In Philly statue wars, George Bochetto demands that nine mayoral appointees resign immediately
All of them, Bochetto says, knowingly violated their oaths of office in a hasty but failed attempt to evict Christopher Columbus from Marconi Plaza
On Martin Luther King Day, Philadelphia attorney George Bochetto publicly demanded that nine mayoral appointees resign immediately for their roles in conducting a “kangaroo court” that approved Mayor Kenney’s hasty but illegal plan to evict the 20-foot-high marble statue of Christopher Columbus from Marconi Plaza.