Veteran civil-rights activist Tim Stevens says he didn t authorize his appearance in this attack ad.
The first real attack ad of Pittsburgh’s mayoral campaign aired by the kind of outside-spending group that local politicos have been expecting landed this week. And one of the people feeling stung by it isn’t even a candidate.
“We felt like our credibility was at stake,” said Tim Stevens, a longtime Black civic leader and founder of Black Political Empowerment Project, after seeing himself appear in an ad attacking Bill Peduto.
Stevens appears for about two seconds in the spot, created by a union-backed committee called Pittsburgh Justice for All.” Though he is not named in the spot, he can be seen asking “for whom is [Pittsburgh] most livable?” a statement Stevens says was excerpted from a 2019 press conference on health outcomes for Black women in the city. The ad strings that together with news clips and newspaper headlines to conclude “After eight years
The ongoing investigation regarding contamination at the 6/1o project PHOTO: GoLocal
The ongoing federal investigation related to the dumping of contaminated material in Olneyville tied to the 6/10 construction project is advancing.
Federal agents visited the home of a supervisor of Barletta Engineering the company is the lead contractor on both the 6/10 project the state s largest construction project as well as the contractor on another RIDOT project Pawtucket/Central Falls Commuter Rail Station and Bus Hub.
Truckloads and truckloads of contaminated material were transported to a Plainfield Street location adjacent to homes and small businesses in June of 2020 by Barletta and under the supervision of the RIDOT.
Now the unions contend they have documents that validate their assertions. Clearly the evidence after reviewing these resumes support what we ve been doing all along and clearly there were qualified Canadians who should have had an opportunity at these jobs, said Brian Cochrane, a spokesman for the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 115. It appears that some of them didn t even have an opportunity for an interview.
The engineers union and the Construction and Specialized Workers Union spent weeks in legal wranglings before the company agreed to hand over about 300 resumes last month to satisfy a Federal Court order.
The unions, which are more broadly seeking a judicial review of Ottawa s decision to issue permits to the workers in the first place, say their findings justify the legal challenge.
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