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Vol. II No. 112 (272) Keeping You Posted With The Politics Of Philadelphia August 1, 2011
TENTH Council District Democrat candidate Bill Rubin gets campaign tips
from former City Controller Jonathan Saidel at fundraiser at Riversharks.
(More Page 3)
Raising FundsWith Riversharks
2 | THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY RECORD 1 AUGUST, 2011
T h e P h i l a d e l p h i a P u b l i c R e c o r d C a l e n d a rAug. 2- Democrat Party Chairman Con-gressman Bob Brady, elected De-mocrat officials and UnionLeaders host Cocktail receptionfor Bill Rubin, District 10 Coun-cil candidate, at AFSCME DC 33Ballroom, 3001 Walnut St., 6thFloor. RSVP 215-671-Vote. Mini-mum suggested $500 per person. Aug. 5-
Swedish Museum hosts SummerCrayfish Party in FDR Park at1900 Pattison Ave. Tickets $50.Call (215) 389-1776 for details.Reservations end Jul. 29.Aug. 6-
Friends of Bill Rubin present Dis-trict Council 33 Members Nightwith Camden Riversharks (vs.Road Warriors at 5:35 p.m. atCamden’s Campbell Field) as DC33 members work 3rd and 1st
Base concession stands. Tickets$12. Proceeds to Bill Rubin. Forinfo contact Joan Gallagher at(267) 438-6998, Irene Snyder,(215) 582-8611 or Sylvia Bullock(215) 471-6469.Aug. 6-
Johnson House, 6306 German-town, will host 11th annual JazzIn The Garden summer benefit, 4to 7 p.m. feauring John Blake, Jr.,Jazz violinist, and the Alan SegalQuartet. Admissions from 30. Forinfo call 215-438-1768.Aug.11-
Friends of Ron Donatucci movedtheir annual Delaware RiverCruise to the Independnece Sea-port Museum, Columbus andWalnut Streets from 6:30 TO 9:30in the Terrace Ballroom. $145 perperson. call 215-271-1667 forinfo.
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CANDIDATE BILL RUBIN and volunteers line up to take care of customers at Riversharks game.
VOLUNTEERING for 10th Democrat Council District fundraiser for candidate Bill Rubin were
Brian Eddis, Bill Rubin, Sr., candidate Bill Rubin, Mark Evans, Diane Caruso, and Fred Mari.
4 | THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY RECORD 1 AUGUST, 2011
Santorum Announces
Senior Policy AdvisorFormer Senator Rick Santorum
has picked Iowa native Jennifer
Vesey Rossman to serve as his
presidential campaign’s Senior
Policy Advisor for Healthcare Pol-
icy and Entitlement Reform.
Jennifer Vesey Rossman previ-
ously served as Legislative Assis-
tant for Health Policy and as Di-
rector of the Senate Finance Com-
mittee’s Subcommittee on Social
Security and Family Policy for
Senator Santorum from 2004 to
2007. Prior to joining Santorum’s
Senate staff, Rossman worked in
various capacities for hospitals,
medical groups, and healthcare
consulting companies. Since 2007,
Rossman has served as a Washing-
ton, DC-based consultant for na-
tional medical device and
pharmaceutical manufacturers. A
native of Muscatine, Iowa, Ross-
man is a graduate of the University
of Northern Iowa and the Univer-
sity of Iowa.
Green Party Files Sheriff CandidateGreen Party Candidate Cheri
Honkala has filed nomination pa-
pers with Philadelphia’s City Com-
mission.. The petitions already
filed contained 3,751 signatures of
registered voters who want Cheri
to appear on the ballot as the Green
Party candidate for Philadelphia
Sheriff. Additional signatures later
filed will increase the total to
4,300 signatures. Candidates who
want to appear on the ballot out-
side of the Republican or Demo-
cratic parties must collect at least
1,845 signatures to be nominated.
Jason Bosch is chief of staff for the
Cheri Honkala campaign.
Her son, actor/director Mark Web-
ber (Explicit Ills, Scott Pilgrim vs.
The World) endorses his mother’s
bid for Sheriff of Philadelphia.
Foundation Report Hits PLCBThe Commonwealth Foundation
strongly condemned the Pennsyl-
vania Liquor Control Board today
for systematic waste and abuse of
taxpayer money and assets follow-
ing a scathing Pa. Auditor General
audit report that found rampant
agency mismanagement of inven-
tory and finances.
Among the findings in the most re-
cently released 48-page 2009-2010
audit, now quietly buried within
the AG Web site without public
comment or recommendations, AG
investigators found:
The agency spent more than $66
million taxpayer dollars on the En-
terprise Resource Planning system
(ERP), a computerized inventory
management tool that caused wide-
spread shortages at PLCB distribu-
tion centers and cost
two-and-a-half times the original
plans. According to the report, “re-
tail store managers began hoarding
some merchandise items, leaving
other retail stores without that mer-
chandise. This exacerbated the ex-
isting inventory shortages at stores;
items were out of stock and un-
available to customers.”
Compounding the problem, PLCB
management then demanded pur-
chasers order excessive inventory
due to the shortages. The report
found, “In addition to acknowledg-
ing that it tried to buy itself out of
the out-of-stock and hoarding situ-
ations, management also indicated
that it could not change the volume
of inventory coming into the distri-
bution centers even though they
were overflowing with excess
product because vendors had al-
ready processed these orders.”
These decisions resulted in more
inventory than space, a situation
made worse by the fact that, de-
spite already having excess, the
PLCB couldn’t stop the ERP sys-
tem from ordering more. Due to
1 AUGUST, 2011 THE PHILADELPHIA DAILY RECORD | 5
the mismanaged inventories, the
PLCB then spent approximately
$500,000 for trailer rentals and ad-
ditional security guards. Accord-
ing to investigators, “The trailers
containing the merchandise were
located off site and were in use for
at least six weeks when our audi-
tors uncovered the PLCB’S use of
these non-temperature controlled
trailers.”
Scranton: Inventory more than
doubled to 606,383 cases in 2010,
causing additional warehouse
space to be acquired.
Pittsburgh: Inventory jumped from
300,000 cases to 575,000 cases in
2010, exceeding storage capacity.
PLCB management decided to put
72,277 cases of excess merchan-
dise in 57 non-temperature con-
trolled trailers.
Philadelphia: Inventory reached
763,470 cases. 20,240 cases were
moved to non-temperature con-
trolled trailers.
Moreover, investigators found
PLCB management claimed stor-
ing excess inventory in non-tem-
perature-controlled trailers, despite
heat exceeding 100, did not put in-
ventory at risk of spoilage. Audi-
tors found this to be false,
observing, “merchandise stock-
piled in the non-temperature con-
trolled trailers such as wine and
champagne actually was more sus-
ceptible to high heat.” Contrary to
the finding, the PLCB continues to
deny widespread spoilage and an
accurate account of money lost due
to overheating remains unreported.
Of the systemic problems, the
audit went on to conclude, in part,
that auditors, “received little re-
sponse from management to
demonstrate its follow up and reso-
lution to ensure that store invento-
ries are properly accounted for.”
“This fiasco is just the latest in a
series of failures by the PLCB to
be good stewards of taxpayer
money, and clearly illustrates why
legislators should be shouting ‘last
call’ for government in the booze
business,” said Matthew J. Brouil-
lette, Commonwealth Foundation
president and CEO. “It’s uncon-
scionable that Pennsylvania gov-
ernment continues to protect and
promote a Prohibition-era monop-
oly so antiquated and inept that it
has taken basic freedoms from
consumers and robbed taxpayers
and businesses of free-market ben-
efits.”
The report comes just weeks after
PLCB Chairman P.J. Stapleton III
publically boasted about record-
setting sales, but neglected to cite
the AG audit that found that while
overall sales have increased, net
revenues from store operations
have declined nearly 47 percent,
from FY June 30, 2008 to FY June
30, 2010. The PLCB release also
failed to cite salaries, benefits and
pension costs of more than $215
million last year or the millions
spent each year to advertise and
promote liquor sales.
“In order to keep themselves in
business, the PLCB is only giving
taxpayers and consumers a glass-
half-full spin, when in reality the
glass is nearly empty,” said Brouil-
lette. “This proves once again that
monopolies, whether public or pri-
vate, fail to meet consumer and
taxpayer needs.”
CF is calling for an immediate end
to the PLCB’s role as seller and
distributor of wine and spirits, a
system of full government control
that now sees Pennsylvania as one
of only two remaining states in the
nation (the other is Utah) with
such draconian measures.
“The people of Pennsylvania know
this issue isn’t about just about
liquor and money, it’s about free-
dom and ridding ourselves of gov-
ernment monopolies, manipulation
and mediocrity,” said Brouillette.
“It’s time our leaders listen to the
demands of their constituents who
want government to butt out of the
booze business.”
In a June Quinnipiac Poll, Penn-
sylvanians overwhelmingly called
for the sale of 644 state-run stores,
with broad-based bipartisan sup-
port reaching more than 69 per-
cent.