| May 16, 2009 | Posted by mmp under Uncategorized |
Leave your predictions in the comment thread for the mayor’s race, Pittsburgh council races, or any of your favorites. Winner gets bragging rights. Trash talking is only allowed if you make a prediction yourself.
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Michelle Obama to Attend Fundraiser at Rivers Club on April 17
The Obama Victory Fund
Invites you to a reception with special guest
First Lady Michelle Obama
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
3:00 PM
The Rivers Club
301 Grant Street
One Oxford Centre Suite 411
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
To rsvp or for more details, please contact tfletcher@barackobama.com
Infographic on voter suppression from @ACLU - Let People Vote
PA <3 O’Bama via @ofa_pa
Sign in a storefront on Penn Avenue in East Liberty that reads, “Pennsylvania Loves O’Bama”.
MoveOn Pgh is hosting a free screening of the Document Hot Coffee on Sun. March 11, 2012 1pm @ USW Building
MoveOn Pgh is hosting a free screening of the Document Hot Coffee on Sun. March 11, 2012 1pm @ USW Building - RSVP here http://pol.moveon.org/event/events/event.html?event_id=127094&is_manage=1
The state Senate rejected a series of Democratic amendments before passing the voter identification bill 26-23, with three Republicans joining the Democrats in opposition. Democrats had tried to add new forms of acceptable identification and postpone the requirement until after the November elections.
Oh? Why did we pass this bill?
“The reason people don’t have confidence is because they think there’s fraud,” [Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele] said. “This would eliminate or dramatically reduce anyone thinking that there are people voting illegally in Pennsylvania.”
So, there’s fraud, is there?
“This is simply a solution in search of a problem,” said Sen. Wayne Fontana, D-Brookline. “It will alienate many of our citizens, including the poor, elderly and minorities.”
But Carol Aichele said there was fraud, didn’t she?
“The reason people don’t have confidence is because they think there’s fraud”
I see. So there is no fraud, but people think there is fraud. So we need to do this so that no one will see people without ID voting, and think there is fraud.
“This bill is a simple, common sense measure to protect the integrity of the voting process, which is the very foundation of our democracy,” Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi said. “It’s important to note that no voter will be turned away from the polls on election day.”
So people will go to the polls, see people asked for ID, which they will not be required to actually provide, and this method will assure everyone that there is no fraud, which we have already agreed is the case.
Gov. Tom Corbett supports requiring voters to show photo identification, and a spokesman for House Republicans said he expects the House to pass the bill in its current form.
Well, at least everyone can get behind this measure that everyone agrees will fail to solve a problem that does not, in any case, exist.
Who are you supporting for Allegheny County Controller
Total Votes: 33
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mayor-
Ravenstahl 62%
Dowd 24%
Robinson 13%
Write In 1%
council 2-
Smith 52%
Blotzer 38%
Frank 9%
Write In 1%
council 4-
Rudiak 44%
Coghill 30%
Reilly 23%
Weaver 2%
Write In 1%
council 6-
Lavelle 43%
Payne 42%
Brentley 14%
Write In 1%
common pleas top 5
1- Michael Marmo
2- Joe Williams
3- Susan Evanshavik
4- Don Walko
5- Hugh McGough
Braddock-
Fetterman by more than 1 vote
Wow, I’m not going so far as to run down a slate of Pgh campaigns, but I will agree with the District 6 prediction above.
The citizens of D6 recognize aberrant, abhorrent and absent leadership, as deftly defined by the current district representative.
Real leadership, including the enviable skill of building capacity that community organizers do so well, is embodied in Robert Daniel Lavelle.
It’s too bad too many people caught not swine flu but apathy for volunteer involvement in the District 6 race.
O well, I’m sure there won’t be anyone apathetic about volunteering the bitching we’ll hear if Tonya wins again.
Good luck, Daniel.
I agree with anom #1 except for:
Council 4
Coghill 39.5%
Reilly 39%
Rudiak 19.5%
Weaver 2%
Council 6
Payne wins
Common Pleas top 5
Klein
Williams
Evashavick
Ignelzi
Zappala Peck
“Some members of the Pittsburgh City Council have a strange view of their oaths of office, which presumably include a pledge to defend the Constitutions of the United States and Pennsylvania. Council passed a gun regulation on November 24 requiring that gun owners report a lost or stolen firearm within 24 hours or potentially face a $500 fine. The measure is almost certainly unconstitutional as a conflict with a State statute that prohibits local governments from “in any manner” regulating lawful ownership of firearms. This is the statute that was held to preempt the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh bans on assault weapons in Ortiz v. Commonwealth (Pa. 1996). Rich Lord of the Post-Gazette quoted Councilwoman Tonya Payne as saying, ‘Who really cares about it being unconstitutional?’ Well, she should, for one.”–http://tinyurl.com/q86ox8
Yeah, Anon #2, let’s get Payne back in office. Not.
Argh, Anon #2, how does it feel to have fallen on the wrong side of history with that D6 prediction lol?