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🗓️ 6 August 2025
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0:00.0 | The Rich Zioly Show podcast is sponsored by Mike Vaneria Jr. with Osparity Private Wealth. |
0:05.4 | Hi, I'm Mike Vaneria Jr., wealth management specialists. Make your retirement dreams a reality by creating your retirement plan today. Call me at 856-252-0107. |
0:15.8 | Hat tip to my buddy John McGrady for sending me this. This is a story just broke a few moments ago. |
0:24.7 | Back in 2021, the worst mayor in Philadelphia history, at least |
0:26.6 | in recent Philadelphia history, Jim |
0:28.6 | Kenny signed an executive order |
0:30.6 | changing Columbus Day to Indigenous |
0:32.6 | People's Day. You know, that's when America |
0:34.8 | was really going through its total |
0:37.1 | woke revolution. |
0:39.3 | And Philadelphia Inquirer reporting that the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled that |
0:44.7 | former mayor Jim Kenney didn't have the authority to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous |
0:50.2 | People's Day without input from City Council. |
0:56.1 | And that just broke a few moments ago. |
1:02.7 | He violated the city charter of Philadelphia when he signed a 2021 executive order replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day. |
1:06.3 | In a unanimous decision, the seven appeals court judges found that by eliminating a city holiday |
1:12.3 | and creating a new one, Jim Kenny engaged in lawmaking, and that is reserved to city council. |
1:20.6 | It therefore runs afoul of the separation of powers inherent in the charter and accordingly |
1:25.7 | is invalid, said Judge Patricia McCullough, in the |
1:30.0 | opinion. The judges pointed out the federal holidays are established by Congress, state holidays |
1:35.0 | by the Pennsylvania General Assembly. For example, in the same executive order, Mayor Kenny recognized |
1:40.2 | Juneteenth as a city holiday. The difference between that and the change to Columbus Day is that in 2019, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania recognized June 10th as a state holiday. |
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