations with reporters, including grabbing the neck of a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter in May 1994 when he was the city's mayor.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/ic/2006/3/12/94255.shtml?s=ic (416 words)

	The Mercury - Why I hate Gov. Ed Rendell
		Rendell attracted many Republican voters in 2002 who weren’t impressed with GOP candidate Mike Fisher, who never articulated why he wanted to be governor.
		Rendell signed the pay raise bill because he said he needed to "kiss a little butt" in order to work with the legislature.
		Rendell has lost the support of senior citizens who are smart enough to see through the dog-and-pony show Rendell puts on when it comes to tax reform.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=17187374&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=164632&rfi=6 (792 words)

	Pave the grass \| Fast Eddie wants my wallet
		Rendell's tax relief plan gives homeowners a break at the expense of renters.
		Unlike a property tax reassessment or even the Homestead Act, Rendell's plan does not bar the state and school district from taxing me even harder in the first year of the change.
		Rather than forcing the districts to live within their means, or even forcing counties like Bucks to reassess, Rendell's plan merely shifts the burden to a class of people who are less likely to show up to complain and even less likely to be heard.
	www.daveralis.com /pavethegrass/051903fasteddie.shtml (779 words)

	Philadelphia Inquirer \| 10/29/2006 \| Ed Rendell: Adept politician, unpredictable governor in what he says is his last ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ed Rendell: Adept politician, unpredictable governor in what he says is his last campaign.
		Chief of staff John Estey said Rendell initially had wanted to be involved in all policy talks - as opposed to being "the closer," the role he plays now - and invited everyone to meetings in the basement of the governor's mansion: House and Senate leadership, plus their top staff.
		Just recently, Rendell, who has said this is his last campaign, touched off a fresh wave of consternation when he announced that he supported term limits for the legislature.
	www.macon.com /mld/inquirer/news/local/15873273.htm?source=rss&channel=inquirer_local (1378 words)

	Philadelphia Inquirer \| 10/29/2006 \| Ed Rendell: Adept politician, unpredictable governor in what he says is his last ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ed Rendell: Adept politician, unpredictable governor in what he says is his last campaign.
		Chief of staff John Estey said Rendell initially had wanted to be involved in all policy talks - as opposed to being "the closer," the role he plays now - and invited everyone to meetings in the basement of the governor's mansion: House and Senate leadership, plus their top staff.
		Just recently, Rendell, who has said this is his last campaign, touched off a fresh wave of consternation when he announced that he supported term limits for the legislature.
	www.philly.com /mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counties/bucks_county/15873273.htm (1386 words)

	Philadelphia Inquirer \| 10/29/2006 \| Editorial \| Ed Rendell for Governor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rendell is a pragmatist, not an ideologue; for him, getting something useful done usually trumps purity of policy.
		If Ed Rendell's earthy, rough-and-tumble style drives you crazy, Swann is an alternative who has shown a gracious manner and a classy aversion to gutter politics.
		Rendell has been a good district attorney, a great mayor of a city in crisis, and a fine governor.
	www.philly.com /mld/inquirer/news/editorial/15873211.htm (568 words)

	Governor Ed Rendell (D-PA) pleads with Bush to develop alternative fuels
		Ed Rendell said yesterday that by calling 866-550-4355, residents can get information about paying their heating bills, fixing residential heating systems, restoring utility services and finding shelters in their area.
		Rendell said the toll-free number is part of his "Stay Warm PA'' initiative, which is meant to "help people survive this winter,'' when heating costs are due to rise sharply.
		Rendell said the federal government should use regulatory and legislative power to require utilities to use alternative fuels.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/120705_world_stories.shtml (1167 words)

	Snowflakes in Hell » Ed Rendell on Guns
		“Rendell said that, as a city prosecutor, he had never seen a defensive gun use, and that as far as he was concerned, he had never heard of a defensive gun use.
		Ed Rendell simply is wrong on all counts as it relates to guns,their usage,purpose and effectiveness in PREVENTING crimes.
		Ed Rendell is using guns as does Guliani,Bloomberg,Clinton,Schumer,Rangel and so on as thier scapegoat for failed policy on implemeting already existing extensive gun laws,locally,regionally and nationally.
	www.snowflakesinhell.com /?p=156 (886 words)

	The Mercury - Beware the wrath of Gov. Ed Rendell (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rendell could have told Hoeffel last month to stay out of the race, but the governor decided to test the political waters by allowing Hoeffel to take the plunge.
		Rendell claims he’s not a political boss, but forcing Hoeffel out of the race a day after Hoeffel announced his candidacy sure smacks of the heavy handed, back-room dealing that political bosses engage in.
		Rendell angrily denied suggestions that his word can’t be trusted and that he gives different answers to different people.
	www.pottsmerc.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=16298045&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=164632&rfi=6 (830 words)

	Big Media Hall of Shame: Bio
		Governor Rendell opened his mansion to cable and telecom lobbyists and stomped out competitive local efforts to provide broadband access at a price more Pennsylvanians could afford.
		When Rendell was Mayor of Philadelphia, he hired as his chief of staff David L. Cohen.
		Rendell’s friends in the cable and telecom lobby pull considerable weight across the country — spending millions of dollars to woo politicians and win support for policies that effectively hand over publicly owned media assets, such as our airwaves, to private control.
	www.freepress.net /hallofshame/bios.php?id=rendell (314 words)

	Ed Rendell for governor - Voter's Guide Opinion
		Rendell also worked with the Legislature to increase state education funding by hundreds of millions of dollars.
		Ed Rendell has also done wonderful things for Philadelphia, both as mayor and as governor.
		Rendell has served in elected office since the 1970s, and deserves the governship for his experience alone.
	media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com /media/storage/paper882/news/2006/11/06/VotersGuideOpinion/Ed.Rendell.For.Governor-2441016.shtml (557 words)

	CNN - Convention 2000 - Ed Rendell, Haley Barbour
		Ed Rendell: I think Dick Cheney is a decent, honorable man who has served this country well in a number of positions.
		Ed Rendell: I stand by my statement that it's immoral to give an incredible tax cut to the rich and not give a minimum wage increase to the poor.
		Ed Rendell: I'd like to go back to the chat room questioner's remarks about the negativity, because it is of deep concern to me. Frankly, I didn't enjoy the TV show with Mr.
	edition.cnn.com /COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/7/28/rendel (1654 words)

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