Mayor Tom Richards says the county is playing politics with the Sibley building sale.
Maggie Brooks
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More notes on the Slaughter-Brooks poll
Yesterday, Siena Research Institute released poll results that put Democrat Louise Slaughter 10 points ahead of Republican Maggie Brooks among likely voters. Beyond the big picture, some other aspects of the results got my attention: • While 86 percent of the surveyed Democrats said they’d vote for Slaughter, 76 percent of Republicans said they’d vote […]
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Siena poll has Slaughter up by 10 points
The first poll in the 25th Congressional race is out, putting Democratic incumbent Louise Slaughter ahead of her Republican challenger Maggie Brooks by 10 points, 52 percent to 42 percent. The Siena Research Institute released the poll results this afternoon. Likely voters say Slaughter is better on health care, education, and war, the poll says. […]
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More on Ann Coulter’s visit to Rochester
Congressional candidate Maggie Brooks raised a few eyebrows recently when she attended a local luncheon where the keynote speaker was Conservative personality-assassin Ann Coulter. For my money, Coulter is the worst of the worst, a smug malignancy with a pathological thirst for glory. Here are a couple of examples of Coulter’s “wisdom”: On the 9/11 […]
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Slaughter and Brooks start duking it out
Hoo boy: We may not get much of the harsh TV ads of the presidential campaign, since Obama pretty much has a lock on New York State, but it looks like the Maggie-and-Louise campaign will make up for it. The Slaughter campaign has released a particularly harsh TV ad called “Scandal,” focusing on negative news […]
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Brooks’ busy week
Maggie Brooks was in the news a lot last week. On the county executive front, her administration reached a tentative agreement with negotiators from a CSEA unit. The terms will be kept under wraps until union members have reviewed the agreement. Members must also ratify it before it goes into effect. The unit represents approximately […]
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NEWS BLOG: Slaughter-Brooks race approaching $2 million mark
This post has been updated with clarifications. Republican Maggie Brooks outraised Democrat Louise Slaughter over the past month. But Slaughter has raised more than $1 million during the 2011-12 Congressional election cycle. Brooks, who got a later start on fund-raising, has brought in about $773,000. Tack that amount on to Slaughter’s total and the candidates […]
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Mayday! (Are we shuffling off to Buffalo?)
For Monroe County, next year marks the end of an era. After 2006, the county’s annual budgets will almost certainly top a billion dollars. In fact, we may even top that mark in 2006. The budget proposed by County Executive Maggie Brooks and adopted by the legislature in a 24-5 vote last week totals $998.9 […]
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The state of Monroe
When County Executive Maggie Brooks declared at the outset of her first-ever State of the County Address that “the state of our county has greatly improved,” she said she did so “with a clear vision for our future.” But what exactly that vision is was unclear: Very little of what Brooks addressed was new. There […]
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Picking apart the county
When Maggie Brooks released her first-ever county budget proposal, its contents were a pleasant surprise to many. At first glance, it appeared balanced, and essentially kept her promise to maintain services, albeit with an increase in the tax levy. Now the honeymoon period is over, and groups on all sides are beginning to make rumblings […]
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Maggie got it right
OK, let’s get this off our chests. When Bill Johnson ran for county executive last year, he told the truth: The county would have to raise property taxes. Maggie Brooks insisted that she wouldn’t do that. Bill Johnson lost the election. Maggie Brooks won. Taxes certainly weren’t the only issue in the campaign; […]
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Blind date
It’s about accountability. That’s what some 30 residents told county legislators at their meeting on September 14. The speakers were opposing a Republican plan to move the county executive’s deadline for submitting a budget from mid-October to mid-November. That would leave only a month for the legislature to deliberate on a budget and adopt it. […]
