I have been fortunate to live in what I believe is the only city in NYS with non-partisan municipal elections.....My friends Don Coon and Sean Hennesey likely don't think so, as their world is defined by party label...
For Sean, a victory as he now has an additional Democratic mayor...This one in West Carthage as the change of registration filed by Scott Burto became official. I don't know if it makes him a different person than the one I knew prior to his change, but he will be viewed differently by the partisans. For the GOP tired of his dalliances with DeDe and Brian McGraths candidacy, its likely good riddance. Mayor Burto has regularly challenged his party's orthodoxy and has questioned its local institutions like the IDA.
Now with a mere check mark on a form, Scott is in a different paradigm. No more county jobs, but this opens up new horizons with the new administration.
In my life I have been registered as a Republican (when a Nixon fan at age 18) to being a Democrat in the 80s (and a delegate to the 1992 DNC), to third party politics as a member of the Independence Party in 1995. Been there ever since and did not follow Scott and others who changed parties.
I consider the labels largely meaningless, but for others it is the measure of who you are. I think Scott is an independent thinker and I hope the orthodoxy of his new party doesn't change that.
Watertown Daily Times West Carthage mayor officially joins Dems
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As a Democrat, this is not a good thing for our party.
Please explain your thinking Jeff.
Why is it important that the city is "non-partisan"?
I assume every elected member votes and when they register to vote they register as something?
It seems to me that your opinion of Hoffman's chances of winning this years election gave zero weight to the fact that he did not have the republican line when he came so close to winning last year.
So wouldn't it have zero weight in city elections too?
You're right it is meaningless, unless you want a State Job, County Job, Of course his changing his party has nothing to do with The New Gov. being a democrat??? Or he just wanted to be in the parade next year.
I heard that approximately 200 R's are changing their affiliation in SL County after the New Year...
You are absolutely right 11:53. Scott Burto becoming a Donkey is not good for the Democrats. But he and Heneshee would make a great pair. Just like Pelosi and Owens. Best friends forever.
He kept picking the wrong horses in the races. The Democrats will learn Scott is out for himself and when he doesn't get the job he wants he will move on again. Scott is upset because he thinks he should be the Assembly member in the 122nd district.
Loyalty means a lot.
People whom you call friends are loyal, people whom you do business with or do business with you are generally loyal. And yes there is even a certain amount of loyalty in a political party especially if you received a job as a result of that affiliation.
Loyalty is a principle in life as much as Mayor Graham likes to make fun of it.
Democrats will make up their own minds.
There is a BIG difference between being loyal and bing told what to do. I don't blame him. The select few elite in the party try to run everything.
The elite in both parties run everything. Get over yourself.
Both parties are woeful right now ! Blind loyalty is strictly old line thinking .
It is a sign of weakness and intellectual laziness and allows people to be made into sheeple .
Issues rather than parties should drive action,
Blahblah. It will never happen. Especially here in NY, where all we have left are dumbasses/Party Liners.
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