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Endorsements in Pittsburgh’s mayoral race have been trickling out for weeks now, but last week Mayor Bill Peduto received the endorsement of two South Hills officials whose names raised some eyebrows: Anthony Coghill and Bob Palmosina.
Coghill represents southern neighborhoods in City Council, while Palmosina holds an Allegheny County Council district that covers some of the same area. But both men are ward chairs on the Allegheny County Democratic Committee a group that endorsed state Rep. Ed Gainey for mayor, and which endorsed Palmosina and Coghill for re-election in the same primary.
“I was in a tough spot,” said Coghill, who chairs the city’s sprawling 19th Ward. The endorsement process, he said, is “the best form of democracy that I know. I wasn’t happy that [Peduto] didn’t seek the endorsement, I can tell you that.” But Peduto has done right by the district, he said, and “ultimately I work for the taxpayers. I have to do what’s best for
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It wouldn’t be an election cycle in Allegheny County without some complaining about the local Democratic Party apparatus.
But already the complaints this year are louder than in many previous cycles, with the unhappiness amplified by a wide-open field of judicial contenders – and by long-standing grievances about whether the county’s Democratic committee reflects, and responds to, the voters it will need in the future.
“It’s almost like there might be two different Democratic parties – a leadership that has a more traditional mindset, and a new world that is more inclusive,” said Nicola Henry-Taylor, one of nearly three dozen candidates for Common Pleas Judge.
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A former Pittsburgh councilwoman’s fine for refusing to file financial disclosure reports in 2019 and the law requiring those reports was upheld Tuesday by an Allegheny County judge who concluded the city is within its powers to require them.
“We’re looking at appeal options,” said Jim Burn, the attorney for former Councilwoman Darlene Harris, on Wednesday. “We respect the judge’s opinion, but we respectfully disagree.”
Harris was fined $4,150 for not filing reports with the city’s Ethics Hearing Board by the first business day in each of the three months prior to the election in 2019. The law requiring those reports was spearheaded in 2010 by then-councilman Bill Peduto, who now is the city’s mayor.
of you. that was something very special. the whole world is proud of you frankly. thank you very much. thank you, mark. great job. [applause] also with us, deputy of secretary affairs, jim burn. thank you. secretary of the army, ryan mccarthy. thank you. and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general mark milley. thank you, general. army chief of staff, james mccarnville and sergeant major of the army, michael grunson. thanks for being here. also, thank you to some very special warriors, a little different kind of war maybe but they re warriors. senators john cornyn, ted cruz and tom tillis. thank you very much, fellows. thank you. [applause]