Second Mayoral Debate Way Better Than First

While you were asleep Sunday morning, 6 ABC aired the second official mayoral debate. In this debate, the five candidates sat around a table with Action News morning hosts Matt O’Donnell and Tamala Edwards. (Yes, if you’re wondering, the hosts of a show in the same genre — “morning” — as Good Day Philadelphia, which used to feature the anchors dancing with mascots, hosted a mayoral debate.)

The debate taught me a lot of things; namely, the five candidates for mayor all creep me out. (That’s Bob Brady and Chaka Fattah in happier times in the photo; namely, the time they presented a check to the park ranger to find out who was swiping all those pic-i-nic baskets.) They’re politicians, so that’s normal, but, yeesh. Starting below, a recap of some sort.

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Nutter Proposes Soon-To-Fail Idea

Mayoral hopeful Michael Nutter has proposed a way to keep himself in the race: Weekly debates between the candidates!

The candidate who calls for the scheduling of a debate or two is usually the candidate with the best chance of gaining something from debates, but Nutter has gone a little further here and suggested debates every week starting in January.

While this would be a good way of supressing voter turnout — could you imagine wanting to even think about these stupid candidates after 37 debates? — it seems a little unlikely to happen. The best he can probably hope for is Tom Knox piggybacks on his idea and calls for debates every week as well.

Then those two can duke it out every week with their brilliant plans for the city while Bob Brady or whoever collects actual votes behind closed doors. Hey, it’s how Philadelphia works!

Mayoral Hopeful Nutter Proposes Weekly Debates [KYW 1060]