TODAY 5pm – Deadline to return your absentee ballot
| May 17, 2013 | Posted by Progress Pittsburgh under Race for PGH 2013 |
Today – FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013 – 5pm is the deadline to return your absentee ballot. Details available from votePGH HERE.
Where is Wagner’s Support?
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by storify under Uncategorized |
Storify by progresspgh Thu, May 16 2013 09:22:32 Where is Wagner’s Support? Jack Wagner has been campaigning on the idea that he has solid relationships and is the best candidate to make Pittsburgh a better place. But where are his supporters to help with his campaign? A recent article from the Trib touts Wagner’s “solid…
Jeanne Clark goes negative… against Peduto?
| May 15, 2013 | Posted by committeegrrl under Discussion, Race for PGH 2013 |
The race for the open seat on Pittsburgh City Council that’s being vacated by Bill Peduto has stayed largely positive, before a couple of mailings from the Jeanne Clark campaign in the past couple of weeks. In the most recent one, she delivers Jack Wagner’s talking points against Peduto into his own district. Wagner has…
Race4PGH Must Read from Hillombo
| May 13, 2013 | Posted by committeegrrl under Race for PGH 2013 |
The blog Hillombo put up a post last week that has lots of interersting points and a very interesting discussion in the comments about the upcoming mayors race - The Mayoral Election + Race + Hill District = Jack Wagner? Here is the final paragraph but the entire post is worth the read about some of the…
Digging into Wagners Finance Report
| May 10, 2013 | Posted by grantstreetgossip under Race for PGH 2013 |
Nothing to surprising, Wagner’s got some of Luke’s campaign staff and a whole lot of spending on consultants. According to the finance reports that were filled at least 2 of the staffers from Ravenstahl’s campaign staff are now working on Jack Wagner’s campaign. Both Danielle McGrath-Hermann and Lydia Humenycky were on the payroll for Ravenstahl’s…
Check out what Wagner’s campaign spokesman had to say about Peduto
| May 8, 2013 | Posted by fedd up pgh under Race for PGH 2013 |
A link to this video popped up on Twitter earlier today. This looks like it was taken at Bill Peduto’s 2011 holiday party.
Anonymous Lit Drop of Trib Editoral in East End
| May 2, 2013 | Posted by Progress Pittsburgh under Race for PGH 2013 |
We’ve heard from a few follower and received this photo of the copies of a Tribune Review editorial about Bill Peduto titled “Peduto’s Problem” that are being distributed in the East End. Did anyone else get a copy?
Latest Wagner Newsletter – Three Weeks to End the Dysfunction in City Hall
| April 30, 2013 | Posted by committeegrrl under Race for PGH 2013 |
In case you aren’t subscribed to the Wagner list – here is the latest, actually first email from the Wagner campaign. You can see the Wagner campaign archives here. Full text of the email is below the screenshot. Dear , In three weeks, Pittsburgh will make a serious decision about the direction of City Government. That…
Twitter Reactions to Ravenstahl’s Ad Buy
| April 30, 2013 | Posted by storify under Race for PGH 2013, Uncategorized |
Storify by progresspgh Tue, Apr 30 2013 14:46:50 Twitter Reactions to Ravenstahl’s Ad Buy some crafty and humourous tweets in response to the news that Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is behind the latest negative ad. On Monday a new ad by the “Citizens for a Better Pittsburgh” began airing. Politics PA posted this video of…
Submit Your Campaign Events to the Progress Pittsburgh Calendar
| April 25, 2013 | Posted by Progress Pittsburgh under Events, Progress Pittsburgh Updates |
Anyone is welcome to submit relevant events to our events calendar. We’ve just added a candidate fundraiser and we will be adding more fundraisers and candidate forums. Please submit events here.
Chris Potter Tries to Figure Out How Wagner Will Fix Pgh Police Dept
| April 17, 2013 | Posted by storify under Uncategorized |
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A History of Drama in the 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club & An Allegheny Power Couple
| April 15, 2013 | Posted by fedd up pgh under Blogs |
If you are interested in Pittsburgh politics and Pittsburgh history, then you are going to want to subscribe to this blog – 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club Arvices (http://14thwardclubarchives.blogspot.com/). In 2014, the 14WIDC will celebrate it’s 50th anniversary – the club has started a blog to document some of the history. The email announcing the…
Progress Pittsburgh Bracket Challenge
| March 20, 2013 | Posted by Progress Pittsburgh under Progress Pittsburgh Updates |
We had to do some digging into the archives – but we’ve found the password for Progress Pittsburgh CBS sports account – and our Bracket Challenge group from years past. Set up your bracket here -http://progresspittsburgh.mayhem.cbssports.com/ Group Password = progresspittsburgh Spread the word and encourage your favorite local polticos to join too! The deadline for…
Ravenstahl Responds With a Lengthy Comment on the PG
We’re not sure what to make of this – so we’ll just post the info and let you respond.. At 4:14pm today – the Post-Gazette published an article about the recent attack ads in the mayoral campaign - Chairman of secretive group behind ad attacking Bill Peduto: Luke Ravenstahl Less than 2 hours later – Luke…