Friends, I have recently been thinking about this whole mayoral control conundrum. As interesting as I’ve found it that Mayor Duffy, David Gantt and Joe Morelle were able to agree on a mutual plan to reward their supporters and create a whole new level of patronage; the fact that the unions have vowed to withhold [...]

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Friends, I found this clip from an interview County Democrat Party Chair Joe Morelle did with City Newspaper in December last year.
Anyone you think would be a good candidate for the 2011 county exec race?
I think we have a number of potential candidates. The one who comes to mind the quickest is the mayor. I [...]

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Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy’s bid to take control of the City School District appears to be little more than a power grab.  What else could you conclude from the messaging coming out of City Hall?
Yesterday’s Democrat and Chronicle article shared the meat of  Duffy’s proposal:
He would guarantee that children can attend their neighborhood elementary school, [...]

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How did you like the Democrat and Chronicle’s placement of the article on 200 people protesting Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy’s plan to take control of the Rochester School Board?  It was on the front page but at the very bottom of the page and tiny, the bulk of the article carried over to page 4.  [...]

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Much like David Paterson did at his State of the State address, Bob Duffy talked real tough during his State of the City about Mayoral Control of the City School District.  Listening to Duffy you couldn’t help but get the impression that this was his biggest issue going into 2010.  Mayoral Control is his make or [...]

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Did you see the this article in this morning’s Democrat and Chronicle? It looks like Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy is trying to take care of a political crony:
While not saying who will fill a newly created management position in the Rochester Fire Department, the city expects that person to step into the role starting Monday.
The [...]

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Our good friend Philbrick has a great post on Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy’s hiring of a convicted felon who was arrested for an alleged rape of a city resident while he was on the job. Philbrick rightly points out that if this was a Republican hire, it would be much more of a story  and [...]

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 I don’t know what’s worse – Governor Paterson claiming we’re in grave economic times but spending our money like a drunken sailor, or Mayor Bob Duffy saying that getting this taxpayer money from Paterson is like having “Christmas in September.”  Mike Callahan shares some thoughts about this in a letter to the editor in yesterday’s [...]

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Former Rochester Mayor Bill Johnson doesn’t understand why Mayor Bob Duffy killed Ren Square. 
 Take a look at what he told Channel 10:
Rochester Mayor Bob Duffy is being taken to task for his role scuttling the Renaissance Square project downtown and the criticism isn’t coming from county republicans; it’s coming form his predecessor, former Mayor Bill [...]

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Friends, while local Democrat party officials love to claim that they believe voters should have a choice in our local elections, it seems that they are only talking about having a choice when the incumbent is a Republican.  When it comes to local Democrat officials, well, they deserve a free pass.
The Democrat & Chronicle reports today [...]

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