Mayor’s Race To Excite ~5 Percent Of Residents

Hey, kids! Don’t forget! We got a mayor’s race coming up!

Despite Michael Nutter winning the election back in May, there’s still a formality of electing him again in November, because of this pesky thing called “democracy” which doesn’t let the Democratic party just win every election even though they have a 9π-to-1 (or something) registration edge in the city. And so, Nutter must fight back such candidates as Republican and ex-landscaper Al Taubenberger, awesome meatpacking socialist John Staggs, nobody from the Green Party — Kerry Foster, where are you? — and independent ineligible write-in candidate Larry West.

So far, it’s been the friendliest mayoral race in history, with Taubenberger going so far as to say that maybe the Democrats haven’t done the best job at running the city, but they haven’t bombed any city blocks in a while, so, you know. Larry West has also apparently been making the rounds attempting to get the Ozzfest voting bloc, from this comment on his Myspace: “Hahahaha, it was nice meeting you before Ozzfest.”

KYW 1060 reports Labor Day is the unofficial start of the campaign season in Philadelphia, but nobody is really going to notice this year since Taubenberger has like 50 bucks in the bank and a website from 1994 with “Page 1″ in the title field.

Philadelphia Mayor’s Race, Easy To Overlook [KYW 1060]