The latest: some Monroe County Democratic Committee officials plan to conduct a mail-in vote for the party’s next elections commissioner.
Rachel Barnhart
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Dem committee to vote on Lej vacancy
Democratic committee members in the 21st Legislative District appear poised to recommend Rachel Barnhart for a vacant seat in the County Legislature. Barnhart won a Democratic primary for the seat in June. Mark Muoio, who’s not seeking reelection, resigned the seat earlier this week after Republicans questioned his residency. He and his wife recently bought a house […]
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Joe Morelle has a fight ahead of him
Joe Morelle, the State Assembly’s second-in-command and the former chair of the Monroe County Democratic Committee, scored a decisive Democractic primary victory against the other three candidates.
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Morelle wins House primary
The odds were in Joe Morelle’s favor headed into tonight’s 25th Congressional District Democratic primary. The county’s top Democrats, including Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren and former mayor Bill Johnson, lined up behind him. As the State Assembly’s second in charge, Morelle had a political operation he’d built up over his 30 years in politics. And […]
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House primary vote is today
Starting at noon, Democrats across most of Monroe County will be able to cast their ballots in the 25th Congressional District primary.
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For Louise Slaughter’s seat: Joe Morelle
To resist President Trump, it’s essential that Democrats hold this seat. Morelle is their best chance to do that.
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Barnhart, McFadden, Morelle, and Wilt seek Slaughter’s seat
Registered Democrats in the 25th Congressional District will be able to vote from noon to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, June 26.
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Candidates file for Congressional races
Four Democrats could square off in a primary over the late Louise Slaughter’s House of Representatives seat. Yesterday was the deadline for House and Senate candidates to submit petitions to get on the ballot. Dr. Jim Maxwell, a neurosurgeon who lives in East Rochester, was the only Republican to file for the 25th Congressional District […]
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Democrats line up to succeed Louise Slaughter
County Democrats knew that someday, they’d have to do the unthinkable: find someone to run in Louise Slaughter’s place. But any transition was never going to be clean. Slaughter herself never gave much thought to a successor. She famously resisted the notion of preparing anyone to take over her seat, so when Slaughter died last […]
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Debate gave closer look at personalities
During yesterday’s mayoral debate on WROC-TV, challengers James Sheppard and Rachel Barnhart did their best to inflict serious damage on incumbent Lovely Warren. But whether you were undecided or were just leaning toward one of the three, it’s unlikely that the debate did much to sway your decision. For one thing, none of the three […]
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Our choice for Rochester mayor: Lovely Warren
The City of Rochester is a fragile thing, with tremendous resources and seemingly great potential. But, like many cities in the US, it is facing enormous challenges. Poverty, unemployment, loss of business and industry, low academic achievement, violence, tension over police oversight and community relations, racism: No mayor and no City Council can solve those […]
