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NullspacePittsburghers know that the times are out of joint. Somehow they're expecting the prosperity to blow up in their faces.
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2005
Dist. Incumbent ML BO BP OTHER
1 Vacant 22.7% 55.0% 18.9% 3.5%
2 Deasy 33.1% 46.5% 18.1% 2.3%
3 Koch 24.2% 46.9% 24.8% 4.1%
4 Motznik 37.8% 45.3% 15.5% 1.4%
5 Shields 18.5% 56.6% 23.6% 1.3%
6 Payne 10.8% 59.3% 18.3% 11.6%
7 Bodack 16.7% 47.5% 32.5% 3.4%
8 Peduto 20.9% 29.0% 48.8% 1.2%
9 Carlisle 11.3% 55.0% 18.7% 14.9%
2001
Dist. Incumbent MURPHY OCONNOR OTHER
1 Vacant 53.9% 37.8% 2.6%
2 Deasy 46.6% 43.3% 2.7%
3 Koch 44.7% 45.3% 5.1%
4 Motznik 45.0% 46.1% 2.3%
5 Shields 34.8% 57.6% 2.8%
6 Payne 43.8% 43.5% 9.6%
7 Bodack 47.2% 44.9% 3.4%
8 Peduto 57.2% 31.6% 2.9%
9 Carlisle 42.9% 45.9% 8.8%
An ambiguous statute or ordinance is a dangerous thing. It is like a doctor's prescription which is half blurred, and, if an attempt is made to carry out its obscure directions, the haphazard cure may produce more havoc than the original illness. All the eminent counsel who argued the matter before us assumed that the Charter meant to say that the vacancy would be filled at the next election, municipal or general, whichever came first after the vacancy occurred, but the Charter does not say that.no, this is from the PA supreme court and is Justice Musmanno's opinion in the case of Cali v. Philadelphia in 1962. He was commenting on confusing provisions in the Philadelphia City charter pertaining to when elections would be held when there is a vacancy in the office of the mayor (sound familiar). Then in Philly as now in Pittsburgh, there was confusion and consternation over when the election for mayors office would take place following the resignation of Richardson Dilworth in 1962.