A third candidate has announced that he wants to be the Democratic candidate for the East District City Council seat, a position now held by Elaine Spaull.
Spaull announced earlier this month that she won’t seek re-election, and this morning Bryce Miller, operations coordinator for Jaguar Land Rover Rochester, announced that he plans to run for her seat. The Monroe County Democratic Party starts reviewing candidates this month, and will hold its designating convention in February.
Miller is vice chair of the North Winton Village Neighborhood group and is president of North of East Main Neighbors United. Activist Mary Lupien, who ran for an at-large Council seat in 2017, and attorney Michael Geraci are also seeking Spaull’s seat.
This article appears in Jan 23-29, 2019.
I’m really having a hard time seeing how an “operations coordinator for Jaguar Land Rover Rochester” would pass muster in a political party now fixated on the confiscation of wealth (Elizabeth Warren’s “wealth tax”) and the supposed “settled science” of global warming.
Bryce Miller’s party is taking aim at the customers of Land Rovers and Jaguars with a wealth tax and other confiscatory taxation based on a toxic combination of envy and class warfare. Moreover, the carbon footprint of both Jaguar and Land Rover are massive compared to almost any other form of transportation outside of private jets.
Speaking of priveleged Democrats, you’ve got Spaull supporting a dude no one ever heard of before. Hey, he’s the son of a judge.
Wonder what a “priveleged” Democrat is? I’d think that a “privileged” candidate would be one who runs for office with no experience or aptitude for elected office but only name recognition. Does that make Trump a Democrat?
Animule – The only confiscation of wealth that I can see comes from the way the Trump family has been confiscating it from the taxpayers for two years.
Animule, considering that the local democrats supported an unabashed Trump supporter who belongs to a known alt-right group for sheriff, why would it surprise you that an “operations coordinator for Land Rover” with no political pedigree would be a reasonable candidate? The first rule of dem club is we don’t talk about dem club…or qualifications.
Gary Pudup – The first rule of politics for BOTH parties, has always been Get Elected at All Costs. To pretend that this is somehow a view only held by the Democrats is foolish.
Ben, of course if you’re not in it 110%, why bother. The real issue is that the democrats offer to take what belongs to another citizen and give it to their voters. The republicans offer is freedom, and letting you live your life with minimum government exposure and interfearance
Ben Lewis, I wouldn’t dispute that one bit. Be that as it may, this is an article in a liberal publication about a democratic race in a one-party democratic city. A Plague on Both Their Houses…but we’re in the dems house here.
Inquisitive – Thanks for the laughs. But on second thought, I would agree that Republicans ARE in favor of freedom….freedom for conservative, white, wealthy, heterosexual males.
The real issue is how the so many localities effectually have only one political party because the others aren’t willing to run candidates that have little chance of winning. This effectively disenfranchises thousands of voters in Rochester and Monroe county.
Louise, of course if we were as enlightened as Canada there would be no party affiliations at the local level. Candidates would have to run on merit, not party affiliation. I’d suggest village, town and city councils have ballots with no party affiliation attached…but which party would agree to that? Aside from the Greens? 🙂