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5 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This tweet is filled with incomplete information. it's not just a day off. County CAN'T LEGALLY COUNT 29k of 35k ballots today due to court order, bc a contracting company sent out wrong mail-in ballots last month and they needed to be replaced.
Background on those 29,000 ballots, which had to be resent earlier due to an error from contracted company, one that actually flied Trump flags at their HQ spotlightpa.org/news/2020/11/p…
Just wait for the votes to be counted, Pittsburgh! pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/jus…
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6 Nov
NEW: About 30 Trump supporters here in Pittsburgh, led by local GOP state Rep. candidate Danny DeVito (R-Carnegie), who lost his race, falsely claiming there are hundreds of thousands of illegal ballots cast for Biden.

“We will never accept Joe Biden as a legitimate president” Image
About a dozen people of the 30 have left, not sure if they are coming back or what exactly is going on Image
There arguably just as many press members are rally goers and DeVito makes baseless claims of voter fraud in Coraopolis (in his district) followed by then shouting. Got to wonder what we (press) are all doing here? Image
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31 Oct
Back home from vacation and just want to thread some of my experiences because Pennsylvania is a wonderful state period and even more so to visit in fall. We should market ourselves as the best fall state in America. Look at these colors from the Allegheny National Forest. 1/
Look at these spectacles, world class and not crowded in the least bit. A joy to visit.

1. Elk Country viewing area
2. Pine Creek Gorge (PA Grand Canyon)
3. High mountain bog in Devil’s Elbow Nature Area
4. Boulder Field in Hickory Run State Park (biggest in Appalachia)
Towns in Western Pa. would be smart to model themselves after Jim Thorpe, become walkable tourists destinations for small town charm. It would probably take federal investment & bold thinking, but it is possible to make former coal towns a draw. Oil City could do this, imo.
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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
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23 Oct
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…
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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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