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Nutter casts ballots for Victorino

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Nutter casts ballots for Victorino

POSTED: Thursday, July 7, 2011, 2:26 PM

Troy Graham

Slow news day at City Hall? Perhaps.

A little bit of hero worshipping? Probably.

We here in the Hall yawn at lots of staged media events, but nothing is sure to bring out the cameras and the microphones like an appearance by a real sports star. Therefore, no surprise that Mayor Nutter's office was packed with press a few moments ago when Phillies centerfielder Shane Victorino came calling.

Ostensibly, the reason for the visit was so the mayor could cast a couple all-star ballots for the Flyin' Hawaiian, who is on the cusp of making the team. Voting ends today at 4 p.m. and there is no limit on how many votes one person can cast (a fact that sparked a few jokes about old-style Philly politics and the vote early, vote often ethos).

Shane stayed for a few minutes, answered a few questions, signed a few autographs. He seemed quite comfortable in the realm of politics. Then again, his father is a city councilman back in Hawaii.

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Comments (7)

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:19 PM, 07/07/2011

Glad to see the Coconut got all dressed up to visit the Mayor.

— Wilhelm Von Humboldt

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:13 PM, 07/07/2011

Now this is the kind of stuff our lame mayor does really well.

— Road

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:02 PM, 07/07/2011

Rendell just voted for Nutter

— stoky

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:08 PM, 07/07/2011

Rendell just voted for Nutter

— stoky

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:45 AM, 07/08/2011

OMG - shoot me - first time I agreed with the vote cast by HizHonor

— hilite98

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 12:10 PM, 07/08/2011

You guys on vacation?

— SoPhi

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:20 AM, 07/10/2011

And now that everyone voted for Shane...oops he has a bad thumb.So doesn't everyone look just silly..all the ads to vote for shane,, the mayor has a photo op...and Shane knew all the time he was not going to the all-star game....Shame Shane

— STEVE5444