Hopefully Nutter will have a couple of drinks - maybe he'll be more interesting. He's so bland. Blah blah blah

Polly, maybe you should be voting for Last Comic Standing on NBC's website instead of in the mayoral election.

Thanks Dave, do you know where I can get tickets?

Nutter still lacks P - personality. And he should try to appeal to people like me instead of talk down to me like I'm an idiot. It doesn't make me want to vote for him...

Polly - have a good weekend. You can start your posting for your job working for some other mayoral candidate on Monday. If I had to guess, you sound like a Saidel staffer.

thanks..I'm know staffer (I'm actually a lawyer who doesn't even know Saidel) but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know you LOOOVE Nutter

Yes, I do love him. He'd make a great mayor. You must be supporting somebody else, because one of the myths that get's propagated about him is that he's "boring". I'm not bored by ethics, integrity, good government, that kind of stuff. Who are you supporting for Mayor?

I actually am not "supporting" anyone. Is that so hard to believe? The reason people think Nutter is boring, is because he is! If enough people believe it, than maybe it's true and it's not a myth. The problem is that you are not objective. I get no sense of truth from you because you are a walking Nutter advertisement. Now maybe there is nothing wrong with that, but for the public out here who would honestly like to learn something, good and bad, about our future mayor, are unable to do so because you are propogating. If I wanted to hear Nutter-love, than I'd go to his website. I want objective views, not your biases.
That goes for all of them...Fattah, Knox, etc. Like do you think I honestly believe Knox is a big crime fighter? Not really...
Where's the truth??

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I can certainly understand your cynacism Polly, but sometimes, people are in politics for the right reasons and have done good things. I believe that Nutter is one of those people. And what am I propagating? You started this comment threat by proagating a myth that Nutter is "boring". And maybe - just to concede your point for the sake of argument - "boring" (if fighting for ethics and campaign reform, a more efficient and effective government, a reformed tax structure are boring) maybe exactly what we need. And, I think that I am objective. I've objectively come to the conclusion - over the years - that Mike Nutter is the real deal. I do suspect your a Saidel support, though.

I'm not sure that I'd consider Nutter any more or less interesting than the average politician. I actually don't usually think about that kind of thing when listening to a candidate, at least not unless it's been suggested to me beforehand.

Having said that, and as I hinted at in my initial response, I don't think "stage presence" is a very good way to judge candidates for public office. Rep John Perzel is generally pretty interesting to listen to (what is it, tatoo artits make more money than he does or something?) but that doesn't necessarily make him an effective State Representative. Fattah was also pretty funny when that comedian interviewed him (I forget who -- John Stewart?), but I've been pretty unimpressed with him so far.

Regardless of what you think of Nutter's personality, he can definitely point to some very real things he has accomplished while in public office, which is something most of the other candidates haven't really done so far (maybe they'll start once they decide to declare their candidacy?)