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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal Online - 138TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT: Sides line up
Undercurrent of Erie County influence marks race between DelMonte and Parenti.
The political lines have been drawn.
The Assembly race between incumbent Francine DelMonte and challenger Gary Parenti, expected to be one of the closest primaries in Western New York, has divided local Democrats.
In DelMonte’s camp: elected Democrats such as Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Mayor Vince Anello, Council Chairman Charles Walker and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples of Buffalo. The Niagara and Erie County Democratic committees are also backing DelMonte.
In Parenti’s camp: Former state Sen. Anthony Nanula, Niagara County Legislator Renae Kimble, Councilman Sam Fruscione and former Erie County Chairman G. Steven Pigeon.
There are countless others who are refusing to take sides because the race looks to be too close to call.
The demarcation between the camps was no more apparent than at rally last week where both sides staged picnics in Centre Court.
DelMonte scheduled her event as a forum for Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown to give her his endorsement, while the Parenti camp, which planned their rally when it heard about DelMonte’s, was intent on making some news of its own.
The endorsement is somewhat intriguing because Parenti and Parenti’s ally, Pigeon, worked for Brown when he was a state senator.
In DelMonte’s camp: elected Democrats such as Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, Mayor Vince Anello, Council Chairman Charles Walker and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples of Buffalo. The Niagara and Erie County Democratic committees are also backing DelMonte.
Well that’s enough to sway me to Parenti’s side.
6 users commented in " 138TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT: Sides line up "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackSo what your saying is that you base your endorsement not on what the candidate stands for, rather who stands with the candidate? Sounds pretty politically hackish to me.
No, what’s politically hackish is who is endorsing her, The same people that are the root of our problems, the do nothing but promote themselves people. I’m suprised Hoyt isn’t in the list.
So it doesnt matter what her stances on the issues are, all that matters is who supports her? “the do nothing but promote themselves people” doesnt being an elected official require that you promote yourself? otherwise people wouldnt know who you were, and you wouldnt get elected.
How can someone seeking elected office be so bitter and distrusting about government and those elected? If elected, you WILL have to work with these people if you hope to be effective….perhaps your candidacy is nothing more than a opportunity for you to sling mud and feed your ego.
I know all about her voting record, her uses and abuses of her office, her selling of her soul to Sheldon Silver as has Hoyt, Peoples, Tokasz, Schroeder and the rest of the Democrats in the current legislature. If they were to truly represent the people of their districts they would stand up against Silver and vote him out.
Sheldon Silver is the most powerful politician in this state, he has it his way or the highway, I didn’t elect him, yet he controls every piece of legislation in the assembly and most of it benefits NYCity and hurts Upstate and WNY.
I am bitter and distrusting of government because everyone of them will lie thru their teeth to get re-elected. They have gerrymandered the districts so they are assured re-election, they are not accountable to the public in which they are supposed to represent. Their loyalty is to the party, the special interests like the unions and the trial attorneys in NYCity.
This candidacy is not a chance to sling mud, I state facts and if you can’t see it, or face the fact that this state is the most dysfunctional, most corrupt in the nation, then you are part of the problem. I can clearly see Adam where your allegiances are, and they are against the very people that have a the guts and the wherewithal to go after the corrupt political machines that run this state.
EGO? gimme a break. You apparently have no idea of what you speak. Do some research on me, do a google, ask people in power about me. I sell myself to no one, am in no way a Party man. It is the Party politics that have destroyed this state and this county.
I have supported Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives and anyone that I have seen to be about helping the people and not aligning themselves with power. Power corrupts and this state is living proof of it.
I co founded Primary Challenge, FreeBuffalo and had an intregal part in the tax revolt last year in Erie county. We were all Democrats and Republicans running against the Party.. I campaigned and helped Cindy Locklear, Satish Mohan, look at the job they are doing.
Your very first post here Adam, you came out attacking Republicans and Conservatives. Unless you can bring something forward that can actually help correct the wrongs the current legislators have brought upon us, your childish little attacks will fall on deaf ears.
Go back and report to Sam, see what he wants you to do next.
You have no fresh ideas on how to reform anything all your kind does is attack, attack attack. You want to reform state government, start with the govener’s office. Republicans have had control of the administrative branch and the state senate for 12 years. Sheldon Silver has done many things you may disagree with, but what about his REPUBLICAN counterpart Joseph Bruno and the number one elected official in New York, George Pataki (a Republican and Conserative party endorsee just like YOU!) Its easy to set up a straw man (the evil democrats) accuse them of things that are not their fault, then claim all the problems in the state are their doing, conveniently ignoring the real problems.
This state should be run as two states, NYC and everything else. The state leg and senate, dominated by downstate interests pass laws good for them and bad for the rest of the state. Its not sam hoyt or byron browns fault or anybody else in the upstate delegation’s fault. NYC has a greater population and thus greater representation in the legislative braches. THATS the problem, and untill you can figure a way to get more people to move out of NYC and into buffalo, all you can offer is platitudes.
See this is where you are wrong.
They are at fault plain and simple.
Hoyt 14 years in the assembly, Tokasz 18 years, they have put forth NOTHING, to change government, Yet they have consistantly re-elected Silver year in and year out. Even when there was a possibility that he could get bounced our Democrat delegation backed out and voted for Silver.
I haven’t criticized Bruno and Pataki??? I beg to differ. Look at the subjects on the side bar, educate yourself before you come here and attack me. READ what I have written before you come here and spout off at the mouth like some junk yard dog.
No fresh ideas? We have to start with the ones that have been put forth and and nothing will happen until SILVER and BRUNO is gone. Nothing.
A new Governor, who Spitzer? Please he is more od a Party hack than anyone out there. Where has he been over the years, going after Wall Street completely ignoring ALL the corruption in state government.
Economic development and Spitzer don’t mix atall.
I have said over and over again that NYCity politics dominates this state politics, see that’s what happens when you come here and don’t read. I have told you why and all you can say is why don’t I lock up all the homeless to. Take away the illegal representation in the city and the assembly loses representation.
We need to split the state in half, gee I have said that a million times.
Any other new ideas.
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