When is Mayor Tom Richards going to join this campaign? Lovely Warren, City Council president and Richards’ likely opponent in a September primary, is active on Twitter at #lovelyformayor, and Facebook. She’s making appearances and holding events; she has two scheduled for Thursday, one to talk about education and an evening fund raiser at a […]
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Week Ahead: MCDC convention, Bike Week continues
UPDATE, Monday, May 13, 1:20 p.m.: Hearing from a couple of sources that the race for City Council endorsements will be less exciting than we thought. Two Democratic insiders say all five City Council incumbents have locked up the endorsement of the party by winning a majority of the citywide weighted vote. ORIGINAL BLOG: The […]
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Week Ahead: Fracking discussion, RCSD budget vote, State of the City address, Preservation Board considers University Ave. complex
On Thursday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., the local anti-fracking group R-CAUSE will hold a panel discussion titled “Hydrofracking as Seen Through the Lens of Public Health.” Two panelists will discuss the possible environmental consequences of fracking, and fracking’s potential impact on human health. The speakers are Dr. David Carpenter and David Kowalski. Carpenter, […]
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[UPDATED] Democrats endorse Tom Richards
UPDATE#2, Wednesday, April 24, 9:30 a.m.: Monroe County Democratic Committee chair Joe Morelle sent out a press release last night, responding to the statement from Warren’s camp. His statement follows Warren’s at the end of this blog. UPDATE, Tuesday, April 23, 4:15 p.m.: Lovely Warren’s campaign has responded to the MCDC’s endorsement of Tom Richards. […]
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Lovely Warren says city schools would be her first priority as mayor
Rochester mayoral candidate Lovely Warren has staked out education as the centerpiece of her campaign. At a press conference earlier today, Warren said Rochester is facing many challenges, but “none of them is more important than the failure of our schools.” After citing some well-known statistics concerning the city’s grim educational outcomes, Warren put the […]
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Improving neighborhoods
Rochester Mayor Tom Richards wants to keep the city’s Focused Investment program operating in the same four neighborhoods for at least two more years, saying the program needs more time to work. The city started Focused Investment about four years ago, singling out four challenged neighborhoods for intense investment of time and resources: Marketview Heights […]
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Warren supports DOMA repeal
Incumbent Mayor Tom Richards won the endorsement of the city’s 24th Legislative District committee over the weekend on the march to the Democratic primary in September. He defeated challenger Lovely Warren, who is president of City Council, 35 to 9. The 24th LD is centered in the area around Highland Park. | The biggest news […]
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[UPDATED] Mayoral challenger Lovely Warren changes course on marriage equality
This blog has been updated to clarify that incumbent City Council member Dana Miller did not get the designation of the 24th District. He’s the only incumbent Council member to fall short. Incumbent Mayor Tom Richards won the endorsement of the city’s 24th Legislative District committee this afternoon on the march to the Democratic primary […]
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Is the Rochester mayor’s race lacking ‘real’ Democrats?
I noticed something I thought was strange at last week’s meeting of three east-side Democratic committees. The committees were making their endorsements for mayor, City Council, and City Court. A couple of the ballots in the mayor’s race between incumbent Tom Richards and challenger Lovely Warren came in blank. Why bother to turn them in […]
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Choosing a mayor in a challenging time
For anyone who follows Rochester politics, there was little doubt that City Council President Lovely Warren would run for mayor. The only question was when. Last week we found out: it’s now. And so we will have incumbent Tom Richards, a 69-year-old white male lawyer and former corporate executive, and Warren, a 35-year-old African-American woman […]
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Warren sets tone for her campaign
Lovely Warren officially launched her bid for mayor today. WATCH VIDEO
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Alex White wants to run for mayor
Any doubts about whether Alex White would run for office were immediately erased when he showed up at his press conference this afternoon wearing a button with his name on it and the slogan, “A Rochester for all of us.” White, a Rochester businessman, is seeking the Green Party endorsement to run for mayor (his […]
