Mayor Nutter Challenges Milton Street's Candidacy
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Mayor Nutter Challenges Milton Street's Candidacy
Chris Brennan & Catherine Lucey
Mayor Nutter's re-election campaign, using three friendly voters, challenged T. Milton Street's eligibility to appear on the May 17 Democratic primary election ballot for mayor. The voters claim Street does not meet the three-year residency requirement to run for mayor and that his nominating petitions are rife with forgeries.
Nutter’s campaign spokeswoman, Sheila Simmons, said his campaign worked with the three voters, who used campaign lawyers to file the challenge. She noted that one of the trio was a longtime supporter of the mayor. The voters are Olga McGarity, Tiffanie Standard and Shantel French.
The challenge, filed in City Hall 10 minutes before today's 5 p.m. deadline, said three of Street's petition circulators were not qualified to collect signatures and failed to properly complete the paperwork. It accuses another circulator, Malik Aziz of submitting petitions with forged names and addresses of voters. And it notes that Street was in federal custody during the three years running up to this election.
Street immediately responded by saying that Nutter had made a mistake in showing "he's in a very weak position" with voters in the city. Street plans to represent himself in court and seems to relish the opportunity.'
"What this does is give me a chance to get some more exposure that I wouldn’t have the money to buy," Street said. "Help me Nutter. He’s the best campaigner I got."
Street could never win. I would rather have an open can of tuna run this city than ANY Street...— phlyfumblr
Comment removed.- keep on voting the way you do philly— chesterfield
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- Nutter speaks out about a putz like T.Milton Street, but has been silent over PHA, Sheriffs Dept, and ALL the other investigations going on in the city???? Where's the priority?????— Dadair1
- What a waste of time on Nutter's part...seriously...— Dickie Dunn
- This may be the funniest thing I heard all day. If he gets elected it would prove that we have the dumbest city in the world. Really we would have no right to make fun of anyone, Alabama would be able to make fun of us - I would start a petition that we all move to NYC and become mets and giant fans if he sims - or we could simply take the entire city base for a walk into the delaware and start anew.— JL68
- It's not that Nutter thinks he can lose to this clown. The issue for Nutter is that some people who may have voted for him in the primary may cast their votes for Street for some moronic reason. It could allow some other candidate to take the Democratic nomination. Think of Nutter playing the part of George Bush and Street playing Ross Perot. That should give you the idea of why Nutter is concerned.— riles1875
- Unfortunately Nutter will get re-elected in this unchallenging town. But this totally puts him in a bad light. What is he afraid of? What he doesn't like challenges? I thought Nutter was a reformer and wanted to give ex-prisoners a 2nd chance at employing them, doesn't Uncle Milty count to have at least a chance and Nutter is going to stop him?— uandwhosearmy
- Olga, Tiffanie, and Shantel: Sounds as if they've entered politics straight from "The Boom-Boom Room."— BG_Gruff
- Hire Pootie Tang as your consultant and slap a nutter loser with his own belt.— flyers Groupie
- it is great that mayor nutter has friends willing to challenge milton streets candidacy. thats what friends are for.— Miss M.
- Milton Street for Mayor Pootie Tang for Chief of Staff! Milton & Pootie cleaning up the City of Philadelphia one Street at a time! Great idea or a Nutter mistake? "Sa Da Tay Bammies; Sa Da Tay "— flyers Groupie
- rather have street by mayor than nutter who doesnt have a backbone...complete wuss that Rendell speaks so highly about— mathieuobrien
- Street may not be a bad idea,who else could interpet all the insanity that goes on in the city!!!!!— joe pultrone
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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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