Patrick Reilly

==Links==
==Insights==
* Friend of Pete Wagner, D party chairman
==Media==
===Democrats endorse Reilly for City Council===
:March 08, 2009, by James O'Toole, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Patrick Reilly won a closely contested race for an open City Council seat in the South Hills today as Democratic Party committee members voted for the endorsements for a variety of local offices.
Mr. Reilly, 27, a staff member for state Rep. Chelsa Wagner, received 46 votes to edge Anthony Coghill's 40 in a District 4 race that was seen by many as a proxy war between state Sen. Wayne Fontana, who supported Mr. Coghill, and Pete Wagner, the influential chairman of the 19th Ward, the city's largest district that covers parts of Brookline, Beechview, Bon Air and Mount Washington. Mr. Wagner, supported Mr. Reilly. Natalia Rudiak came in a distant third for the endorsement with five votes.
The seat is open because its incumbent, Councilman Jim Motznik, chose to run for district judge.
In the only other contested City Council race, incumbent Tonya Payne easily defeated Robert Lavelle, 76 to 21.
Mayor Luke Ravenstahl was unopposed for the party's imprimatur. He received 519 votes from the 660 city committee members who cast votes in the daylong balloting at Heinz Field.
In the 15-member field for the party's choices for five open seats on Common Pleas Court, the winners were Arnie Klein, 1,097; Joseph Williams, 962; state Rep. Don Walko, 817; Susan Evashavik DiLucente, 791; and Michael Marmo, 633.
The endorsements are considered useful but not determinative in most of the local races, although they carry particular influence in the judicial contests, which attract little attention from the public. The party nominees will be chosen in the primary on May 19, 2009.
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