Suburban Radio Station Praises Suburban Candidate

This morning, future mayor of the combined city of New South Jersadelphia — “The City of Brotherly Something Or Other” — one Milton Street showed up to talk about his campaign on 610 WIP. But of course, you say! Right. The Inquirer’s very own award-winning headline writer, Peter Mucha, liveblogged the whole thing, which is a pretty nice service for those of us who don’t want to listen to it.

The brief recap: Cataldi says he’s supporting Street and “his brilliant new strategy.” Milton’s brilliant new strategy, apparently, is to tell black people to stop killing each other: “You’re never going to take white’s folks taxes… and put ‘em in the black community so black folks can stop killing each other.” Well, ehm, okay.

Milton Street also is backtracking on his promise that if 5,000 people don’t show up at his rally March 3 at City Hall, he’s going to drop out of the race. He says that just a lot of people will do.

Despite not living in Philadelphia, Cataldi says Milton Street has his vote. (Yeah, I’d put in the “well if Milton can run for mayor while living in Jersey” joke here, but Cataldi already made it.) Then, after the interview, former Eagles defensive end/ambassador of fun/Terrell Owens attacker Hugh Douglas became the voice of sanity:

“That was a shame. That was a shame. I don’t even know what to say after that … You know, two crazy people on the radio shouldn’t talk to each other. … It’s ridiculous. I can’t believe you did that.”

Anyway, I feel that since Cataldi is a Milton Street supporter, he should go the extra mile and run on his ticket for the position I just made up, Vice Mayor. Hey, if an indicted New Jersey resident can run for mayor, I don’t see why a suburban radio host can’t run for a made-up position. Cataldi is expected to run on a platform of tax breaks for Steven Singer and tax-exempt status for wing-related events.

If you have a better stomach than I do — oh, who am I kidding, I was up at 6 to listen to it — 610 WIP has the whole thing up as an MP3.

Milton on the Morning Show [610 WIP, .mp3]
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