CCC version Nutter lambastes DHS workers connected to girl's death

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, August, 2008 | by Patrick Kerkstra Inquirer Staff Writer

The horrible details of Danieal Kelly's death brought tears to Mayor Nutter's eyes yesterday, but it was the complicity of city employees in her starvation that made him rage. At a remarkable City Hall news conference yesterday, Nutter made it plain that he would not tolerate further incompetence or apathy from employees at the city's beleaguered Department of Human Services.

"If you are not prepared to take the action that needs to be taken, if you cannot keep up and stay on top of things, then you should leave this city government right now," Nutter said, addressing himself to DHS employees. "We don't need you, and we don't want you." Nutter's comments were easily his harshest critique yet of a city department and its employees. Although he campaigned as a candidate who...