Mayor Warren endorses Harry Bronson.

Big deal.
State Assemblyman Bronson doesn't represent the district the mayor lives in, so he's no threat to her. She doesn't want his job, anyway. That would necessitate taking a pay cut by nearly 50%. So the mayor could afford to be gracious and endorse Harry, which is completely out of character for her.
On the other hand, Bronson never needed the support of Lovely Warren or David Gantt before. Their support is negligible at best, or unnecessary at worst. Harry's base of support is the gay ghetto, not the black ghetto. It is also doubtful that the mayor will open up her campaign coffers to him. She saves them only for herself. Lovely's tepid support will cost her nothing and perhaps disarm one or two Establishment Demagogues.
Bronson is in the pocket of one the mayor's deadliest enemies, slick Joe Morelle pere. Warren can claim that she is building bridges between the two dysfunctional halves of the local Demagogic party.
Which is a lie. Neither faction wants to build bridges. They both wish to destroy the other.
Mayor Warren pissed off the Establishment Demagogues when she refused to endorse Sandra Frankel for Monroe County Executive. She continued to piss them off by not wholeheartedly supporting octogenarian Congresswoman Lulubelle Slaughter in her current bid for re election.
Some people thought the mayor wanted Lulubelle's seat. That was not the case. At least not this time around.
A gesture of sorts to promote party unity was necessary, especially with Mayor Warren running for re election in 2017.
But it is essentially meaningless. Harry doesn't need the Gantt-Warren faction for anything. Not when he has the gay vote on his side.
Who does the mayor think she's kidding? Her cheerleading squad?

Mayor Warren's infomercial is a political ad.

The official line from City Hall is that it is not. The infomercial proclaims positive progress in the City of Rochester.
Courtesy of Mayor Warren.
Taxpayers aren't paying for this infomercial. The cost was covered by Mayor Warren's campaign war chest and/or the PAC she set up.
PACs ( Political Action Committees ) are usually created by outsiders and special interest groups to promote the election of politicians favorable to their agendas. They are considered unethical, but legal.
In 2013, the PAC created by Warren's "brother," lobbyist Scott Gaddy, created quite a stink prior to the Demagogic primary election. Warren disclaimed any knowledge of PACS and of how they work.
It is gratifying to know that she is a quick study, learning about PACS and then creating her own, if she was telling the truth in 2013. That's a big if.
The mayor's personal assistant, Tracey Miller, already has a weekly radio show on WDKX, the black radio station, to glorify her. Nobody outside of the black community listens to it. She needed to broaden her audience.
Clearly, the mayor is running for something, hence the ad.
But for what?
The 2017 election for mayor is more than a year away. The 2015 election propelled two of Warren's deadliest enemies, ex police chief Jim Sheppard and the notorious Molly Clifford, into positions where they could challenge her that year. The mayor finds it necessary to get her propaganda out now, since she can count only on the unequivocal support of the Black Demagogues, especially after pissing off the Establishment Demagogues by not supporting Sandra Frankel's bid for county executive this year.
It is also rumored that Warren has federal aspirations.
Octogenarian Demagogic sacred cow Lulubelle Slaughter is seeking yet another term in Congress in 2016. She was almost defeated by Republican Mark Assini in 2014, who is also running again for her seat. Mayor Warren has made it clear that she owes the Establishment Demagogues nothing, and could easily throw her hairpiece into the race, challenging Lulubelle in the Demagogic primary.
There is also New York State Senator Rich Funke's seat up for re election in 2016.
Funke is a rookie in Albany. Warren lives in the district Funke represents. Neither of the two Demagogic parties has a viable option to Funke as of yet.
I believe that Warren won't try to run against Slaughter or Funke. Running against Lulubelle would only serve to again piss off Establishment Demagogues in the county. Her strength is in the ghetto, not in the largely white, Republican dominated suburbs beyond Rochester's borders. Moreover, if Warren were defeated by the Republican Assini in that race, the Establishment Demagogues would blame her for the loss of that particular congressional seat.
As for Funke's seat, it doesn't have quite the status that Lulubelle's does, and the mayor would take a huge pay cut if she attempted it.
Warren can't be stupid enough to attempt it, although her overwhelming ego just might trump her common sense.
She would probably lose those races if she attempted them. And it would also mean that she could be beaten in the 2017 race for Mayor.
Along with her campaign ad, Mayor Warren also had a popularity poll conducted at her own expense. The results were not released, which suggests that her popularity is slipping.
I repeat: Warren's infomercial is a campaign ad, to garner support beyond the black community for her re election campaign in 2017.
She is counting on most people believing anything that they see on television.

The reason for the piss-poor turnout in the election.

People were bored. There was no local campaign exciting enough to rouse people out of their apathy to get out and vote. When most candidates run unopposed, or lacking any serious opposition, what point is there to go out and vote?
In the City of Rochester, the primary election in September determined the winners for November.
Rochester is owned by the Demagogues. The Black Demagogues and the Establishment Demagogues slugged it out in the primary, leaving their candidates with exactly what they had before, guaranteeing victory in their respective areas.
Not too many voters would be needed to confirm it, so not many voters bothered to show up at the polls.
The suburbs did a bit better, but not much.
There, the Republicans hold control and the few blasé Demagogic challengers fell by the wayside.
The race for County Executive might have brought more voters out had it been more interesting, only it was deadly dull.
Sandra Frankel's campaign was a lackluster repeat of her failed 2011 bid for that office. Her unimaginative campaign managers and the perpetual lack of unity among the Demagogues did more to damage her chances of victory than did the understated tactics of her Republican challenger, Cheryl DiNolfo.
DiNolfo knew all she had to do was wait while the Demagogues gave Frankel enough rope to hang herself.
Effective but boring.
Even Rochester's liberal newsrag, the D&C, found it necessary to endorse DiNolfo. That decision probably cost their editorial staff a few nights' sleep, but it would allow them to pretend that they are impartial.
Now, the D&C finds it necessary to castigate the voters for the low turnout, ignoring their own hand in producing the voter apathy prevalent in the area.
Having done their damnedest to promote their own liberal agenda by usually endorsing only candidates who are politically correct ( that is to say Demagogues ), they helped to eliminate Republican interest in campaigning in the City of Rochester.
That effectively made the primary the factor in determining the winners two months hence, eliminating the need for a massive turnout at the polls in November.
On the other hand, Republicans control the county towns and even the D&C's scolding didn't produce many viable Demagogic candidates there.
Party stalwarts or people with personal axes to grind against certain candidates came out to vote. That was it.
Third party candidates usually don't get more than a few hundred votes, which doesn't have an impact on elections, but sometimes helps preserve the illusion of democratic choice.
And in contested races, meaning between Demagogues and Republicans, nobody was saying "Come out and help elect the best candidate." It was "Come out and support the Demagogue or Republican," depending on the voter's party affiliation.
Which is really what both parties want. Neither party machine is impressed with the ideals of representative democratic government.
The D&C ought to quit its bitching, because it isn't, either.

Jamie Romeo was last night's biggest loser.

Jamie Romeo, the stupid little girl who became the MCDC's chairperson a few months ago, was the biggest loser in this year's elections.
She sat bewildered on the sidelines while the Establishment Demagogues and the Black Demagogues slugged it out between them, allowing the Republicans to emerge victorious, refreshed and re- energized.
Under her impotent stewardship, the two Demagogic parties are deadlier enemies to each other than the Republicans are to them.
This profited the Republicans enormously. The Demagogues were barely able to hold what they had.
It was this Demagogic split that led directly to Cheryl DiNolfo's defeat of Sandra Frankel by a considerable margin. Romeo was unable to unite the Demagogues to help Frankel defeat DiNolfo.
Mayor Warren, the highest ranking Demagogue in Monroe County, went so far as to refuse to endorse Frankel, for numerous reasons I expressed in previous blogs.
If Romeo was unable to heal the breach between the two factions, she was also incapable of imposing her authority on either of them. The Black Demagogues ignore her completely. The Establishment Demagogues pay lip service to her being chairperson while they, too, ignore her and go their merry way.
The only thing Chairperson Romeo has been able to accomplish with gusto is to sit in a chair, while the continuing chaos within her party swirls about her ears. She is irrelevant. Yesterday, that was made clear to anyone who cared to look.
It makes Jamie Romeo the election's biggest loser, and certainly proves she is ill-equipped for her job.

A boring county executive race.

It is only a month until the November elections.
There will be very few surprises.
Most incumbents will probably win their seats. Again. Not because they have accomplished anything of note. They have name recognition. The few people who vote are accustomed to them. And their competition is just as unworthy as they are.
The race for Monroe County Executive is different. Maggie Brooks is termed out and can't run again.
Her understudy, Republican Cheryl DiNolfo, currently chief clerk and bottle washer in county government, has been waiting for twelve years to step into Ms. Brooks' three-inch pumps.
Mrs. DiNolfo's opponent, Establishment Demagogue Sandra Frankel, ran for county executive before. And lost.
Mrs. Frankel never received the financial and moral support of her party four years ago. She still hasn't got it because the MCDC is in a state of chaos, with incompetent leadership as its fatal flaw.
Frankel does not have the open support of the Black Demagogues, who have no loyalty to the dictates of the MCDC. They see this contest as one between two white women, and will probably flip a coin to decide who they vote for. Or they will do as they are bidden by David Gantt.
Apart from that, this year's campaign has been a bore.
Both ladies have been too busy social butterflying it around the area to mount anything approaching a political campaign. They are counting on party loyalty alone to get elected.
Certainly, Frankel has been whining about Republican corruption and the county's fiscal stress from time to time. That card is worn out. She played it before and lost.
Nor has she expressed her solutions in anything but the most vague and general terms, leaving undecided voters bewildered and confused. Which leads one to believe that she doesn't have any solutions other than to increase taxation, liberalism's usual panacea for all of society's ills.
DiNolfo hasn't risen to the bait and sought to make an issue of Frankel's accusations. If she did, she would be forced to come up with answers of her own. That would stir up a kettle of fish DiNolfo and her handlers would rather avoid, especially in the city of Rochester.
DiNolfo knows she has the county, which is dominated by Republicans. She can afford to be less concerned about Rochester, which is split between black and white Demagogic factions. The fact that Rochester mayor Lovely Warren has refused to support Frankel is a feather in DiNolfo's cap.
As for the Green Party candidate, Rajeesh Barnabas, he has been remarkably silent as well. As the candidate of a third party, he won't count for much in the upcoming election.
They all seem to be waiting for public forums sponsored by WXXI, WROC and the League of Women Voters and the Rochester Rotary to get their word out.
Those events will probably not be well watched or well attended, because the voters won't be swayed so late in the game. They will probably vote for their own party's candidates, with Barnabas getting a few hundred votes that might have gone to Frankel.
That's what the political parties want. Not to elect the better candidate, merely their own.
Which is why they haven't wasted any time talking about issues.
And shame on the Rochester Rotary for involving itself in politics.

There are two Demagogic parties in Rochester.

Demagogic candidate for Monroe County Executive Sandra Frankel lunched with Rochester mayor Lovely Warren yesterday.
Ms. Frankel was seeking Mayor Warren's public support for her lackluster campaign against Republican Cheryl DiNolfo.
If Ms. Frankel was counting on Demagogic loyalty to get Mayor Warren's endorsement, she was sadly mistaken. Mayor Warren was reported as saying that she didn't want to put Rochester into the middle of this race. She also said that could work well with either DiNolfo or Frankel as County Executive.
This was bullshit.
I have already written why the mayor has ignored Frankel's campaign. As it now stands, Mayor Warren is the top ranking Demagogue in Monroe County. Any Demagogic County Executive would outrank her. That is something Mayor Warren's over inflated ego could not endure.
As for counting on Demagogic loyalty, Ms. Frankel seems blissfully unaware of the fact that there are two Demagogic Parties in Rochester. Mayor Warren belongs to one, and Ms. Frankel to the other.
Even the current chairperson of the MCDC, Jamie Romeo, refuses to concede this fact. Romeo is living in a fool's paradise wearing rose colored glasses. She is clearly incapable of bridging the chasm that exists between the two parties. Nobody with even half a brain could or even would dare to try. She prefers to believe that there is still only one Demagogic party over which she has authority.
The Black Demagogues are headed by none other than David Gantt and the mayor herself. Their focus is the ghetto, where their word is law. It does not extend beyond it, though they have tried to expand their authority into other districts of the city and failed. Conversely, they do not respect the authority of the MCDC over them. Why should they? They have succeeded without it.
The Establishment Demagogues, led by Joe Morelle and the notorious Molly Clifford, have a distinctly white elitist membership. They see themselves as the natural leaders of the party within the City of Rochester, never mind the fact that they will burn the rule book when it suits their purposes, especially in regards to the Gantt-Warren faction. The MCDC is slightly more useful to them, and then only at the county level, since the battle lines have been drawn along racial lines in the city.
The Demagogic primary election in 2013 finalized the divorce between the two parties. Ms. Warren won the primary. Clifford continued to run Tom Richards on the Independent line. Morelle, then chairman of the MCDC, refused to help finance Ms. Warren's campaign as he should have done.
Ms. Warren won, and has been fundraising separately from the Establishment Demagogues ever since, much to their displeasure. Mayor Warren owes them nothing.
Paybacks are a bitch.
The Establishment Demagogues owe Mayor Warren nothing, either. This will be made patently clear in 2017 when she runs for reelection.
This is the background into which Ms. Frankel thrust herself, begging for Mayor Warren's support. She didn't get it because she is too white, too suburban, too naïve and not apologetic enough to suit Mayor Warren. And because she wasn't a charter member of the David Gantt fan club.

The reason Lovely Warren won't support Sandra Frankel's bid for County Executive.

We were hanging out with our biker buddies this afternoon at the Woodshed.
The topic of conversation turned to political matters, like the race for County Executive.
Mayor Warren hasn't come out in support of fellow Demagogue Sandra Frankel's campaign against Republican Cheryl DiNolfo.
In fact, Mayor Warren and her faction have studiously ignored this campaign.
That's curious, right?
We came to the conclusion that since Lovely Warren, as Mayor of Rochester, is currently the highest ranking elected Demagogue in the area, Sandra Frankel as County Executive would outrank her in the party.
Warren's ego wouldn't stand for that.
Hence her lack of support for Frankel.
Warren would rather have a Republican elected County Executive so she could continue to lord it over the MCDC.
Paradoxically, Warren's Demagogic allies in the Monroe County Legislature are always damning Republicans, especially the Republican County Executive, for not supporting their proposed social engineering legislation.
Seems like Lovely is all about promoting Lovely. Other Demagogues, unless they are black, can be damned.

Filling up the county executive race.

County Clerk Cheryl DiNolfo declared her candidacy for County Executive months ago.
She wishes to follow in Maggie Brooks' footsteps and has been understudying for the role ever since she became County Clerk.
DiNolfo is known for her perfect hair; her perfect make-up; her perfect nails; her perfect clothes and her three-inch heels.
Her campaign has been quiet up to this point because she has been swinging exclusively in Republican circles.
Given the fact that the Republicans control most of the county, that might not be such a bad tactic.
Democrat Sandra Frankel announced yesterday that she will challenge DiNolfo for the office.
It will be Frankel's second attempt to become County Executive.
Frankel was Brighton Town Supervisor for nearly twenty years.
It was, and remains, one of the most expensive places in Monroe County in which to live.
Frankel, a charming, soft-spoken lady, was soundly defeated by Brooks in 2011.
Even the stench of corruption pervading Brooks' personal, professional and political life did not preclude her from winning her third and final term.
Frankel was simply too much of a lady and too kind for the fight then.
Nor did she receive adequate support from the MCDC.
Perhaps she and they have learned their lessons.
If they have, it will be a lively campaign.
State Assemblyman Harry Bronson is also mulling over a campaign against DiNolfo.
It is ironic that they both worked for the same company after they graduated from law school.
Bronson has had a string of election victories in the last decade, especially against anti-gay Republican challengers.
There the deck was stacked in his favor.
Bronson's district includes parts of Rochester that are heavily populated by the gay community.
As an openly gay man, Bronson was able to exploit that political capital to his advantage.
That advantage would be severely diminished in a county wide race where Republicans hold sway and are not sympathetic to the gay community, to say the least.
His chances of winning are not good.
County Minority Leader Carrie Andrews rounds out the Democratic triumvirate.
Because of term limits, she cannot run again. So she needs a new hobby.
There are no other local races she could simply slide into and hope to win.
That leaves only the County Executive race.
Unfortunately, Andrews is not a practitioner of the art of compromise, which would not reassure the Republican dominated towns.
Moreover, it is doubtful that enough Republicans will lose legislature seats to make Democrats the majority party there.
If she won, which is highly unlikely, she would be saddled with a Republican dominated County Legislature that would ride roughshod over her.
At least it would make their meetings interesting.
But she is the least likely candidate to win.
I wonder if there will be any other takers.