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  • Reforming permit and zoning systems to accelerate new housing construction
  • Expanding youth programming and investing in community centers
  • Adding staffing and funding to public safety bureaus
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“We have difficult work in the years ahead. We have a crumbling budget, we have crumbling infrastructure,” O’Connor said during an early-October KDKA debate. “We need a mayor who is going to be honest and transparent with our budget crisis.”

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  • He lacks support from top progressive leaders and organizations.
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  • Allegheny County Democratic Committee, Young Democrats of Allegheny County, 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club
  • Pennsylvania Laborers’ Council, unions representing ironworkers, steamfitters, plumbers, boilermakers, Pittsburgh paramedics and EMTs and others
  • City Councilors Erika Strassburger, Bobby Wilson, Bob Charland, Theresa Kail-Smith and Anthony Coghill, State Sen. Wayne Fontana, former City Councilors Ricky Burgess and Bruce Kraus
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  • Has coached golf at his alma mater of Central Catholic High School for 17 years, winning three state titles.
  • Raised from June 10 through Sept. 15: $367,703
  • Cash on hand as of Sept. 15: $269,693
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Campaign website: coreyformayor.com


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Charlie Wolfson is an enterprise reporter for Pittsburgh's Public Source, focusing on local government accountability and politics in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. He was a Report for America corps...