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Friday, November 13, 2009

Top Nutter Aide Resigns

Top mayoral aide Julia Chapman today announced she was leaving the Nutter administration.

Today was the last day for Chapman, who serves as Nutter’s legislative director. A press release put out after 6 p.m. did not detail her reasons for leaving or her future plans.

“I have worked side-by-side with Julia for the vast majority of my political career and her advice and support over these years has been invaluable to me personally, and to the City of Philadelphia,” said Mayor Nutter in a press release. “Julia’s hard work, intellect and support have been critical to any legislative success I’ve experienced for more than a decade.”

A longtime aide to Nutter, Chapman previously served as Nutter's chief of staff when he was a Councilman, a position she held for 11 years. As legislative director she had an annual salary of $137,042 this year.

But Chapman had some detractors in City Hall. Political insiders said her relationships with Council members had been strained and attributed some of Mayor Nutter's problems with Council to Chapman's management style.

Nutter’s spokesman Doug Oliver praised Chapman’s contributions.

“We’ve appreciated her service to the administration and her service to the city. She’s been a longtime staffer of the mayor and a friend,” Oliver said. “And other people’s criticisms notwithstanding, we hate to see her go.”

A replacement for Chapman was not immediately named.
Posted by Catherine Lucey @ 6:27 PM  Permalink | 6 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:01 AM, 11/14/2009
    Chapman famously nearly came to blows with Bill Green. why she was ever put in charge of govt relations when she does not have good relations with anyone in govt is beyond me.
    — rabbit23
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 3:52 PM, 11/14/2009
    You're hare-brained, r-23. She didn't come to blows with little billy and if she had she'd have dropped him like a bag of phony reform that he is. Council is the home of anti-reform. They're all about saving their DROP, their cars, their imperial perks and hiding behind "the mayor won't cooperate." Chapman served her two years dealing with the weeny squad and had enough.
    — Pangloss
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 10:25 AM, 11/15/2009
    Agreed Pangoloss. Bill Green is more of the same, Nutter's not the reformed I thought he was but Bill Green is 10x worse. We need to get him out of there.
    — mktstrfinancial


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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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Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002 and has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. After covering the 2007 mayoral election, she moved over to the City Hall bureau where she has been reporting on the Nutter administration.
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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.
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