By Ralph Cipriano
for BigTrial.net
Vince Fumo went on Facebook yesterday to rip Mayor Jim Kenney, his former protege who hasn't spoken to him in a dozen years, as a "liar, hypocrite and pussy" for taking down the Frank Rizzo statue in the dead of night.
"Jimmy, you worked for me for decades and yet every day you never cease to amaze me," Fumo wrote. As a state senator for 30 years, Fumo elevated Kenney from a chubby young intern known among staffers as "Baby Huey" to Fumo's chief of staff. Then the former senator got Kenney elected as a city councilman at large.
"You fought for this statue to be at that very location," Fumo reminded Kenney. "How hypocritical of you now to remove it saying that it 'represented bigotry, hatred and oppression for too many people, for too long . . ."
"Wow, did I miss something, did that just happen or were the feelings toward Rizzo the same back when YOU championed this very same statue?" Fumo wrote Kenney. "If they were why did you support it then and not now?"
Fumo, no fan of Rizzo's, then went on to apologize to the citizens of Philadelphia for having to put up with Jim Kenney as their incompetent mayor "because I am the ultimate cause of you being where you are today."
