Great exchange in Dan Gross' column today between Michael Nutter and Jonathan Saidel, at (of course) the Columbus Day parade, and involving (of course) the People Paper's Stu Bykofsky:
Political parading
Mayoral candidate Michael Nutter sidled up to Gov. Rendell to march alongside him at the start of the Columbus Day Parade Sunday afternoon. The People Paper's Stu Bykofsky, a fellow marcher, asked another potential mayoral candidate, Jonathan Saidel, who was in the second row, about Nutter's edging him out in a brilliant stroke of visual/political positioning. "I don't need to do that. I've been doing this 20 years. He needs to do it," said the former city controller about the former councilman.
"I was up-front because that's where leaders march," Nutter fired back yesterday.
This is pretty good too:
Speaking of mayoral hopefuls
U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah is just back from a Kennedy family clambake in Hyannis Port, Mass., where, we're told, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy introduced Fattah to actor Martin Sheen as "the next mayor of Philadelphia."
Fattah yesterday told us he was photographed with the actor, but declined to confirm the introductory remark. Fattah said that "nothing that may happen in Washington," say, a Democratic takeover of the House, will affect whether or not he'll run for mayor.