Fitzgerald, Raja will face off for county exec in November (Left vs. Right in Pittsburgh)

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | May 18, 2011 | unattributed byline

[Buckeye McFrog]

Former County Council President Rich Fitzgerald legged out a victory over County Controller Mark Patrick Flaherty in the Democratic primary for Allegheny County executive on Tuesday night.

Fitzgerald will face Mt. Lebanon entrepreneur D. Raja, who handily beat former County Councilman Chuck McCullough in the Republican primary

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The winner in November will inherit a county with a structural deficit of about $50 million, a cash-strapped transit system and a state Supreme Court order to conduct a property reassessment that's certain to wallop some homeowners with huge increases

[Buckeye McFrog]

You could not ask for a sharper dichotomy in this race for County Exec in Pittsburgh. The Republican is an immigrant from India, an entrepreneur who has built companies and created jobs and wealth.

The Democrat is a left-wing, union backed Socialist who beat an old-school Democrat, the son of a long time Pittsburgh Mayor, by accusing him of not being Socialist enough. This guy actually engineered a vote in County Council last summer which branded a particular local employer as being a SWEATSHOP!

Yeah, that'll really attract new business to the area!

Sadly I think this clown will win in a cakewalk, largely because he has the Democrat and Union endorsements, and his GOP opponent is Indian. I can just see the ads running now....."He is from India, so you KNOW he must have outsourced YOUR JOB!"

[Nowhere Man]

Sadly I think this clown will win in a cakewalk, largely because he has the Democrat and Union endorsements, and his GOP opponent is Indian. I can just see the ads running now....."He is from India, so you KNOW he must have outsourced YOUR JOB!"

Yeah, I live here too and my vote is going to Raja. If Fitz does this, we should jump on him right away for using the RACE/ETHNIC CARD since they always accuse us as being racist an so on.