Jeff Shields at the Philadelphia Inquirer says that some of the people supporting the Boy Scouts’ fight to keep their Cradle of Liberty headquarters are getting down in the muck with their tactics . One Republican councilman is fighting back.
Republican City Councilman Jack Kelly is suing a Lawncrest man for a smear campaign that Kelly says nearly cost him last year’s general election.
Kelly has sued Paul D. Corbett and Corbett’s loosely-assembled group, Citizens Opposed to Politicians Who Pander to Perverts, for defamation. Kelly field suit last month in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, asking at least $50,000 in damages.
Kelly, who is paying his own legal fees in the case, argues that fellow Republican Corbett and other members of COPPP “publicly and privately embarrassed and shamed” him by distributing fliers in church parking lots in the weeks before the November election.
The fliers announced that “Councilman Kelly voted with the ho...
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