[JoyjoyfromNJ]

I was kinda trying to point out that it was the MAYOR of Philadelphia, now governor of Pennsylvania, who participated in the ceremony on public property. (I can't remember whether he's of Jewish ancestry.) Guess I don't write the Queen's English so good as to make that point. :-)

[Froufrou]

Not at all. I totally knew he was an elected official. ;o)

[night reader]

I was kinda trying to point out that it was the MAYOR of Philadelphia, now governor of Pennsylvania, who participated in the ceremony on public property. (I can't remember whether he's of Jewish ancestry.) Guess I don't write the Queen's English so good as to make that point. :-)

I suppose it's irrelevant to the question at hand, but I remember Mayor Floyd Adams, Savannah Georgia's first black mayor, attending and participating in the festivities on Southern Memorial Day at the monument to Confederate Veterans. When he was criticized by some blacks for so doing, he replied that he was mayor of all Savannians, not just the black ones.