When Tim and I walked into the Breakfast Club, I was unsure if it was the right place. I asked one of the waitresses if they were expecting Nutter anytime soon. She ecstatically answered yes. At that very moment he walked through the doors and people starting clapping, cheering, and saying things like “here’s our next mayor” and “the change is about to begin.”
Nutter walked around the small diner and shook hands with everyone. Everyone seemed so excited to meet him. They took out cell phones and took photos, they asked him for autographs, and one woman looked like she was about to burst into tears as she said, “this is the second time I am meeting you.” He was treated like a celebrity.
I asked one female what she thought of Nutter.
“I think he will do good, like John Street, because the city is real bad, there’s a lot of crime, and we need help,” said Jonahzsa Terry of North Philadelphia.
She also said that after watching the mayoral debates on TV, she believes Nutter can take illegal weapons of the streets of Philadelphia.
“I want to live to see 80. I want to live a long life. Everyone is dying day by day. I think it’s terrible and he can help.”
When I asked her why she though Nutter would make a better mayor than Al Taubenberger she stared at with a blank expression and said, “I don’t know who that is.”
Anne Ha is a Kensington resident and is a senior at Temple University majoring in broadcast journalism. Anne will be talking to Michael Nutter and voters around Philadelphia in the morning.
Tim Jimenez is a senior broadcast journalism major at Temple University. Tim will be blogging from wherever he is assigned election night as a desk assistant for KYW News Radio.