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Yesterday, the five major Democratic mayoral candidates met for a debate and forum at the flower show (of course). All of them (also of course) were committed to building environmentally friendly buildings in the City of Philadelphia. The Inquirer’s Michael Currie Schaffer sums up how the forum went:
Here, the only difference was the number of trees they vowed to plant: Knox has promised 23,000; Evans, 50,000; and Fattah, 100,000 - over the course of eight years if he was elected and reelected.
Hot diggity! The Daily News‘ Dave Davies opts to focus instead on the only real testy exchange of the evening, a battle between Tom Knox and Michael Nutter:
Former City Councilman Michael Nutter drew applause for his pledge to revamp city planning and zoning procedures, and he got into the evening’s sharpest exchange after a friendly barb at Knox, a self-made millionaire.
Nutter noted that Knox had said something about avoiding storm-water fees (actually Knox said he’d paid them) and recalled Knox saying at an earlier forum that he got SEPTA’s senior discount.
“Tom, are you paying for anything?” Nutter asked, drawing laughs from the audience.
“I promise I paid more taxes last year than you ever paid,” Knox said, earning some chuckles and scattered boos.
“Obviously, you have more money than I do,” Nutter said.
Oh snap! There are forums every day the rest of this week, so there should be plenty of more amusing things the candidates will say that I can turn into crappy Photoshops or easy posts or whatever. God bless America.
Candidates go for the green at Flower Show [Inquirer]
Mayoral candidates all of a color [Daily News]
[Gilligan hat on Tom Knox via Bob Denver's official website]
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What? Nothing about T. Milton’s withdrawal from the mayor’s race (yes, I realize this was posted prior to that announcement, whatever)? Don’t mourn–a City Council run is good too, yes?