Mayoral debate III: Next up, garbage cans and guns

Timothy McNulty | October 21, 2009

Q: How do you save struggling neighborhoods on city borders, like Brookline, Beechview?

Ravenstahl: I live in one of those neighborhoods. All neighborhoods are treated fairly.

Acklin: My jaw just dropped. Tell that to the people in Brookline, Beechview, Homewood. You promised them the hokeymen they are gone. You've made a lot of promises that weren't delivered. Homewood doesn't even have right garbage cans.

Ravenstahl: Garbage cans showed our commitment to neighborhoods.  

Harris: Garbage cans in front of boarded up storefronts. That's not a way to help neighborhoods, that's a way to spend city money.

Viewer question from Tom Brown of Windgap: What are positions on citizen ownership of handguns in home and for protection?

Acklin: I grew up as hunter. Can't say I shot a deer, I'm not that good of a shot. Enforce laws on books.

Harris: I belive in all amendments in Bill of Rights. Not support of people make money by getting children shot.

Ravenstahl: Homicides down. I'm a proud supporter of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. That being said support right to bear arms but not illegal guns - there's a difference between urban area and rural ones. 


Posted Oct 21 2009, 03:16 PM by PG Admin19