Conservative Party Endorsements

Ask and you shall receive. On Monday, I lamented the fact that the Conservative Party of Onondaga County hadn’t released their endorsements and, lo and behold, the list of endorsements appeared in the Post-Standard this morning. The endorsements for County Legislature and for races in the City of Syracuse are reproduced below.

County Legislature:

1st District: Rich Lesniak, incumbent, (R).

2nd District: Bernie Kraft, incumbent, (R).

3rd District: Bill Meyer, incumbent, (R).

4th District: No endorsement.

5th District: No endorsement.

6th District: Jim Rhinehart, incumbent, (R).

7th District: No endorsement.

8th District: Jim Corbett, incumbent, (R).

9th District: Mark Stanczyk, incumbent, (D).

10th District: Kevin Holmquist, incumbent, (R).

11th District: Pat Kilmartin, incumbent, (R).

12th District: Bob Demore, incumbent, (R).

13th District: Bob Warner, incumbent, (R).

14th District: Casey Jordan, incumbent, (R).

15th District: No endorsement.

16th District: Kevin Kuehner, challenger, (R).

17th District: No endorsement.

18th District: No endorsement.

19th District: No endorsement.

City of Syracuse:

Mayor: Otis Jennings, (R), open seat.

Common Council President: No endorsement.

Common Councilors At-Large: No endorsements.

Common Council, 1st District: Matthew Rayo, challenger, (R).

Common Council, 2nd District: No endorsement.

Common Council, 3rd District: No endorsement.

Common Council, 4th District: No endorsement.

Common Council, 5th District: Tristan Daedalus, (R), open seat.

No surprise. All candidates endorsed by the Conservatives are Republicans except for one Democrat. It is interesting to see which Republicans didn’t get endorsed, however. Now if only the Working Families Party would release their full slate . . .