PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia voters will once again get to decide whether city officials should have to resign their job in order to run for another public office, under a bill voted out of City Council committee on Wednesday.
Voters have twice rejected changing the charter so that city officials could keep their jobs while running for a new one. But the bill’s sponsor, Councilmember Isaiah Thomas, has changed the proposal somewhat, in hopes of making it more palatable.
“City elected officials can only keep their job to run for state or federal seats,” he explained. “If you’re looking to run for a city seat, you still have to resign.”…