"If you can control rent and provide affordable housing."
"If you can offer job training and dividends through worker cooperatives."
"For a worker in Detroit who's been unemployed for two years and watched the bank foreclose on his house, Pittsburgh is paradise."
"All you have to do is open the gates and get the word out."
"They'll pour in like a flood."
"And think about what this means for your political future."
"These new migrants, these people you've rescued from despair."
"When they settle down in Pittsburgh, when they get their first paycheck, when their children walk into the schools you've fixed."
"They will become your most loyal, die-hard supporters."
"You will completely change the demographics of Western Pennsylvania."
"You'll have an army of voters that belongs to you."
"At that point, forget just being a Mayor. You'll have a lock on the governorship."
Ambition gleamed in Leo's eyes.
This was a strategy out in the open.
