Mayoral Madness

Election 2003

• Street wins • Katz concedes • Democrats keep City Council • College Democrats and College Republicans react • Penn professor attacked • Other Philly results

Jan. 23: The Philadelphia Republican City Committee unanimously votes to endorse Sam Katz as mayor. Read More March 25: Candidates Queena Bass and William Devliare removed from the ballot due to questions about the signatures otheir nominating petitions.Read More May 20: Street and Katz win the Democratic and Republican candidacies, respectively, in the primary election. Read More Aug. 26-27: What is described as an unlit firebomb is found inside Katz's North Philadelphia campaign office. Read More Sept. 11: Tumar Alexander, a city worker suspended earlier for allegedly taking part in Street's re-election campaign, and Joey Temple are charged with misdemeanors for allegedly threatening the manager of the building that houses Katz's North Philadelphia office. Read More Oct. 7: Philadelphia Police discover a listening device in Street's City Hall office. It is later found that the bug was planted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A series of city office raids follow, and Street hands over his BlackBerry wireless computers to the FBI. Read More Oct. 7: Katz files charges against the Street campaign for allegedly collecting $125,000 iillegal campaign contributions. Read More Oct. 14: The candidates participate in the second of three debates, at which Street publicly acknowledges that he is a subject in the FBI's investigation but not a target. Read More Oct. 27: A Delaware judge rules that documents be unsealed in a case in which Katz's former business associates accused him of embezzlement.

Nov. 4: Street wins re-election, garnering 58 percent of the vote. Read More