Daily News and Inquirer have coverage about Mayor-elect Nutter's decision to extend campaign finance rules to the non-profits that are overseeing the funding for his transition and inaugural festivities.
From the Inky:
Nutter had committed to generating those dollars by voluntarily adhering to the same donor caps that restricted his campaign fund-raising. Those limited individuals to giving up to $5,000, and businesses and political committees up to $20,000.
But in a specially convened meeting yesterday, the Philadelphia Board of Ethics asked Nutter to go further.
It asked the mayor-elect - who has formed one nonprofit organization to solicit money for his January inaugural events and another to raise funds for his transition work - to halve the caps to their original amounts. (A provision doubling the caps was automatically triggered after Tom Knox, one of five Democrats in last spring's mayoral primary, donated $250,000 of his own money to his campaign.)
Under the recommendation, donors would be limited to giving no more than $2,500 apiece to both nonprofits combined, and law firms and other businesses could give no more than $10,000 combined.
Richard Hayden, a top adviser to Nutter, said yesterday that the mayor-elect had agreed to accept the board's recommendation.
Come to think of it, I always found it a little odd that the Knox-induced doubling of the limits continued to apply after the primary.
So, since Colbert's not around to do it, Tip Of The Hat to Michael Nutter for continuing to walk the walk on the spirit of the fund raising rules.