Parker, 50, who served for 10 years as a state representative for northwest Philadelphia before her election to the city council in 2015, asserted herself as a leader whose government experience would allow her to address gaping problems with public safety and quality of life in the nation’s sixth-largest city.
Philadelphia mayoral primary returned Democrats to familiar themes of crime, inequality, poverty
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“While there will be many Monday morning quarterbacks second guessing her performance and decision-making, I have nothing but a great deal of respect and admiration for the job that she has done for our city," Parker, the presumptive favorite in the mayor's race, said in a statement.
Danielle Outlaw, Philadelphia Police commissioner, resigns after turbulent three years at the helm
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