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Additional Endorsements (& endorsement summary)
It should come as no surprise, given Willa’s involvement in the Rochester chapter of the National Organization for Women that her chapter PAC has endorsed her.
Likewise, given that Working Families Party, RTA and BENTE endorsed her, it should come as no surprise that Willa received the Rochester Labor Council endorsement.
Interested in Spreading the Word?
A lot of folks are visiting this website after reading our materials to offer us their yard for a lawn sign, or to convey other messages of support and encouragement. What more can you do, and what more can we do to make it as easy as possible for supporters like you to spread the word? To access hotlinks to PDF versions of our materials, click here: Front and Back and print your own keycards.
Responses to the D&C non-endorsement
The title of this post is plural. Willa was entitled to a rebuttal letter as a result of non-endorsement. Her submission appears in the Letter to the Editor section of the September 9 publication.
In addition, a harsh critique of the D&C’s endorsements and non-endorsements appear in the Smugtown Beacon.
If you need to remind yourself what the D&C had to say, you can go to the bar at the top of the page and click on NEWS and scroll until you find the posting titled “Unbroken Record” or click on the heading of this post to for a recap.
Fair Campaign Pledges – too little, too late
“All the good intentions of the Fair Campaign pledge and all due respect to the organizations that work so hard to get candidates to sign them, but last year, pledges became part of the campaigns in an unhelpful way. Whether candidates signed pledges, and what pledges did they sign. Somehow the Fair Campaign pledge was just too little, too late. There are ways to make it more relevant, and I’ve submitted my suggestions.”
Willa signed the pledge, but also submitted a letter of concern pointing out that the signing ceremony occurs too late for races where the primary is the real contest.
Unbroken Record
The Democrat and Chronicle editorial board has never endorsed Willa, and their record remains unbroken with this week’s recommendations.
The good news is that she has gotten elected to the School Board three times without it. So the question is, have city voters already discounted the D&C editorial board as out of touch with city constituents? Or are D&C readers so few that that their opinion doesn’t reach city voters?
