The 2 Guys From the west will split the wetern vote Hoeffel will win Montgomery County and williams being a conservative will win the PA T and all of Philly and North East PA and Thats How he rolls

Black for Black, no surprise, and previous poster, you are full of it, Williams has no chance, it is between Wagner and Hoeffel.

How is this a “big endorsement”? 95% of people in PA never ever heard of Michael Nutcase before, nor do they care what some black guy from west philly thinks. Haven’t we learned already what happens when you just elect random minorities into power positions to feel better about yourself? Look at Obama. Several trillion dollars…gone. But, at least we’re on the right side of history! All of our sins have been forgotten and racism is in the past, right? Yeah, right. People are more divided by race now than ever before. What a joke.

People, pipe down, I’m not sure what race has to do with it. For the grossly uninformed Mayor Nutter endorsed Hillary Clinton over Obama and made 100s of national news appearances on her behalf, so he is actually known nationally. Also Nutter was elected by the white vote. The black vote was split 5 ways including between white guys Tom Knox and Bob Brady, who got the lions share. Get your facts straight then you can continue your race baiting and prejudice and at least be factually accurate even if morally bankrupt.

I like Nutter. He’s a good guy and a good Dem. But, he’s also a Philly politician. Either Williams is a guy who’s help he wants when he runs for Mayor again, or a potential rival he’d like to see in a different office.

Unfortunately, such a high value endorsement screws Hoeffel but cutting into his (rightful) share of the south east. Williams only real role is that of a spoiler.

Well unfortunately for Williams, Nutter isn’t terribly popular in SEPA right now anyway… so I don’t see this endorsement making a big difference regardless. And I do agree with “md”, please stop race baiting. I doubt very much whether Nutter’s endorsement has anything to do with race.

I’m for another candidate but I can see that a person like Mayor Nutter would stand by someone with whom he has had a long relationship.
Senator Williams has gotten a lot of money from a couple of Wall Street guys to push school privatization and maybe that helps Mayor Nutter with his school funding problems which is a big part of his fiscal and performance headache left behind by then Mayor Rendell.
It is interesting that Mayor Nutter is breaking from the Rendell backed, sponsored and funded candidate. That is a great back story I would love to hear. Is this the first sign of the Governor’s waning clout?

As homer says, this is a very interesting development in the power structure in the East. The Philadelphia political scene is rid of Fumo and fairly soon rid of the big cheese steak himself. Although the self-dealers in the law firms and bond houses have transferred their checkbooks to Onorato at the Governor’s orders, many of those in the local scene are demonstrating a renewed spirit of independence.
Maybe they know that the Governor has backed a losing filly in Beer Tax Dan. The Governor himself told Rachel Maddow that our prosecutor is the likely winner against his hand-picked successor.

Any Democratic committee member in Montco who is not backing Hoeffel needs to step away from their position until after the primary. Same goes for Pike supporters in the 6th, since Trivedi is the endorsed candidate. It seems self-defeating, but this is the rule that leadership announced at the Endorsement Convention. This rule holds for any race where there is an endorsed candidate and it needs to be strictly enforced, just as leadership promised it would be if we endorsed for Senate.