Councilman Wilson Goode, Keep Your Money!

This is relatively new and I just heard about it:

Philadelphia city coffers are $836 richer thanks to a check from Councilman W. Wilson Goode Jr.

The personal check, hand delivered Friday to City Controller Alan Butkovitz, comes ten days after Goode promised to reimburse the city for what he calls "mistakes" his controversial aide, Latrice Bryant, made on her timesheets this summer.

Source: Fox 29 News

Councilman Goode, do us a favor: Keep your money.

Your money means nothing to the hundreds of thousands of citizens who have witnessed the devastating toll you've taken upon our city government. You and your aid have made a mockery, dear sir, of what our city government is about. It is nothing short of terrible that you have not done the one deed, the one single action that would redeem you. The one thing that anyone looking at this situation, anyone who has the facts they have concerning you, your employee, and your relationship with said employee, that would redeem you and her actions.

Fire Latrice Bryant.

The fine you paid, this fine of $836, was supposed to be paid by YOUR STAFFER. Because she didn't, you did. The City Controller said, "This is a clear signal to all government workers that bad behavior won't be tolerated."It is, dear sir, anything BUT! Instead, you've given an example of what happens if you don't follow the rules and the laws. You've shown that if you don't follow the rules and do as your supposed to, your boss will pay to bail you out, especially if your sleeping with them.

You've shown the citizens of Philadelphia that the laws do not apply to the members of City Council or it's staff. You've shown that lying about when you work is fine unless your caught, you've shown that racism and slander and liable is fine and should not be fought against, you've shown that sleeping with your boss and having relations with them, even when your supposedly working, is fine. Wilson Goode, Jr, you've just shown that you believe City Council and it's staff is, in fact, ABOVE the law.

Keep your filthy, dirty, stinking, no-good money!

If you want to do some idiotic P.R. stunt to save yourself, if you want to try and make some idiotic and EMPTY gesture as to why the citizens of this city shouldn't storm your office and demand you leave... well, don't bother. The sooner you fire Latrice Bryant, the better. The sooner you simply admit that she was wrong for having those racist signs, the sooner you simply admit that, yes, THIS IS AN ISSUE.... the sooner you finally dismiss her, the better off the City of Philadelphia will be.

City Council and Mayor Nutter: SAY SOMETHING, YOU BASTARDS!

Mayor Nutter, you should be ashamed of yourself! For not saying ANYTHING, for not speaking out against this... this OBVIOUS corruption, you have instead simply resided yourself to letting this happen! By not doing anything you've become as much of a problem with this as if you had witnessed this yourself! Yes, I understand the need of keeping peace with the Council Members. Yes, I understand that speaking out of this may, in the future, make working with the City Council harder. And, yes, I understand that the current City Budget are a slightly bigger deal.

At the same time, Mayor Nutter, this scandal is just going to get worst by the day without you squashing this in the bud! The longer this goes on, the worst it looks upon yourself and your promise, dear sir, your PROMISE to end corruption in City Hall.

Councilman Goode, keep your god-damn money. We sure as hell don't want it.