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Onondaga County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny said this divide in politics nationally has driven people to local politics instead. “I think the underreported story over the last four to eight years is while national politics has gotten bad, that has driven interest in local politics as well.”
https://cnycentral.com/news/local/local-politics-sees-a-surge-in-interest-amid-national-tensions#
On this week’s episode I talk to Sara Bollinger running for Mayor of the Village of Fayetteville and Casey Cleary-Hammerstadt running for village board. We talk about the fact this is the first opening for Mayor in over 20 years and the proposition on the ballot for moving village elections to November. Enjoy. Vote March 19, 2024 6am to 9pm at Fayetteville Village Hall. Go to onvote.net under village elections to get more information on voting.
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https://www.facebook.com/bollingerformayor/ https://www.facebook.com/CaseyClearyforFayetteville
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On this week’s Commissioner in a Car I talk about the village elections happening on march 19th. Onondaga County will see 5 villages run elections this March, 3 run by the OCBOE and 2 run by village clerks. Go to the village election page at onvote.net for more information.
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“A village resident belonging to that group said that judging by data collected of other local villages that was shared this month by Onondaga County Democratic Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny, a November election is likely to increase turnout in village elections compared to the number of people that vote in March.”
This week I sit down with the Grandfather of NY Redistricting, Jeff Wice of the New York Law School. We go over the bipartisan maps passed by the NY legislature, why they rejected and slightly altered the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission maps. We also look at what went wrong and how it can be altered. Enjoy.
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“There’s a few winners, there’s a few losers,” Czarny said. “New York 1 is a Republican district that got more Republican and then you’ve got our district–New York 22–that actually didn’t change at all.”
This week I talk about the start of designating petitions today. However because the congressional lines have not been signed into law, Congressional candidates can not walk yet. I also talk about the process now that the congressional lines were struck down by the legislature and what the new lines mean, and when they might be passed. Enjoy.
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I talk about the state of NY Congressional redistricting now that the New York State Independent Redistricting Commission submitted bi partisan maps on February 15th. I do a bit of a history lesson going back to 2010 on how we got here and the paths forward for the NYS legislature. I also address the silly conspiracy theories that the NYSIRC had the #NY22 primary in mind when they released these maps. Enjoy.
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“I’m hoping that we have a final nap by February 27th,” Czarny said. “That is when petitioning is supposed to start and. Any real delay past that date puts in jeopardy the political calendar that’s in place now.”
The district would have 173,301 Democrats, 143,225 Republicans and 129,650 voters who are not enrolled in a party, according to an estimate compiled by Dustin Czarny, an Onondaga County elections commissioner.
Dustin M. Czarny