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Wilt withdraws from Assembly race

Brighton Town Board member Robin Wilt withdrew from the 136th Assembly District race Friday afternoon.  The reason, she said, is that there’s still work to do in the town, particularly when it comes to issues of race, diversity, and equity. Wilt’s brief Assembly campaign, which began soon after she lost the Democratic primary for the […]

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Wilt pivots to Assembly run

Jamie Romeo, chair of the Monroe County Democratic Committee, and Jaclyn Richard, president of the Rochester chapter of the National Organization for Women, have already declared their intention to seek the Assembly seat held by Joe Morelle, who’s running for Congress.  Robin Wilt, a member of the Brighton Town Board, now plans to join them. Wilt […]

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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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