Win, Curtis, Win

Well, seems Curtis Jones (seen right pushing mayor Nutter during the Soapbox Derby) and the rest of City Council are seriously getting heated over at Dilworth Plaza. Fresh on my desk comes this:

Freshman Councilmembers Challenge Their Senior Colleagues to a Match to Determine Which Council Office is the Greatest

PHILADELPHIA, PA – In a battle royal to determine once and for all which council office is the greatest, freshman councilmembers Bill Green, Maria Quiñones-Sánchez and Curtis Jones, Jr., have challenged their council colleagues to the “The Happiness Edition City Council Challenge.”
On Friday, September 19, the Delaware Valley Chapter of Variety, the children’s charity, will hold its Old Newsboys’ Day event where the “Happiness Edition” paper will be sold for $1 to raise money for disabled children. Council offices will compete among themselves to see who can sell the most copies of the paper. The winning office will be award the “City Council Cup of Champions.”
“While other council offices spend the summer preparing legislation for the fall, my staff has been relentlessly training for Old Newsboys’ Day,” said Councilman Bill Green.
Not all council offices are worried about Councilman Green's preparation. “The air is so thin on the 5th floor of City Hall that I doubt anyone up there has the stamina to win this,” predicted Councilman Curtis Jones, Jr. “The real competition will be between the 3rd and 4th floor offices.”
The Happiness Edition City Council Challenge will begin with a kickoff rally in Dilworth Plaza at 10:00 AM on Friday, September 19th. Council offices will then have between 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM to sell the Happiness Edition papers.

Now, we like Councilman Green but Curtis gives such better sound bites. Besides Curtis is no slouch either, he has the best, most diverse district in the city. But how this will affect play is still undetermined. Sell, Curtis, Sell.