So we're underway quickly at the Chamber of Commerce/Delaware Valley Healthcare council forum.
Knox and Brady are no-shows.
And moderator - and Daily News reporter - Dave Davies just asked a good question:
"Tell us about a recent experience that shows your leadership traits."
The answers ranged from the illuminating to the familiar:
Evans: Discussed the privatization of Martin Luther King High school, and said that for him it illustrated that there had to be a crisis to get people to take brave action.
Fattah: Discussed his development of the CORE program to get students to college, and touched on the city's extraordinarily high dropout and poverty rates, which he called the major problems facing the city.
Nutter: Talked about his role in re-starting the Wage Tax cuts that were almost halted by Mayor Street (which was a home run in this crowd, which marched in the "briefcase brigade" up Broad Street and got the small cuts reinstated).
Taubenberger: Brought up his business-building cred as head of the Northeast Chamber. Had a sobering quip about a bakery that used to be one of the chamber's smallest members - but has since closed.