Puppies 4 Jack Kelly!

Just when you think Jack Kelly can’t work this “I’m the candidate who likes puppies the most!” shtick any harder, he goes and films a campaign video contained almost entirely of cute puppies and kittens.

And Jon Saidel — also holding a puppydog — thinks you should use one of your five City Council At-Large votes to the candidate that hates foy grass and loves four-legged and two-legged creatures. But what about spiders, Jack? How do you feel about eight-legged freaks?

Campaign Commercial 1 [YouTube]
Yesterday: Jack Kelly Unsure Of How Many Legs Ducks Have

‘Phillymag’ On Brady: ‘An Angle Of Significant Obtuseness’

In a profile in next month’s issue of Phillymag, Dan P. Lee writes about Bob Brady and the mayor’s race.

There’s a few nice items about the way Jonathan Saidel exited the race — “People were saying not only would they make sure that [Saidel] wouldn’t win the race, but that he’d have trouble finding work in Philadelphia, period.” — and includes a stellar description of Bob Brady’s belly:

His stomach is rotund, though firm and wonderfully shaped. It begins just below his large chest and stretches out and down at an angle of significant obtuseness.

Note to self: If Dan Lee ever asks for a quote, make sure to suck gut in first. (Did he also write that Bob Brady has big boobs, too?)

But Brady gets into the fun, too:

“Jon is home right now with a cold pack across his tummy. He had a hernia operation yesterday. And I talked to him yesterday and I talked to him in the hospital, and I’m going to see him late tonight. Jon Saidel’s my dearest friend in the world. He’s going to be my driver, my confidant, my David L. Cohen, my pillow to cry on, my crutch to crutch on.”

Boy, I bet Jon Saidel is really rooting for Bob to win the mayor’s race! What could be better than driving Bob Brady home so he can cry on your shoulder?

The Maybe Mayor [Phillymag]

Mayoral Race Cards

In a city that can’t even have a black quarterback throwing to and feuding with his black wide receiver without race somehow entering into the picture, it’s no surprise that race can’t stay out of the mayor’s race — uhh, the other kind of race — either.

NAACP head/snazzy hat wearer/attention whore Jerry Mondesire — hey, he was involved in McNabb thing, too! — blasted Brady yesterday for making Saidel drop out of the mayor’s race so he could run and not have to face another white candidate. Well, that’s Mondesire said happened, and that seems about right, although it probably has more to do with getting any candidates with bowl haircuts out of the race.

Then again, it’s Mondesire, and although he should be trusted a little more on politics than on sports, it seems like he just wants to be able to get black voters to rally around — guess who? — his candidate, Dwight Evans.

What does this all mean? Well, it’s like a lot of things in Philadelphia: Sure, it’s about race in part, but it’s way more about the enormous egos of everyone involved. Hey, would we have it any other way? Hell, I’m voting for the late Frank Rizzo!

Race enters mayoral contest [Inquirer]