October 31, 2007

Taubenberger: Seems Like A Nice Guy

Hey, Republican mayoral candidate Al Taubenberger has a television commercial and, as expected, it's like the rest of his campaign: Sort of appropriate for a fifth grade student council election. In the ad, Philadelphians tell why they're voting for Al Taubenberger for mayor. Or, that's what a 1930s radio announcer says.

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October 25, 2007

Michael Nutter Wins Mayoral Election

With 0% of the precincts reporting and polls not closed for 12 days and 20 hours, Philadelphia Will Do is declaring Michael Nutter the winner of the Philadelphia mayoral election. Nutter's victory caps an incredible comeback that saw him at, like, Dwight Evans-type numbers in early 2007, yet he outsmarted everybody else on the way to primary and general election victory.

In an Oct. 25 Daily News/Keystone poll, Nutter led Taubenberger 83 percent to 8 among likely voters, but likely clinched the mayor's office on May 15, the day of the Democratic primary. Nutter faces many challenges during his term in office, including a city pension plan in crisis, a high murder rate and a city that's kinda dirty and, apparently, full of ugly people.

Philadelphia Will Do congratulates Michael Nutter on his impressive general election victory.

Poll: Nutter in a rout & some Dems are worried [Daily News]
Tuesday: DIY News: Philadelphia Ranked [First/Last/Low (Whatever Is Worse)] In [Arbitrary Category] In Survey By [Random Magazine]

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October 17, 2007

Mixmaster Mike Disses Comcast Center

This is fairly amusing to begin with -- as is the $250+ price tag -- but, c'mon, local designers: Can't anybody get some art with the Comcast Center in it? Come on, the skyline only changes significantly every 20 years or so (for the last 20 years, at least), somebody has to be working on some clip art with the new Comcast building included.

Brad Maule, I'm looking in your direction.

The Quest for $$ Doesn't End: Meet Mixmaster Mike [Heard in the Hall]

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October 09, 2007

Register To Vote For Exciting Already-Decided Election

We are now less than a month away from the most exciting time of the year -- i.e. the election between midterms and presidential. Could those odd-year elections be any more exciting?

Oh, yeah, there's also a mayor's race in Philadelphia between the guy who's going to win (Michael Nutter) and the guy who's going to lose (Al Taubenberger). And don't forget the third-party candidates John Staggs (Socialist Workers, eligible to run for mayor, actually on ballot) and Larry West (independent, not eligible to run for mayor, not on ballot).

If you are very excited to vote for Mayor Al or meatpacker Staggs, be sure to note: Today is the last day you can register for the election in Pennsylvania. If you don't vote, nothing will happen, but you lose your right to complain about the guy you voted for who's not paying attention to your stupid pet causes.

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October 02, 2007

Taubenberger Picks Up Irrelevant Endorsement

Hey, kids! Or, rather: Hey, registered voters! Do you listen to the inventor of the magic bullet theory when attempting to choose a presidential candidate? Well, if you do, then you'll be happy to know Arlen Specter has endorsed Al Taubenberger for mayor!

However, Specter does show just how good he is at politics with this quote:

"I've been trying to bring back a second major party to Philadelphia for forty years," Mr. Specter said.

And what a good job, uh, Mr. Specter has done.

Specter Endorses Taubenberger For Mayor [The Bulletin]

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September 04, 2007

Mayor's Race To Excite ~5 Percent Of Residents

Hey, kids! Don't forget! We got a mayor's race coming up!

Despite Michael Nutter winning the election back in May, there's still a formality of electing him again in November, because of this pesky thing called "democracy" which doesn't let the Democratic party just win every election even though they have a 9π-to-1 (or something) registration edge in the city. And so, Nutter must fight back such candidates as Republican and ex-landscaper Al Taubenberger, awesome meatpacking socialist John Staggs, nobody from the Green Party -- Kerry Foster, where are you? -- and independent ineligible write-in candidate Larry West.

So far, it's been the friendliest mayoral race in history, with Taubenberger going so far as to say that maybe the Democrats haven't done the best job at running the city, but they haven't bombed any city blocks in a while, so, you know. Larry West has also apparently been making the rounds attempting to get the Ozzfest voting bloc, from this comment on his Myspace: "Hahahaha, it was nice meeting you before Ozzfest."

KYW 1060 reports Labor Day is the unofficial start of the campaign season in Philadelphia, but nobody is really going to notice this year since Taubenberger has like 50 bucks in the bank and a website from 1994 with "Page 1" in the title field.

Philadelphia Mayor's Race, Easy To Overlook [KYW 1060]

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