If you haven’t voted yet, do it Tuesday

If you haven’t voted by mail, I’m hoping you will vote on Tuesday.

Everyone should, especially those who wish for a better Philadelphia, and that would mean loosening the stranglehold the Democrats have had on the city for some 70 years.

Not that there is anything wrong with Democrats, per se. I am registered as a Democrat, but first and foremost I am an American, and a Philadelphian, and I know single-party rule is bad for the city, it is bad for democracy, it is actually bad for the Democratic Party, which often squelches new people, new ideas. 

I mean good ideas, not crazy ideas.

My choice for mayor is Republican Reformer David Oh.

Notice I am calling him a Reformer rather than a Republican, because I know some of you are genetically incapable of voting for a Republican.

Which, frankly, is stupid.

It means that never in your life — or “lived experience” as Cherelle Parker likes to call it — has there been a better Republican candidate than the Democrat.

And you probably believe that even after the Democrat has been sentenced to jail. RIght, Chaka Fattah? Right, Bobby Henon? Right, Vince Fumo? Right, Jimmy Tayoun? Right, Seth Williams? Right, Buddy Cianfrani?

You get the idea.

A vote for Cherelle Parker is a vote for more of the same.

I’ll take my chances with David Oh for mayor.

The second most important citywide race for Philadelphians is the contest for City Council At-Large.

They actually might be more important than the mayor because Council writes the laws and approves the budget.

As I explained in a previous column, the City Charter sets aside two seats for the minority party, to act as a brake, no matter how minor, on the majority party.

The Woking Working Families Party are just extreme leftists who, for their own reasons, don’t want to run as Democrats. 

Last time around, they knocked off one of the two Republican At-Large Council members, and this time around want to keep that seat, held by Kendra Brooks, and take over the Council seat vacated by David Oh to run for mayor.

This would make Council — with the exception of Northeast Republican District Councilman Brian O’Neill, who is being challenged by a Democrat — entirely Democratic, because that is what the Working Families Party is, just a hard left version.

As such, they are out of step with the typical Philadelphian.

Example: Brooks was the only Council member to vote in favor of “supervised drug injection sites.”

You can vote for as many as five candidates.

I am voting for only three, which improves their chances of victory. (Ask a math major to explain why.)

I am voting for Drew Murray, Jim Hasher, Jim Harrity.

And may the most sane candidates win.