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Nancy DeLucia
Jessica Eldredge
Julie Hawkins

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Who Won?
•Philadelphia:
•Candidates for Mayor
•Candidates for City Council
•PA Suburbs – Candidates for County Councils/Commissions
Who Lost?
•What’s next for the other Democratic Mayoral candidates
•How does this impact overall support for arts & culture?

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Competitive Races in the General Election
•Suburban County Councils/Commissions:
•Montgomery
•Bucks
•Philadelphia:
•Mayor
•City Council District 10, At-Large
Possible Outcomes & Implications
•Suburban county “party flips”
•Philadelphia’s reform movement

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Election Issues — General
•Crime/Safety
•Taxes
•Land Use & Physical Resources
•Education
Election Issues — Arts & Culture
•Regional funding
•Representation in the government system
•Support for publicly owned art, institutions, & properties
•Support of “arts-friendly” legislation
•Integration with general issues

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Cultural Alliance Advocacy Plans
•Candidate meetings
•Cultural Alliance Annual Meeting – September 24
•Public meetings and forums
•Regional issue partnerships
•Research and policy support
•GOTV efforts
•Online action center

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What You Can Do
• Join the online action center – www.philaculture.org
• Encourage audiences, board, and staff to ask candidates
about cultural issues
• Attend candidate events on your personal time & dime,
ask about arts & culture issues
• Make the connection – tie into the bigger picture of
general election issues
• Join the GOTV effort this fall
• Add candidates to your mailing list

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We must be ever more vigilant as
private citizens in participating in a
myriad of public issues....
These are moments of potentially
seismic change, and we have no one
but ourselves to blame if the changes
are not those we would want.
– Ben Cameron

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The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance’s Cultural Policy work is
funded by the William Penn Foundation.