umm yeah…about 10-12 other cities turned it down… ravenstahl is a brown noser so of course he stroked off barry. i’m sure he thinks he can get into the some cool events like that time he snuck into Oakmont. guy is a douche…i’m just waiting for the mayoral debates.
source? not saying you are wrong, just never saw the article that gave that info. From what I read it was the Obama Administration that chose Pittsburgh.
:yawn: you seem to know so much about how this all happened, yet I have NEVER seen a report about how “10-12 other cities” turned it down, actually this is the first I heard about it.
A few cities did turn hosting the G20 down. From what I’ve heard, the Administration was getting a bit embarassed by this. Obama and Rooney are tight (there’s been some favor mongering there), and there’s been speculation that Obama’s folks contacted Rooney directly to see if he could sway local government towards accepting the G20 here.
I was at WPIC today for my psych rotation in school and some of the patients there wanted to stay an extra couple days so they didn’t have to be around “all those nutty G20 protesters,” I was cracking up.