Daily News | A bar fight, a heart attack, and 12 years of sobriety: Jimmy Harrity’s path to Philadelphia City Council
In 2003, during former Mayor John F. Street’s acrimonious reelection campaign, Jimmy Harrity was at a Delaware County bar, wearing a Street button. Another patron, who like Harrity was white, snarled a racist epithet about a white man who was supporting a Black politician.
Raised in Southwest Philadelphia in a working-class Irish Catholic family, Harrity bounced around high schools before dropping out when he was 17. They became friends, and Saidel hired Harrity as an investigator in the controller’s office, bringing Harrity into the fold of local Democratic machine politics. That would eventually land him a job working on Street’s Neighborhood Transformation Initiative.
After surviving a heart attack, Harrity quit drinking and started attending Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. He volunteered on political campaigns, and in 2016 worked on the successful state Senate campaign of Sharif Street, the former mayor’s son, and left construction to join Street’s office.
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