{"id":37370,"date":"2021-03-18T19:45:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/?p=37370"},"modified":"2021-03-18T19:49:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:49:28","slug":"jamestown-democrats-announce-city-council-and-county-legislature-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/jamestown-democrats-announce-city-council-and-county-legislature-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamestown Democrats Announce City Council and County Legislature Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"JAMESTOWN – Jamestown city Democrats have announced their slate of candidates for the 2021 local elections. In addition, two incumbent Democrats – Tamu Graham-Reinhardt<\/strong> from the Jamestown City Council<\/strong> and Chuck Nazzaro<\/strong> from the Chautauqua County Legislature<\/strong> – won’t be seeking reelection.<\/p>\n

JAMESTOWN CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES<\/strong><\/p>\n

During a Zoom meeting Wednesday, the Jamestown Democratic Committee<\/strong> announced that Jamestown city council incumbents Marie Carrubba<\/strong> (W2), Vickye James<\/strong> (W3), and Tom Nelson<\/strong> (W6) will each be seeking two more years in office. However, Graham-Reinhardt (At Large) won’t be running for reelction.<\/p>\n

Democrats are currently the minority party on the nine-member city council, but can pick up the majority with a win by all three incumbents also victories from two of the four newcomers. They include At Large candidates Christina Cardinale<\/strong>, Ellen DiTonto<\/strong>, and Alyssa Porter<\/strong>. Joining the three is Ward 5 candidate Doug Lawson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Republicans haven’t announced their candidates for 2021 yet. Those currently on the council include City Council President Tony Dolce<\/strong> (W2), Brent Sheldon<\/strong> (W1), Grant Olson<\/strong> (W5), Kim Ecklund<\/strong> (At Large), and Jeff Russell<\/strong> (At Large).<\/p>\n

They mayor’s office, held by Democrat Eddie Sundquist<\/strong>, is in the middle of its four-year term and is not up for election this year.<\/p>\n

COUNTY LEGISLATURE TO LOSE MINORITY LEADER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chautauqua County Democratic Party Chairman Norm Green<\/strong> announced the slate of Democrats running for Chautauqua County Legislature<\/strong>. But prior to naming the candidates, he first announced that long-time legislator Chuck Nazzaro (D9) would not be seeking reelection. Nazzaro is a long-time member of the legislature, is the current minority leader, and the ranking member of the legislature Audit and Control Committee.<\/p>\n

Instead, running for District 9 (South Dide) will be Billy Torres<\/strong>. For the other Democratic candidates, current legislators Bob Whitney<\/strong> (D11-West Side) and Paul Whitford<\/strong> (D13-East Side) are both seeking reelection. And Heather Fagan<\/strong> (D12-North Side) will be making her first run for public office.<\/p>\n

For Republicans, Elisabeth Rankin<\/strong> (D12) is the only current city resident who sits on the Chautauqua County Legislature. A portion of District 10 is also in Jamestown, but it is held by Lakewood area resident Ken Lawton<\/strong>, a Republican.<\/p>\n

Republicans haven’t yet announced their full slate of candidates for 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JAMESTOWN – Jamestown city Democrats have announced their slate of candidates for the 2021 local elections. In addition, two incumbent Democrats – Tamu Graham-Reinhardt from the Jamestown City Council and Chuck Nazzaro from the Chautauqua County Legislature – won’t be seeking reelection. JAMESTOWN CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES During a Zoom meeting Wednesday, the Jamestown Democratic Committee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":13331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[10325,10356,6718,259,277,431,9973,512,10357,7652,4274,4879,9163,10358,1122,7432,9779,10359,1365,1496,1716,1773,9086,4765,2269,9158],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wrfalp.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Democratic-Logo-feature.jpg?fit=332%2C190&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3YlJ4-9IK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28871,"url":"https:\/\/www.wrfalp.com\/city-democrat-officials-endorse-sundquist-for-mayor-roll-out-slate-of-other-candidates\/","url_meta":{"origin":37370,"position":0},"title":"City Democratic Officials Endorse Sundquist for Mayor, Roll Out Slate of Other Candidates","author":"WRFA Radio","date":"February 22, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"JAMESTOWN - Democratic officials in Jamestown have selected their candidate for mayor. 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