Daily News | Former Mayor Ed Rendell endorses Rebecca Rhynhart, becoming third former mayor to back her
as the independently elected city controller, who is responsible for auditing government agencies and rooting out waste. She’s running for mayor on a pledge to make government more efficient, and she has touted that she is the only candidate with executive-level government experience.
Both Nutter and Rendell have for years supported Rhynhart’s political ambitions and have contributed to her campaigns. Rendell endorsed her first run for office in 2017, when she challenged then-Controller Alan Butkovitz, a three-term incumbent who had the support of the Democratic Party. Rhynhart“I couldn’t believe it,” Rendell said at the time. “I thought we had a good chance to win, but I never thought we’d win 58 to 40 percent. Good God.
Rhynhart’s mayoral campaign has paid Street $55,000 since November, according to campaign-finance reports. The campaign said he is working as a senior adviserNo similar payments were made to Nutter or Rendell, records show. Rendell hasn’t endorsed in the last two competitive mayor’s races. In 2000, he backed Street, who was Council president when Rendell was mayor and then succeeded Rendell in the mayor’s office.
Mayor Jim Kenney has not made an endorsement in this year’s race . The other living Philadelphia mayors are Bill Green III and W. Wilson Goode.will be well-positioned to win in the November general election given Philadelphia’s heavily Democratic electorate. Former Councilmember David Oh is running unopposed for the Republican nomination.
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