Excerpt from latest blog post at pipenozzle.com:

But once in a while a city leader actually gets it. The current example is America’s most hands-on mayor, Newark’s Cory Booker, who gained a ton of press attention for a couple of days for rushing into a burning house on April 13 with his security aid to save a woman. After the rescue, standing before the press with a burned and bandaged hand, the privileged (Stanford, Oxford, Yale) Booker expressed a new-found respect for the work done by firefighters with a tone of genuine sincerity compared to the nonsense spouted by Richard Lee or, most recently on April 9, by Philadelphia’s Michael Nutter, who offered the usual platitudes on speaker phone from Chattanooga following the deaths of two Philadelphia firefighters during overhaul after a massive five-alarm fire in an old warehouse that had been abandoned for years and used by vagrants who would set fires to stay warm. . . .