Matt H has been called quite a few names from many around the burghosphere (including by me!) Mostly, they centered around his role as the lone apologist for the mayor on the interwebs. That’s why his endorsement slate is probably going to catch quite a few people by surprise:
Mayor, City of Pittsburgh: Kevin Acklin
There are going to be people coming out of the woodwork to say that this doesn’t matter, nobody listens to Matt, etc. That would be missing the point as to the significance of this endorsement. If people like Matt H are not voting for Luke this year, then his impenetrability might just be broken in neighborhoods that have been left behind–and have traditionally been the mayor’s strongholds. Neighborhoods like Elliott, Carrick, Hazelwood, Beechview, Homewood, Sheraden, or Overbrook.
Chris Briem will have to tell me how the math works out, but in a low-turnout race, with three candidates, and no polling, what happens to Luke’s level of support? If much of the anybody-but-Luke crowd, the almost-anybody-but-Luke crowd, and the registered Republicans vote for Acklin along with a sizable portion of the Democrats uber alles [for the sake of this post, let's call that the Matt H vote], then could the election be closer than conventional wisdom would have us believe?
In many ways, the race to represent district 4 on Pittsburgh’s City Council is largely shaping up to be a fight between 
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