Major Announcement by Mayor Ravenstahl this Afternoon (Pittsburgh, Penn: donate, finance)

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Originally Posted by sparrowmint

Yeah right. No one truly wants to pay taxes for the sake of the opportunity to vote in municipal elections. Next to no one does it when they're naturally eligible. The voter turnout last time was 23%. People sure do care.

23% is pretty decent considering the fact that the city rarely has seriously contested elections.

The last time there was a tightly waged mayor's race in the fall was in 1977, Foerster and Caliguiri, two dems in the general election.

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Originally Posted by Hopes

My voluntary choice was marrying my husband, who already owned our house. Aside from not marrying him, I had zero choice in where I live.

Um, people in the suburbs certainly don't need to apologies for living in good school districts, lower income tax rates and way less poverty and section 8, not to mention CRIME! Just say I am smart and move on.

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Originally Posted by alleghenyangel

This is insulting to those of us who live in urban suburbs that face more challenges than the city itself, and who promote the city and city living at our every opportunity.

Don't be insulted. Lobick lives in a high crime area and he is always pushing city living because he feels it hasn't come as far as he would like. It is what it is, but don't fall for that crap, it is just the usual venting that he is always doing.

[speagles84]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Don't be insulted. Lobick lives in a high crime area and he is always pushing city living because he feels it hasn't come as far as he would like. It is what it is, but don't fall for that crap, it is just the usual venting that he is always doing.

All I'm putting in this one. And I'm 23.

[Hopes]

Sounds like the Mayor was just playing games with the media yesterday.

Around 4 p.m., Mr. Ravenstahl was spotted leaving his office with Mr. Huss. He took an alternate exit away from the main bank of elevators, avoiding the gantlet of media that awaited him.

With a bevy of cameras trained on the mayor's door, Mr. Zober, keenly aware he was being watched, walked into the office carrying a guitar. Seconds later, he reappeared with a checkered flag.

In the evening, two of the mayor's aides delivered pizza to the media, but refused to say anything about the mayor's whereabouts or whether a news conference was imminent. By 7 p.m., the lights in the office had darkened.

Read more: Ravenstahl, aides keep mum as rumors swirl about mayoral campaign - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

[Evergrey]

Ugh... Zober is so annoying.

[Goinback2011]

Great, we have a juicebox mayor.

[greg42]

This remark I saw on Twitter last night summed it all up perfectly I thought:

"Chaos. Secrecy. No discernible plan, strategy, or maturity. If The Mayor is going out, he's doing it the same way he governed."

[Hopes]

Incredibly immature. As soon as the media got wind of it, he should have addressed them.

His ignoring the media drew more attention to the investigation. Zero chance of being reelected if he plans to stay in the race.

[SteelCityRising]

Originally Posted by h_curtis

Um, people in the suburbs certainly don't need to apologies for living in good school districts, lower income tax rates and way less poverty and section 8, not to mention CRIME! Just say I am smart and move on.

So those of us who live in ecologically-sustainable, walkable, historic, densely-settled city neighborhoods are "not smart"? Those of us who chose NOT to abandon the city just because it's home to poor blacks are "not smart"?