Posted on 12/10/2020 10:06:59 AM PST by 11th_VA
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The amendment would reverse a staffing change made recently by the Democratic commissioner at the county Board of Elections.
Regardless of the veto or its potential to be overridden, the [election] commissioner, Jackie Ortiz, said Thursday she would refuse to abide by the amendment affecting the board.
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The faction, which calls itself the Black and Asian Democratic Caucus, accused Ortiz of racial bias because her staffing plan called for eliminating two positions held by Black women. The amendment would restore those positions.
The members of the caucus — legislators Ernest Flagler-Mitchell, Sabrina LeMar, Frank Keophetlasy, and Calvin Lee, Jr. — had previously opposed Ortiz’s confirmation as commissioner.
"It is clear based upon Ms. Ortiz’s actions that she is unfit to lead the Democratic Board of Elections," the letter read. "Her targeted actions toward Black employees in the Board of Elections call into question her ability to protect the rights of Black voters in Monroe County."
A visibly charged up Ortiz rebuked the allegations at a news conference at the County Office Building, and chastised members of the caucus for framing the staffing moves around race.
"Race was not a factor in this decision, and it is abhorrent to create division with this rhetoric," Ortiz said.
A former Rochester City Councilmember who was appointed Democratic elections commissioner in August after months of party infighting, Ortiz argued that the Legislature has no standing to make staffing decisions for the Board of Elections. When it comes to operations at the board, she said, the Legislature is limited to determining the board’s budget.
Ortiz said she will move forward with her staffing plan, regardless of the amendment...
(Excerpt) Read more at rochestercitynewspaper.com ...
are there that many blacks in Rochester NY?....
40% black
population 210,000
In 1950, 330,000 people lived in Rochester.
Progress?
not!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester,_New_York
(The latest estimate shows the city losing even more population...at the rate they are going, only cows will live there in a hundred years.)
Nobody but blacks and hispanics live in the city of Rochester.
Everyone else lives in the suburbs.
The city strangled it’s golden goose of Kodak, and also drove what’s left of Xerox out to Webster.
Even L3/Harris moved to Henrietta.
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