What is your reaction to the conviction of Chaka Fattah?

“It’s great. It’s about time they got one of the dirty politicians out of office so that we can have someone who will represent us well and not waste taxpayers’ money.”

Mike O’Connell

“He deserves everything that he’s getting. His lack of an apology doesn’t sit too well with me either, and that should upset the people he represented.”

Lucy Ragone,

16th Street and Packer Avenue

“For an intelligent, educated man, he certainly ran his affairs stupidly. I’m terribly disappointed because I liked him a lot.”

Carmela Davis,

16th Street and Packer Avenue

“It’s great. It’s about time they got one of the dirty politicians out of office so that we can have someone who will represent us well and not waste taxpayers’ money.”

Mike O’Connell,

2500 block of South Rosewood Street

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“For an intelligent, educated man, he certainly ran his affairs stupidly. I’m terribly disappointed because I liked him a lot.”

Carmela Davis
“He deserves everything that he’s getting. His lack of an apology doesn’t sit too well with me either, and that should upset the people he represented.”

Lucy Ragone