Ben Forstate
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PA politics n’at
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Joined September 2012
Good luck to our Pittsburgh @RiverhoundsSC as they take on Tulsa for their first USL Championship! All of #Pittsburgh is behind you!
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Donald Trump is calling for my death and others, and every political leader should condemn the President's violent threats.
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A joint statement from me, @SenatorSlotkin, @SenMarkKelly, @RepJasonCrow, @RepGoodlander, and @RepHoulahan.
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I was unemployed and knew GIS, so I tweeted PA election maps. Somehow that spiraled into managing a school board race, then a state house race, then congressional race and then a major-city mayoral campaign. Truly not a reasonable sequence of events.
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Would anyone happen to have an accurate PA VTD file? I stopped periodically updating mine and now it's super out of date.
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Damn. I missed Josh Shapiro tearing JD Vance a new one yesterday
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On Tuesday, Allegheny County Controller Corey O'Connor was elected the next Mayor of Pittsburgh by a whopping 73%, the largest margin in a contested election in city history. Impressively, he won the 31st Ward (Trump +4) by about 40%.
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Upshot of the municipal election? Four sitting state lawmakers won local seats, meaning four special elections in the coming months. Those elections must be at least ~70 days (the Speaker has up to 10 days to issue a writ + minimum 60 from that date) after each's resignation.
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Democrats in the Keystone State defended their 5–2 Supreme Court majority last night after three incumbents were retained by voters, each by a margin of at least 20 points. This came despite Trump’s late push for the “No” campaign. #Pennsylvania🧑⚖️
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Shoutout to Mayor Betty Copeland, a Pennsylvania Democrat who cruised to re-election yesterday.
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Here’s the full list. Dems won often and everywhere, taking every race I had rated as a Toss-Up while also winning 19 races where I had the GOP having an edge. Most impressive performances coming in Collier, Moon, Plum, West Deer, Pine-Richland & Jefferson Hills
Tonight’s results for the Allegheny GOP were absolutely brutal to a level even I didn’t expect. Democrats won 82 / 93 competitive Mayoral | Supervisor | Commission races Democrats won 24 / 25 competitive School Board races
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Something is wrong with Staten Islanders like why would you ever vote against this
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🧵 Outside of Erie and Pittsburgh, Democrats had a great night in mayoral races across W. Pennsylvania. * Trump-won town 🟦 HOLD: Avonmore* (Westmoreland) Beaver Falls (Beaver) Belle Vernon* (Fayette) Blairsville* (Indiana) Butler* (Butler) Canonsburg* (Washington) 1/7
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Josh Maines, a registered Democrat, won the Clearfield County Court of Common Pleas race by 178 votes (0.8%) against Ryan Sayers, a registered Republican and the incumbent DA. Clearfield county went 75-24 to Trump. This is a swing of 51 points. 1/
Race to watch: There's a real chance that the Democratic candidate (and a Democrat by party registration), Josh Maines, wins the Court of Common Pleas race in Clearfield County, an area that went 3 to 1 for Trump. Longer analysis coming if he pulls this off
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Be honest Pittsburgh, could you tell who is the new mayor or the Penguins GM if standing 100 feet away?
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Corey O'Connor and Kyle Dubas have fans doing double takes.
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