Natalia Rudiak/target

== Mayor Bill Peduoto wrote in an email in Feb 2015==
Join me in supporting Natalia Rudiak
Councilwoman Natalia Rudiak announced that she is running for Pittsburgh City Controller. She has my complete support.
Natalia Rudiak is one of our young, talented members of council who is making a difference for everyone in Pittsburgh. Natalia was born and raised in Carrick, where she lives. After earning her Master's Degree from Carnegie Mellon University, she entered the private sector, working to advise local governments on the implementation of a statewide financial management system. On City Council, she chaired the Performance and Asset Management Committee and the Committee on Finance and Law.
Natalia Rudiak is well qualified to serve as our City Controller. And just as important, she shares our vision for a New Pittsburgh. With a proven track record of working every day to improve the South Pittsburgh neighborhoods in her council district, I know that she'll do the same for all of Pittsburgh.
I'd like to invite you to join me in supporting Natalia Rudiak for City Controller. You can visit her website at http://www.nataliarudiak.com to pledge your support.
Sincerely,
Mayor Peduto
==Henry Haller posted==
: Jan 31, 2009 3:08 pm (PST)
She sounds like a typical politician, i.e. "Help me get government to solve the problems" instead of "help me get government out of the way.
==Dan Sullivan posted==
:Sat Jan 31, 2009
I don't pay as much attention to how someone sounds as what her record is. I went through 45 Google searches on her name and came up with little of substance. She attended some liberal public administration schools, worked for a year for a woman's health organization, and spend some time in Senegal, doing I don't remember what. None of that is bad enough to disqualify her, although it doesn't endear her to me, either.
I like to see people accomplish some good things for the city *before* they run, which is why I keep saying that we should groom candidates instead of just sending people out into the world huckstering for votes.
In any case, the following (very short) article, makes it look like her one announced opponent, Patrick Reilly, is the more politically connected. I don't know if he has done much, either, but I suspect he has. The Wagner camp is pretty savvy about grooming people for office.
* http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/09017/942507-53.stm
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