Jon Powers is still thinking about running on the Working Families Party line. According to a real newspaper, the Buffalo News:
In an unusual breach of political protocol, both Powers and Davis failed to call Kryzan to concede.
The Davis campaign offered no post-primary comment Wednesday. However, Powers — an Iraq War veteran and former substitute teacher [...]

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TO: Joseph “the Cat Whisperer”Morelle, Len Lennihan and The Other Democratic Leaders In The 26th CD
FROM: Cincinnatus@monroerising.com
SUBJECT: Picking Candidates
I can only imagine how you folks feel. Jon Powers spent over a year running for office, raised over a million dollars, had the support of all of the “progressive” bloggers and lost to a [...]

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Watching electin returns from Monroe and Erie Counties.  If trends continue Alice Kryzan will win the Democratic nomination.  Holy Cow! (sorry if I offended you atheists!)

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I have to say, I was in Erie County for work yesterday, and I was shocked by the number of lawn signs up for the Democratic Primary for the 26th CD (for Powers particularly).  Driving around Monroe County, you would hardly notice the race was going on.
Here’s my take on the race.  I think Jon [...]

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The gloves are off in the final days of the Democrat Primary for NY 26 Congressional race.  Here are Jack Davis’ and Jon Powers’ hard hitting commercials. The sad part is that both look fair and accurate to me. 
To top it off City Newspaper had this to say about the third candidate Alice Kryzan:
A troubling [...]

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Things are continuing to heat up in the 26th Congressional District primary between Jon Powers, Jack Davis and Alice Kryzan.  Many insiders and others watching this race have been wondering when Alice Kyzan was going to get into the race and it looks like she now has.  ErieDem pointed out this article in today’s Buffalo News.
It [...]

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Jon Powers’ is getting hit from all sides.  You’ve seen our post about questions surrounding his employment plan charity, War Kids Relief. Now our friends over at the Buffalo Bean report that Jack Davis’ campaign discovered that Jon Powers was cited for disorderly conduct in 2004.
According to the Buffalo Bean:
The flurry of charges and countercharges began [...]

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Jack Davis is sorry for bribing the wives of  Monroe and Erie County Independence Party Officials. According to the Buffalo News:
Democratic congressional candidate Jack Davis apologized today for $10,000 in payments he made to the wives of Western New York’s most influential Independence Party leaders that critics called “bribes.”
The candidate, who has promised to spend [...]

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As all our readers are aware we have been following Jon Powers and Jack Davis with what we believe is their willingness to say anything and do anything to win. With Jon Powers we have followed his War Kids Relief fund raiser. For Jack Davis we posted a huge story on his hiring Blanca Colon [...]

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From the Niagara Gazette’s, Mark Scheer Wrote:
A day after the release of a letter in which Democratic Party Chairman Dan Rivera called for a district attorney’s investigation into the handling of election petitions by Davis staffers, Wojtaszek publicly called on his Democratic counterpart to return every dollar his party has ever received from the Akron [...]

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