Street fight leads Council field

Philadelphia Inquirer, The, March, 2007 by Patrick Kerkstra

The field of 56 City Council candidates that emerged after Tuesday's petition-filing deadline contained few big surprises - except, of course, for Milton Street.

T. Milton Street Sr.'s last-minute entry into the at-large Council race - which will pit him against his nephew Sharif Street - seems destined to be challenged before Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline, and he may well not make it to the ballot.

"He'll be knocked off. The question is who does it, who doesn't want their fingerprints on it," said political consultant Larry Ceisler, who predicted the Council race would become a "circus" if Street made it to the final ballot.

If he is knocked off, it won't be his nephew's doing, said Dale Wilcox, a spokesman for Sharif Street's campaign. Wilcox otherwise declined to comment on Milton Street's candidacy and said Sharif Street was not available to discuss his ...