Jim Hasher is running for a Philadelphia City Council at-large seat. He is the owner of a realty firm and a North Philly restaurant, and is president of the Torresdale Boys’ Club.
“We need to make sure that every available avenue of help is going to come this way,” Hasher said.Hasher was born in Philadelphia and says he has basically never left, save for a few trips to Wildwood and a honeymoon in Florida. He lives in Torresdale with his wife, Stacie, and has five sons who range in age from 17 to 31. His second oldest son, Patrick, is his campaign manager.
In addition to his businesses and his work as president of the Torresdale Boys Club, Hasher has long been connected to the city’s Republican Party apparatus. He’s a former GOP ward leader, and he unsuccessfully ran for Congress in 1994.Hasher said if elected, one of the first things he would do is introduce a bill to waive the realty transfer tax for first-time home buyers. The tax is currently 4.278% of the sale price or the assessed value of the property.
Those benefits, he said, include thousands of unionized construction jobs and the tax revenue that would come from the arena. “We can open this up the right way,” he said. “And I think it’s hypocritical to protest 10,000 union jobs.”Hasher said he considers himself a centrist Republican and does not entirely align ideologically with the national party.
“I want to rip the label off of this from day one,” he said. “This is not about a Republican race or a Democratic race. This is about whose vision is best for the city.”
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