Terry in Crapchester wrote:If, when the dust settles, the worst thing that happens to Merritt Rahn is that he is the former Town of Greece Police Chief, he should consider himself very, very fortunate.
Yep. He's a prime candidate to follow Gordon Urlacher (former Rochester Chief convicted of embezzelment) into the penal system.
True. But the fact that Irene Matichyn exists in the first place has less to do with her personally than it does with the fact that Monroe County government has been dominated by a single political party since, oh, about the early 90's (at least).
It was 91 when Tom Frey got voted out and 92 when the GOP took over the County Leg. I was working with the MCDC back then on Clinton's campaign and then with Bob Cook on Kevin Murray's failed race for mayor the following year. The Democrats were tearing themselves apart internally back them, kind of like the Republicans are doing right now.
Until relatively recently, I don't think there were more than 1-2 Democratic county legislators representing suburban districts. And if Ms. Matichyn were to pull a Jacko tomorrow, I don't doubt for a second that somebody would be there to fill her shoes.
We can thank the redistricting plan of 92 for that. There are 29 leg districts in Monroe county. Well some mensa in the Democratic caucus decided to draw the districts in such a way that there would be 10 city only leg districts, 1 city/town district (Fred Amato's 6th district) and the remainder of the districts to be town only. It effectively guaranteed the 10 city legislators 10 more years in office at the expense of the party's majority in the leg.
Speaking of single-party political dominance, it's even worse out here in the hinterlands than it is in Monroe County.
Yea. I have more than a few relatives in Livingston county who register as Republicans only so they can vote in primary elections. The ghost of James Wadsworth is strong in those parts even to this day.
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