Christopher Tremoglie is a commentary writer for the Washington Examiner. He is a former intern for the Department of State and a frequent guest on radio and television. His work has been featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer, National Review, and the Daily Caller and has appeared on Fox News and One America News.
Philadelphia polls closed at 8 p.m. on Tuesday. By 8:30 p.m., the Philadelphia Inquirer declared Democrat Cherelle Parker won the mayoral election. Parker defeated Republican David Oh, a Korean American who was vying to become the city’s first Republican mayor since before the thermonuclear bomb was tested. Parker will become the city’s first female mayor.
While Parker’s victory was expected, as anyone who even remotely entertained the idea that Oh had a realistic chance was not grounded in reality, it also rebuts the idea behind the importance of “diversity” and “representation.” While Parker is black and a racial minority in the country , if people legitimately supported this notion, then Oh would have been elected because there had never been an Asian American mayor in the city’s history before.
Nevertheless, diversity and party affiliation aside, Parker does seem to be a welcome relief from the eight long years of the city’s suffering under the disastrous progressive leadership of Mayor Jim Kenney. Parker has emphatically stated she supports a return to law and order, improving schools, and many commonsense tactics that conservative Republicans have championed for years.
Hopefully Parker will keep her campaign promises and do the things necessary to fix the city. The people of Philadelphia need her help and are counting on her to restore common sense to the city. Here’s hoping she will be the politician she was on the campaign trail instead of just a political production created to get the votes necessary to become mayor of Philadelphia.
But, if not, the city’s voters will unfortunately just elect another Democrat in eight years. And by then, the results will probably only take 20 minutes to become official.
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Philadelphia Mayoral Election 2023: Cherelle Parker elected as first female mayor of PhiladelphiaCherelle Parker, a Democrat who has held office at the state and local level after first becoming involved in politics as a teenager, was elected Tuesday as Philadelphia’s 100th mayor, becoming the first woman to hold the post.
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