True architecture, like true character, must be bold, honest, and built to last.

At the start of my fourth year, we need to fully define “Community Policing” which means bringing back the era of permanent neighborhood beat cops who grow up with our families, celebrate our milestones, and earn our deep respect and trust. By putting officers back on dedicated foot beats, we will protect private property, enforce quality-of-life laws, and partner with local block captains to ensure law-abiding Philadelphians feel safe and criminals are crapping in their pants. By the end of my fourth year, I’ll remember the words my dad always said, 'don't do things half-ass, do them first-class,' which is why I am proposing a complete overhaul of the City of Philadelphia's website to transform it into a world-class, highly accessible, and perfectly organized digital front door modeled after the White House website, but ours will be the best website outdoing any city in the country. By the end of my four-year term, we’ll have definitively defeated radical government-run collectivism, permanently weakened bureaucratic bloat in City Hall, slashed wasteful spending, and restored safety, sanity, and true individual freedom to every neighborhood and its occupants in Philadelphia.

By the end of my only term, my administration’s appointees on the Philadelphia Gas Works board will have already been directed to prioritize lowering utility bills for working families rather than funding costly mandates demanded by climate militants, we’ll introduce competitive bidding for select city services to drive down costs for taxpayers, and we’ll ensure you will never have to worry about getting broken into again as the criminals here will flee to other cities where crime is allowed. You’ll sleep soundly knowing we’ll reinforce our identity as a proud, patriotic city, we’ll issue a companion executive order establishing a symbolic civic honor campaign which I will call, “Philly Pride” that utilizes municipal promotional resources to coordinate voluntary business outreach through the Commerce Department. 

Once we hit these goals and create a fun, fully accessible city—a Philly so fun, so safe and so vibrant that twenty-four hours a day won't feel like enough—we will launch what I call "Liberty Never Sleeps" as a brand new official flagship tourism campaign and proclaim, "The Liberty Bell" march, written by John Philip Sousa in 1893, as our official song, along with other thematic beats like "Hey Brother." Utilizing direct executive authority, I will coordinate through the Commerce Department and the Office of Special Events to illuminate municipal landmarks, wrap city light poles and transit corridors in bold civic banners. We’ll sponsor year-round street festivals highlighting local and ethnic foods, music, and neighborhood history. By deploying city promotional resources to showcase our restored public safety and 24-hour vitality, we will draw travelers, businesses, and conventions from across the globe back to our front steps and porches. No business or cultural institutions will ever want to shut down. Without any threats, visitors will be able to go to civic landmarks at any time and without any threat. This national, state, and local pride initiative will prove to the world that Philadelphia is once again the cleanest, safest, most electric, ecologically friendly city and most welcoming global destination on Earth. Visitors will not want to go home without a Philadelphia flag because they will love it so much they won’t want to forget their experience. 

We will start building wealth through the dignity of work, not the false promise of government payouts. True economic independence means ensuring that any Philadelphian who wants a job can get one, effectively eliminating chronic unemployment across our city. To do this, I’ll replace divisive, demographic-based rhetoric with universal, pro-growth policies that lift up every neighborhood. This starts by crushing our city’s punishing wage, business and property taxes, making Philadelphia a competitive magnet for every business from major employers to small mom and pop shops. It’s what I call “Start Up and Stay”. So many businesses come in and within a year they are gone. By cutting the bureaucratic red tape that suffocates companies, we will allow our local neighborhood commercial corridors to finally thrive and expand. We are also restructuring our public schools to pipeline our youth directly into high-paying building trades, manufacturing, and tech sectors. We will have safe, well-policed streets AND raw capitalist incentives, we will attract the private investment needed to revitalize neglected zip codes and we will demand that we have a practical, universal strategy designed to drive real economic mobility and deliver lasting prosperity to every single citizen and aspiring citizen of our city. When you ask not what Philly can do for you, but what you can do for your city, this administration will guarantee you the opportunity to work.