The Committee of Seventy sent out a press release earlier (see posting below) announcing tomorrow morning’s first scheduled address by Philadelphia’s newly-elected mayor.
But the watchdog group never meant to say WHO that mayor would be.
That part of the news release – saying the speech would be delivered by the “New Mayor-Elect of Philadelphia (likely Democratic and former City Councilman Michael Nutter)” - was apparently inserted by the media firm, Bellevue Communications, that Seventy hired to get the news out.
“It had been edited to include the name of the likely winner of tonight’s election,” Seventy vice president Ellen Mattleman Kaplan told us a few moments ago. “The Committee of Seventy would never have named the winner of the election prior to the outcome.”
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