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23 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Anti-LGBTQ group PA Family Council linked to North Hills candidate Rob Mercuri (R-Pine) sends out anti-trans mailers trying to turn support for LGBTQ nondiscrimination into a wedge issue over trans high school athletes in Connecticut pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/ant…
This is "bathroom bill" 2.0. Dems support adding LGBTQ to the 1964 Civil Rights acts, to ensure they can't be evicted or denied public accommodation. PA GOP don't, so they try to sensationalize nondiscrimination, warn about "boys competing in girls sports"
.@jjabbott's take:

“Blocking LGBTQ non-discrimination protections is one of the biggest legislative failures of the last decade. It's no surprise that a bigoted organization like the PA Family Institute is trying too hard to protect this GOP majority" pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/ant…
.@malcolmkenyatta @BrianSimsPA this story might interest yinz

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23 Oct
National assignment editors, Western PA journo here. I'm pleading w/ you, plz don't assign stories about how we feel about fracking or oil. Not only do most laypeople here rarely talk about it, they're like most Americans, more concerned about COVID, economic relief, schools, etc
Fracking brought up a lot by regional political, biz & labor leaders, bc industry did an effective job of convincing them (and only them) that fracking was an economic panacea. (it wasn't) But that's disconnected from laypeople who are growing more wary of it in their backyards
And don't for 1 second think oil has any cache here. PA's oil boom ended 100+ years ago. Most SW Pennsylvanians don't even know about region's oil history. It's like pretending Biden is going to lose CA because he doesn't support gold mining. Look at how little oil PA produces Image
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22 Oct
There’s over $140 million in unspent fed funding meant for rent assistance in PA. Senate GOP just blocked bill passed unanimously in house to streamline rent assistance program. Today & yesterday, 44 eviction cases hit one South Hills apartment complex. pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/pit…
Word is that GOP want to use the unspent funds to fill budget holes instead, even as so many vulnerably Pennsylvanians need it now. Unspent funds would instead go to 60 smallest counties in PA, which are overwhelmingly GOP, spotlightpa.org/news/2020/10/p…
Every county would get at least $1M, even counties that have less than 10,000 residents. At large scale eviction complaints in South Hills today, tenants were mostly BIPOC, including refugees. Just leaving this here to remind voters what is at stake politicspa.com/cook-moves-pa-…
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22 Oct
White House citing @PGHCityPaper in new report on PA manufacturing policy. Hilarious thing: it’s using an article showing how Trump lied about fracking jobs. While still spreading misinformation about 322K “related jobs,” which undercuts Trump’s false claim of 900K fracking jobs
Thank you Mr. President for citing me pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/fra…
Here is the full report. h/t to Peter Hart of @fwaction for pointing this out. whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl…
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22 Oct
Today and yesterday, 44 tenants at a large South Hills complex forced to go to court for eviction complaints during a pandemic. Some of them for allegedly just nonpayment of rent, even partial nonpayment, which is an apparent violation of CDC order. Story: pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/pit…
Two tenants said they missed rent because 2 family members had recently died, and they asked to pay rent a bit back at a time. One had to call off work to go to magistrate. Complex is now charging them extra $375 be they were couple weeks late pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/pit…
Majority of the tenants owed less than $2000 in overall fees, some tenants were likely only behind on rent to the tune of a few hundred dollars. This shows the ease at which eviction complaints can still be filed as PA lifted its eviction moratorium. pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/pit…
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21 Oct
BREAKING: A Jared Kushner-owned complex in Pittsburgh's South Hills is seeking large-scale evictions. 44 over two days. Some eviction complaints might be in violation of CDC eviction moratorium since they are allegedly only for week-late rent nonpayments. pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/jar…
2 tenants who spoke on condition of anonymity said October was 1st month they had failed to pay rent on time; they had only lived at The Alden South Hills since July. Owners imposed additional $375 in court and late fees on them as part of complaint pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/jar…
According to court filings, 25 of 44 complaints were for missing payments of less than $2,000. Considering $110 in court fees and allegedly hundreds more in late rent payment fees, some tenants were likely only behind on a few hundred dollars worth of rent pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/jar…
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21 Oct
THREAD: @PGHCityPaper’s 2020 election guide is out. I know many of you have already voted, but for those still unsure about row offices and state legislative races, we focused on those elections that will likely be the closest in Allegheny County. pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/pit…
For Congress, PA-17 will likely be Pittsburgh’s closest race, as Democrat Conor Lamb faces Republican Sean Parnell in a race focused on health care and fracking. Guide tries to cut through the misinformation surrounding those topics pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/us-…
Pa. State House District 28 has Democrat Emily Skopov taking on Republican Rob Mercuri in a close race in the North Hills. Guide focuses on contrasts over LGBTQ issues, health care, and COVID. pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/pen…
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