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Urbana Dems go after town council seats HAMMONDSPORT - Urbana Democrats came within a hair of fielding a full slate of candidates for November's town elections. Twenty-seven registered Democrats caucused late last month, nominating candidates for the town supervisor's position, town council seats, the town clerk's job and the town justice position. But the man nominated as the Democratic candidate for supervisor - current town Supervisor Richard Gardiner, a Republican - bowed out after losing his own party's primary election. "I guess I looked at it and saw the character of the board is going to change," Gardiner said last week. "If I was going to be there by myself for the next four years, it would be a long four years." Gardiner was trounced by Republican challenger Gordon Lanphere, 228-125. Incumbent town board members John Webster and Thomas Chadwick also were beaten in the primary, as Barbara Yahn and Paul Martuscello led the vote count with 201 and 198 votes respectively. "I think he would have made a strong (Democratic) candidate," Urbana Democratic Committee Chairman Ann Green said of Gardiner. "The only people who voted in the Republican primary were Republicans, and less than half of the Republicans in the town voted. And challengers always get their voters out. I did not feel that was a true measure of the entire town." In the aftermath of Gardiner's decision not to run, the Democratic organization's Vacancy Committee turned to Urbana resident Andrew Mazella, a former Democratic mayor of the City of Hornell, as a possible candidate for town supervisor. Mazella, however, declined to accept the nomination. "We did our best," Green said.
The following Democratic candidates for town council, justice and clerk will appear on the November ballots, along with Republican and Independent candidates. |
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