Clout: Why did Bill Green buy AjayRaju.info?

WHILE CHASING down one tip, we stumbled upon another.

Both involve former Councilman Bill Green. Because it's summer and Bill Green is probably up to something. Something Clout-worthy, not just walking his dog around Pastorius Park.

The original tip: We heard that Green, a member of the School Reform Commission, might be teaming up with documentarian and three-time mayoral candidate Sam Katz as part of an independent ticket in the November election.

Maybe Green for mayor and Katz for Council? Or both for Council? We know Katz ain't running for mayor again, that's for sure.

That was intriguing enough, but while wandering around the Interwebs and waiting for someone to call us back, we noticed something else:

Green is the proud owner of AjayRaju.info. Ajay Raju is the CEO of the Dilworth Paxson law firm with big hair and big ideas for Philly's future. He has $12,000 shoes and cool pocket squares and, did we mention a perfectly coiffed mane of hair that we are not at all jealous of? Maybe he'll run for office someday, who knows?

We texted Green, who is special counsel at Dilworth Paxson, about the domain name and he got back to us yesterday.

"Ajay is high profile and doing such great things for the city I was surprised he had not bought his domain name," Green texted. "So, I bought it for him mostly for defense, not offense, but I would not rule that out either."

As for a Green/Katz ticket, neither guy's talking. Sounds like a long shot, with the election only four months away, but we will continue to monitor this situation.

Man, what a week for Joe Sestak, the former Democratic congressman looking to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey next year.

It started with a video - truly mesmerizing - of Sestak clumsily bowling over children at a parade in Delaware County as attendees yelled "Jesus Christ!" and "Watch it!"

The video was posted on Vine by America Rising PAC - a conservative video-tracking group with the mission of "cataloguing every Democrat utterance." It led to headlines such as these:

"Toomey Launches First TV Ad, While Sestak Runs Over Children At 4th Of July Event" -Townhall.com

"PENN. DEMOCRAT JOE SESTAK CAN'T STOP KNOCKING OVER KIDS DURING LOCAL JULY 4TH PARADE" -Breitbart.com

"Watch Joe Sestak trip over kids on Fourth of July" - Washington Post.

But the Clout Award for Best Coverage of this six-second disaster goes to the Washington Free Beacon, with the headline: "Democrat Mows Down Small, Innocent Children at July 4th Parade." Their lede: "As other candidates spent their Independence Day kissing babies, Democrat Joe Sestak spent his running them down."

Honorable Mention goes to Scott Sutton, digital editor for the Sun Times Network, who wrote that Sestak "found out the hard way that running for office can include some bumps along the way - and sometimes those bumps are little children."

Then, on Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Bob Brady told the Inquirer's Jonathan Tamari that he'd back Katie McGinty "100 percent" over Sestak in the 2016 Democratic Senate primary. Sestak, a former Navy admiral, is kind of a lone wolf in Democratic politics, and he doesn't take orders well. This annoys party leaders to no end.

"It's his own free-thinking ways of doing things. Well, we're free thinking, too, and we're free thinking Katie McGinty," said Brady, chairman of Philadelphia's Democratic City Committee. McGinty is Gov. Wolf's chief of staff.

We've known Sestak since he got involved in Delaware County politics in 2006. He probably has more integrity than the average politician, but also has a personality that some voters and colleagues just find . . . strange.

This much we can guarantee: Sestak doesn't give a flying rip what Bob Brady says.

But that Vine had 440,460 views as of yesterday afternoon. That's a bit concerning.

Gregory Naylor, a longtime aide and confidant to U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah, was scheduled to be sentenced next week on corruption charges, but the date has been pushed back to December.

Our educated guess is that the feds are keeping Naylor on ice as a cooperator in the ongoing investigation of Fattah.

We expect similar sentencing delays for political consultant Tom Lindenfeld and Matthew Amato, the former roommate of Chaka Fattah Jr. The congressman's son is awaiting trial on bank-fraud and tax-evasion charges.

Lindenfeld and Amato, both scheduled to be sentenced next week in separate cases, are cooperating in the Fattah and Fattah Jr. cases, respectively.

So, basically, everything is on hold until the Fattahs are convicted, acquitted or the feds give up.

- Staff writers William Bender

and David Gambacorta

contributed to this report.

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