Apr 1, 2021
What were Chautauqua County legislators thinking last week when they proposed appointing Loren Kent as the next Democratic election commissioner?
We aren’t quibbling with Kent’s qualifications, nor are we opposing the appointment of the Luz Torres, the Dunkirk resident chosen for the post by the county Democratic Party.
Our issue is with the flagrant disregard for taxpayers shown by the legislature’s five Democrats — Charles Nazzaro, Robert Whitney, Paul Whitford, all of Jamestown, Robert Bankoski of Dunkirk and Christine Starks of Fredonia — who introduced the resolution for legislative action and put county taxpayers on the hook for a lawsuit over internal Democratic Party infighting.