{"id":3414,"date":"2002-02-19T16:30:40","date_gmt":"2002-02-19T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=3414"},"modified":"2021-02-22T05:05:27","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T10:05:27","slug":"feuding-phila-council-members-sez-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/19\/feuding-phila-council-members-sez-you\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Feuding Phila. Council Members: &#8216;Sez You!'&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n\n\n<p>Tony Romeo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kyw1060.com\/news_story_detail.cfm?newsitemid=19236\">reports<\/a> for KYW news radio. This short article from the KYW website is cited here in full: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Results are inconclusive following a lie detector test administered to a Philadelphia city councilman who accused another councilman of an ethnic slur<\/p><p>The spat between First District councilman Frank DiCicco and Seventh District councilman Richard Mariano stems from the bitter dispute over council redistricting.<\/p><p>In a December meeting in Mayor Street&#8217;s office, DiCicco alleges that Mariano called some residents of Kensington&#8217;s 31st ward &#8220;trailer park Irish trash.&#8221; Mariano denies it.<\/p><p>Enter the Daily News. A la mayor Frank Rizzo in 1973, the paper arranged for DiCicco to take a polygraph test.<\/p><p>But the results of the test are inconclusive. City editor Kurt Heine says the polygraph operator asked the operative question three different ways:<\/p><p>&#8220;In this case, each time he asked the question, the results stayed in a range that were inconclusive. It didn&#8217;t go the positive or the negative that would allow him to make a conclusion.&#8221;<\/p><p>But it&#8217;s not over yet. Heine says DiCicco has agreed to another polygraph test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Romeo reports for KYW news radio. This short article from the KYW website is cited here in full: Results are inconclusive following a lie detector test administered to a Philadelphia city councilman who accused another councilman of an ethnic slur The spat between First District councilman Frank DiCicco and Seventh District councilman Richard Mariano &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[385,119],"class_list":{"0":"post-3414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-pennsylvania","8":"tag-philadelphia","9":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3414\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}