| 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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The Pittsburgh-based natural gas and coal extractor contributed $150,000 to a Romney-affiliated Super PAC in July. Consol executives also gave $22,000 to the Republican front-runner’s campaign during the most recent Federal Elections Commission filing period, which covered October, November and December 2011.
@PoliticsPA looks at the PAGOP Endorsement Policies - PAGOP to County Chairs: Non-Endorsed Candidates Need Not Apply
Ironically, those elements in the GOP want to run things more like Pa. Democrats.Dem state committee endorsements are not binding despite requiring a higher, two-thirds threshold (the PAGOP only requires 50 percent plus 1). Democratic county committees can – and often do – endorse primary opponents of candidates that have been endorsed by the state committee.
And efforts by reformers who want the party to emulate the GOP – by tightening up the bylaws or to committing noteworthy financial resources to back up endorsements – are the subject of intense scrutiny by progressives and activists.
So who’s right? GOP party leaders point to the most important statistic of all: win rate. Since 2001, the GOP has won 54 percent of contested statewide elections.
@PoliticsPA looks at the PAGOP Endorsement Policies - PAGOP to County Chairs: Non-Endorsed Candidates Need Not Apply
Ironically, those elements in the GOP want to run things more like Pa. Democrats.Dem state committee endorsements are not binding despite requiring a higher, two-thirds threshold (the PAGOP only requires 50 percent plus 1). Democratic county committees can – and often do – endorse primary opponents of candidates that have been endorsed by the state committee.
And efforts by reformers who want the party to emulate the GOP – by tightening up the bylaws or to committing noteworthy financial resources to back up endorsements – are the subject of intense scrutiny by progressives and activists.
So who’s right? GOP party leaders point to the most important statistic of all: win rate. Since 2001, the GOP has won 54 percent of contested statewide elections.
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?