The Allegheny County Courthouse and the City-County Building on Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in Downtown. (Photo by Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource)
Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey could face a stiff challenge from County Controller Corey O’Connor in the Democratic primary May 20.
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by Charlie Wolfson, PublicSource
The Democratic primary for Pittsburgh mayor is shaping up to be a close one, at least as far as finances go. Mayor Ed Gainey and his top challenger, Allegheny County Controller Corey O’Connor, entered 2025 with similar amounts of money in their campaign coffers, new filings show.
Gainey, running for a second four-year term, entered 2025 with about $268,000 in his campaign account, according to a filing released Friday. O’Connor, so far Gainey’s only challenger for the Democratic nomination, entered the year with $249,000 on hand, plus about $62,000 in an older campaign account.
Neither campaign responded to a request for comment.
Gainey announced his re-election campaign in early fall and his 2024 fundraising was spread over most of the year, while O’Connor’s fundraising was mostly confined to the last weeks of December after he launched his campaign.
Both campaigns derived...
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