Dowd for...

Found this a few days ago, thought it was hillarious!

I think we should all make our best Dowd For pictures and send them to this guy.

Because I'm Patrick Dowd and I'm better than you

I found this on another blog and I thought it was pretty damn funny.

I also found this one...

I'll let you decide which is funnier.

The Old Standard Bearer

Peduto Press release from a few days ago:

PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh City Councilman William Peduto will introduce a resolution at this morning’s City Council meeting calling on Pittsburgh to join the international effort to combat global warming

I am constantly amazed by Bill Peduto and his leadership on issues that are so vitally important but city officials knowingly or unknowingly ignore. Its things like taking care of the environment and improving public transit, things that Peduto advocates for, that will help bring about a new Pittsburgh renaissance.

I, unfortunately, didn't have the pleasure to experience Peduto's first mayoral campaign and only the very tail end of his second, short lived, mayoral campaign. Have the progressives and the bloggers left Bill in the dust? Where were the cries for "Draft Bill" this time? Why so fast to jump from an elected official who has always stood up for what alot of the blogging progressives are all about and switch over to what appears to be a "not-always-too-progressive" candidate in Dowd? What has Dowd done in his just over one year on council to steal the progressive crown from Peduto? Is Dowd really the one we bloggers want as our front man, or is he severely lacking in credentials for this title?

If my commenters could enlighten me, I would gladly hear it.

To Bill Peduto: I still like you, don't let Dowd steal your progressive thunder

and a side note: Why doesn't Dowd have one of these yet?

its a Triple Threat, not a one-on-one face off

Today I wanted to talk about the fact that the mayor's race is a three way race, but people seem to be forgetting that. I recently had the privilege to meet Carmen Robinson, she was very impressive and I liked her a lot.

All the other blogs in the burgh-o-sphere seem to have forgotten Robinson and are focusing on the scrappy Mr. Dowd. But I don't think its just the blogs suffering this case of amnesia, candidate Dowd seems to think he and Luke are the only ones vying to lead the city.

Dowdy's been challenging Lukey to debates but has he been directly including Robinson in these discussions? or does he want to count her out so he can be the vessel of change?

What I'd like most in the coming weeks is for ALL THREE candidates for the top post begin a conversation with the city residents, not just someone grand standing for another run in the future. That's what would be best for the city.

Dowd: Autobot or Decepticon?

Transformative times call for a transformer I guess, but is Dowd an Autobot or a Decepticon?

One week of Dowd

Ok so its been about a week now since Dr., School Board Member, Councilman Patrick Dowd announced his intentions to run for mayor. So how have things been shaping up?

Well Dowd's facebook group seems to be fairing well. But what's this? Its his pledge drive to raise money, but it was promised he would raise $5,000 in 48 hours. So one week later, Pat still only has $31.27. Not off to a good start. I'm a little curious as to what else Dowd is doing to get his campaign going. I mean his website is barely functional and he has a little bit of name recognition with the Facebook crowd, but thats not exactly the demographic that wins you elections in Pittsburgh. At this point, Dowd isn't even just token opposition.

One week after Patrick announced, I'm left with more questions than answers.

• What are you doing to get your name out there, Patrick?
• Why did you get in the race too late to file for the Democratic endorsement?
• What are the issues you are running on? (we know you think these are transformative times, but for what?)
• Is it too early to start calling Dowd a lazy campaigner?

Is there really any support for Dowd if this is all he can muster up in a week? Maybe transformative times need to visit the Dowd campaign.

Campaign Money

I don't know what to think about this:

"relying on private donors to fund travel that's not clearly election-related could be corrosive."

Seems to me like Lord Dick is trying to make something out of what appears to be nothing. If its completely legal and everyone does it (seems like Dougy and Patty are doing the same thing as Lukey and Danny), what's the problem? No tax payer dollars were used for this and the politcal intent is clear. Can someone please explain to me what exactly is wrong with this practice?