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Alan Butkovitz
83673 votes
72.08%
- Party: Democratic
- Occupation: City Controller
- PA State Representative 174th ('90 - '05)
- Temple Law '76
- Temple '73
- Overbrook High '69
Priorities:
- Identifying Cost Savings & New Revenue Opportunities - have identified over $400M in first term
- Opposition to the BRT planned city-wide full value reassessment of real estate, because of the substantial tax increase for average Philadelphians
- Protecting City Employee Pensions
Al Schmidt
32379 votes
27.89%
- Party: Republican
- Occupation: Candidate, City Controller
- Former Senior Analyst, Government Accountability Office (GAO)
- Former Policy Analyst, President Clinton's Commission on Holocaust Assets
- Brandeis University, Ph.D., '00
- Allegheny College, B.A. '93
Priorities:
- Eliminate waste- We bear the highest tax burden in the US, and City Hall just hiked the sales tax higher. They flat-out waste too much taxpayer money
- Combat Public Corruption- audit every city agency every year, as required by the city charter. There is not a single financial audit for last year.
- Protect City Employee Pensions- stop city hall from "balancing" the budget by raiding the pension fund.
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