Knox campaign office robbed

Wow, that's some news.

From the Next Mayor:

This is very serious. Police now confirm that two men, who were -- in a horrific touch -- wearing "Knox for Mayor" t-shirts -- entered a Knox satellite campaign office at about 12:56 p.m. and pulled a gun on a campaign staffer there.

The robbers demanded money. They got a canvas bag of money that was full of what police are calling "employee salaries" -- and I think we would call "street money" -- and left.

Comments

[Andy Daven]

Wow, that's aweful. Someone in the Knox camp told me that this was actually a lot of their street money. It won't be a problem, except that it's hard to come up with that cash. The person said that they would not be able to pay their workers for a few days.

This is crazy! I wouldn't be surprised if this is a new all-time low for another candidate's campaign! Wake up Philadelphia!

[JKelly]

Does anyone else find it odd that Knox's campaign is relying on so many paid workers for their GOTV? It just shows how thin his support really is.

Wow. If Nutter, Brady, Fattah or Evans would resort to allowing their workers commit felonies to further their cause, imagine what they would resort to if they were running the city and something wasn't going how they wanted. Friggin scary.

Every campaign has street money for their GOTV

[JKelly]

Yes, but Knox's GOTV seems to be driven almost entirely by street money. Compare that to Nutter who is relying mostly on unpaid volunteers who are passionate about the candidate. Yes, I'm a Nutter suppporter, but I do think it makes a difference whether you have to pay people to come out and support you versus people who come out and volunteer their time because they really believe in the candidate.

[keith]

Correct me if I'm wrong but it seemed like TV and Radio neven mentioned this story.

[Mike]

Happy New 2011 Year for all people.