Nutter Picks Up Lapsed Catholic Endorsement

Yesterday, Tom Knox supporters attempted to gain votes by distributing the flier above (click to enlarge), which alleges Michael Nutter and Bob Brady are lapsed Catholics.

Michael Nutter? He was Catholic when it was convenient for him, so he could get a quality Catholic education. Now? He quietly left the Catholic Church to become a Baptist, probably because his polls told him it would be a smart move. ¶ Bob Brady? He admitted that he never attends mass.

Somehow, I don’t think this is going to work as well as the mysterious flier distributor wants it to. Do you know how many lapsed Catholics there are? Michael Nutter might’ve just picked up a couple votes from the young, bored Christmas-and-Easter crowd. (Bob Brady said he’s a regular churchgoer, so that part appears to be just a lie.)

Nice boost for the Prep there, though. “The school people will sit through Church for!”

Nutter has responded to the direct attacks on his religious preference in the Inquirer article about the fliers. Quoth that heathen Baptist:

“It’s clear to me, based on the other filthy literature Tom Knox has been mailing out, that this is clearly more of his nasty tactics,” Nutter said, brushing off Knox’s denial.

Then, standing in front of the Philadelphia Zoo, where he had gone to meet voters, Nutter put both hands in his pants pockets and calmly disparaged Knox in the most brutal language of the campaign.

“Tom Knox is a low life and a scumbag for being associated with this kind of vile, vicious kind of literature,” he said. “It is an absolute insult to all churchgoers and Christians that this kind of literature is handed out in front of churches. All we are left to ask is this question: Tom Knox, have you no dignity?”

Mike Nutter, of course, has the support of KKK members across the city. Another West Philly flier makes essentially that point, uses the Daily News‘ Elwood Smith’s famous photo of Black Panthers being strip searched on a raid in Philadelphia, with the caption: “A vote for Nutter is a vote for racial profiling.”

God, for his part, endorsed Pennsylvania State Rep. Dwight Evans. Evans poll numbers went from 3% to 5% after the endorsement.

Religious attacks late in mayor’s race [Inquirer]