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...anticipated great multitudes of customers, have confessed to some disappointment over what they consider a poor showing. But the party is still young. Meanwhile, some 211,190 local citizens are having a celebration of their own: they have signed a petition for the recall of their mayor, Frank Rizzo. It is not yet apparent whether this event will serve to attract more tourists...
Neither Frank Rizzo nor John Havlicek should be up for awards this year...
Clark signed the first recall petition. But the anti-Rizzo legions still face the difficult task of gathering 145,000 valid petition signatures within 60 days for a recall referendum. The odds are against Rizzo's being unseated, but there is no doubt that he is in the worst mess of his political career...
Budget Deficit. Rizzo is also losing support because of his inept handling of the city's fiscal crisis. In his first term, he increased the number of city employees by nearly 12%, and most of the 3,787 jobs he created were patronage positions. In 1975 he granted 20,000 city workers a 12.8% pay hike, while insisting that Philadelphia had no financial problems. Yet one momth after beginning his second term, Rizzo discovered a budget deficit of $80 million and proclaimed a "fiscal emergency." Since then he has asked for 20% increases in city payroll taxes, boosts...
...proposals have hurt Rizzo most among members of his own working-class constituency, who stand to bear the heaviest tax burden. The mayor has survived earlier furors-including those raised by journalistic investigations into spending for improvements on his house and his use of city police to hector political opponents. But this one may well frustrate his long-held ambition to become Governor of Pennsylvania...