Podcast appearances and mentions of Ed Rendell

Mark Harris, co-founder of ColdSpark strategies, was the General Consultant for the successful Dave McCormick 2024 Pennsylvania Senate race - arguably the lone true upset of the '24 Senate cycle. In this conversation, Mark talks his roots in PA politics - including running for office himself, ousting a sitting legislator in a GOP primary, and multiple stints helping elect and re-elect GOP Senator Pat Toomey. Then Mark goes deep on his role helping elect Dave McCormick to the US Senate - starting with McCormick's ill-fated '22 race...getting back on the horse in '24...clearing the GOP field...challenging a proven Pennsylvania political institution...and ultimately winning a close race many pundits expected to break toward the Democratic incumbent.IN THIS EPISODEMark's roots in Pittsburgh & why he ran for office when he was 22...Why running Pat Toomey's 2010 Senate race was Mark's "dream job"...Mark's front row seat to the tumultuous period of PA politics around veteran Senator Arlen Specter's 2009 switch from Republican to Democrat...Mark weighs in on how PA politics has transformed over the past 20 years...Mark's insight on how Pat Toomey won two tough Senate races, despite a non-traditional background for PA politics...How Mark and his firm initially connected with Dave McCormick in his first Senate race in 2022...How Mark was viewing the '24 race against Bob Casey over a year out...How the McCormick campaign navigated a Trump endorsement and cleared the GOP primary field...Mark's best practices on how GOP candidates should pursue a Trump endorsement...The headwinds of running against Senator Bob Casey...The appealing personal bio that McCormick brought to the race....How late focus groups changed the McCormick closing message...How the McCormick ad campaign departed from the traditional GOP playbook...The voter subgroups the McCormick campaign identified as the most important...How the McCormick campaign appealed to "soft pro choice voters" and Black and Latino men...Why the McCormick team was one of the only GOP campaigns that preferred Dems nominate Harris instead of Biden...Why the abortion issue didn't sink McCormick in a 60% pro-choice state...How Mark was interpreting results coming in on Election Night...Mark's thoughts on Democratic erosion in the Dem base in Philadelphia...The approach Mark brings to races as a General Consultant...Mark's views of the potential of PA Dems Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman as national candidates...Mark's travel tips for spending a couple of days in and around Pittsburgh...AND Lou Barletta, James Blair, Bob Brady, Bridgewater Associates, George W. Bush, Herman Cain, Susan Collins, Mike Devanney, flippant poll questions, gold watches, Orrin Hatch, Chris LaCivita, Rush Limbaugh, Katie McGinty, Zell Miller, midnight pay raises, Tim Murphy, muscle atrophy, Dr. Oz, Nancy Pelosi, Primanti Brothers, Andy Reilly, Ed Rendell, Tom Ridge, Rick Santorum, Joe Sestak, shadow primaries, Matt Smith, Tom Smith, Arlen Specter, Brad Todd, West Point, Susie Wiles...& more!

Former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell joins the program to discuss the Democrat ticket for President of Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

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That was the title of former DNC chair Ed Rendell's book, based on the events of a snowfall that cancelled his beloved Eagles game years ago. It was a book and concept ahead of its time as Stigall unpacks the media reaction to snowfall and some schools choosing to stay open rather than close and you won't believe what they equate it to. Congressman Scott Perry returns - as a member of "Team Insurrection Day," he reacts to a DC Circuit court of Appeals rebuke of Jack Smith attempting to secretly acquire Donald Trump's direct messages and draft messages on Twitter. Now, Democrats are trying to get Congressman Perry thrown off the ballot in PA just as Colorado did Trump. And will House Republicans throw Mike Johnson out as Speaker next? Plus the latest on New Hampshire and the Republican primary field. -For more info visit the official website: https://chrisstigall.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrisstigallshow/Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChrisStigallFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.stigall/Listen on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/StigallPodListen on Apple Podcasts: https://bit.ly/StigallShowSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 1047, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Stay Away From Meat 1: AKA soybean curd, it can be frozen up to 3 months--but that will change its texture, making it slightly chewier. tofu. 2: This 5-letter term coined in 1944 is the beginning and end of "vegetarian". vegan. 3: Not "Yesterday" but in 2009, this musician and longtime vegetarian launched a "meat free Monday" campaign. Paul McCartney. 4: Kashi makes this type of crunchy grain-fruit-honey-nut breakfast cereal and bars of it, too. granola. 5: The Food Network says kosher salt is optional for a 1 lb. serving of this, Japanese for green soybeans. edamame. Round 2. Category: Dairy Products 1: A separator divides milk into light and heavy parts; this substance is light, so as they say, it rises to the top. cream. 2: Yogurt is made by curdling milk with purified cultures of these, like Streptococcus thermophilus. bacteria. 3: This process uses moderately high temperatures for a short time to kill microorganisms in milk. pasteurization. 4: Milk is tested for these, such as penicillin, which may have been used to treat cows that fell ill. antibiotics. 5: Greek-style this, like oikos, has become popular with its lush texture. yogurt. Round 3. Category: U.S. Mayors 1: In 1999 Oscar Goodman, once a lawyer for Tony "The Ant" Spilotro, was elected mayor of this Nevada city. Las Vegas. 2: In 1993 Thomas Menino became the 1st non-Irish American since 1929 elected mayor of this city. Boston. 3: It was a historic event when this man was sworn in in 1990. David Dinkins (first black mayor of NYC). 4: Ed Rendell was elected mayor of this city when Frank Rizzo died after the primary. Philadelphia. 5: In 1999 Mayor Wellington Webb of this state capital asked the NRA to cancel its convention there. Denver. Round 4. Category: Before And After: Singers And Writers 1: "The Heart Of Rock and Roll" lead singer who also wrote "Alice in Wonderland". Huey Lewis Carroll. 2: Folk trio that was "Blowin' In The Wind" with the writer of "Frankenstein". Peter, Paul and Mary Shelley. 3: "Super Freak" singer who also told "Tales of the South Pacific". Rick James Michener. 4: "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" singer who takes up a pen and creates "The Mayor of Casterbridge". B.J. Thomas Hardy. 5: "Hit The Road Jack" with the singer and pianist who also came up with the theory of evolution by natural selection. Ray Charles Darwin. Round 5. Category: Latin Lovers 1: It's Latin for "O Come, All Ye Faithful". "Adeste Fideles". 2: "Dictum sapient sat est" translates as "A word to" these people. The wise. 3: We've probably asked "Nil novi sub sole" before, as there's "Nothing new under" this. The sun. 4: It's what's no excuse in "Ignorantia legis neminem excusat". Ignorance of the law is no excuse. 5: Ancient Romans put great stock in "Ars moriendi", "The art" of doing this. Dying. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/ AI Voices used

In the world of City Clubs, Jeff McFadden is well known and well-respected. As the CEO of the Union League of Philadelphia he has developed a national reputation as a club leader. Ask GM's who know him and they use adjectives to describe him like "Brilliant", "Visionary" and "remarkable." In this episode, Jeff shares his involvement in transforming the Union League from a club in financial trouble generating about $7 million in annual revenue to a club that does about 100 million annually. He also shares his perspective on breaking away from old financial models and how to engage new, younger members with long-time club personalities. Is now the time to double down and invest in your club? Listen to Jeff's thoughts on that topic as well.  Noteworthy Moments: Jeff talks about making the leap to the Union League - 3:45 Park it! The Union League buys a parking garage - 9:07 Building your granddaughter's club - 13:21 Thinking differently about the financial future and the "right way to run a railroad" - 15:25 Change management and getting the right people on the bus - 19:03 The city club and more. Building an investment portfolio - 25:52 How Jeff views appealing to different member demographics - 35:06 Is this the time to invest in your club? - 39:28 Episode Summary: For club leaders who feel stuck in the "same old, same old" Jeff provides a fresh take on some long time issues. He also offers some insightful thoughts around managing the issue of engaging younger new members while keeping long time members excited about the club. As the General Manager, now CEO of the Union League of Philadelphia, Jeff is gone from managing day to day operations of a city club to running a $100 million business. If you're someone hoping to create this kind of growth at your club and this type of career track for yourself, you'll appreciate Jeff McFadden's Perspective Let's Connect If you find Crushing Club Marketing helpful please share it with a friend and be sure to subscribe and rate this podcast. Also, find more information on private club marketing services from StoryTeller, check out our website here. If you'd like to connect with Ed Heil on LinkedIn, feel free to send a request! Transcript Ed Heil: [00:00:00] You're listening to Crush and Club Marketing, a podcast for progressive club leaders looking to increase their club's revenue. Time for Change begins right now. In the world of city clubs. Jeff McFadden is well-known and well-respected as the CEO of the Union League of Philadelphia. He's developed a national reputation as a club leader, as GM's who know him and these adjectives to describe him like brilliant, visionary and remarkable. In this episode of Crushing Club Marketing, I catch up with Jeff to learn more about his involvement in building the Union League from a club in financial trouble to a club that does about 100 million in revenue annually. He calls it accidental brilliance, but there's more to it than that. [00:00:44][44.7] Ed Heil: [00:00:46] Your name has come up in so many conversations regarding just what a strong leader and visionary you are and in the work you've done at the Union League. And I know that it's difficult to talk about yourself in that way. But there was a quote that I read from Jason Straka from the Frye Straka, a global golf course design firm and Jason Straka, said Union League CEO Jeff McFadden is one of the most respected general managers associated with the golf business. He's credited with vastly expanding the Union League's social and business opportunities, knowing that many of their members on a vacation home down on the Jersey Shore and or vacation there quite a bit. Jeff saw an opportunity for a second golf facility, and obviously this is referring to one of the the golf clubs that the union now owns. But when you hear those kind of accolades, and that, what goes through your mind. [00:01:46][60.0] Jeff McFadden: [00:01:47] Well, first of all, what goes through my mind is I pay Jason, which is a good thing. And that's probably why he had those nice accolades about us. But when he and Dana Frye did at Union League, National is just over the top. It's the Disney World of golf. It's spectacular. Over the last year, 27 holes. And now we're proud. I'm very proud of what I did. I think a lot of what we've done over the last 25 years was accidental brilliance through really just perseverance, hard work, you know, trying to get the right strategy and then keeping your head down and, you know, working through what you could do and keeping a smile on your face to, you know, that's. [00:02:27][40.1] Ed Heil: [00:02:27] Yeah, well, you make it sound simple and, you know, I guess when it comes second, nature probably feels simpler. Although I know it's not always been super easy, as is. Most jobs are when you're there that long. But 25 years, you know, that's a long run. And your first two jobs in you know as I think GM and both both jobs five years and three years which is pretty typical, right. I mean, is that do I have that right? Help me out with that. [00:02:56][28.7] Jeff McFadden: [00:02:56] Yeah. No, When I graduated the hotel school at Cornell, I went to the Cosmos Club as food and beverage manager, got promoted to assistant GM clubhouse manager. And then my first GM job is in Denver, Colorado, at the University Club, which I never thought I'd move back to the East Coast from Colorado. But I did. Yeah, right. When I got headhunted to go to the Union League at at age 30. So good times. [00:03:20][24.1] Ed Heil: [00:03:21] Guess, you know, at age 30. What did the Union League see in you at that age, especially looking back now? I mean, what's it like looking back now and, you know, knowing what you were like then? I mean, what do you think they saw in you that time? [00:03:34][12.4] Jeff McFadden: [00:03:34] Well, I think in in reality, I think I was the fifth person they offered the job, too. So, you know. [00:03:40][5.2] Ed Heil: [00:03:40] You sort of you I wish I got I got a vet that won out. But yeah. [00:03:44][3.5] Jeff McFadden: [00:03:45] You know, right place, right time, situation. It just worked out well. The league was struggling in the late eighties, 1990s, as Philadelphia was struggling quite a bit before Ed Rendell, who was a gregarious mayor, wind up becoming governor of Pennsylvania. Just a terrific leader, inspirational type of person. So, you know, when I was young enough, probably dumb enough and not experienced enough to know what I was getting into. And the the more senior statement statements in the club industry probably looked at the league and said, I don't want to touch it. Right. It's it had sort of had terminal cancer. At the time it wasn't bankrupt, but it was very close to bankrupt. But I saw that it had great bones as well. It had a great foundation. You know, at 30, you think you can change the world? I think I've done well in changing the league. And it was just being again at the right place at the right time for the right situation. And we made a bad decision or a mistake. We were young enough to outhustle the mistake or the bad decision. Right. [00:04:57][71.7] Ed Heil: [00:04:57] That's interesting. So what has made you successful for so many years? I mean, if you just take the years alone, that's an incredible achievement in in the private club space to be at one place for 25 years. What do you think has made you successful in that role? [00:05:13][15.8] Jeff McFadden: [00:05:13] Well, I think the way we acquired and operate the club as sort of, you know, being an innovative type organization. Now, when I did my independent study at Cornell, I studied close to 5000 city clubs throughout the world. It was from the 15 person City Club to the to the club that had 5000. And you needed three things. You needed to have parking, you needed to know, because I gave members assurance coming in from the suburbs that they had a place to park. As you get older, you have more net worth to spend. You get a little worried about where you're going to park. The data showed that that was a huge part of being a successful city club. Yeah. So we bought a parking garage right when I got there, and then we just doubled our revenues in in less than one year. While the number two thing at the greatest city clubs in the world shared was they never sold their land and built the site skyscraper and put their club at the top of the building because eventually the I guess after the data shows after three days that you went away and then the elevator became a barrier to entry, there were a few clubs in New York, Manhattan and Tokyo that buck that trend. Windows on the World, that was a public restaurant. There was a small private club component of Windows on the World. But truly, if you were successful, members had to walk into your club, right? So the league had that as well. And then you need overnight rooms. You have all the expenses running a club, marketing, administration, engineering, you name it. If you add some overnight rooms to the equation, the profitability or the surplus that they could throw off departmentally, you know, $0.60, $0.70 on the dollar really were work well. So I was able to. Run those three things when I first got there and then reinvest into the club with incredible dining business centers, cigar bar, you know, fitness centers, that sort of thing. And so for if I look at my 25 years, the first ten or 15 was taking that incredible foundation that the league was all about. Investing in that. Growing, growing the institution. And then after ten or 15 years, we use the profitability or the surplus that was gained to really have a longer strategic plan that we entitled "Building Your Granddaughter's Club". Yeah. And and that was you know, that was sort of a light bulb moment, like, okay, are we just going to be the greatest 1965 club in 2005? Right. Or, you know, in in 2025, were we going to be what your granddaughter and great granddaughter are going to want in a private club? You know how to how do they socialize? How do they use it? You know, we started asking ourselves all those questions. [00:08:13][179.3] Ed Heil: [00:08:13] I love that. I want to come back to that next, but if we just step back to you being 30 years old, when you took that job and, you know, you come in and, you know, buying the parking structure and then you started, it sounds like, you know, in the first ten years, there's a lot of innovation and things moving forward. And I know that some of the games that will pay attention to our conversation, they're younger. There's definitely a trend towards a lot of younger jobs or it seems that there is. How did you get their trust, at that you know, I mean, and what was the mindset of the board? Were they just like, hey, we've done our homework, We know Jeff's the right guy, let him go do it. But, you know, there are a lot of clubs out there who are like, Yeah, we'll get him in there, but we'll just tell him what to do. I mean, how do you know what I mean? How do you get in there and earn their trust and really go like that? [00:09:06][52.7] Jeff McFadden: [00:09:07] So and is fortunate enough to be in the right place at the right time, as I said, because of their how they were struggling financially. But with that said, you can't go in and change the world overnight. You need to start small, you need to show a small victory and then capitalize on each of those victories. You know, as they say, having, you know, having, you know, one bite at a time, you know, you just that's way you have to do it. I think we we had, you know, coming in in 1998 on the heels with Ed Rendell being the mayor of the Republican National Convention, was held in Philadelphia in 2000. We had a tradition as a Republican club. So that was really, you know, helped us springboard into reinvesting in our facilities. But I convinced them to do little things, that the garage was a big thing. But we had already started putting new carpeting, new wallpaper, you know, one dining room at a time, hiring younger, more robust, enthusiastic, vibrant servers and studying what people wanted on food menus and that and so forth. And we just basically started with one dining room and then did another dining room and then did a bar and then bought the parking garage. And the parking garage was, was a struggle. We it was a first assessment we had at the league in 50 years. We did not have a lot of support for it. Yeah. So we, we did wind up getting about 67%, 68% in favor of it. Yeah. And, and I figure just a quick story. I was very transparent because I was I was very young at that time. So I shared everything. I still and I still am as transparent as they come. I just don't lead with my chin. Right. What's actually going on in things? [00:11:01][113.7] Ed Heil: [00:11:01] I gotta remember that. [00:11:01][0.6] Jeff McFadden: [00:11:02] Yeah. You know, it makes talking so much or sharing so much as being transparent. I know that's not necessarily people want to be let right. Need to be led and you want to be transparent in everything you do. You just don't need to tell everybody everything every minute of the day. Right? [00:11:19][17.4] Ed Heil: [00:11:20] Right. Yeah. No doubt. [00:11:21][1.1] Jeff McFadden: [00:11:21] With social media and, you know, it just seems that's what the next generation is doing. Right. So we were we were we were trying to figure out we needed to do an assessment. It was very was it very much about $2,000 a member. And we you know, they were hemming and hawing about paying that. And and one member said, could I get my money back at a town hall meeting? And I said, Mr. Grossman, you are absolutely brilliant. That's a great idea. We're going to make your assessment refundable. All you have to do is propose a new member. And it was like a light bulb went off and we ran with that. You had actually proposed two members you got $1,000 back for your first member, 1000 for your second. I love it. This is back in 1999. And basically all the naysayers and we still had it still 30 to 33% of the people voted against it. I would say to them, I said, you don't have any friends or colleagues or business people that you could propose to become a member of the league to help us out, to make sure, you know. And that was on top of all the importance of parking, obviously. Right. And then we were about a $7 million operation. We bought the parking garage. And I think the next year after it opened, we were 21, $22 million operations. Wow. Doubled, tripled what we were doing. And all it is is take the you know, the folks from the mainline or from South Jersey who are uncomfortable coming into an urban environment. Yeah, we just assured that they had parking. Right. We just said we have valet parking. It's right next to the club. [00:12:59][97.8] Ed Heil: [00:12:59] Yeah. Safety and convenience. [00:13:00][1.1] Jeff McFadden: [00:13:01] Yeah. [00:13:01][0.0] Ed Heil: [00:13:02] Exact easiest things. [00:13:02][0.8] Jeff McFadden: [00:13:03] Wow. So and so. I rode that pony for a long time,Ed, the parking garage. You know, work magic for me for the next ten years. [00:13:11][8.5] Ed Heil: [00:13:11] Yeah, no doubt. I love that. Let's talk about building your granddaughter's club. When did you come up? When did you, like, come up with that phrase that I love that I read that one of the articles. [00:13:20][8.6] Jeff McFadden: [00:13:21] Yeah. It just, you know, obviously being a men's club for so long, over 125 years of the men's club, we allowed women in 1986. The idea is there's there's so much connotation in that phrase granddaughter building your granddaughters time, meaning that we're becoming progressive more, you know, more forward thinking, more inclusive. And I also got everyone thinking not about themselves, but about the next generation and the generation after them. So I think that's almost more important than than the gender identification of saying building your granddaughters club the to show and to get the culture of our members to think that yes, we've been here 162 years, we're going to be here another hundred and 62 years. Let me not get tied up in minutia of today, but think about tomorrow and you see this and golf clubs and country clubs where they fight over a new irrigation system, you know, an 80 year old to say, hey, I don't want to pay for the new irrigation system. I'm not going to be here. Right, right, right. And you say to that person, well, you're not paying for the new irrigation system, you're paying for the irrigation system you consumed over the last 30 years. Right. And and and that's the sort of the mindset that we started to and now people are like they're proud when we build we have built into their views a capital do structure but they're proud with the the advancements that we have made, the investments that we've made and they don't they don't think of it as for them. They think, Wow, my granddaughter and my grandson are going to love this place. And it's just a little nuance, a little change. [00:15:05][104.6] Ed Heil: [00:15:06] But I've not heard people position it like that. What has been your overall philosophy, you know, and how do you share that as far as like keeping people thinking forward? Like, is there an overarching sort of, I don't know, almost like value or belief that you have that you sort of, you know, live by that way? [00:15:24][18.3] Jeff McFadden: [00:15:25] That's a it's a great question. Yeah. I think it's it's always thinking about the future. And I and I and I tell members and a lot of clubs do not do this. We have $54 million in debt, which people are like, Oh, oh, that's a lot of money. And then I don't know. And we also have $20 million in the bank, right? And if we had saved a dollar per member per month since our inception in 1862, yeah, we'd have $1,000,000,000 in the bank. And when you tell stories like that to members and you know it resonates and it gets to them that, you know, you're you're not just here to enjoy the club, but you are a steward of the club. You are a steward of the institution. You know, you need to think of it in that capacity. And for 100 years, clubs never did. Right? Right. They matter of fact, to this day, your investment income of a 501c7 is taxable. So I'm trying to tell people that they need to start a foundation to do a charitable set aside for their foundation. Do you know, do well by doing good in your community and people? Some of the greatest clubs. And I'll say, Jeff, we don't have any investments, we don't have any investment yet. I said, What do you mean? You're Aronomik, you're Marion Golf, you're Pine Valley, you don't have investment income. Like now we don't have any debt, We don't have any savings. We live hand to mouth, right? And then we assess for when we want to build something. I said, I just don't think that's the right way to run the railroad. I think, you know, you you boil the frog slowly, you add capital dues monthly into your regular dues, and you always plan for the future. You don't you don't pay off your mortgage without saying without saving for your kids college education. Right. It's right. It's not rocket science. [00:17:26][121.7] Ed Heil: [00:17:27] Yeah, well, but why don't more ask why is it so commonsense? You But I mean, so many clubs operate exactly how you just explain it. [00:17:35][7.3] Jeff McFadden: [00:17:35] Because they let emotion get in the way. You know, they bail They they you know, we're all self-serving, though, don't get me wrong. I'm self-serving as well. But, you know, if you don't have the mentality that you're part of a greater good. You know, you can easily get into. You know? You know, what are we spending today and how can I have the best results and the best experience at the least cost and. And group think happens, very quickly, you know, great leaders, you know, can change culture quickly and then you can get into the abyss quickly as well. In that group thinking and psychology of pricing, whether it's dues or golf fees, food and beverage, menu prices, whatever is important to understand because people want value, right? They still want value, and yet they're going to do that. And we're trying you know, we're trying to ride the wave, tap into a new way of thinking, a new way to run finances and hopefully don't take off. [00:18:37][61.9] Ed Heil: [00:18:38] And I mean, what you're saying just makes so much sense. But let me throw a wrinkle in on this where it's like a lot of times people will join committees of clubs, they'll join boards and clubs because they have something they have an agenda that they are pushing, right. And they want to get one. I get that. I'll make sure this gets done. How do you how have you been able to manage that? Because that's like that's such a reality that people struggle with. [00:19:03][24.8] Jeff McFadden: [00:19:03] Well, that takes investment, believe it or not. And here's the investment. The answer is yes. Now ask me the question, says a club professional. You have to have the ability to take no off the table. Not that you can say yes to everything, but a lot of people get into committees and committee services because they haven't been satisfied by the team or by the professional folks they weren't listened to. More often than not, it's not one or the other, right? It's not, you know, should we have sesame seeds on our bun or should we not have sesame seeds on it? But by the way, I've had that conversation at the board level, which is idiotic. You know, you have to believe the right thing. So love it, right? We always tell folks, don't waste your time getting on a committee, because the answer is yes. What do you need? What do you want? We're here for you. And I train everyone never to say no. Even if you know it's impossible. You always say, Let me figure it out. Let me see if I can get back to you and come up with a couple of solutions that may not get you all the way to yes, but takes no off the table. Sure. The other thing we do with committees, which I think is brilliant and I thought it because I stole it from the Missouri Athletic Club and it's worked really well, is that we don't allow anyone to serve on a committee unless they have proposed successfully proposed amendment. Interesting. So one of the things you have, I mean, if you get in a very domineering type member who wants to get on committees and has very strong opinions about something. Nine times out of ten, they have not proposed a member because they usually have a bombastic attitude or they're so aggressive. Nobody wants you know, they're just they're a bull in a china shop. And so we put that qualification in that you have to successfully propose the member to serve on a committee. You need to answer a whole bunch of questions, fill out an application and send us your CV, which is another high hurdle to get over. And then we limit our committees just to 3 to 5 people with two professionals. So the total committee will be 5 to 7 and the two professionals have a vote and we only put on committees those who have an expertise and whatever the committee is doing, you know, which drives me nuts when you have the dentist, you know, as chair of the Green committee, you know, and the gardening and all of a sudden he's an expert on agronomy. [00:21:35][151.7] Ed Heil: [00:21:36] Right, Right. [00:21:36][0.4] Jeff McFadden: [00:21:36] Yeah, right. So we'll have that. Instead. We'll have the person that owns the garden center. Right? That's the excuse me. That's the national alert. We were talking about getting a. You know, we want to make sure. So on our food and beverage committees, we have restaurateurs, we have hotel people, we have staffing h.r. Directors who staff for hotels. So we we're pretty smart. We try to put the right people in the right, in the right position. We try to push decision making down to the subcommittee level as best we can. And then quite frankly, the answer is yes. And it defuzes a lot of that tension that you have between members. And then if you couple that with a capital dues at party or regular dues, you don't have to ask for assessments where you could get the tennis racket players fighting against the golfers and the golfers fighting against the wine, people on the wine, people fighting gets the fitness people and the older folks fighting against the younger folks who have kids. And you're putting money into child care and baby pools and that sort of thing. Yeah. So by building the capital into it, into the, you know, you hopefully can trigger projects that are the right decision at the right time. I have a woman right now who is a member, I love her to death, you know, a part of our ten year master plan. We have we are not going to build a outdoor family pool at one of our locations until 2029. And she looked at me and she goes, Jeff, I have an eight year old, ten year old and 12 year old building in 2018. 2019 is not going to serve me a purpose, right? Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, you know, so I have to understand that I have rationalized that over. [00:23:26][110.4] Ed Heil: [00:23:27] The course of the last. Gosh, what since you've been there in the last 25 years, you've the club has purchased restaurants and golf clubs, and for a city club you don't hear city clubs doing that often. What, what was behind this and what is behind it? And is this just part of the mission and what you see going forward, you know, for years to come? [00:23:49][22.2] Jeff McFadden: [00:23:50] So we were studying city clubs for a while and you know, back in 1967, we served 2500 lunches a day. Right? It was it was, if you remember, the old movie Trading Places with Eddie Murphy. That was the Union League, right? It was Mortimer and Randolph. Duke and Duke. Yeah. And so lunch was losing. You know, the urban downtown environments were changing, becoming much more residential. The younger kids were moving in and we started to think long term, how is your granddaughter going to use the club versus your grandfather? And we and we just we really started to just think and do some studying about trends and and thought patterns. And it really dawned on us that these younger generation wanted more experiences. Right? They didn't they didn't do the same thing over and over and over. Their grandfather would dine at the same table, you know, every Saturday night, 50 weekends a year, right at Philly Country Club and sort of have the same menu item. Their grandfather had five friends. Their granddaughter now has 500 friends. Right. So the way he or she socializes in a club is totally different than the grandfather, though you typically would find the grandfather on the board making decisions. Right? [00:25:10][80.2] Ed Heil: [00:25:10] Right. Totally. [00:25:11][0.4] Jeff McFadden: [00:25:12] We had to kind of think through that. And they and then we thought, you know, the granddaughter only eats out at her favorite restaurant three or four times a year where the grandfather again, a 50 times that is her, right? Yeah. At their favorite restaurant, you know, And then they saying that the granddaughter wants a condo in Manhattan and a condo in Manhattan Beach and it has more of a lock and load mentality, experience driven versus a $10 million house. You know, we're in Grosse Pointe with ten bedrooms on ten acres, and the next generation just doesn't want that. [00:25:51][39.2] Ed Heil: [00:25:52] For sure. [00:25:52][0.2] Jeff McFadden: [00:25:52] So we started to to to to think about what could the league become and we started to think a lifestyle club. So can we get them in? It's not just a city social lunch club, but it could be more of a lifestyle club offering more experiences, more amenities. At the same time, we realized that because we had increased our revenues by so much with the parking garage and some of the smaller investments we've made, we realized scale was important. So not only was the next generation changing how they wanted to use the the club and socialize within a club environment, we realized scale is important because clubs have just gotten downright expensive to operate 100, 125 years ago, in the golden age of private clubs, immigration was inexpensive, labor was cheap. There was no environmental laws. There was no. Health care. So you. You know. Tom, Dick, Harry, Sally could start a club back in the early 19th century or 20th century and be very well and be very successful at it. If you look at Detroit or Boston, Westchester, New York, Philadelphia, there are a lot of clubs that were started from 1890 to 1920, the Golden Age. And so that that hit us like like, like a sledgehammer. We needed to increase our top line because our expenses were more were very high. But we also started small. I don't want to anybody think we had this grand strategy or, you know, we have three country clubs now. We'll soon have 81 holes of golf, two independent restaurants that are members only that are really cool, tony type restaurants that you you can't eat in unless you're a member. But it didn't start that. It was very slow. As you said, I've been there 25 years. And people say, Jeff, what you've done to the league overnight is incredible. Like time. It's been like the Bataan Death March in some respects, though, obviously we respect veterans and everyone who gave their life for this country. You know, a quick story about our first acquisition was this little 100 seat restaurant in Stone Harbor, New Jersey, a block from the beach called the Bungalow. And it was just truly accidental brilliance and luck. And we started very small in branching out from from Center City, Philadelphia. I was down staying down the shore with a board member of the league. My wife and I were staying there and we were playing golf. It was July when Philadelphia was just completely empty because everybody goes down to the shore. And I figured that out. You know, I didn't realize it at the time. I figured out shortly after this new swanky hotel called the Reeds, it was just built in on the harbor of Stone of Stone Harbor. So the board members, let's go over, have a drink. After topside went over their back deck overlooking the water with all the boats. And I run into like 20 members. I'm like, Oh, Mr. Turner. Mr. Smith. Oh, man. It was like, Oh, and it was great. Brand new. They put like, you know, 80 million into this place and it was fantastic. They said to Jules, my wife, I said the next night before we go to dinner, let me, let's, let's go show you the reeds and we go back to The Reeds, back to the back bar on the deck overlooking the harbor. And I run into like 20 more members that were magnificent. The numbers are around on Friday, and I'm like, Wow, A light bulb went off. Yeah, where everybody's at. And so we quickly did some data analytics realize that over 65% of our members spent two or more weeks at the Jersey Shore. We then did some zipcode analysis. We found that most of the wealth was moving from Atlantic County, which is home of Atlantic City, little north of Cape May, down to Cape May County, the Avalon Stone Harbor, Cape May area, Ocean City area. Yeah. And we bought a $600,000 restaurant that was in a fire sale because there was a tax lien on it, put about another 600,000 in. So it was a million to investment. And it just took off. We had we had it. And it not only took off as a great place to eat because you can't get into a restaurant down there. Plus, you as a restaurateur, you wouldn't start a restaurant there because the season is so short. So it was a real conundrum. You couldn't get. There were enough restaurants seats from July 4th through Labor Day. But you couldn't make enough money as a restaurant tour to open a restaurant because there was only a ten week season. Right? We had 500 net new members join the league because of the bungalow. [00:30:56][303.8] Ed Heil: [00:30:57] Wow. [00:30:57][0.0] Jeff McFadden: [00:30:58] So what I said and then with an equity focus group, the whole bunch of them, we found out that they they loved the Union League in Center City, Philadelphia, but they just didn't get there enough to use it. But now you couple the bungalow down the shore in a marketplace, you can't go out to eat because you can't get a reservation and all of that, except I'm willing to join the league, pay dues because you have Center city. And the Bungalow brought us to buying Torresdale buying Sand Barrens which became Union league National. Buying the Ace Golf Club and Chubb Conference Center and buying the guardhouse in Gladwin. So we just kind of over the next ten years, kept adding properties that grew our membership, our net membership. And if you think about layering that onto the thought process that your your grandchildren are going to have 500 friends. And you need scale because clubs are expensive. It just started to click win, win, win win, Right. You know, and and and these cranky old small clubs that the kids don't want to belong to. They all want to belong to the league now. And we just changed our strategic plan to be called from 28 to 88. And that the concept is not only are we a great club, but we want to be a great club that you're a member of for six years. Yeah. So we get you we get you in Center City when you move in after university in college, we keep you when you move out and have kids. And when your parents die, you inherit the house down the shore. We have we have two properties down there to keep you until you're 88. Wow. That's the concept. [00:32:45][106.8] Ed Heil: [00:32:46] That it's remarkable. I mean, and so far, no regrets. [00:32:50][3.2] Jeff McFadden: [00:32:50] No, no regrets. It's just it's a it's not fun for me or not as rewarding for me as much as when you operate one location. You know, I got into hospitality, pealing potatoes at the age of ten and sort of never look back on it when I talk at universities across the country. So how did you decide to get into hospitality? Well, I never did. I just started working and just never stopped working. Right. I just I didn't I didn't conscientious like, think I was going to stay in hospitality. The one regret, though, is that, you know, we have 1200 employees now. We're over 100 million in annual revenue. I miss the satisfaction of day to day operations and people. Jeff, you have the greatest life. You know, you're not responsible. But yeah, but you don't realize, you know, it's the intrinsic value you get from. [00:33:44][53.8] Ed Heil: [00:33:46] That intimacy. [00:33:46][0.2] Jeff McFadden: [00:33:46] Location. Right? And one one. So I miss that. [00:33:50][3.1] Ed Heil: [00:33:50] Yeah, for sure. Interesting. What a machine, though. It's amazing. I got to call you on this show because you've used the term accidental brilliance and luck in a somewhat different spot here. At some point, it's no longer an accident, and it's probably not luck either. But what I'm wondering is, you know, 28 to 88, you know, that is something that I think that a lot of clubs would aspire to be, you know, to say or to to be able to pull off. And yet it's also very difficult for whatever reason, you know, for the reasons you've talked about as far as like appeasing the, you know, just two different generations or maybe three different generations in many cases, for people who are listening to this podcast who are like, you know, you don't have as well. Yeah, well, McFadden has this or he's done that or, you know, somebody who knows you have to. It starts with a vision. It starts with a belief. It starts with great membership, obviously, and, and visionary people. But for people that are listening, that are struggling with how to how to make changes to their club, to appeal to a younger membership, but also engage their aging membership. What what do you say to them? [00:35:05][75.0] Jeff McFadden: [00:35:06] Well, you got to figure out how to bring those two groups together, right? If you want people to live longer, you've got to surround them with younger people. Right. And that's the easy part. The hard part is getting the young folks to value older folks. So we look at multiple activities that an eight year old and now being very, what your eight year old can do that, an 80 year old. So that's them. But things like bowling. Right. I mean, as silly as that is, it's a thing that a young person can do. An old person do pickleball. Young person can do and an old person can do. Yeah. You know. Lectures and education. Social programs are real important to bring in those young, young people. Go. I try not to think of serving a younger market. I'm serving an older market. I'm serving a club market and try to bring the two generations of three generations together and then keep things lighthearted and fun. The crankiest old guy, you know, will respond with the young folks surrounded around them in an enjoyable environment. You know, cranky, cranky old club members make more cranky old club members. So you have to just stop that cycle, right? You got to you got to put everybody together and try to get them to enjoy each other's company in light hearted activities that everybody can do. You also have to be, as I say, you can't be all things to all people, but you have to offer enough niches at your club to satisfy multiple generations, right? You need to have. You need to be adding pickle at the same time. You're putting Padel in, you know. You need to have a resort style pool. You know, at the same time, you need an Olympic or half Olympic lane pool. So people in their seventies can stay limber and flexible. So it's not one or the other. The answer more, more often than not, is both. [00:37:12][126.4] Ed Heil: [00:37:13] You kind of create like a win win in that environment. I mean, is that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It just that is one of those those challenges I think so many people are perplexed with is the do I have to make a decision of one over the other instead of saying, is there a way that you can actually kind of make both parties happy? But like you said, you're never going to please everyone all the time. We all know that, too. [00:37:41][28.0] Jeff McFadden: [00:37:42] Right. Yeah. And that's the hard part. But with the manager, you know, one of the one of the things that I always tell tell members or other managers is, is I never write a member newsletter. You never see my face in our newsletter. I am not, you know, I hope I'm the like the little I am little short and fat, my wizard behind the curtain. I want I want other I want other folks and basically the president of the club to take all the glory, to be the mouthpiece and so forth. So I think being are 25 years and part of my success of being here 25 years is that I'm not front and center. I am I'm sort of front and center on the professional side, but certainly not on the membership side. You'll never I have never written a column and newsletter. I never write an email from from the CEO or from the general manager. It's always from the president or or from a department head or from a vice president or standing committee chair. You'll never see anything from myself to the membership. [00:38:46][63.5] Ed Heil: [00:38:46] Awesome. Well, last question for you. With so many clubs doing so well, is this I'm going to ask you a question. I probably feel like I know what you can say, but is this the time to really say, let's invest? Is this the time to take some chances? Is this a time with clubs healthier maybe than they were for sure before the pandemic, to maybe look at some things and making changes and having a little more courage? Or is it, what's your general mindset, especially for those clubs that maybe aren't as healthy and those that are, you know, really trying to figure out how best to take advantage of this time? That is better than it was before the pandemic? [00:39:27][40.7] Jeff McFadden: [00:39:28] I think the time is right to create the right strategy of constant improvement. I don't think it's the right time to do major, major improvements unless you desperately need it. You know, sometimes you just need to knock a clubhouse down to rebuild it because you're going to spend, you know, good money after bad money, so to speak. But I do think the strategy at all private clubs needs to be we are going to have constant improvement over the next ten, 15, 20 years. We're going to continue to change and adapt and better our product. If you spent if your budget over ten years was $100 million, but that's obviously ridiculous to say your budget was 10 million over ten years. If you spent all that 10 million in year one by year three, your members would say, What are you doing for me now? Right. So I think good leadership will put a strategy in that recognize this is the best of times or one of the best. And it's important for us to realize that we need to have constant improvement. And that's the right strategy. So don't give them it's like your kids. Don't give them everything right out of the bat, you know? Give it to him a little at a time. Keep them excited. You know, don't. If you're going to build some paddle courts, you know, don't build paddle, pickle, padel, hydro, clay courts all in the same year. Now you say, Well, Jeff, it might be easier. Well, do the master plan and then, you know. Dole it out a little bit at a time. Keep people excited about, you know, make sure you have something going on for multiple generations, you know, for the old folks, the middle folks, the young folks. I don't think clubs because we always relied on assessments every 10 to 12 years to do major projects. I think if we get in that we should be constantly improving each and every year and share that with them. And I think you'll keep members and members will enjoy your club so much more. [00:41:33][124.9] Ed Heil: [00:41:34] Jeff, thanks so much. It's so much fun talking to you today and hearing your perspective on what you've done in the industry in general. [00:41:40][6.5] Jeff McFadden: [00:41:41] I appreciate that. You're doing a great job. Thanks for having me on. [00:41:43][2.6]

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Ed Rendell joins Angelo Cataldi & The Morning Team to talk about whether or not 76ers fans should boo Ben Simmons during his return to Philadelphia tonight.

Former PA Gov Ed Rendell - Front line pandemic workers making less than $10/hour. by John Catsimatidis

Loretta Sanchez served 20 years in the US House, one of the first Democrats to breakthrough in historically GOP Orange County, CA. She also made history, with her sister Linda Sanchez, as the only two women related by family to serve in Congress. In this conversation, she talks growing up as the daughter of Mexican immigrants in LA, her 1996 upset over GOP fixture Bob Dornan and the election contest that ensued, her 2016 election for Senate ultimately won by Kamala Harris, and memories & insights from two decades in the House.IN THIS EPISODECongresswoman Sanchez talks growing up in the LA-area as the daughter of Mexican immigrants…The candidate who her father walked door-to-door for, even before he could vote himself…Her path to running for office in the mid 1990s…Congresswoman Sanchez talks through the history and politics of Orange County, CA…The great story behind her 1996 upset of GOP icon Bob Dornan, a race dubbed “the upset of the decade” by Time Magazine…The year-long election contest that followed her 1996 victory…Congresswoman Sanchez's memories of lunch with Joe Biden in 1997…She explains what makes Nancy Pelosi an effective party leader…Who Congresswoman Sanchez is keeping an eye on as the next generation of Democratic leaders in the House…The story behind the history-making election of sisters Loretta and Linda Sanchez as part of the same Congress…She recounts her decision to run for US Senate in 2016…Congresswoman Sanchez's advice to Democrats who want to better communicate with Latino voters…The advice that Congresswoman Sanchez would offer AOC…Congresswoman Sanchez talks her current priorities and interests…AND…Pete Aguilar, Karen Bass, Barbara Boxer, Willie Brown, cause celebres, Chapman University, Gil Cisneros, Katherine Clark, Bill Clinton, Barbara Cubin, Blue Dogs, John Conyers, Lou Correa, Tom Daly, Willian Dannemeyer, David & Goliath, Val Demings, John Dingell, Veronica Escobar, Anna Eshoo, Sam Farr, Barney Frank, Georgetown, Dick Gephardt, Newt Gingrich, Al Gore, Lindsay Graham, green cards, Kamala Harris, Head Start, David Hobson, Hubert Humphrey, Italian Grandmas, Hakeem Jeffries, the Joint Economic Committee, Patrick Kennedy, Barbara Kennelly, Jerry McNerney, John McCain, George Miller, John Murtha, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Old Bulls, Colin Peterson, Katie Porter, Ed Rendell, Kathleen Rice, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Harley Rouda, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Rotary Clubs, Ronald Reagan, Tony Rodham, George Stephanopoulos, Univision, the Western White House, Pete Wilson, & more!

Gov. Ed Rendell returns to the Dom Giordano Program to lead off the second hour of today's show. First, Dom asks for Ed's thoughts on the Eagles, being that Rendell is a lifelong Eagles fan. Rendell, who served as the District Attorney and Mayor in Philadelphia, as well as the Governor of Pennsylvania, has a lot to say about what we're seeing by current leadership in Philadelphia. Rendell leads off by telling Giordano that he usually does not speak out about predecessors, but there is a pattern here, particularly by District Attorney Larry Krasner, that has led our city into despair. Rendell reads back his initial statement when he first spoke out against Krasner in endorsing Democratic opponent Carlos Vega, telling that he believes Krasner to be a good person who has lost his way in protecting the citizens of the city. Giordano asks Rendell if he takes personal offense when Krasner speaks out about the history of the DAs office and justice reform in the city, being a huge proponent himself for the cause, to which Rendell affirms and explains that reform is indeed necessary but the safety of citizens should be the primary goal. Then, Dom spends the remainder of the hour discussing issues surrounding crime, and Producer Dan reads back a statement by Krasner responding to the media criticism surrounding his words earlier this week in which he refused to call the crime situation in Philadelphia a ‘crisis.' (Photo by Lisa Lake/Getty Images for Pennsylvania Conference for Women) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Gov. Ed Rendell rejoins the Canusa Street hosts to discuss the new US ambassador to Canada, David L. Cohen, who was just confirmed by the US Senate.  He also happened to be the Governor's Chief of Staff.  Learn how this new ambassador can get things done in the US/Canada relationship.

Former PA Gov Ed Rendell - Infrastructure funding is crucial to the future of the Country. by John Catsimatidis

Infrastructure is the word of the day, week, month, year on Capitol Hill as the Biden administration pushes to pass the largest piece of infrastructure legislation since the Eisenhower era. This week on Canusa Street, Scotty and Chris check in with former Governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell. Listen in as the Governor shares his thoughts on the bipartisan American Jobs Plan and the importance of winning support for pieces of cross-border infrastructure along the U.S.-Canada border.

Former PA Governor Ed Rendell - Flooding in the state, global warming? Infrastructure. by John Catsimatidis

The US senate is slowly moving toward passing a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill. We'll hear from a farmer directly affected, and then the former governor of Pennsylvania, Ed Rendell, on why the bipartisan bill is so important. Also in the programme, an upcoming UN report is expected to give the global community a stark warning about the dangers of accelerating climate change. Harpreet Kaur Paul of the University of Warwick's Law School explains why the report should be a wake-up call to businesses. And as Canada opens up again to international travel, Royce Mendes of CIBC Capital Markets in Toronto outlines the challenges the Canadian economy still faces.

Are we becoming too soft? What is going on with our soft athletes in this town? Ed Rendell checks in with his opinions ahead of his new book. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former mayor, troubled by the problems tearing Philly apart, urges all of us to work together to revive the city he’s loved for 55 years.

Former Pennsylvania Governor, Ed Rendell, stops by this week on The Cats Roundtable.

Former Governor Ed Rendell - Infrastructure is imperative for future. by John Catsimatidis

Today on The Rich Zeoli Show, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s race is a microcosm of the state of the Democratic party. They’re divided from within, at civil war, fighting over the direction they want to go. The radical progressives won’t be convinced that the policies and ideology of someone like DA Larry Krasner hurts everyone, while the “old dog” Democrats look to the candidacy of Carlos Vega as a way to bridge the gap of potential voters. Meanwhile, the Republicans are united in their direction. 00:00-Philly DA Race goes National 2:15-Joe Biden wants to be FDR or Johnson 8:00- PHILLY DA RACE AND PHILLY CRIME 28:00How Palm Beach is preparing for a possible Trump indictment 41:35-GOV Murphy announces  40 million dollars for undocumented immigrants 49:25-  Why is it always Russia doing Cyber Hacking 51:25-Eagles announce schedule and full capacity at stadiums 57:25-We need a 9/11 style commission to get to the bottom of the origins of the Covid Virus 1:07:00-Guest former Governor  Ed Rendell on endorsement of Carlos Vega 1:22:10 Whats on the cut sheet  John Kerry has to catch a commercial flight, he agrees pipelines are the best way to transport fuel, Biden tells reporters he shouldn’t be answering questions, Biden tells Lawrence O'Donnell women are not in the workforce because all the daycares are closed. Shannon Sharpe says that Tim Tebow has a job because of White privileges   1:49:50- Rand Paul says Dr. Fauci lied about gain of function 1:56:45-7 NY Yankees test positive for Covid after 85 percent of the team is vaccinated 2:07:30-  NJ Facemask rules for pools 2:12:00- Rich has a hole in his pool, pool supply shortage, and trying to get people out to your house to do work 2:20:00- WSJ Editorial Lockdowns didn’t stop Covid 2:22:25- Who won twitter See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell rejoins the Dom Giordano Program to discuss his endorsement for Carlos Vega in the District Attorney race in Philadelphia, as Vega takes on controversial incumbent DA Larry Krasner. First, Giordano asks Rendell, being a former Philadelphia District Attorney himself, why he is choosing Vega over Krasner. Rendell explains that Krasner has done some positive things, but doesn't recognize or is unwilling to do the first and most important part of a DA's job, to protect the citizens of the city. Then, Rendell explains his history with Mr. Vega, telling how Vega performed during Rendell's reign as DA. Also, Rendell explains past shortcomings by the Krasner administration, also explaining why other Democrats, similarly to Rendell, refuse to endorse the incumbent. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for USC Shoah Foundation Institute) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell joins The Cats Roundtable with John Catsimatidis

Former Governor Ed Rendell - Infrastructure repair long overdue. by John Catsimatidis

Recently, President Biden announced a historic and ambitious plan to invest in infrastructure, the biggest investment in infrastructure in over five decades. To discuss the proposed package Ballard Spahr Partner BJ Clark is joined by three guests with extensive knowledge and experience in the space: Gov. Ed Rendell, the former Governor of Pennsylvania and former Mayor of Philadelphia, Brian Kirby, General Counsel at Sacyr, a large international infrastructure company, and John Smolen, Of Counsel in Ballard Spahr's P3/Infrastructure Group in the firm's Baltimore Office.

Robert Patrick Casey Jr. (born April 13, 1960) is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Pennsylvania, a seat to which he was first elected in 2006. He previously served as Pennsylvania Auditor General from 1997 to 2005 and as Pennsylvania Treasurer from 2005 to 2007. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Casey is the son of Bob Casey, a former Governor of Pennsylvania. After graduating from Scranton Preparatory School in 1978, he attended the College of the Holy Cross. He received his J.D. degree from The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law. Casey practiced law in Scranton, Pennsylvania, before beginning his political career as Pennsylvania's Auditor General, a post to which he was elected in 1996 and re-elected in 2000. In 2002, Casey attempted to follow in his father's footsteps by running for Governor of Pennsylvania, but was defeated in the Democratic primary by eventual general election victor Ed Rendell. After being term-limited out of his position as Auditor General, Casey was elected Treasurer in the 2004 election. Casey defeated two-term Republican incumbent Rick Santorum in the 2006 U.S. Senate election in Pennsylvania. He was reelected in 2012 and 2018, becoming Pennsylvania's first ever Democrat to win a third consecutive term in the Senate. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paheroes/support

Former Pennsylvania governor and Philly mayor Ed Rendell and Congressman Dwight Evans say yes--we should be supporting Mayor Kenney. This is their conversation with Larry Platt.

Jeanne Sheehan Zaino hosts. Guests: Rick Davis, Bloomberg contributor and former campaign manager for John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, Kevin Walling, Democratic Strategist at HG Creative Media, and Ed Rendell, former Pennsylvania governor.

Jeanne Sheehan Zaino hosts. Guests: Rick Davis, Bloomberg contributor and former campaign manager for John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, Kevin Walling, Democratic Strategist at HG Creative Media, and Ed Rendell, former Pennsylvania governor.

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In the wake of the presidential election, Tom talks with Ed Rendell. The former Pennsylvania governor and Philadelphia mayor weighs in on Joe Biden's decency, Rudy Giuliani's mental problems, his own battle with Parkinson's, and whether or not cities can survive Covid-19.

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Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell joins Joel to talk about the Presidential race. 11/5/20 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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This week on the JXL Podcast: JXL, Tha Riva, and Detwantay Wilder talk JXL surviving Nashville tornado // Bobby the Scientist updates us on the Corona outbreak // South Philly mom bars up Ed Rendell over safe injection sites // Is 645AR trash or naw? // and much more! email us at thejxlpodcast@gmail.com

Tom Knox has been an illustrious leader and pioneer in Philadelphia for over 50 years. He grew up in public housing in Philadelphia, worked through high school, and entered the Navy at 16 where he eventually attained his GED. In the mid 1980s, he worked with Preferred Benefits, & Preferred Care under the Thomas Knox Consulting umbrella. He also served as the CEO of Fidelity Mutual, and in the early 2000s, as CEO of UnitedHealthcare in Pennsylvania. He also built up his political career over the years, serving as Deputy Mayor under Ed Rendell, in the 1990s, and again in 2008 in his bid for governor, and in 2015 for mayor. Tom’s most recent venture is Homestead Smart Health Plans, which operates on a unique model that is disrupting the industry. Tune in to find out more about Tom’s achievements, how he made it all happen, and his advice for leaders today. Key Takeaways: [:02] Kevin does a speed round with Tom. [2:12] What is Tom's background? [4:29] Kevin gives a brief overview of Tom's career. [5:59] How did Tom stumble into the banking and insurance industries? [8:39] Some of the work Tom did in his career was around fixing broken companies and things. How did he get into that? [10:52] Tom shares some of his experience with Preferred Benefits and Preferred Care under the Tom Knox Consulting umbrella. [16:23] Ultimately, Preferred Benefits was sold to Ocwen. [17:47] Tom explains how the healthcare arm of his business, Preferred Care, expanded and evolved over time. [23:05] What was Tom's experience with Crusader Bank? [25:02] How did Tom grow his bank from $29 million in assets to $500 million in assets over 6 years? [29:19] Royal Bank eventually bought over Crusader Bank. What caused Tom to sell at that time? [30:36] Tom served as Deputy Mayor under Ed Rendell. What was his position, and what did he do? [35:30] Tom explains how he was able to make so many changes in such a short amount of time. [36:13] Kevin and Tom discuss what happened with Fidelity Mutual. [40:35] 1999, Tom bought Maryland Fidelity, which was eventually bought by United Healthcare. [44:47] Tom eventually chose to leave United Healthcare to join the mayoral race. What attracted him about the mayoral race? [47:23] Tom announced his decision to run for governor in 2008. [48:36] How did Tom get involved in the rubber gaskets industry in China in 2011? [49:56] In 2017, Tom launched Homestead Smart Health Plans where he now serves Founder and Chairman. He explains more about the different components of the health plans. [54:49] What is stop loss? [57:28] What is the typical profile of a company or employer that uses these plans? [58:41] Who are some competitors to Tom's model? [59:40] How much effort has Tom had to put into educating the market? [1:00:42] What impact could a single payer system have on Tom's company, and is it likely to happen? [1:02:02] What are Tom's biggest fears and greatest hopes for the benefits industry? [1:03:45] What is Tom's leadership style? [1:05:57] Who were some big influences in Tom's life? [1:07:58] Who are some leaders that Tom admires today? [1:09:27] If Tom were mayor, what would he change about the city immediately? [1:11:45] What advice would Tom give his younger self? Links: Tom Knox on LinkedIn Preferred Benefits Group Ed Rendell Fidelity Mutual Fidelity Insurance UnitedHealthcare of Pennsylvania Homestead Smart Health Plans Ocwen Sunrise Banks Progress Bank Ron Kaplan

Are Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and the rest ready for Trump next year? And will Democrats opt for impeachment? Michael talks with Ed Rendell and reveals all. Ed Rendell was the 45th governor of Pennsylvania. He's the former mayor of Philadelphia and served as chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the 2000 presidential election. He is now co-chairman of the Immigration Task Force at the Bipartisan Policy Center.

In this week’s episode, Editor-in-Chief Mark Kass talked with Ed Rendell, keynote speaker for MBJ’s recent DNC Forum.  Rendell shared some of his first-hand experience from hosting the DNC in Philadelphia in 2016. He was chairman of the host committee of that event, and mayor of Philly when the 2000 Republican National Convention was held there. He spoke about how the DNC will affect businesses inside and outside of the broad security perimeter, and the possible long-term benefits Milwaukee could enjoy from hosting next year.  Later on, MBJ reporter Sean Ryan visited the headquarters of Bader Philanthropies on Martin Luther King Drive this week to hear from president Dan Bader and Katie Sanders, executive director of Safe and Sound, which has been working with Bader in the area. Bader and Sanders gave Ryan a better idea of economic development in the neighborhoods outside of downtown that are so important to the city’s future, and their future plans. For more information on the stories featured in today’s episode, visit https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/  

After Joe Biden railed against "smart guns" on last night's democratic debate stage, Ken tears apart his lack of gun knowledge. Also, Ken plays back a portion of this morning's Rich Zeoli Show, in which Ed Rendell seemingly doesn't know what the word "ban" means. 

Host and KYW Newsradio community affairs reporter Cherri Gregg asks the burning questions about ageism in the workplace. The Flashpoint newsmaker of the week is former Pa. Governor Ed Rendell who is on the board of SafeHouse a non-profit looking to open a safe injection site. The Changemaker of the week is the #PromGearExchange. Flashpoint airs every Saturday at 9:30pm and Sunday at 8:30am on KYW Newsradio. Subscribe to the Flashpoint Podcast on the Apple Podcast, Radio.com or others apps where you get your podcast by searching "Flashpoint KYW." See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Democratic Congressman John Garamendi tells SE how his party plans to block Trump from accessing emergency funds; The GOP starts up the spin cycle to explain away executive overreach, as Trump blames a certain former House Speaker for the border wall predicament; Former PA Gov. Ed Rendell talks about how Republicans use progressive proposals to paint Democrats as radical; Trump's former campaign chair could spend the rest of his life behind bars; Amazon's failed HQ2 bid in NYC highlights a rift in the Democratic party; New details emerge from the Jussie Smollett attack

In fall 2014, Strong Towns founder Chuck Marohn participated in the America Answers forum put on by the Washington Post, sharing a stage with, among others, then-Vice President Biden and then-Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx. In this reflection recorded after the fact, Chuck analyzes clips of three forum participants’ remarks on the subject of infrastructure spending: Andrew Card, who served as White House Chief of Staff under George W. Bush and Transportation Secretary under George H.W. Bush; Ed Rendell, the Governor of Pennsylvania from 2003 to 2011; and Vice President Joe Biden. Their respective framings of America’s infrastructure crisis inspire Chuck to ponder a disappointing reality of recent American politics: neither the political left nor the right seems to talk about infrastructure coherently. Chuck’s diagnosis is more specific, and might upset some of the partisans in the crowd. Thinkers on the right, he says in this 2015 recording, tend to offer all the right solutions to all the wrong problems. Those on the left, on the other hand, do a better job of identifying the truly pressing problems facing society, but then offer counterproductive solutions. Whether you agree or disagree with this assertion, or think it still holds true in 2019, there’s a lot to dig into in this excellent podcast episode. Vice President Biden frames infrastructure in context of the broader problem of income inequality. And he’s right, says Chuck. Our auto-centric transportation system, which we can’t afford to maintain, creates an enormous cost for individuals and households. “It’s a huge ante that you have to spend to be in the game”—to have access to the jobs and opportunity that cities provide. Unless, of course, you can spend a fortune for a home in a desirably-located location. Where Biden and Rendell go wrong is in advocating, almost indiscriminately, for throwing money at infrastructure problems without reforming the systems by which we prioritize our investments. “It all comes back to the oldest story of this country: build, build, build, build,” says Biden. That’s how you grow a middle class. That’s how you produce prosperity. Unless, of course, the stuff you’re building is actually saddling you with future obligations you can’t hope to repay. Andrew Card goes wrong in his understanding of what kind of investments are productive, says Chuck. “Texas has an advantage” over the Northeast in solving infrastructure problems, Card claims, because “they have a lot of land” on which to build cheaply. But this is better understood not as an advantage but as the biggest obstacle facing a place like Texas: “How do we connect all these far-flung places?” Where Card has a crucial insight is where it comes to solutions to our infrastructure woes: they must involve feedback mechanisms. When the users of infrastructure pay for its maintenance, we end up building things that make sense in the long run. When those who pay and make funding decisions don’t have skin in the game, we end up with things like the TIGER grant program, which has a history of funding bizarre, unnecessary, crazy projects. Let’s talk about user finance, says Card. Instead of the gas tax, how about taxing vehicle miles traveled, or the weight of vehicles (corresponding to wear and tear on roads)? How about incentives for trucks to drive at night to relieve daytime congestion? How do we get more real value out of the system we have? “What we’re trying to do at Strong Towns,” says Chuck, “is push back against this approach of throwing our weight and our might at these problems over and over again, like some kind of punch-drunk sailor.” To have a more rational conversation on American infrastructure, we desperately need to grapple with the difference between mere spending and truly productive investment.

Governor Ed Rendell is a lawyer, author, and politician. From 1992 until 2000, he served as the Mayor of Philadelphia. Shortly after that, in 2001, he was elected 45th Governor of Pennsylvania, and would go on to serve two terms. In this episode, we’ll hear how he got his start in public service as Philadelphia District Attorney in the early 80s. He'll share how representing everyday Philadelphians inspired him to devote his career to Philly. We’ll talk about his time as mayor, when he inherited a city on the brink of bankruptcy. He managed to balance the budget, achieve a surplus for 5 years, and set in motion the renaissance that created the city we know today. And, we’ll talk about how, in the 80s, Governor Rendell almost quit politics altogether after his first two attempts at public office. @GovEdRendell on Twitter 1993 NY Times Article - "Philadelphia Climbs Out of Fiscal Depths and Builds by Sharing Sacrifices" Support Philly Who? Donate via Paypal, Venmo: @podphillywho, Become a Monthly Patron, Purchase a T-Shirt or Hat, Become a Sponsor

This month we discuss the joys and complexities of our recent public Israel celebrations; talk with Rabbi Rachel Kobrin about domestic abuse through a Jewish lens; and we pay tribute to the first Jewish person ever elected to public office in the U.S. – in 1774. In honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary, we also sat down with politician and lawyer Gov. Ed Rendell to talk about his connections to Judaism, bringing Israeli businesses to Philadelphia, and of course, the Eagles Superbowl win.

This month we discuss the joys and complexities of our recent public Israel celebrations; talk with Rabbi Rachel Kobrin about domestic abuse through a Jewish lens; and we pay tribute to the first Jewish person ever elected to public office in the U.S. – in 1774. In honor of Israel’s 70th anniversary, we also sat down with politician and lawyer Gov. Ed Rendell to talk about his connections to Judaism, bringing Israeli businesses to Philadelphia, and of course, the Eagles Superbowl win.

Ed Rendell is a Philadelphia legend. Ed began his career as an elected official when his campaigning in bars and subways paid off, and he was elected as the youngest District Attorney in Philadelphia history at the age of 32 in 1976. He served as the Mayor of Philadelphia from 1991-2000 and Governor of Pennsylvania from 2003-2011. It wasn’t exactly an easy road. Ed lost back to back elections in 1986 and 1987 and was thought to be finished politically. Take a listen to hear how he got his start, and how he battled back after losing two elections.   :05 - What is a day in the life of Ed Rendell now? 2:30 - Do you miss holding elected office? 12:10 - Can you talk about prosecuting Mumia Abu-Jamal? 16:40 - What kind of resistance did you get for the second Mayoral run? 17:40 - What can we do to ease racial tensions today? 20:44 - You never had a Democratic legislature. How did you work with the Republicans? 23:00 - Do you think there’s a fear to compromise by the purists? 25:50 - Are we one-step closer to getting rid of the electoral college? 27:30 - What’s the biggest lesson you’d want to impart on people?

Ed Rendell calls BS on the legend of NRA power.

This week: This week we take at the state of America's infrastructure with former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell. He's also the co-founder of Building America's Future, an organization committed to improving the US infrastructure system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this edition of the Cover 2 podcast, Don Banks and Nick Stevens recap the AFC and NFC Championships and preview Super Bowl LII. Guests today include the former governor of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Eagles Super Fan, Ed Rendell. 

Carbon Capture and Storage has the potential to dramatically reduce the carbon emissions from the burning of coal. Yet the technology’s boosters need to overcome high costs, and major infrastructure challenges, if they’re to make a dent in emissions. --- Carbon capture and storage offers the promise of slashing carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, and has been touted by some in the electricity industry as part of a basket of “clean coal” technologies that will dramatically reduce the fuel’s environmental impact and provide a lifeline to the U.S. coal sector. Yet CCS is the only clean coal technology that has yet to prove feasible at a scale, and existing CCS projects are few and far between. Kleinman Center for Energy Policy senior fellow John Quigley takes a look at efforts to reduce the technology’s cost and the relative lack of government support to date for CCS. Quigley also discusses CCS’s environmental promise and whether it can be deployed in time to make a positive climate impact. Guest John Quigley served as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from January 2015 to May 2016 and as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources from 2009 to 2011. Quigley led some of the nation’s most advanced work on the potential of Carbon Capture and Storage under former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell. He is currently a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy.

Co-chairs of 'Building America’s Future Educational Fund', Ed Rendell, former Governor of Pennsylvania, and Ray LaHood, President Obama's Secretary of Transportation, join Rick and Michael to preview "infrastructure week". The guys continue to cover the political fallout from President Trump's dismissal of former FBI Director James Comey.

This week, Josh talks to Don Montrey (ComedySportz Philadelphia) about insulting Ed Rendell from the stage, the draw of Philadelphia over New York, and dropping roots for comedy in Philadelphia. The Dirtiest Sketch in Philadelphia returns to the Philly Sketchfest stage on November 18 at 10pm at the Playground at the Adrienne. Tickets available at ticketfly.com. ComedySportz performed every Saturday at the Playground at the Adrienne. For more information, head to comedysportzphilly.com.

with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen

with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen

(Bloomberg) -- Taking Stock with Kathleen Hays and Pimm Fox.u0010u0010GUEST:u0010Ed Rendell, Former Pennsylvania Governor and Democratic National Committee Chairman, on the political implications of Brexit on the US election and landscape.

Jerry Zahorchak served as the Pennsylvania Secretary of Education under Governor Rendell and has successfully led multiple school districts as Superintendent. Throughout his career he's held key leadership positions including principal, strategic planning coordinator, federal programs director, teacher, and football coach.Show Notes Sights & Sounds of Marketing: "No Reply at All" by Genesis Recommendation: making definitions for public relations, targeting, and target markets. Ed Rendell and the Punxsutawney Phil event Walter Cronkite final show listed here Learn more about Patrick M. Lencioni, click here.Contact InformationJerry Zahorchak can be reached at:Jerryz8551@yahoo.comTwitter: Jerryz8551LinkedIn: Jerry Zahorchak

Edition #329 Welcome President Brown   Act 1: Recruiting a party with spine - Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Act 2: Balance of the Senate - It's all politics Act 3: You have the majority, now act like it - The Young Turks Act 4: Caller says election was Thom's fault - Thom Hartmann Act 5: Dems must fight back - Colbert Report Act 6: Ed Rendell on doing something - Rachel Maddow Act 7: Brown election and the filibuster - On the Media Act 8: Give them a reason to vote for you - The Young Turks Act 9: Obama's ballsy speech - Le Show Act 10: What to do with less than 60 - Rachel Maddow   Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content: Brown win allows Jon Stewart to retire - Daily Show   Music: Runnin down a dream - Tom Petty And it spread - The Avett Brothers Wake Up Little Suzie - Everly Brothers Don't look back in anger - Oasis Happy - SIster Hazel Finding something to do - Hellogoodbye Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle & Sebastian Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2 Slight figure of speech - The Avett Brothers   Produced by: Jay!   Thanks for listening! Check out the Best of the Left iPhone/iPod Touch App in the App Store! Visit us at www.BestOfTheLeft.com Contact me directly at Jay@BestOfTheLeft.com Vote for us and leave comments at www.PodcastAlley.com or Review the show on iTunes.

Destinee Maree, once an Amtrak employees talent search winner, only child act in the Philadelphia International Records Talent search, performed for Philadelphia, PA mayor and PA governor Ed Rendell, asked to sing for President Clinton of the United States, opening act for WPVI TV channel 6 Millennium Morning 2000 live. The Mirage in New York City, a live demo at a recording studio in California, Zanzibar Blue, Warm Daddy's, Chez Labelle, Hard Rock Café, Blue Moon Café, the Adams Mark Hotel, a Budweiser affair, W.D.A.S. radio Unity Day celebration, Penn Memorial celebration for Reverend Jesse Jackson, sang the National Anthem for the pre-season opening and regular games for the Philadelphia 76er's basketball team, boxing matches at the Adams Mark Hotel, the Stadium Holiday Inn and the Legendary Blue Horizon auditorium Philadelphia, PA and for world champion Bernard Hopkins. Wilkes Productions promoted a solo show titled “An Evening With Destinee” she was the featured entertainer/main event act with her band “Black Diamond” She performed six consecutive years at the Caesar's Casino and Hotel, Showboat, Taj Mahal and the Trump Plaza in Atlantic City, NJ for the National United Affiliated Beverage Association,was in a Leading role in the Dinah Washington Story in a theatre in Philadelphia, PA., has The late Grover Washington, George Benson, Billy Paul, John Legend, Patty LaBelle and host others.

Governor Ed Rendell (D-PA) addresses the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo.