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June 30, 2009 - 12:36 pm
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Pittsburgh City Council Passes the Amended Amended Act 47 Recovery Plan 6 to 3

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)

For: Burgess, Kraus, Motznik, Payne, Peduto, Smith
Against: Dowd, Harris, Shields

For those who didn’t see it, the discussion before the vote basically went the way you’d imagine: Harris asked the same question half a dozen times, Shields bloviated, etc.

Our Overlords kept 30 out the 42 amendments changes suggestions made by Council last week.
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June 5, 2009 - 06:09 am
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Potter's Post-Mortem on District 6 Election

By dayvoe@gmail.com (Dayvoe)

Read it here.

The core of his article:

So ... how did Tonya Payne, a one-term incumbent, lose to Daniel Lavelle? How could Payne, who beat Sala Udin in 2005, lose to Udin's former assistant just four years later?

On paper, these races were very similar. In both, Payne was running against either Udin or his ally. And in both, the same dark-horse candidate -- school board member Mark Brentley -- was also in the running. So how did Lavelle find the means to defeat her this time around?

The answer is simple: He didn't. Payne beat herself.

There's lots of really interesting numbers to support his conclusion.

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May 18, 2009 - 08:23 pm
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A Loaded Deck

By lupinaccim@aol.com (Maria)

Man, I really didn't want to go back here again, but the painfully punny "Payneful Mistake" blog has left me no choice:

Really, Payneful Mistake? The number one problem you have with Councilwoman Tonya Payne is that she supported Hillary Clinton in the Democratic PRIMARY despite her district's preference for Barack Obama?

Let's set aside that elected officials often come out for a candidate far earlier in the process than regular voters. Let's set aside that the whole reason for Super Delegates is to have a group of voters who don't necessarily represent the popular vote (not that I even like that system). Let's set aside that Payne has been a longtime supporter of the Clintons and a real fan of Hillary.

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