The Shame of a City (2006)

In 1904 author Lincoln Steffens wrote Philadelphia is a city that is corrupt and contented In 2003 filmmaker Tigre Hill chronicled the Philadelphia mayoral race between Democrat incumbent mayor John Street and Republican challenger Sam Katz Early polls showed Katz with a small lead Hill had inside access to the Katz campaign and although rebuffed by the Street campaign managed to get footage Twentyseven days before the election an FBI bug was found in the mayor s office It looked like 1904 all over againblatant corruption The discovery of the bug at first seemed like a death knell to the Street campaign and a near certain victory for Katz How did the mayor react to the bug This powerful documentary shows howdrum up support by polarizing the electorate