Results: Philadelphia City Controller

With nearly 95% of the precincts reporting, it looks like incumbent Alan Butkovitz is walking away a clear winner in this year's City Controller race. He is keeping his seat with 72% of the vote, while Al Schmidt only managed to sway 28% of the voters. WHYY reporter Elizabeth Fiedler caught up with a humbled Butkovitz at his victory party last evening where he had this to say:

The reason I ran for Controller is that I thought it was a key office in terms of identifying the things that make the city work for the people or not. What happens in a financial crisis is that everybody sees that and the question of money becomes very important when the city doesn't have any money or when people don't have any money. It also gives you the opportunity to push for reform and change during periods of crisis.

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