“Last spring … Mayor Nutter met privately with Harold Sorgenti, chairman of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and agreed to provide a $250,000 unscheduled grant to the city’s premier music ensemble.” The funding was taken from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, some of whose board members “argue that the Nutter administration … has now undermined the integrity of an arts-funding process that was explicitly designed to steer clear of the muddying influence of politics.”