My colleague, City Hall Bureau Chief Marcia Gelbart, and I finished our forced march through the receptions at Pennsylvania Society and overheard these nuggets that we share with you:
-- Michael Nutter and his wife, Lisa, hosted a private lunch reception at the 21 Club today for about 50 financial supporters and his political team.
-- Nutter was also one of the featured speakers at the Pennsylvania Manufacturers Association breakfast, where he shone the spotlight on his vanquished Republican opponent Al Taubenberger, a hit with the largely GOP audience. "A heck of a lot more people know me this year," Taubenberger later remarked.
-- Mayor Street's spokesman Joe Grace has a new gig, and just in time. He will be the day-to-day director of CeaseFire PA, working with former city managing director Phil Goldsmith, board president of the gun-control group.
-- Among those working the rooms today was Philadelphia Magazine Editor Larry Platt, who said he is leaning strongly toward running for U.S. Congress against Rep. Jim Gerlach in the suburban 6th District.
-- Rep. Bob Brady was holding court with a cup of coffee in the Peacock Alley lounge at the Waldorf-Astoria with Sharif Street, D.A. Jones, Jamie Fleet, Kate Philips, Ken Snyder, Derek Green and Seth Williams. He came up for the evening to see and be seen. Earlier he had been sitting in the lobby greeting passersby. "I have my perch in the lobby," he said. It's so well-known that somebody who was sitting in the seat got up for Brady.
-- Last year when JPresident udge Darnell Jones was here it was to collect support for his state Supreme Court campaign. This weekend the talk was that he was serious about running for District Attorney in 2009, when Lynne Abraham will not be running for reelction.
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