No Splashy Re-Election Announcement for Nutter?
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No Splashy Re-Election Announcement for Nutter?
Catherine Lucey
Today marked Mayor Nutter's first official campaign event -- an endorsement announcement from District Attorney Seth Williams. It was an understated morning event outside the Criminal Justice Center with both politicans.
But the campaign isn't working on a flashier kick-off any time soon. Nutter is not currently planning a big re-election announcement where he'll be surrounded by fawning elected officials and booming Motown music, his campaign said today.
"I think they just decided to go with he’s running again and jump right in," said campaign spokeswoman Sheila Simmons. "We went straight to the endorsements right before Christmas and right today. We went right in without the big kickoff."
Back in 2003, then-Mayor Street announced his bid for a second term at a rally at the Community College surrounded by party officials and before hundreds of supporters. Simmons said Nutter is just going to keep rolling out endorsements and other campaign events.
Will Nutter change his mind and do a big event later on? We'll have to wait and see...
I GUESS OLD MIKE FORGOT WHAT HE SAID WHEN HE WAS ELECTED, QUOTE IF I DON'T BRING THE MURDER RATE DOWN BY 25 PERCENT I WILL NOT RUN FOR A SECOND TERM, MUST HAVE SLIPPED YOUR MIND RIGHT MIKE, JUST FOR THE RECORD THE MURDER RATE WENT UP THIS YEAR FROM LAST YEAR.
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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