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An interesting email from the Ravenstahl Campaing today (entire email is posted below):

BOB CASEY AND LUKE

Mark your calendars!  Mayor Luke Ravenstahl is hosting a Happy 49th Birthday Party for Senator Bob Casey from 5:30 – 7:30 on April 15th at Finnigan’s Wake at 20 East General Robinson Street on Pittsburgh’s North Side.  The suggested donation is, what else, $49 made payable to “Bob Casey for Senate.”  To RSVP, please respond to this email.

Why is Luke Raventstahl hosting a fundraiser for Bob Casey?  Is Bob Casey endorsing Luke Ravenstahl? What does Casey have to gain from getting involved in the mayors race?

YouTube Fun

Finally, we found an illustrative video posted on the internet yesterday that’s been posted around blogs and social networking sites today. You may have seen the news earlier this week when a perennial political candidate launched his latest desperate attack against Mayor Ravenstahl.  Well, his own words have finally caught up with him.  Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1Zb5w8EO_k&feature=channel_page

The email links to this youtube video, which is a montage of Patrick Dowd speaking about the water authority bond deal.  

It is interesting that the video was posted yesterday by YouTube user PghRebel who has been a youtube user since 2006 this is the first video they have posted to YouTube.  We did a pretty through search of the social networking sites and the only place we found that links to this video was the Pittsburgh Hoagie.   further search of the internet – leads to this post from 2007 – in the comments there is a link to MySpace.com/pghrebel – which is MattH’s MySpace page.

Also there is a user on BarSmart with the name PghRebel10 that looks like MattH. Click here to see the profile for PghRebel10.

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We originally  posted this video back in March of 2007.  Doesn’t look like it got many views, so of today – Progress Pittsburgh is 4 of the 5 sites that link to this video.  Does it apply to the race in 2009?

Patrick Dowd’s press conference to formally announce his candidacy for mayor of the city of Pittsburgh, 2/19/2009.

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With the presidential election just under 30 days away and the voter registration deadline behind us – it is now 100% focus on election day. Here is a video that looks at some of the Election Protection efforts and challenges in Pittsburgh in 2004.

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For more information about voting and voting rights in PA…

• Visit www.EverybodyVote.com
• Follow EverybodyVote on Twitter
• Join the EverybodyVote group on Facebook

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The Clinton campaign has just announced that this ad will begin airing in PA. What is up with the use of the “its 3am line” – is it really effective? What do you think – will this ad influence votes?

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Reform Pittsburgh Now takes a look at the new Mon Valley. In part 1 – iJustine interviews Don Marinelli of Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center.
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Bill Peduto’s Reform Pittsburgh Now has added a new video to the site.

Justine rides the bus with Port Authority CEO Steve Bland and sits down with Jim Hassinger, President and CEO of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission.

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More info and past episodes available here.

The Burgh Report has already blogged about it, but if you haven’t seen it yet. Here is this weeks episode of The Third Round.

There are 2 Ravenstahl’s posting on YouTube these days. The Ravenstahl campaign, user name VoteforLuke, has been posting some video interviews of Luke, a very compelling piece about why he is running for mayor and some other clips on the issues.

But wait, there is more…someone with just the user name Ravenstahl has also posted a video spot