Photo credits: APWriting in today’s Washington Post, Eli Saslow chalks one up for Hillary Clinton:
“At 28, the youngest big-city mayor in modern U.S. history has become one of Clinton's key backers in Pennsylvania, her top surrogate in its second-largest city and an effective rejoinder to the idea that Sen. Barack Obama, her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, has a lock on young voters in the state.”
Salslow explains how Luke Ravenstahl became mayor of Pittsburgh:
“A former football place kicker at Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., Ravenstahl, a Democrat, won a seat on the Pittsburgh City Council at age 23 and became the default council president two years later when rival factions could not agree on any other leader. In 2006, Mayor Bob O'Connor died of brain cancer, and Ravenstahl, then 26, by law became his successor.”
At an event in Pittsburgh, Saslow reports that Ravenstahl joined “the Pennsylvania governor, the county commissioner, and a handful of major chief executives” to voice his support for Sen. Clinton.
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