Shake-Up Expected When Phila. City Council Convenes Its New Session
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - Philadelphia city council starts a new session next week, with five new members and what is expected to be a new majority leader.
All the changes could mean bigger challenges for the Council president.
Multiple sources predict that councilman Bobby Henon will be the new majority leader, replacing Curtis Jones. They say Jones lost the job in falling out with council president Darrell Clarke, but then Clarke failed to line up enough support for his preferred candidate, Bill Greenlee.
He may find himself with a less compliant council, partly as a result.
Henon is a close political ally of electricians union leader John Dougherty and is expected to assert himself more than Jones did.
That, and the unknown quantity of having five new council members, could mean Clarke enjoys less uncontested authority than he has for the last four years.
