Red Tape: Back to Philadelphia!
Section Summary
This section targets the paralyzing bureaucracy of City Council and SEPTA's fiscal cliff, detailing a plan to slash red tape through executive action, protect historic landmarks like the Roundhouse, and rescue our cultural and transit systems from state-managed decline.
From Roxborough Township to Manayunk
Strong Mayor Era
City Council is destined to remove the power of the Mayor. Nothing gets done in this city because of bureaucracy. To get around this, we will strangle city council’s influence even further by holding up budget sign-offs and backing candidates with common sense to break up the machine’s demonic hold on City Hall. It comes down to putting the priorities of everyday Philadelphians over backroom deals, making sure city government actually works for the neighborhoods again. People are fed up with games and years of doing nothing, which is why I'm not for sale, don't want power for its own sake, and refuse to be part of the establishment. A real mayor shouldn't need more than four years to straighten out this city, shaking the cockroaches out from under it—the time spent after that should strictly be maintenance on the accomplishments in the first term. The voters of this city are completely done with excuses and abandonment. Starting on day one, we are coming straight after City Council's grip on power to give Philadelphia back to the people, becoming a “Strong Mayor” city again.
Executive Action Speed
If elected, I’ll use my full, executive pen, so that solid change moves quicker than a horse racing on Sassafras Street in the 1700’s. We can’t increase taxes for Philadelphians already footing the bill to ridiculous things from here to there to Washington Square like city run grocery stores. Why? Because anything city run commerce drives private businesses out and I explained why we don’t want that. Remember that if the city runs anything, you will be told what and how much you’re allowed to buy. By rescinding any and all Sanctuary City laws by executive order we’re done, so done, writing paychecks to those who steal from our social safety nets reserved for those most fragile populations that need them most. We’re not putting up with a “New Normal” where disorder is normal and encouraged, then decent Philadelphians always pay the price.
…but Names will Never Hurt Me
One thing that travels fast is name calling but the adults need to be back in the room. Today, all you have to do is call someone a name, and people just believe it. I will attack no specific political opponent with cheap blaming-others tactics. We don’t have the time, and it is not in my nature; we will only blame failed leadership and policies that have botched up this city. Extremists will accuse me and all of you who vote for me, of being racist, sexist, abilist, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, white supremacist, and any other “-ist”, “-ism”, or “-phobia”, because they’re niños really good at name calling. Don’t be surprised if they say, “He’s working for Israel,” either, lol. These are all ideas from Karl Marx which is all part of Marxism. You know one thing they won’t be able to accuse me of? Keeping you safe, lowering your taxes, making sure money follows the person, bringing back wealthy businessmen, preventing city government from ‘big brothering’ you and preventing everything in this city to be owned by anyone but the rightful owner. We also need to consider ideas that may be uncomfortable sometimes, especially if we want all reasonable voices to be heard when an argument should be based on facts, clear logic, and a commitment to truth rather than political convenience or perception alone.
Immediate Transit and Fiscal Cliff
Beyond the long-term structural rot, our city is hurtling toward an immediate, manufactured fiscal cliff driven by transit mismanagement and state funding standoffs that will still be burning when we take office in 2028. While current leadership kicks the can down the road with emergency band-aids and endless political posturing, SEPTA faces severe operational deficits that threaten to paralyze regional commutes just as downtown commercial recovery stalls out. We aren't waiting for Harrisburg to rescue a bloated authority. From Day One, we will audit the books, demand absolute fiscal accountability, tie state and local transit subsidies strictly to performance, and introduce private sector competition to ensure our transit arteries don't flatline before the decade is out.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
It used to be super easy to get around, but today, it feels like navigating an obstacle course, as every layer of our transit ecosystem is broken down, bloated, or entirely missing. Whether you are trying to catch a train, book a ride, park your car, or fly out of town, our transportation network is failing us. So first, we will modernize SEPTA through strict federal safety compliance and introduce competing private transit providers to underserved routes to break up institutional stagnation and bloated overhead. Simultaneously, we are issuing a definitive wake-up call to the Philadelphia Parking Authority to halt its unconstitutional overreach and return its focus strictly to basic parking logistics. Second, our transit landscape has a massive gap. Look at car-sharing services like Zipcar—once a staple for getting around town without owning a vehicle, they have completely vanished from the city streets because of unmanaged urban chaos, high travel taxes, and excessive regulation. I will give Zipcar a massive invitation to come back because we miss them. Meanwhile, everyday commuters and visitors dealing with traditional taxis, Uber, and Lyftare squeezed by unpredictable pricing and congested corridors that we will fix by streamlining street pickup zones and cutting burdensome rideshare fees. Third, while we are keeping our sensible 25 mile per hour speed limit for safety on inner city streets, I am using my mayoral authority to rip out every single one of those absurd, suspension-wrecking speed bumps across our residential blocks, because they were originally installed as a lazy excuse to stop illegal dirtbike and ATV criminals who just wheel right around them anyway, leaving everyday rowhome drivers to pay the price.
Street Anarchy and Aviation Control
There needs to be subsequent steps to ensure that we have the best transportation system within city limits on a national level. With regard to our aviation gateway, the Philadelphia International Airport needs serious executive oversight to ensure it serves regional commerce efficiently without becoming a bottomless pit of administrative spending. We are also going to bring order back to our actual street-level traffic. Between swarms of reckless e-bikes and app-based delivery drivers treating our sidewalks and bike lanes like the streets of a third world country and flying through red lights as if traffic laws don't apply to them, and to top it off, they don’t understand basic Philadelphian. Because of this, everyday pedestrians and cyclists are taking their lives in their hands just crossing the block. That chaotic nonsense stops with me. Bike lanes are for safe, orderly cycling—not for high-speed motorized shortcuts or random double-parking that blocks the flow of our neighborhoods. As Mayor, we are going to fix the gridlock from top to bottom lands us with more blocked boxes than identities. We will restore reliability to public transit by demanding accountability, invite private innovation back into our neighborhoods, crack down on street-level transit anarchy, and ensure that moving through Philadelphia—whether by plane, train, or automobile—is safe, fast, and affordable once again. Philly will be the most enjoyable city to ride through and safest walking city again!
Protect Landmarks and Clobber the RFP
The Request for Proposals process, which currently opens the door for outside developers to buy and potentially tear down our city's landmarks, will be stopped so that public assets remain in public hands. I will exercise my direct executive power to cancel the current city RFP process and immediately halt the demolition of the iconic Roundhouse building, pulling it back under municipal control to transfer the site straight to the Land Bank for adaptive civic reuse. This saved landmark will be transformed into a new Philadelphia Police and Defense History Museum, tracing the evolution of law enforcement from the historic Minutemen and volunteer night watches to our modern sheriff's departments, city police forces, state troopers, and the founding of the United States Military which protect us every day. While honoring the sacrifices of law enforcement, this museum will feature balanced exhibits remembering our failures and showcasing our achievements, curated by a joint advisory board of community advocates, retired officers and skilled historians to transparently examine both historic failures and landmark accomplishments, while serving as a mandatory educational venue for new police academy recruits and showcase our graduates in a moving exhibit. By leveraging city ownership, bypassing bureaucratic roadblocks from the Historical Commission, and partnering directly with private developers, we will utilize historic preservation tax credits and private donors to fund these projects and protect our city’s architecture. Additionally, I will also seek private donations for more murals celebrating every ethnicity and historical piece that made Philly what it is today, from city boundary to city boundary. Philly is the “City of Murals”, and we need to keep it that way.
History: Past, Present, and Future
As Mayor, I will leverage direct municipal authority, public-private partnerships, and community error to ground Philadelphia’s cultural and civic institutions without overstepping our legal boundaries or adding tax burdens. We are establishing a permanent, unified Philadelphia pioneers and icons museum to bring our city’s fragmented history under one roof. This will establish my new “Philly First’s Museum” in an underutilized municipal space, creating a dedicated home celebrating the towering cultural figures born in this city, from our Hollywood stars and legendary singers and performers to the brilliant local innovators who invented the MAC automated teller machine and other brilliant achievements, like the first electronic computer, bubble gum, the slinky, and the pencil with attached eraser. We can even celebrate Augustus Jackson’s eggless, pure-dairy Philadelphia-style ice cream—sometimes called 'Ice Milk'—in this new museum, which completely defeats the radical argument that drinking milk is racist by showing a black Philadelphia pioneer who built an empire on milk…silly activists. From mom and pop shops that made history in the 1900’s and still exist today, the possibilities in this museum would be endless. While today our incredible legacy is scattered in bits and pieces across the city—from plaques on the Broad Street sidewalk to hidden campus displays—our administration will consolidate these treasures into a single world-class landmark, giving Philadelphia’s world-changing contributors the permanent home they deserve to inspire generations to come. In addition to opening the new Philadelphia Police History and Defense History Museum inside the saved Roundhouse building, we will fight like hell to reopen the Academy of Natural Sciences Parkway building, ensuring public access to natural history and science education in the very region where America’s first dinosaur bones were discovered in nearby Haddonfield, New Jersey. I will do everything in my power to end what many call “presentism” in our museums.
Absolute Access for Absolute Enjoyment
To guarantee that every family can access these civic spaces, our administration will fully integrate all of our municipal cultural projects into the national Museums for All network, offering free or heavily reduced admission capped at five dollars for any visitor presenting a SNAP EBT card from anywhere in these United States with State ID. True cultural revitalization means guaranteeing absolute safety in all of our public spaces; we’ll also deploy dedicated, high-visibility law enforcement task forces across every landmark, from our open parks and museums to cultural centers and public sanctuaries like our beautiful public library, ensuring families and visitors can enjoy them without fear. Within our first 100 days, I will issue the executive orders establishing our cultural preservation task forces, appointing the Museum Advisory Board, and launching a collaborative capital fundraising campaign with corporate, state, and charitable partners. This practical, executive-driven strategy delivers honest history, protects civic pride, and revitalizes our public spaces through decisive mayoral leadership.
September 11th, 1776
While some activists may want to cancel your Thanksgiving so that you are as miserable as they are, know this. 250 years ago, on September 11th, 1776 (as per the time I launched this platform in 2026), Benjamin Franklin and John Adams refused to rescind the Declaration of Independence because doing so would mean surrendering the fundamental right of self-governance and returning to a system where the British Empire held absolute authority over American laws and taxes. That same revered document protects our right to self-determination, secures our autonomy in individual thought, and pursues our end goal of happiness. This guarantees our metaphysical equality—affirming that our true human worth transcends our physical appearance.
Escaping the Political Matrix
I’m hoping by now, as you’ve gone through this campaign’s website, you see a Monet. I’ve taken you from the smallest pixel to the larger picture. You’re now starting to see why the machine wants the city to be completely destroyed. Only when we’re miserable, only when we’re sad, only when we’re unhappy, only when we have nothing left, only when we are afraid, it’s all been designed this way so that the government can step in and say, “We’re here to help!” The machine gets off on our sadness because it’s sadistic. Make no mistake, these are the most dangerous words and it’s why the 13 Colonies broke away from England as we were tired of paying so much for nothing in return. Remember that a government big enough to give you everything can take everything they gave you away. Like the Borg in Star Trek, collectivism offers no freedom, and knowing this, I’m here to help you escape this idiocracy. It’s now time to realize it’s Communism, Socialism, Crime and Taxes against Philadelphia, and together we will defend Her.