Cleanup A Success No Thanks To Me

Michael Nutter was scheduled to announce this morning the citywide cleanup Saturday was a success; if cleanliness is next to godliness, then Philadelphia has escaped hell for purgatory.

On a report on Fox Saturday night, the mayor said that a clean city is a safe city. And then he added: “23,000 public employees, a million and a half citizens, we can’t do it all by ourselves. Your work, Kerri-Lee, and the many others who have gotten involved in this, it really makes a difference.”

Woo-hoo! Anybody tells you Philadelphia Will Do makes a difference, you can tell them I didn’t post about the citywide cleanup¹ and that I strive every day to not make a difference. I do enjoy Nutter’s shirt from benevolent corporate sponsor Verizon. There is no doubt Nutter is simply trying to emulate Bernard Hopkins and his GoldenPalace.com temporary tattoo.

Report from Fox 29’s Kerri-Lee Halkett after the jump. (Standard Redlasso it-could-kill-your-computer warning.)

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Nutter Asks For 10,000 Cleaners

By now you may have heard that Michael Nutter is attempting to clean up our city. He’s going to go out with a mop and bucket himself and clean up City Hall (or something), and he wants 10,000 men people to clean up with city on April 5.

He wants us to remove on million pounds of trash from our city’s streets on 5,000 city blocks, and he even has a nice press release quote that even tells us when we have to be clean: “I want thousands of Philadelphians to join me out in the streets of this city from 9am to 2pm on April 5th to make our city beautiful.”

And after 2 pm: Littering party!