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Mayor Nutter on Meet the Press

Mayor Nutter part of this week's Meet the Press Roundtable

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Mayor Nutter on Meet the Press

POSTED: Wednesday, November 24, 2010, 5:05 PM

Miriam Hill

Mayor Nutter will take to the national television stage Sunday when he appears on Meet the Press.

Nutter will participate in a roundtable discussion with the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, Repubican strategist Ed Gillespie and The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan.

He will travel to Washington, D.C., for the chat. The roundtable will take a look at the people and issues likely to dominate the 2012 race for the White House. The group also will discuss the economy and jobs market.

The mayor's communications director, Desiree Peterkin Bell, said the appearance came about after the show's moderator, David Gregory, spoke at the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce last month.

"Meet the Press is really a lot of conversation around government, politics and the economy," Bell said. "Given Philadelphia's position as a major global city, it kind of makes sense to have the mayor on the show."
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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:46 AM, 11/25/2010

Will he have a cup in his hand?

— Kaiser Sosa

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:10 AM, 11/25/2010

I GUESS THE TAX PAYERS OF THE CITY OF PHILA WILL PICK UP THE TAB FOR THE TRIP WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!

— bigdaddyft

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:27 AM, 11/25/2010

i wish he was sitting between to tom corbett & chris christe & maybe he'd learn something

— philafan

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 10:28 AM, 11/26/2010

Is there really any mystery to what he will say? "whaa, whaa, whaa...need more state money. whaa, whaa, whaa...need more federal money. whaa, whaa, whaa...need to raise taxes. whaa, whaa, whaa...Obama is my idol. whaa, whaa, whaa...fast eddie is my friend." Just saved everyone 30 precious minutes.

— CyaNutter

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:31 AM, 11/26/2010

CyaNutter, you got it absolutely right!

— phillynews

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 11:46 AM, 11/26/2010

This is a good opportunity for the Mayor and for Philadelphia. I'd pay for his ticket to go to DC for this event. I think it's a good place for him to advocate what he was primarily elected to do - reform. We desperately need our government reformed and it's disappointing that we've made no real progress in this regard. While the mayor is not leading as well as he should, it's the City Council, the Democratic machine, and Unions continue to hobble any efforts.

When you look at the changes being made around the globe to the fundamental structure by which governments are being operated, we are sadly missing an opportunity. Pension/benefit reform; real world contracts with city unions; reduction of our city council; property and business tax reform; and the list goes on. This mayor should set three goals for 2011 and run at them full speed. And do it with a "take no prisoners" attitude.

— StewieforPresident

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 1:44 PM, 11/26/2010

Stew. You have got to be kidding me. Michael Nutter has had every opportunity possible to lead and he has failed miserably. Why would anyone who believed in him in 2007 trust anything he says? Just one example- PHA. It is true that he is not on the Board but it is equally true that he has had the opportunity to replace a Board member immediately and his new appointee could voice the position of the "reform" mayor. He was too timid to take on Jannie Blackwell and oust her from her position on the Board. She is his appointee on that Board by virtue of his inaction. Nutter could also have publically called on Street to resign because of Street's breach of his fiduciary duty to the organization in failing to monitor the CEO. This is but one example of the utter lack of leadership of Mayor Nutter.

— Optomist

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 3:38 PM, 11/26/2010

How many Philly mayors have been on meet the press? Some how, they decided to invite him. it's good for the city. Nutter has done a good job in hard times. How good? Well, how many opponents does he have right now for the Dem nomination? He is the reform mayor. he made changes on the BRT and Clerk of Quarter Sessions. he wants to end DROP. Who is in the way? City Council and the anti-reform, status quo Republicans. he's stopped the unions cold. He won't sign a contract until they accept furloughs and a new pension system ... also healthcare reform. Meanwhile, city taxpayers haven't paid for raises, longevity or more for healthcare. It's all frozen as of July 1, 2008. And Optomist, aside from a spelling lesson, you ought to know the PHA game has hardly begun. Wait til HUD finishes its investigation. Street allowed corruption all around him as mayor and he's allowed it at PHA. he and jannie will go when the time arrives and that day is coming.

— Pangloss

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:26 PM, 11/26/2010

FIGHT GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION

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— RichMills2010

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:27 PM, 11/26/2010

JOIN THE WINNING TEAM - FIGHT CORRUPTION!!!

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— RichMills2010

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 8:43 AM, 11/27/2010

Maybe he will explain the $23 mil for a temp youth prison, $53 mil lost at the Sheriff depart and the $85 mil wasted at DHS that no one will talk about. But no lets close fire houses and now fire deaths are past last years that no one will talk about and cut hours at everything else and waste money fighting the boy scouts.

— eastfalls