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Ryan Deto
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Bay Area native, proud PGH transplant. Reporter @TribLive covering politics and more. Former Managing Editor at Pittsburgh City Paper. Tips rdeto@triblive.com
Sep 20, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
All mail-in ballots in for PA state House District 21 special election.

Lindsay Powell (D) 82%
Erin Connolly Autenreith (R) 17%

Mail-ins skew heavily for Dems in PA. District is already heavily Dem, so could be an early night. Control of PA state house is on the line Out of 4,041 mail-in ballots, Dem Powell received 3,331 votes. GOP Autenreith received 697.
Jun 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Pittsburgh's congressional delegation is weighing in on the guilty verdict of the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman.

Congresswoman Summer Lee has been advocating for federal funds to increase mental health services for the local Jewish community. Lee said the survivors inspire her. Image Sen. John Fetterman said the verdict is a step towards justice and "We all must continue to stand in solidarity with Pennsylvania's Jewish community against the evil of antisemitism." Image
Jun 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
BREAKING: Jury in Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting trial has ruled Robert Bowers guilty on all 63 counts, including several hate crime charges. Trial will now move into sentencing phase, which is estimated to last about 6 weeks. Sentencing phase should resume June 26. Full @TribLIVE story: A jury found Robert Bowers guilty on all 63 counts against him, including that he killed the victims because they were Jewish. Shooting occurred Oct. 27, 2018 at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. By @PaulaReedWard and @JVTheTrib triblive.com/local/bowers-f…
May 30, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Opening statements from the prosecution in the Pittsburgh synagogue trial with stories of the 11 victims, starting with Cecil and David Rosenthal, who were described as "the boys" and walked from their group home to take their place to welcome congregants at the Tree of Life. The 11 congregants' routines for the Sabbath were all described in detail, including how Melvin Wax would park farther away than necessary, so other congregants could park closer.
Nov 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
John Fetterman has declared victory in the PA senate race. His supporters anxiously await for the candidate to speak and have been cheering as NBC news has projected his victory. Here is fetterman
Nov 8, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Andrew Baldasare, a Republican official from suburban Pittsburgh has been hit with a cease and desist order after illegal electioneering complaints were made against him. PA election law says no campaigning inside or with in 10 feet of doors to polling places. Additionally, a voter in North Fayette told me judge of election praised PA-17 GOP cand Jeremy Shaffer while she was signing in to vote. A local election lawyer says this is also illegal. Shaffer was standing outside polling place, campaign says this judge is not part of campaign
Nov 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
PA-12: Republican Mike Doyle has a mailer out that says "Mike Doyle: A Trusted Name." He is running against Democrat Summer Lee. The retiring incumbent Democrat, also named Mike Doyle, has served as the area rep for nearly 27 years. Name confusion has become an issue in this race Image The Distinguished Gentleman (1992) starring Eddie Murphy Image
Nov 2, 2022 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Here in Bethel Park, where a crowd is forming into the event space at the Crown Plaza hotel for Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano. Former HUD Secretary Ben Carson is set to speak too. Looks like it’s gonna be a full house It’s hard to tell, but former WTAE anchor Wendy Bell, who was fired after racist comments and has since become a conservative firebrand and hosts a Facebook show, is here. She has stumped for Mastriano in the past.
Nov 1, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
At a GOTV rally on Pittsburgh’s North Shore where Dem gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro will be speaking soon. Over 100 here, including a sighting of Summer Lee and Dem Mike Doyle ImageImage Democratic incumbent Mike Doyle says “I am the real Mike Doyle” to loud cheers. He tells the crowd to not support the Republican running in PA-12, also named Mike Doyle. Dem Doyle then says to support Summer Lee and to help combat the attack ads against her. Image
Mar 3, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
F&M Poll - PA Sen Dems - March 2022
Don't Know - 44%
Fetterman - 28%
Lamb - 15%
Kenyatta - 2%

Full poll - drive.google.com/file/d/1cBTrVE… F&M Poll - PA Sen GOP - March 2022
Don't Know - 53%
McCormick - 13%
Sands - 11%
Oz - 10%
Barnette - 6%
Bartos -4%

Full poll - fandm.edu/fandmpoll
Nov 3, 2021 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
OK, PA polls closed 30 mins ago. I am gonna live tweet some statewide and Allegheny County results for @PGHCityPaper. Follow along! If you have any requests, I might be able to get to them, let me know. In Allegheny County Council District 3, incumbent has a 80%-20% after big batch of mail-in ballots counted. These skew Democratic, so race certain to tighten, but a good haul in this competitive race. more on the race: pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/all…
Nov 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
INBOX: Republican candidate Tony Moreno, who initially ran for Pittsburgh mayor as a Democrat and lost, says he will rehire any city employee that are fired as a result of Mayor Peduto's new mandate requiring city employees be vaccinated by Dec. 22. Closing pitch for mayor of Pittsburgh as "I will bring back more unvaccinated people into the city during a pandemic" is something that's for sure.
Jun 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Formerly a Republican from 2018-2019, Tony Moreno, who lost a Pittsburgh mayoral race as a Democrat, re-registered as a GOP and now is running as a Republican. pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/ton… Moreno, who only received about 13% of the Dem vote, made a splash this winter after @PGHCityPaper reported about his history of pro-Trump tweets."The great President Donald J Trump also has a responsibility to protect this country. ... He speaks for me.” pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/pit…
Jun 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Moreno, now running as a Republican, taking part in the long PA GOP tradition of going to a Black urban neighborhood and talk about how awful the city is and bringing up hyper-local issue (this time sewage) to try to politically capitalize on Barletta, who is now running for Gov, in Philadelphia
Apr 15, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This article provides some examples where "luxury apartments" - which is just a marketing term used to sell units, even ones that aren't that nice - have been quickly converted into subsidized affordable housing. Lesson appears to be: building is good. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… I don't know if there are any parallels to Pittsburgh. We just haven't had real development in so long. But I do think that NO ONE really knows what they are talking about vis a vis if new condos and apartments are pushing rents up. Hell, you might be able to argue the opposite.
Apr 13, 2021 • 36 tweets • 6 min read
Gonna live tweet Pittsburgh mayoral debate hosted by @905wesa and @pghblackmedia. Democratic candidates Peduto, Gainey, Moreno, & Thomspon will focus on city’s livability, policing, fiscal concerns, and economic, racial, & social equity. Follow this thread wesa.fm/90-5-wesa-stat… Opening statements first, Gainey up. says "he doesn't want to see people leave the city" of Pittsburgh. He wants to see a city for all.
Apr 12, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Some Black Pittsburgh leaders, like longtime housing advocate Carl Redwood, disagree that Black people are only leaving city by choice. In neighborhoods like Garfield & East Liberty, the Black population has shrunk while the white population has grown pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/som… Pittsburgh has lost 7,000 Black residents since 2014. Most are moving to suburbs. City's Black councilors said last week that this was mostly to escape blight & crime. But crime rates are down a lot compared to '90s, when less Black people were leaving triblive.com/local/is-there…
Jan 18, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Practically every inch under Florida is under water. The limestone bedrock beneath Florida is porous and basically all underwater caves, and can’t support tunnels. Level of naivety is astounding. This is apparently only one true tunnel in all of Florida and it may be the shortest tunnel in the world. This took 5 seconds of googling
Jan 5, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Results of PA-45 were much much closer, and the challenge to mail-in ballots much more narrow, but from birds-eye view, what the PA GOP is doing has the same optics as Trump's fruitless challenge. It's saying GOP wanting to win is more important than actually winning elections. Vast majority of Pennsylvanians and others are only going to learn about this PA-45 story right now. Because this was a circus, and the lesson the laypeople will take away is that if the GOP loses close races, they will just not abide by them.
Dec 16, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Allegations of sexual misconduct, emotional abuse and manipulation of college students abound against former Post-Gazette journalist Mike Fuoco. But despite warnings, the universities in charge of protecting students didn’t do much to stop him. pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/all… Three women allege Fuoco used his status as an award-winning journalist to pressure them into sexual encounters. “He said if I didn’t do certain things he wanted me to do or if I told the truth about him, I would never work in this town,” said one woman. pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/all…
Nov 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
UPDATE: PA SD-45

Dem Brewster maintains 17 vote lead after 280 provisionals counted in Westmoreland. Assumption was these would push GOP Zicarrelli into lead

PA Supreme Court still to decide if ~300 Allegheny mail-ins will be counted, mail-ins have been breaking to Brewster Looks like Commonwealth Court reversed the Allegheny County judge's decision to count those mail-ins. The decision is now remanded to court of common pleas. I am not sure what this means. @benwren can you explain