Shrinkage?

I met mayoral candidate and Pittsburgh City Councilor Patrick Dowd a year or two ago at a some Democratic campaign rally. I don't remember him being particularly short. So did he shrink?


Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette
This photograph from the Post-Gazette makes him look about three feet tall (not that there's anything wrong with that, but voters tend to go with the taller candidate).

Strange that they would use such an odd angle...
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