Indeed i did this, im sorry im going to plead guilty to this charges, that will happen in a couple of weeks in harrisburg. A lot of people are wondering what the sentencing will be like under the hobbs act. Its a federal charge. The most recent damage the trial in florida he got two years hell be out earlier than that. What can we expect in terms of sentencing for rob mccord, whats facing . I think he will wind up like the virginia situation where the recommended guidelines are harsh er. It will be what the judge decides he wants to do with rob mccord. I think he gets the benefit of having not leveraged his office. He has given that up, hes admitted he was wrong. Theres a significant amount of money, but not annual overwhelming amount of money, if you you assume weve seen everything there is, he comes away with a moderate sentence. Do you think its a fine or Community Service or a sentence . I think they will impose a sentence. For him to say i salute crossed the line, thfers this was extremely serious im sorry i did this, and get Community Service. It isisheartening, for those of us who know him and his family, i was shocked. I hope this is a sobering lesson to remind everyone in office how difficult it is and the fine line how you ask for contributions and the end of a campaign when you get desperate and things dont look really great. People tend to do desperate things. Its sad. Brian pointed out this is a smart guy who held state office, i think there are people who echo what sharmaine is saying he is astounded he crossed the line. He shall knows he incident mate mate intimate things but its not concrete. Its not like i i said it, i slipped, i wish i could take the words back. It is a story, i think in the end, i know rob a little bit as a good guy and successful person of ambition getting him to the point and seeing after a successful life, seeing failure in the precipice ascertain and not stopping and saying theres worse things than losing this election. Finding himself where he was dwains against tom wolf. You make a decision its unethical all of a sudden you forget where you are on the road and thats whappedz to rob. What happened to rob. Federal principles of law are trying to figure out the federal precise are trying to find more information. They want to make an example. They are saying you cant keep do doing this. When youre feeling you got to do this and make it happen, were human sometimes we take that extra step, it may be the wrong step and it was in this incident, bottom line you have to pay for it. I think more things will come out and this is not the end. I think when the feds get under the hood, they check all the parts before they put the hood back down. Up the principal in this situation, not a junior aid who is pleading. I would think theres conversations going on now, if you if you want to minimize your own sentence, tell me everything. Its a unique situation. If any of the aids around him knew any of this, saying yeah lets do this, could they get in trouble. Its a conspiracy to a crime, they could approve that you were you could have liabilities. I agree with everyone, i thinkment story has legs. They dont know who were the people who were ultimately wired, had this happened to them before so they sort of said okay this is it im not going to take it anywhere. I think they will comb through the entire 6 years to make sure there was no a pattern of this kind of activity. I think that what were waiting for. Do you think they will find out who it was the law firm who many assume it was the managing partner saying i dont think it was us. Do we have concrete evidence who it is . I think youll find it out down the road. I think they will less focused on the underlings. They will be looking at the contracts has he created benefits in the exercise of the office. They are looking at that further. The underlings, cover involved in the process you just dont know. May is the primary season coming up. This came out taking a look at the money. Youre looking at the current candidates. When it comes to money Tony Williams and lynn abraham have 425,000 in the bank. Jim kenny and nelson diaz have 75 to 80,000. Last time we had a big raise we had tom knocks with 3 million. Dwight evans 1. 3. Whats going on here . This is a shockingly small amount of money. A strong week of television in this market is 250,000 a week. You can see its surprising how little has been raised. There will be an advantage if you have the most. Lynn abraham has it, jim kenny has some, but i think Tony Williams is the favorite. We are seeing the map remade under our feet, as the way campaigns were made before, giving the money to the candidate. Weve heard dark money or pacts out there a philly rising, a lot of people caring about the education issue. The rules are different for what you can give to the individual, versus what you can do if you put up your own ads. Is that where the money is going . Were waiting to see that, theres about a lot of talk where the real money will be in the campaign, it will be in the 457 grooms, organizations that are not coordinating with candidates being able to run ads. I think there will be a lot of review to make sure there is not coordination. This is an area that is brand new for us, it cant be a wink, wink nod nod i hope were careful about the money coming through the organizations. If you look at the money, 8 years, you have to remember, Michael Nutter resign well over a year before and on the phone everyday. He built the war chest. Everybody else in the campaign other than dwight who had run before and appropriations chair and had money had the same difficult raising ey in a short period of time of time. Lets take a turn and look at somebody who is looking at the big picture, Chris Christie in london. The New York Times did a piece the governor likes to live large pointing out he likes to travel on private planes and stays in luxurious hotels. He want to jordon and King Abdullah spent 30,000 for the weekend for family and friends. Many candidates fly on private planes and have backers and for him this is bad an image of being a jersey boy tough talking and straight shooting. Rene is looking at me. Leash me leave me alone [laughter]. Chris christie wants to be president when he growings up, i want to be clear about that. He wants to be transparent about how he is. He was in the dallas. And the hamptons. Everybody is into whats doing and why is he doing this. They are looking at, how he carries his self. Can he do this running for president. Youre about image when the county is talking about the haves and have notes does this hurt him as the party looks for candidates. Theres a couple of things, the bigger problem is just, does new jersey, pennsylvania new york act play in des moines. I dont think it does, im hearing that from folks out there. I think you become a cartoon when you say my good friend King Abdullah. Thats not a line you can see as a banner for quite sometime. Youre surprised sometimes youre looking at elected officials when they dont see the lionel. Not that its improbable or unethical, it looks bad. He stumbled into the measles debate he seemed to conservative indicate and say equivocate and say parents should have choice and balance. By tuesday he was unequivocal saying you should vaccinate. Maybe you dont have to, but i meant seems to be a test of leadership. Will this hurt him down the road he wasnt resolute get your kids jacks nateed. When people vaccinated. When i was hearing from people measles, are you kidding . It should be unequivocal. This is the governor who put a woman in quarantine as it related to the ebola virus. He knows how serious these kind of things are. I thought it wasnt well thought out and not extremely serious at a time when we are concerned about the spread of meeferls in america. The measles issue would be a state issue if youre running for reelection for governor. The problem for the governor is not any one single thing like the traveling and the luxury stuff is a problem but the question is when is the straw coming that will break the camels back. Theres another investigation going on on the governor in new jersey. Has he had a good week . No. He is sitting people to sit down and shut up, you cant bully people and disrespectful. My two republicans here, i want to know, he said this is not a National Issue i wonder about that in that for the party itself theres a libertarian strain that doesnt like the government they shouted down Rick Williams perry when he said you have to get the hpv vaccine. Was that an issue. Iif i was moderating debates i would put in vaccination as a key issue. I think the republicans would have trouble. Theres a battle going on in the Republican Party and the Democratic Party too the extremes, kind of defining you when its in the middle, the grand middle where the elections rs are won. Theres zero doubt you should get your child vaccinated. There was a study in 1998 or 99 it was refuted by the people involved in the study. Any republican who says im not sure about the issue is a fool and be made to look like a fool. Other than the most conservative places somewhere in the west. Thats an unequivocal answer. There are issues to me as a nurse you got to get a vaccination. When people are removed from the issue pew did a poll to take a look at the question and it clearly breaks down a lot in age. For those of us who remember how devastating this disease is and what it can cause and a Younger Generation thats been eeradicated, for them, youre getting bumps now youre talking about blindness not being able to hear all kinds of things can occur. I had measles as a child and i realize how lucky i am. Some one came out and said you can get autism from the vaccine. Without doubt if i want to pay for a new set i have to go to break and do a commercial. Well come back with inside story. Orth at webuyanycar. Com skippy yippee fun fun fun shiny you never listen what . Is someone talking . Skippy yippee look a ride vo made with the funnest peanuts ever skippy. Yippee 14 irresistible flavors. One for the mood. One for the moment. Each one can make every day more delicious than the last. The taste could only be baileys. The experience could only be yours. Baileys coffee creamers. This is the one. Welcome back to inside story, im tamala edwards. News coming out of the School District this week, good news somewhat, they are looking to higher 400 teachers they look serious about it. The big headline was the group called the Philadelphia School partnership. That said listener well give the listen, well give the School District 35 million. This money was meant to say you have 39 charter applications you are considering this should ease the wade for some of they say being considered. On one hand you have Governor Wolf saying no more. And then we have the src saying do not talk to me about budget deficits who wins this battle . Its a tough issue that gets us off track for the big question a fair funding formula for city and towns who have low income students who need extra help anticipate and support. If frarch, for example the psp is saying its a cost that cant be captured. And district says 7,000 and the psp says 11,000 students. I would hate to see this drag out and getaway from the main question how do we get to fair funding formula. In their assumption also they assumptions they say harrisburg is going to change the formulation, do you think this is too presumptionous for them. Whether you create a world class education or not is the big issue. The philadelphia issue doesnt make any difference when you put the money in the pot, what happens, we operate Charter Schools, i am a pro charter person, what happens when you have more Charter Schools pro funding, more kids come back into the district. If there are 100 kids in the schools and ten go to chatter schools, you pay for that. If you have expand the charters, you have more kids come . Youre talking about kids who have gone to parochial school, they feel safer and better education. Well see what happens to that. Let me say this quick though, you were on target, you got to do compromise. Wolf right now needs to be nice to the republicans, all right there has been some sharing caring thing to make this happen and reach across the aisle and be more transparent saying whats going to do. George is right, its a state issue. Lets finally wrap up taking a look at the city of philadelphia and some of the things they have been working on. It looks like they will get movement on the bill that is meant to take a look at sick days, would people be entitled to five paid sick days, this debate is going on in the wake of them saying lets set a certain wage, 12 an hour, for City Employees youve got groups coming back, nonprofits saying we cant do this, it hit us in the middle of the year, blowing our budgets we cant cover this. On the one a hand it sounds good but sounds great. But its not very well considered. If youre on council perhaps, youve never run an organization. Thank you. Even a nonprofit let alone a business. I like 12 an sick days and this and that, but these nonprofits have entered contracts where they have not budgeted sick days. If thats great put the money in to help the nonprofits. I want to give the city credit the head of dhs many programs are funded by the department of human services. The executive director or commissioner said testified on behalf of the nonprofits saying we dont go away have we dont have the money. They are asking for a 6 month window to figure out. Its the right thing to do paying a people a fair wage and paying people who are sick the time to be awear and take the time away and take the time off. Its like we talked about with education, whos going to pay for it. Well have to take a break and come back to our insiders inside stories. Welcome back to inside story time to get your inside stories of the week, sharmaine well start with you. Thank you tamala. Its february and black History Month. I want to encourage people to visit the africanamerican museum or stop by the mother bethel museum. Spend time to learn a little bit about black history you didnt know before. Great treasurers right hear in philadelphia. Reporter im hearing from moderate republicans who didnt care for tom corbett. This governor is off to a slow start. Else taking actions that are upsetting a lot of people. Not a great start. Black History Month charles sifford, first africanamerican to play on the pga tour, one of only 3 golfers to have the president ial medal of honor. He never got to play in the masters, lee elders didnt get to play until 1975. Reporter 6 Million People did not have insurance, because of that they have to pay a penalty. Affordable care, obama care, i dont think its affordable. I love seeing the red on you and you its go red for heart health. Thanks to all of you for being here and thanks to you for joining us, well see you back here next sunday im nydia han along with Sharrie Williams. New new at noon have an update on the measles. Live look outside the river rink in penns landing, enjoy the mild weather while you can. Meteorologist chris sowers has the full accuweather forecast and more next on action news. We thought our cable internet was fast. But, our uploads are half the speed of our downloads so our internet is really halffast. So halffast. Someone did a halffast job posting our vacation pics. When i post my slow jams, im a little half fast totally half fast stop living with half fast internet. Only verizon fios comes with speedmatch uploads as fast as downloads. And the fastest wifi available from any provider. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v good afternoon, it is sunday february 8. Eva is off, Sharrie Williams joins us. Heres some of the stories were following on action news. An update on the suspected case in measles in montgomery county. Philadelphia police are