One of Mayor Street's favorite nonprofits, Philadelphia Safe and Sound, announced an interesting pick today for its latest board member.
That person is Michael Pearson, president of a company named Union Packaging. According to the press release, the company "manufactures folding cartons in FDA regulated packaging industries. It is one of the fastest growing minority-owned packaging companies in the U.S."
But it's not Pearson's job that's so interesting. It's his position as a co-finance chair of Mayor-elect Michael Nutter's campaign committee.
Nutter is no big fan of Safe and Sound, mostly because the nonprofit has tight ties to Street's wife, who at one time was its president. And for the last few months, Street has been working quietly but assiduously to transfer tens of million of city dollars there, to pay for youth-prevention programs.
That did not make Nutter happen, who told the Inquirer in June: "The next mayor should have the opportunity to structure the government as he wants to and should not be faced with a significant loss of general-fund dollars shipped off to organizations not within the control or oversight of the city government."
Is Safe and Sound trying to get on Nutter's good side?
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