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Michael Nutter

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  1. “Yeah, well, you know, I would get the question all the time why are there so many police in the African American community? Well, okay, let's look at the data. Let's look”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Everyone wants that. The challenge is what happens when the police arrive? And there are two parties who are involved in this engagement. There's either the victims and their family or the perpetrator that you're trying to capture and the police. And how that exchange moves forward, how that interaction goes, from the moment the police show up really determines how that situation is going to play out. What's the mindset? Is there fear? And often there's fear on both sides. You know, police officers have families. They want to go home. They don't want to be shot or maimed or hurt or killed. Citizens want to be treated with dignity and respect, even in a criminal situation. I mean, you know, there's arresting somebody and then there's kicking the crap out of them. And so... That's about training and profile.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “It's really one of the toughest issues to tackle. And as always, people always ask me, you know, what's the toughest thing? There's no one thing. It's public safety and it's education. Those are the toughest issues to take on. African Americans want safe communities just like everyone else. And they don't want crime and violence in the community. And when something goes wrong, they pick up the phone and call or grab their cell phone and call 911 like everyone else. And they want a professional, capable police officer of any color, as long as they have a blue uniform on it to show up and deal with the situation.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Oh, absolutely. And whether it's that situation or a shooting that's gone bad or just crime and violence in general, I mean, all of us as mayors know literally at any given moment on any day in any city, something can go very, very wrong. And, you know, everything ultimately ends up at the mayor's doorstep. And when you have police activity in particular, way before some of the more recent incidents of Ferguson and New York and other places, it's just really dangerous territory for mayors and you're always worried about police and community relations. It can really determine the direction of everything else that you're doing.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “It was devastating to his moralty. But I have to say, kind of much like in a different kind of way, President Carter, who continued his work after his service as president, Mayor Good runs an organization that provides support and services to children whose parents are incarcerated. And is quite loved.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “And he becomes the first African-American managing director. When Green announces that he's not running for mayor, the upcoming year, and Wilson resigns his position and announces his candidacy, that was a clear symbol and sign that the work that had been done in the early 70s, the battles that were fought, the races that were lost, but then making that strategic decision to put this individual in that position loved by the people Wilson Good, you know, he's delivering services, he's out on trash trucks, he's with the workers. I mean, people really appreciated his level of service. It was that defining moment, 82 going into 83, that this could happen this time.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Oh, very much so. And I mean, the other part of the Wilson W. Wilson Good story is that, again, fairly much like Chicago and all of us familiar with political agreements, if you will. The black community said to then candidate Bill Green, in order to get our support, You will have to agree to a point an African American as the managing director of the city. Now we're a strong mayor form of government, certainly just like Chicago, but there's a managing director position that's in charge of all the line service departments.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “No question. And, you know, Philly and Chicago being on the same election cycle, we're watching what's happening in Chicago. People are excited about that. Clearly, that has some amount of influence on the Philadelphia race. And W. Wilson-Good put together an incredible coalition of folks, black, white, Latino.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “So he convinced me that no, you should do this. You're a young guy, you've got a future. Talk to the councilman. We want you to do it. Fine. So I did it. And my guy wins on election night out of 57 city council at large candidates. Wilson Good wins the Democratic nomination, and I decide that night that I want to be involved in public. This was 83. This is 1983. The same thing that here that Har”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “Yeah, police community relations were horrible in Philadelphia at the time. And so I met this city council member and asked him, you know, how do you get involved in politics? This seems very interesting. Always loved history and followed Watergate when I was a teenager that was going on when I was a kid. One thing leads to another. I start volunteering in his office. The 83 election is coming and Mayor Green announces on Election Day in November of 1982 that he's not running for re-election. Wilson Good resigns the next day. He's the managing director, African-American, to announce that he's running for mayor. I'm working with a city council member who's running for re-election. I said no because I think it's important to know what you don't know. And I didn't know anything about that. How old were you then? I was 25.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “Interestingly enough, where many of the same skills that I would need in elective office, you know, I met a lot of people every week. I shook a lot of hands. I had to negotiate from time and time because I'm not that big of a guy. And every now and then you have to put somebody out. So I had to increase my talking skills and counted money and kept track of inventory. All the things I ended up doing as mayor. So I meet all these people. I get intrigued by what they're doing and what's going on in the city. 79 election comes. We're just coming out of the Frank Rizzo era. Frank Rizzo.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “I did a little bit of that. That's a handy thing to know in politics as well. Absolutely. Yes. Well, what I learned at the club.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “You know, it's interesting. So I did a lot of things at the club. The only thing anyone remembers is that from time to time I played music. We had house DJs. That was not me. What we did was the pre-show to kind of kick the night off and then the real DJs came in later on. But that's what people remember.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Well, working in this club, I'm 19 years old, the mood and environment in Philadelphia is such that the black political empowerment movement is making gains. People are running for office, a couple other folks had run for mayor, Charlie Bowser. Senator Hardy Williams and Bill Gray ran for Congress in 1976, lost to the incumbent, Congressman Nix. And at this time, these folks are having fundraisers and events and activities at this nightclub, which my best friend's father owned, and he and I worked there. I was the first black owned discotech in Philadelphia. So a lot of folks were gathering there and I'm meeting all these people at 19 years old. And so kind of fast forward a little bit.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “I did very well. Yes. I did a lot of very strict, very orderly. But, you know, as a lot of stories start, I met someone who was involved in politics after coming out of college and working in a nightclub. Yeah, well.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “No, I don't think it was the latter. I think we were Catholic and you're going to Catholic school. I mean, I wasn't in the decision-making aspect of it. Show up. Go to first grade.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “My father was a plumber, and sometimes a pharmaceutical sales person. And then intermittent periods of unemployment. My mom, on the other hand, worked for Bell Telephone for 33 years. And really kind of kept things together during many of those tough times. But St. Joe's Prep High School, Jesuit High School in Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania for College.”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Just an ironic name. And sisterly affection. Yes. Yeah, it was quite a little bit of a circuitous route. No one in my family was involved in politics. There's no reason to think that I would be involved in politics. What'd your folks do?”

    2016-05-16 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 50 - Michael Nutter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source