Harassment allegation against Erie County Sheriff candidate cost taxpayers $10,000
Kimberly Beaty denied wrongdoing
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â For eight years starting in the early 2000s, Patrick Mann was Kimberly Beatyâs supervisor at the Buffalo Police training academy.
But Beaty was in the midst of a âmeteoric riseâ to the top of the police brass, becoming a lieutenant, then district chief and by 2014, deputy police commissioner.
By 2017, the promotions resulted in Beaty, who was one of the few women of color in leadership positions on the police force, supervising her old boss and Mann, a police captain, claimed Beaty âexerted her authority over meâ to the point of harassment.
I-Team: Erie County Sheriff candidate was suspended twice for alleged misconduct
Gould defends record with Cheektowaga Police
The Democratic Partyâs endorsed candidate for Erie County Sheriff was suspended twice for allegations of misconduct while serving in the Cheektowaga Police Department, the 7 Eyewitness News I-Team has learned.
and last updated 2021-04-01 18:39:28-04
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) â The Democratic Partyâs endorsed candidate for Erie County Sheriff was suspended twice for allegations of misconduct while serving in the Cheektowaga Police Department, the 7 Eyewitness News I-Team has learned.
Brian J. Gould, the assistant Cheektowaga police chief, announced his candidacy in January for the office of Erie County Sheriff, which will soon be vacant with the retirement of Republican Timothy B. Howard.
As we here at the Politics Column often emphasize, the Democratsâ 2018 takeover of the State Senate ranks as one of the most important milestones in New York political history. All kinds of changes stemmed from a Capitol now dominated by Dems, including a revised political calendar that moved party primaries from September to June.
When Democrats rammed through those changes in early 2019, helpless Republicans could only wail and gnash their teeth.
âHow is anybody going to get petitions signed in the winter? In the snow? In the Adirondacks?â they moaned.
Indeed, opening doors in the cold to party workers circulating designating petitions remains a problem, but it pales compared to opening doors during a pandemic. Now, political honchos such as Erie County Conservative Chairman Ralph Lorigo wonder how the state will handle the situation with the 2021 political season fast approaching.