- ABC debuts "Homeland Security USA"
- Library Closings: They Have Never Really Been About The Budget Crisis
- DA's Job to Prosecute Environmental Crime
- Is the number of branch libraries in Philly significantly out of line with cities of comparable size?
- Nutter Doesn't Have to Follow the Law says Seventy
- National Media Ridicule Nutter's $100 Million Casino Request as Pork
- What we Need from Harrisburg to Protect Low-Income Property Owners
- Local resistance to Israeli crimes
- Bulletin to Harrisburg: Philadelphia is Part of Pennsylvania
- Today's Email from Siobhan Reardon
Congratulations to Michael Nutter, Maria Quiñones Sanchez, Ellen Green-Ceisler, Jim Kenney, Wilson Goode
Submitted by Dan U-A on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 7:27pm.
I will get into my dad's race at some point. But, for now, I just want to say a couple really big congratulations to:
Michael Nutter, for Stopping Knox. Thank. Effing. God. I have not agreed with some of what the Mayor-elect has done, but I voted for him, and I am hopeful that he will do good things. But, especially, congrats to the people who worked hard for him. There are a lot of you, and you believed in your guy, even when poll after poll said it was not going to happen. And, as someone is really pretty sick of the Philadelphia political system, I am glad that the message that is being taken away is that people are pretty sick of the Philadelphia political system.
Maria Quiñones Sanchez. More on Maria soon; but, Maria has just become the embodiment of hope for a lot of progressives. Put simply, she kicks butt.
Ellen Green-Ceisler. I hope she goes into Family Court, and fixes what is an altogether broken system.
Jim Kenney and Wilson Goode. The voters noticed that the two of you are active in working to find solutions in Philadelphia. Congratulations.
Bookmark/Search this post with:
Bob Brady
Without Bob Brady in this race, Mayor Knox. Give the guy some props for running a real race at 15% when many said he was dead. He kept us from the Knox/Dougherty/Blackwell Axis of Evil.
Brady has recently earned a leadeship position in the US Congress that will help our city, and help Mike Nutter acomplish his goals for a forward thinking city that matters.
www.jameskenney.com
www.311forphilly.com
Not axis of evil...
I'd refer to Knox/Johnny Doc/Blackwell as more of the Axis of more-of-the-same, or perhaps Axis of Semi-competence.
Not quite incompetent, but too close for comfort,
-Z
Live from, um, upstairs at Black Sheep
site of the Nutter after-party earlier this morning. For those like Dan, who thanked us, your welcome.
You are one especially magnanimous yound dude, Mr. UA. If I were you I'd be so pissed about the way Teflon Donna escaped again. Like I just told Alex, Mara Q-S is the great model for good people winning the second time around.
Quick prediction: Who will be the Michael Nutter-good-government-type on the next Council? Maria!
Quick observation: Michael A. Nutter (Da MAN), I bet, will prove a mayor that some of us will LOVE, but others (among progressives) will be able to live with (please reserve judgement for a little while, Stan!).
Other quick observation: Nutter karma is here already: Cole Hamels has a PERFECT GAME through six innings!
Proudly supporting the whole BEAUTIFUL Philly For Change Ballot, featuring MICHAEL NUTTER for Mayor
With all due respect. Not buying it
Brady could have easily pushed more voters to Nutter. Nutter out polled Brady in Brady's own ward and division. I think Brady hurt Nutter more than he hurt Knox.
What leadership position has Brady recently attained? I look forward to all elected leaders working together for the betterment of our city. It's how it should work.
Chairman, Committee on House Administration
http://cha.house.gov/
The security of the Capitol
First thought: I pity the fool/terrorist who tries to mess with Bob Brady.
Second thought: I wonder if Brady can buy the elephants from Baltimore for the National Zoo, and then give them back to Philadelphia?
Well.
The good news is that CHA also oversees a lot of electoral issues, including the still-disputed results in FL-13.
The bad news is that the one time I had a client set to testify before his committee, in 2005, I called Cong. Brady's office to let him know we were coming, that both I and the witness were in the district, and that we'd be happy to walk him through the issues, etc. (It dealt with exempting online activity from campaign finance law.) Not only did Brady's office not call me back, the Congressman did not attend the hearing.
In his Radio TImes interview today
he said that they call that particular chairman the "mayor of Washington," because he controls all of the money.
Keith, with all due respect, it's nuts
to think Brady's stronger-than-expected showing didn't hurt Knox more than it hurt Michael.
Once again, I point people's attention toward the Northeast and South Philly. Those Brady votes were very unlikely to be Nutter votes.
Wait 'til 2011, though. Michael's going to win over white voters who have never cast a vote for a black man.
(Shoot! Hardy homer ends Hamels no-hitter and shutout!)
Proudly supporting the whole BEAUTIFUL Philly For Change Ballot, featuring MICHAEL NUTTER for Mayor
Sam is right
Nutter's biggest concern was that Brady would not siphon enough Knox voters away from Knox. Brady did, and Nutter won. Without Brady in the race Nutter may not have won. On the other hand without Knox in the race who knows what happens.
Without Brady in the race...
... who else would have been in? Saidel? Dougherty?
Saidel, for sure.
That's why he declined another term as Controller. His appeal would have been more regional -- stronger in the Northeast than Brady, weaker in South Philadelphia.
South by Northeast
Nutter's support was softer in South Philadelphia, at least in the districts Brady won, than the Northeast, but not terrible, better than 15%. Nutter was very strong in the 1st (30%) and pulled similar numbers (25-30%) in the far Northeast -- the farther the better, beating Brady in most cases. But nonetheless -- if Brady's votes go for Knox instead, Knox wins. (And if Knox had those numbers all along, it would have been very hard for Nutter to get any momentum.)
You could argue that there were two races: Nutter vs. Fattah and Knox vs. Brady. But ultimately, Nutter won bigger in his big wards than Knox did in his, and Nutter was much more competitive in Knox/Brady fights than Knox was in Nutter/Fattah showdowns.
In point of fact, though, the odds are good that at least 20 of those white voters in South Philly and the Northeast voted for a black man in 2007 -- Michael Nutter.
Brady's fought Knox from the beginning and deserves the cred...
and also I have to say was a stand up guy this morning on Radio Times today. He literally sounded like he didn't even want to dwell on the mayor's race and said "I'm gonna work even harder now in DC to bring home more goodies and whatever Mayor Nutter needs I'm there for him."
FYI - Brady will now be Chair of the "House Committee" (since the death of the CA congresswoman) which oversees election reform, salaries, security and the general order of things. It's a great position for him and I'm glad to see him in it.
I have to say this race turned out exactly as I could have dreamed. Nutter winning, and all these guys who still have jobs in Congress or Harrisburg going back to a Democratic Majority. Now Fattah can push the fight for poverty with a real federal budget and Evans can appropriate us some SEPTA funding.
Michael's Northeast vote
and, to be honest, Tom Knox's black vote all over the city, shows that race didn't matter as much this year as it has in, like, every other vote in the history of the city.
And you know what? We should feel good about that. Really.
Wilson Goode Sr. was the great pioneer. Bob Brady did his part right afterward. Love him or hate him, John Street made further inroads.
Now Michael is helping to make our great city just a little more interested in the content of a man's (and let's hope soon: a woman's) character and less in the color of his skin.
Philadelphia is growing up.
(Phils win! Hamels W, Myers finishes)
Thanking all the valiant candidates endorsed by Philly For Change, and looking forward with GREAT expectations to the first four years of MAYOR MICHAEL A. NUTTER!
Knox's anti-Nutter strategy
I moved out of Philly on May 1st, so I missed most of the last couple weeks of campaigning. One thing I did notice when I cleared out my Philly mailbox on Saturday was that Tom Knox had filled up my mailbox with anti-Nutter direct mail. I wonder if this anti-Nutter blitz (if in fact it was a blitz, and not just something that happened to me) was a mistake on Knox's part because focusing the attention on Nutter solidified Nutter's status as the alternative to Knox. The material was pretty well done, but even at the time, I thought it would have been wiser to send out both anti-Nutter and anti-Fattah so as not to identify Nutter to anti-Knox voters as the correct strategic choice. (And perhaps in another neighborhood anti-Nutter and anti-Brady lit, or anti-Nutter and anti-Evans.) Did anyone else also get a bunch of anti-Nutter mail from Knox?
Philadelphia misses you already, Ben
And, well, you know...it's hard to disguise desperation negative attacks meant to suppress the vote of the frontrunner. I mean, sure, Knox could have attacked Michael and Chaka, but then he'd look racist, which could have hurt his solid support in the African-American community.
Attack Nutter, Fattah, and Brady and he would've diluted significantly the anti-Nutter message that was the point in the first place.
Maybe a two-part anti-Nutter/anti-Brady piece would have been the way to go, somehow trying to link the two as party elite. If it would have been effective, I'm glad Knox's people didn't think of it.
But I don't think it would've mattered. Most people believed Michael was at least partly outside the traditional machine because he was so anti-Street.
i>Thanking all the valiant candidates endorsed by Philly For Change, and looking forward with GREAT expectations to the first four years of MAYOR MICHAEL A. NUTTER!
Thank you
I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank everyone who supported my campaign for City Council At-Large. Although disappointed, I am not discouraged and will continue to push forward. The citizens have voted and collectively we have brought some change to Philadelphia.
Thanks again.