Meet the lone candidate in Philly’s GOP mayoral primary

NinetyNine first met Melissa Murray Bailey outside the county Board of Elections office in City Hall during Tuesday’s nomination petitions-filing deadline.

There, she explained why she was running for mayor as such: “I’m tired of the same old thing. I want families in Philadelphia to be able to raise their families, stay in the city, have a good-paying jobs and schools they can send their kids to.”

On Wednesday, WHYY’s Tom MacDonald caught up with the 36-year-old businessperson who has been a registered Republican for just six weeks to continue that talk.

Bailey told MacDonald that “I have to believe that people are open-minded enough to listen to what I have to say and when they hear what I have to say, I think they are going to hear that it represents the new Philadelphia and the opportunity that it represents for the city and for themselves.”

You can hear the story via this link.