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    Ms. Desiderio claims in her mailer that she is leading the fight to repeal the unfair tax on garbage. Ms. Desiderio was initially claiming that the $5 sticker fee to fill and set an extra 40 lbs. of trash at the at the curb for disposal was unfair. Is she still fighting that battle, or now the unit garbage fee and the new contract services being provided?

    I would suggest Ms. Desiderio do some research into what other municipalities are paying for waste disposal and what services are provided.
    Paying for amount of waste created and its disposal is unfair? Seriously?

    Some municipalities only pick up trash, have no recycle program in place and some where you pay for all bulk item pickups.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post
    As a lifelong ‘blank’ unaccustomed to primary balloting, I am confused re the Desiderio Town Clerk mailer our residence received today. Ms. Desiderio again claims to be the Republican Candidate running for Town Clerk. Not yet, Ms. Desiderio – only if you win the Republican Party line in the primary. And, you are not the Republican Party’s endorsed candidate.

    What I find most perplexing about the mailer is that it was paid for by the NYS Independence Party – the same party that had endorsed Ms. Terranova early on for the position. Through some ‘trickery’ Terranova was bounced from the ballot, leaving Desiderio unopposed. She has the Independence Party ballot line.

    It would make sense if the Independence Party sent out a mailer encouraging voters to vote for Desiderio on their line. This is a mailer beseeching Republicans to vote for her on the Republican line - Independence Party only mentioned as paying for the mailer.

    How did Desiderio’s campaign manager, Ralph Mohr, Republican BOE Commissioner get the NYS Independence Party to fund a mailer for the unendorsed Republican Party candidate? A candidate the Independence Party had not endorsed. As I have questioned several other individuals knowledgeable in politics the same, they were unable to answer. I don’t feel too stupid now.

    As a 'blank' I cast my vote the great majority of the time on The Independence Party line if my candidate is on the ballot. This chicanery is very disturbing.

    And this is only the primary!
    Anyone read the article in today's Buffalo News?

    Here's a quote from Eugene Hart, West Seneca Democratic supervisor candidate, "You don’t get the Independence Party line unless the Erie County Republican chairman approves"

    https://buffalonews.com/2019/06/23/m...-ballot-lines/

    Georgia L Schlager

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    Quote Originally Posted by gorja View Post
    Anyone read the article in today's Buffalo News?

    Here's a quote from Eugene Hart, West Seneca Democratic supervisor candidate, "You don’t get the Independence Party line unless the Erie County Republican chairman approves"

    https://buffalonews.com/2019/06/23/m...-ballot-lines/
    JUST MY OPINION:

    Is it not refreshing to see that this "New" Lancaster Republican Party apparently is not playing the primary manipulation games...



    ...like its Democrat opposition appears to be engaging in...

    ...alleged "Phantom" candidacy is that of Scott Pease, (11 C) who also seeks a November spot for Councilman on the Conservative line.
    ...or what appears to have been, and continues to be, the disgusting sabotage efforts applied by the discredited, deposed, and rogue "Establishment Republicans?...


    Quote Originally Posted by Lee Chowaniec View Post

    As BOE Commissioner I hope someone holds Mr. Mohr accountable to also explain how Ms. Terranova and Mr. Leary were found ineligible to qualify to have their names included on the Independence Party ballot - especially when they were endorsed by the Independence Party.
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    Quote Originally Posted by gorja View Post
    Anyone read the article in today's Buffalo News?

    Here's a quote from Eugene Hart, West Seneca Democratic supervisor candidate, "You don’t get the Independence Party line unless the Erie County Republican chairman approves"

    https://buffalonews.com/2019/06/23/m...-ballot-lines/
    I am shocked to think this kind of chicanery is going on in today’s politics – NOT!

    It seems like just yesterday when Democratic Party wives of a supervisor and two council members changed their party affiliation to Independence Party to influence party vote. And yet that was over a decade ago.

    It seems like only yesterday a so-called Lancaster Conservative Party Chair was influencing the party to endorse Democratic Party candidates – even his own son. I could never understand how a conservative party would align itself with candidates exhibiting liberal ideology and core values. They created the paradigm and are now yelling foul. What party has created the most (by far) the phantom candidates to disrupt the vote outcome? Hello!

    And then has been the Republican Party Committee that until this year have been influenced by the same County operative for a number of past years (since ousted), has never but once won control over the town board in 70 years because of him and his operatives boot-licking minions, who today are supporting Republican Party rogue candidates for vindictive reasons and self-serving agendas.

    As to rogue phantom candidates, keep in mind when voting who you knew were actively campaigning and/or putting out mailers, thereby showing intent to serve. If you know of any that did not, they are only on the ballot to create chaos and not deserving of your vote.

    Politics is enough of a scum-sucking blood-sport without such BS going on. With rare exception all politicos suck. It would be unfortunate if that rare qualified candidate with the community’s best interest in mind lost because of this kind of undermining **** going on.

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    Dear Fellow Independence Party Voter:


    The Lancaster Independence Party needs your help! The Erie County Democratic Party has put up mock Independents, as candidates, in several races and is trying to steal the Independence Party line for their Democratic candidates.

    The Lancaster Independence Party doesn’t endorse candidates based on their political party. Instead we support candidates who put public service before politics. Let’s face it, doing the right thing on issues is what matters, not how you are registered to vote. This year we have endorsed registered Democrats, Republicans, Conservatives and Independents for public office. Five candidates who earned our endorsement are Lynne Dixon for Erie County Executive, Frank J. Todaro for Erie County Legislator, Dawn C. Gaczewski for Town Supervisor, Mary B. Jacobs for Judicial Delegate and Darcey L. Sojka for Alternate Judicial Delegate.

    Unfortunately, the Erie County Democratic Party doesn’t appreciate it when we don’t support their handpicked candidates and they have recruited their usual shills who have registered as Independents to run primaries against our candidates. We know Democratic Headquarters is behind this political trickery. Here is the evidence:

    FACT:
    A Democratic political operative filed petitions at the Erie County Board of Elections. Campaign finance records show that this person has received money from the Erie County Democratic Committee.

    FACT: Most of the petition signatures for these so called “Independence Party” candidates were collected by people who work for the Erie County Democratic Chairman. They work for him at Democratic HQ or the Board of Elections, where he is also the Democratic Commissioner.

    FACT: There is no evidence these “candidates” are actively campaigning. In some cases, registered Independence voters, like yourself, are being asked to “write-in” the name of the endorsed Democratic candidate when they go to vote.

    FACT: Some of these “make believe candidates” are the same ones they run every year.

    Their plan is simple. They hope to fool Independence Party voters on Primary Day and get enough votes for the Democratic Candidate in a write-in campaign to steal the Independence Party line for the November Election. We can’t let that happen!

    As registered Independence Party voters we stand for fair elections and honest government. We require elected officials to put the public interest first, without regard for political considerations. One of the reasons we registered as Independents is our distaste for these underhanded political tricks.

    On June 25th let’s send a message that this type of campaign chicanery has no place in the Town of Lancaster! Please support Lancaster’s Endorsed Independence Team in the June 25th Independence Party Primary.

    Thank you.
    Mary B. Jacobs
    Lancaster Independence Party


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    Let the sunshine in...….

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    Dear Fellow Conservative:

    Once again, the Lancaster Conservative Party is under attack. The threat comes from a familiar source, the Erie County Democratic Party. The Lancaster Conservative Party doesn’t endorse candidates based on their political party. Instead we support candidates who share our values of lower taxes, smaller government and professionalism. We only endorse candidates who meet our high standards.

    The candidates who earned our endorsement are; Frank J. Todaro for Erie County Legislator, Dawn C. Gaczewski for Town Supervisor, Bruce E. Stutz and Robert E. Leary for Town Council and Diane Terranova for Town Clerk. The Erie County Democratic Party has sponsored and supported two slates of Phantom Conservative Candidates in a desperate attempt to trick Lancaster Conservative Voters. The evidence is clear that Democratic Headquarters is behind this underhanded effort to steal the Conservative Party Line.

    FACT: The same Democratic political operative filed both sets of petitions at the Erie County Board of Elections. Campaign finance records show that this person has received money from the Erie County Democratic Committee.

    FACT: Most of the petition signatures for these phantom candidates were collected by Notaries or Commissioners of Deeds who work for the Erie County Democratic Chairman. They work for him at Democratic HQ or the Board of Elections, where he is also the Democratic Commissioner.

    FACT: The Phantom Conservative Candidates are not actively campaigning.

    FACT: Democratic candidates we did not endorse are conducting a sneaky campaign to get Conservatives to write their name in on ballot.

    It is sad that instead of running candidates that could earn our endorsement, the Democratic Party Chairman stoops to this level of political mischief. He hopes to fool Conservative voters, win a Write-In Primary for his candidates and then steal the Conservative Party line for the November general election. These underhanded political tricks have no place in Lancaster or the Conservative Party. We can’t let that happen.

    The Lancaster Conservative Party has proudly endorsed Frank J. Todaro for Erie County Legislator, Dawn C. Gaczewski for Town Supervisor, Bruce E. Stutz and Robert E. Leary for Town Council and Diane Terranova for Town Clerk. They earned our support by being as Conservative as we are!

    Please join us in voting for Lancaster’s Endorsed Conservative Team in the June 25thConservative Primary. Your vote for the endorsed team will send a strong message that the Conservative Party line can’t be stolen by outsiders who don’t share our values.

    Thank you.

    Joseph Gallo - Second Vice Chairman Erie County Conservative Party
    Deborah Lemaster - Chairwoman Lancaster Conservative Party


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    Let the sunshine in…

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    Fusion gamesmanship plays out

    Bob McCarthy – Buffalo News Columnist


    Whatever happens down the road in November, Lynne Dixon can always say she won an election for county executive – even if a minor party primary like Independence.

    The county legislator from Hamburg is an Independence member and will challenge incumbent Democrat Mark Poloncarz on her home party line as well as Republican on Nov. 5. But she first had to weather a Democratic attempt to stir up trouble when they persuaded a 24-year-old nurse from Lake View to enter the Independence primary.

    Their effort to deny the Independence line to Dixon went nowhere, as she had no trouble defeating Grace Christiansen, 1,495 to 278. Christiansen did not campaign nor even file a campaign finance report with the State Board of Elections.

    In “civilized” states, where candidates cannot simultaneously run on several lines in fusion voting, such an effort would not be allowed. But as The Buffalo News pointed out last Sunday, Erie County Democrats and Republicans are increasingly inserting themselves into minor party affairs by sponsoring organized write-in efforts or colluding with friendly minor party members to challenge candidates like Dixon.


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    In Lancaster, a game played out very well by the Lancaster Democratic Committee and by a rogue Erie County Republican Party operative spurned by the newly organized Lancaster Republican Party Committee. Because of the poor voter turn-out the write-in and absentee ballots yet to counted may play a role in impacting some of the unofficial announced primary winners.

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    Did anyone really think that any of these candidates had a chance in winning?

    Anthony Bish - County legislator
    Martin Szczublewski -Supervisor
    Frank Caparasso - Supervisor
    Joseph Karosik - Councilman
    Jared Maciejewski - Councilman
    Philip Caparasso - Councilman
    Scott Pease - Councilman
    Donald Biondo - Town clerk
    Brian Sabatino - Town clerk
    Michael Rogacki - Legislator
    Joseph Bish - Supervisor

    As long as it's legal, I have no problem with it.

    Removing Terranova's name from the Independence primary ballot is something that I would question as ethical

    Georgia L Schlager

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    Quote Originally Posted by gorja View Post
    Did anyone really think that any of these candidates had a chance in winning?

    Anthony Bish - County legislator
    Martin Szczublewski -Supervisor
    Frank Caparasso - Supervisor
    Joseph Karosik - Councilman
    Jared Maciejewski - Councilman
    Philip Caparasso - Councilman
    Scott Pease - Councilman
    Donald Biondo - Town clerk
    Brian Sabatino - Town clerk
    Michael Rogacki - Legislator
    Joseph Bish - Supervisor

    As long as it's legal, I have no problem with it.

    Removing Terranova's name from the Independence primary ballot is something that I would question as ethical
    Legal?: Yes.

    Consistent with this:

    "From day one, I have promised that I am for the people, and refused to be controlled by party bosses. I am very proud to say, I have not deviated from that promise."--- Ron Ruffino, October 10, 2017
    NO!

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