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Poloncarz announces budget deficit plan to address fiscal challenges
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz today announced his 2020 COVID-19 Budget Deficit Remediation Plan, identifying budgetary gap-closing measures to address a projected $137.8 million pandemic-related deficit in the county’s FY2020 budget. The…
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Poloncarz lauded for leadership in the runup to coronavirus crisis
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz is being lauded for his leadership during the ongoing escalation of the public health threat posed by the coronavirus. Poloncarz and Gail Burnstein, the Erie County Commissioner…
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Poloncarz appoints Szymanski Director of Workforce Development
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz today announced his appointment of Geoffrey M. Szymanski as Erie County Director of Workforce Development. In that position he serves as Executive Director of the Buffalo…
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Kirkwood suggests that Poloncarz is a ‘closet Trump Democrat’
Community organizer Duncan Kirkwood slammed Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz for his allegedly weak progressive credentials in a widely read Buffalo News editorial last month. It’s just the latest friction between the County Executive…
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Unless staffers feel uncomfortable, rumored womanizing is unlikely to affect Poloncarz campaign
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz has been known to date political colleagues who, in various ways, find themselves subordinate to him. But those relationships have been publicly known and those women haven’t complained…
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Reese plans to take election case to Court of Appeals
The industrial engineer, cancer research scientist, and pioneering election law attorney who is running for Erie County Executive — Peter A. Reese — filed his appellate brief in the case of Reese…
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Poloncarz’s opposition to a new Bills stadium will be a problem in November
Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz‘s longstanding opposition to a new Buffalo Bills stadium is badly damaging his chances of reelection at the ballot box in November, area political operatives posit. Critics have lambasted Poloncarz…
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Jacobs angles for County Executive run, but some Republicans want Dixon
State Senator Christopher Jacobs has been desperate to vacate his State Senate since the days following his reelection in November. Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins plans to target the 60th and 61st districts…
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Poloncarz should move County Social Services to Broadway Fillmore
THE EDITORIAL BOARD County Executive Mark Poloncarz has proposed moving the Social Services Department’s Child Protective Services Unit, with its 420 employees, to the pricey Fountain Plaza property owned by the politically…
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Poloncarz still reviewing ECC budget plan
BY TONY FARINA I wrote last week that the rubber may be close to hitting the road when It comes to the financial crisis at Erie Community College, but so far County Executive…
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Ray Walter slams Poloncarz for “secret criminal investigation”
By Sean McCormick, Walter Campaign Press Release (Erie County, NY) – Following the revelation of a criminal inquiry into the administration of Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz, Assemblyman Ray Walter rang alarm…
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Poloncarz finds sweetheart assessment for himself
By Tony Farina, The Niagara Falls Reporter It was not long ago that Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz urged the Amherst IDA to reject a law firm’s request for $550,000 in tax breaks…
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Will Walters pull out if fundraiser disappoints?
The little known right wing Assemblyman Ray Walter is running for County Executive, as of yet. Incumbent Mark Poloncarz has over $400,000 in his campaign account and the backing of the Democrat…
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Operatives say that Jacobs will eventually regain lost credibility
The local Republican Party is perhaps more fractious than ever. The aftermath of an intensive months long behind the scenes contest for the nomination for County Executive left warring factions bruised and…
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Congress a likely consideration in Jacobs’ decision to pass on County Executive contest
It was widely reported that County Clerk Chris Jacobs declined to run for County Executive based on the supposed strength of the incumbent’s poll numbers. That remains a point of dispute among…
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What could Langworthy possibly be thinking?
That’s the question posed by political observers from across the left-right spectrum. Earlier this month Clerk Chris Jacobs and Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw both declined to run for County Executive this cycle. Since…
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Jacobs declines to run, as “Draft Dixon” effort heats up
Erie County Clerk Chris Jacobs, thought to be the GOP’s strongest challenger to incumbent County Executive Mark Poloncarz, has declined to run for higher office this year. “It’s just not the right time…
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Mychajliw, on the outs, must prove himself to GOP leaders
Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw was conspiring with Republican political operative Michael Caputo to aggressively primary County Clerk Chris Jacobs for County Executive. But party leaders have pushed back hard against that…
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Caputo is plotting against Jacobs, says source
The Buffalo Chronicle received an anonymous email this morning detailing a Sunday meeting between Republican political operative Michael Caputo (who mismanaged Carl Paladino’s 2010 gubernatorial campaign with much fanfare) and Erie County Comptroller…
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Perfect storm for Poloncarz makes reelection unlikely
County Executive Mark Poloncarz is riding high on a poll that says his favorability is at 67%. But asking a respondent whether they have a favorable or unfavorable view of the County Executive…
