April 17, 2008 Issue
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Local News198th district seat at stake in primary
While everyone focuses on the presidential race, and some Democratic voters struggle between a vote for Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, candidates running for local elected positions are trying to get the attention of their constituents as well. Byron Davis, a teacher at Germantown Friends School, is challenging Democratic Rep. Rosita Youngblood for her seat in the 198th District in the April 22 primary. Davis, like Youngblood, will spend the next few days, as he has spent the past several weeks, knocking on doors and standing in train stations, meeting his voters one-on-one. He said this personalized approach really is the best way to get people’s attention for the presidential election. Caroline Kennedy stumps for Obama in Mt. Airy
Although undecided voters attending a speech by Caroline Kennedy at North by Northwest were likely to have left the event with questions still unanswered, her visit to the Mt. Airy restaurant was yet another inspiring message of hope that seems to have defined Barack Obama’s campaign. A small, intimate crowd gathered at the restaurant Friday afternoon, April 11, for a little-advertised event with Kennedy, the daughter of former president John F. Kennedy, to whom Obama has been compared throughout his campaign. The event, supposed to be for undecided female voters, drew more Obama supporters than undecided voters. But the audience responded well to Kennedy’s speech, even though she spoke more about Obama’s ability to inspire than the issues that concern most undecided voters.
Hill man gets jail time for failing to pay income taxes The Internal Revenue Service wants you to know it is not taking failure to pay your taxes lightly. Agents for the federal agency hand-delivered a case file to the Local last week outlining the guilty plea and sentencing of Chestnut Hill resident Thomas E. “Chip” Butler Jr. for five counts of willfully failing to file his federal income taxes from 2001 through 2005. The IRS said Butler, who earned more than $590,000 in that period as a partner in the law firm of Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP, owed more than $150,000 in taxes. All counts were misdemeanor charges.
Gun scare closes Penn Charter Classes resumed Monday on the campus of William Penn Charter School in East Falls after a parent of a student reported having her purse containing a 44-caliber handgun taken from her car while she visited the school on Friday, April 11.
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