Stories in the Press

1. Our 2010 Annual Meeting and Gubernatorial Debate was covered by multiple press outlets
   

2. Pittsburgh Post Gazette
   

3. Philadelphia Inquirer
   

4. WTAE Channel 4
   

Quotes in the Press

1. “Members of the 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club are pointedly noting to Early Returns that they opted not to endorse Mr. Ravenstahl for mayor, even though he is unopposed in their party's primary. The feisty group in the city's biggest ward is backing Mr. Lamb for controller and Rev. Burgess for council.”
   — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Early Returns blog, May 7, 2007
   

2. “But for many other liberal Democrats, the bloom has faded from the 27-year-old Ravenstahl, especially in East End neighborhoods of Shadyside and Squirrel Hill, home base of the city's more socially liberal wing. In the uncontested May primary, the 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club, which represents many active Squirrel Hill Democrats, made no endorsement. (Though president Debbie Levy McKinney says the group ‘always supports the Democratic slate in the fall.’)”
   — Pittsburgh City Paper, October 25, 2007
   

3. “In his first public appearance after releasing the plan, at a community forum at Minadeo Elementary School, Mr. Roosevelt answered a wide range of questions from an audience of about 300 looking for insight into how he decided which schools will be shut down.... ‘This community came out very well and it's helpful for Mr. Roosevelt to be here tonight,’ said Chris Zurawsky, a member of the 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club, which sponsored the forum. ‘He could be in a lot less friendly communities.’”
   — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 10, 2005
   

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   Molly Yard, one of the founders of the Club, from a September 22, 2005, was eulogized in a news article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. “Molly Yard, a political activist for more than 50 years who became the eighth president of the National Organization for Women.... Molly Yard, far left, president of the National Organization for Women, stands beside, from left, actresses Marlo Thomas, Whoopi Goldberg and Cybill Shepherd during a 1989 abortion rights march in Washington, D.C.”
   

5. “Now that we are in the 21st century, the composition of the Democratic Committee needs to include more issues-oriented activists, regardless of the existence of an open primary. The 14th Ward Independent Democratic Club, in its more than four decades of existence, has had a priority of electing progressives to the county committee. In 1990, we were able to elect an independent ward chair in the 14th Ward (the largest in the county) and have maintained control of the ward ever since.”
   — Pittsburgh City Paper, June 14, 2007, Letter from Club President Debbie Levy McKenney in response to “A Fistful of Voters,” May 31, 2007
   

Promotions in the Media

1. Our endorsement fundraiser in April 2007 was highlighted in the Post-Gazette’s Hot List as a noteworthy event for the city.