More Positive Press for Pittsburgh

The AP picked up the story on the city worker rigging the KDKA poll to vote for Ravenstahl. Here is a link to the article in the San Diego Newspaper. Awesome, that is so great that national press sees quotes like this from the city of Pittsburgh. It screams come do business here because in Pittsburgh it is okay to cheat.

“As far as I’m concerned, it was all in good fun,” Ravenstahl said.

The poll, posted last week, showed 86 percent of listeners believed the media was too harsh in its coverage of Ravenstahl, compared with 14 percent who didn’t.

The mayor’s office later acknowledged that the employee found a way around restrictions on repeat voting, allowing him to bombard the site with votes favoring the mayor.

“He did it as a private citizen. He’s well within his rights as a person,” Ravenstahl spokeswoman Alecia Sirk said. “People do it privately all the time for ‘American Idol,’ and nobody investigates that.”