Mayor's Office
The Brief: Philly’s Strict Campaign Finance Rules Are a Success! Sort Of …
1. Philly’s Campaign Finance Reform, Against All Odds, Is Still Kind of Working The gist: Look, it’s true: Super PACs, which can spend unlimited amounts of money […]
The Mayoral Forum Dilemma: Which Group to Offend Tonight?
This morning, Citified highlighted an Inquirer story about a sparsely attended (by the candidates) mayoral forum centered on the question of poverty and hosted by […]
The Brief: En Masse, Philly Political Elites Are Turning on Anthony Williams
1. Anthony Williams’s campaign — once considered a juggernaut — is listing badly. Political elites are jumping ship, and the press has turned sharply critical. […]
Dear Philadelphia Media: Stop Calling the Mayoral Race Boring
Yesterday, Citified’s Holly Otterbein was the latest journalist covering this year’s primary to call the race “dull.” This isn’t to pick on Holly. Plenty of other generally […]
School Activists, Students, Dropping In on Williams Campaign’s Wealthy Backers
[ORIGINAL: 3: 50 p.m.] Well, we’ve apparently reached the stage of the mayoral campaign where theatrics will start to play a larger role. The […]
Tony Williams Would Fire Chuck Ramsey and Mayor Nutter Thinks That’s Stupid
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter rushed to defend Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey’s honor after two mayoral candidates said they would fire him during a televised debate Tuesday.
New Nelson Diaz Ad Piles on Jim Kenney
Another ad bashing mayoral frontrunner Jim Kenney is on the tube. Former city solicitor Nelson Diaz unveiled his first campaign advertisement Wednesday, which takes Kenney to task on police accountability and attacks state Sen. […]
The Brief: Tony Williams Misses Opportunity to Attack Jim Kenney at the Final Debate
1. The Last Televised Mayoral Debate Was a Snooze The gist: After a mostly dull campaign, the mayoral candidates finally seemed poised to go to war at Tuesday’s debate airing on […]
Op-Ed: Don’t Be Afraid of a Municipal Bank
(This op-ed is in response to recent articles on Phillymag.com about mayoral candidate Anthony Williams’s proposal to create a municipal bank. Otis Bullock supports Williams and […]
The Brief: Right Now, Jim Kenney Is Winning This Election
1. Kenney attacked, in debate and (potentially) on TV, and Doug Oliver generates the most poignant moment of the campaign. The gist: Jim Kenney was again […]
The Brief: The Inquirer* Endorses Anthony Williams, Philly Mag Endorses Jim Kenney*
1. Philadelphia magazine’s editors endorsed the “New” Jim Kenney for mayor, while the Inquirer (or at least Inquirer editor Bill Marimow) chose Anthony Williams. The […]
The (New) Jim Kenney for Mayor
In many ways, this has been the weirdest of Philadelphia mayoral elections. We mean that not in the sense of weird things happening — honestly, […]
The Brief: Why the “Philly Is Baltimore” Protest Was Mostly Peaceful
1. The “Philly Is Baltimore” Protest Was “Tensely Peaceful,” and That’s a Good Thing The Gist: After riots and looting broke out this week in Baltimore in the wake of […]
Unhappy With the Mayoral Options? Next Time, Make a Pledge for Someone Better
For over a year, the unofficial slogan of the 2015 Mayor’s Race has been THESE CANDIDATES SUCK. Nothing’s really changed that. Even as we’ve gotten to […]
The Brief: “We’re Sitting on a Powder Keg”
1. Baltimore, like Philadelphia, is largely led by black elected officials. Why was that not enough to prevent the protests and rioting? The Gist: Writes Adam […]