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PA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social · Aug 21

Republicans in Harrisburg are holding SEPTA hostage to make traffic & transit worse for the Eagles’ home opener the season after winning the Super Bowl.

www.crossingbroad.com/news/eagles/...

Eagles Home Opener Looks Like It'll Be One Giant Traffic Shit Show Because of SEPTA Situation

The home opener between the Philadelphia Eagles and Dallas Cowboys looks like it'll be a traffic nightmare if SEPTA doesn't get funding.

www.crossingbroad.com

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PA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social · Jul 7

Trash piling up? Libraries & pools closed? Long wait times for emergency calls?

Text DC33 to 30403 to contact the Mayor's office & tell them to give striking AFSCME DC 33 workers a fair contract.

A pile of trash next to a Philadelphia city trash can with a sign posted on it saying “Mayor Parker pick up your trash, give DC 33 a raise”.

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PA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social · Jul 3

Last month, Mayor Cherelle Parker's city budget gave tax cuts to the wealthiest corporations in Philly. Now, she claims there's no money left for striking city workers to make a living wage.

Text DC33 to 30403 to contact the Mayor's office & tell her to give AFSCME DC 33 workers a fair contract.

TELL MAYOR CHERELLE PARKER: PAY CITY WORKERS A LIVING WAGE.

TEXT DC33 TO 30403.

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PA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social · May 8

Thanks to the advocacy of @kendraphlcouncil.bsky.social, @domesticworkers.bsky.social, and so many other councilmembers, leaders, and partners, the POWER Act is now PASSED.

This will expand protections for over 750k workers & make Philly one of the most pro-worker cities in the country.

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Apr 22

you can't cry that "the mayor turned his housing walk into [something i don't like]" when YOU are the one who made the challenge, and the mayor simply took you up on it!

insane!

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Apr 22

O’Connor is the one who made this a campaign issue when *HE* challenged Mayor Gainey to “take a walk” & look at Pitt’s 1,600 units of housing.

the mayor took him up on it & planned a whole tour, and now O’Connor is ducking it. too scared to be shown up!

🐔 😭

Corey O'Connor @coreyoconnorpa.bsky.social · Apr 22

The mayor turned his housing walk into a campaign rally. I won’t be there. This video breaks down why: his debate claim of 1,600 new completed affordable units simply isn’t backed by his own tracker.

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Apr 20

lmao!

Dan Shaffer @dan-shaffer.bsky.social · Apr 20

@coreyoconnorpa.bsky.social Next time do your research.

Gainey's legacy - the unit is back online!

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Ed Gainey @gaineyformayor.com · Apr 18

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Apr 15

the West Virginia chemical spill forced Katie McGinty to return a contribution from Forrest in *checks notes* 2014! stateimpact.npr.org/pennsylvania...

McGinty returned campaign check from Pa. businessman tied to West Virginia spill | StateImpact Pennsylvania

Kimberly Paynter/WHYYFormer Secretary of the Pa. Department of Environmental Protection is a democratic candidate for governor.Democratic gubernat […]

stateimpact.npr.org

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Apr 15

the top-line fossil fuel money is very bad in and of itself, but it's genuinely insane that Corey O'Connor has taken & won't return a max from Cliff Forrest, an executive whose mining company left 300k West Virginians without water... www.pghcitypaper.com/news/mayoral...

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PA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social · Apr 10

We're proud to endorse @gaineyformayor.com for re-election.

Mayor Gainey has taking on big fights to protect the people of Pittsburgh against corporate developers & Donald Trump.

In his next term, Gainey will continue making Pittsburgh a safe and affordable home for everyone.

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Apr 8

oh my god -- Walnut Capital money is too dirty for *a super PAC supporting Corey O'Connor* but not for O'Connor's hard side campaign 😂

rarely do you see PACs return ANY money, but even more rarely do you see them refund money *the candidate they are supporting has also received*

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Apr 2

www.levernews.com/paging-dr-la...

Paging Dr. Land Baron

Nonprofit hospitals are building tax-exempt real estate empires — and working to crush politicians who stand in their way.

www.levernews.com

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Apr 2

wow, new bombshell reporting from @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social reveals:

- in 2023, Corey O'Connor strongly supported Ed Gainey's legal challenges to UPMC's property tax exemptions.

- in 2025, O'Connor's mayoral campaign received $25k from the UPMC Board.

- he now opposes the legal challenges.

🤔

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John Nichols @nicholsuprising.bsky.social · Mar 26

Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey has stood up to Trump and Musk at every turn. He’s also one of the progressive mayors in the country. Republicans know they can’t beat him in November. So now MAGA Republicans are pouring money into a May Democratic primary challenge to Gainey.

Here’s the inside story:

MAGA Money Targets Pittsburgh’s Progressive Mayor

Mayor Ed Gainey has stood up to Trump. Now, the president’s allies are crossing party lines in an attempt to unseat him.

www.thenation.com

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Mar 25

i feel like the Pitt mayoral campaign is going to make me overuse the "oh my god, he admit it" meme, but wow.

Walnut Capital thinks that donating $13k to Corey O'Connor will give them more access to the mayor's office? & they're just straight up admitting that? www.publicsource.org/pittsburgh-m...

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Mar 10

Twitter's down?

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Mar 10

wow, Corey O’Connor admits to raising over $90k from a late January fundraiser hosted by big-money Pittsburgh real estate interests, including $20k from two of the city’s most predatory slumlords.

makes you think 🧐 www.pghcitypaper.com/news/corey-o...

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Mar 3

🧐 "Major donors to President Donald Trump are pouring money into the race to unseat PGH Mayor Ed Gainey, lining up behind his primary opponent Corey O’Connor.

GOP donors have already funneled more than $130k into the race, more than 20 percent of O’Connor’s January haul."

Trump Donors Try to Buy Pittsburgh Mayor’s Race

Republican donors are getting involved in a clash between progressives in Pittsburgh, backing Mayor Ed Gainey’s challenger Corey O’Connor.

theintercept.com

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PA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social · Feb 19

Without the advocacy of WFP Minority Leader @kendraphlcouncil.bsky.social, Philadelphia’s groundbreaking eviction diversion program never would have been made permanent.

We need to do everything we can to keep working people in their homes. www.inquirer.com/real-estate/...

Philly is ‘rare’ city where eviction filings dropped and stayed down. Here’s why.

Eviction Diversion Program helps Philadelphia's landlords and renters solve conflict to avoid evictions.

www.inquirer.com

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Jan 27

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PA Working Families 🐺 @paworkingfamilies.bsky.social · Jan 23

Running for office in this year's primary and want the Working Families Party endorsement?

PA WFP's application is now LIVE!

Application deadlines are below 👇
act.workingfamilies.org/forms/apply-...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jan 8

Anyway, barring some miracle, it seems increasingly likely that a sizeable minority of Senate Dems are about to join with the entire Senate GOP to greenlight a law that will hand Ken Paxton and any random federal judge more power over immigration than any state or judge has ever had in US history.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jan 8

And now Rosen says she supports and Hickenlooper (like Ossoff) won't filibuster. Hickenlooper says he will seek amendments (which require a majority so likely won't happen).

So now it's down to one final senator.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Jan 8

Kelly is now on board too. If another 3 Dems agree to vote yes, this becomes a law. www.politico.com/live-updates...

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Dec 1

Rosie said Go Eagles

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nick gavio @gavio.bsky.social · Nov 22

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