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Cattaraugus County Democrats will get a look Friday night at four of the five declared candidates seeking to run against U.S. Rep. Tom Reed.

The Cattaraugus County Democratic Party is holding a fundraising dinner at Holimont in Ellicottville with guests state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Basil Smikle, executive director of the state Democratic Party.

Frank Puglisi, the new county Democratic chairman, said four Democratic congressional candidates had confirmed they would attend the Turn It Blue Gala.

They are: Jamestown attorney Eddie Sundquist, Ithaca businessman Ian Golden, John Hertzler, an actor and town board member from Trumansburg and Max Della Pia, a retired Air Force officer from Owego.

Puglisi said candidate Rick Gallant, a Corning teacher, will be in Washington, D.C. that day and unable to attend. He planned to send a representative.

Puglisi said he was excited to have four Democratic congressional candidates at the dinner. He and other Democratic county chairmen from across the 11-county 23rd Congressional District are looking for a strong candidate to emerge from the pact to mount a challenge to Reed, a three-term incumbent.

Two of the candidates are from Tompkins County, and one each from Chautauqua, Tioga and Steuben counties.

Fundraising will play a big part leading up to a primary in June of 2018. The winner would then have to start raising funds to run against Reed in November.

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Were looking for up to 150 people at the dinner,Puglisi said. He was named earlier this month to succeed longtime Democratic chairman Joyce Melfi Cwiklinski.

A social hour beginning at 6 p.m. will proceed the dinner at 7 oclock.

Tickets are available from Puglisi, Kevin Burleson or via the partys website at http://www.cattcodemocrat.com.

(Contact reporter Rick Miller at rmiller@oleantimesherald.com. Follow him on Twitter, @RMillerOTH)

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Starting Monday, Aug. 7, the Sedalia Democrat will no longer print and deliver a Monday edition. The Democrat will continue publishing a print edition Tuesday through Saturday.

We took a hard, detailed look and evaluated the Monday edition. We believe this decision needed to be made to better serve our community, advertisers and subscribers, Publisher Will Weibert said. This decision will allow the staff to focus on better customer service, increase our news content and add value to our subscribers with increased special sections and reader content. This will be a good thing for the Democrat and our valued subscribers.

July 31 will be the last Monday edition of the Democrat. The staff will now focus on adding and improving more news content, advertising and delivery with the Tuesday through Saturday editions. Even without a Monday print edition, readers will still be able to receive west central Missouri news through SedaliaDemocrat.com. The newsroom will continue to update the website daily with breaking news.

With a new parent company, Phillips Media Group, a new publisher and new editor, the Democrat will be making some changes to improve Sedalias only newspaper.

Starting with the Aug. 2 edition, Democrat readers will see a print redesign, which will better showcase the newsrooms award-winning photography and stories and make the newspaper easier to navigate.

In addition, SedaliaDemocrat.com will be revamped in early August to feature faster load speeds, a sleeker design and a better user experience. Weibert noted that SedaliaDemocrat.com is one of Sedalias most highly-trafficked local websites with nearly 500,000 monthly page views.

We value our advertisers and our subscribers. Every subscriber now will get access to the E-Edition free of charge, Weibert said. We want to make it as easy as possible for our subscribers to get their news anywhere, anytime and from any device.

Readers with questions about this change can contact the Democrats customer service representatives at 660-826-1000.

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KINGSTON, N.Y. >> The stage is set for Democratic primaries for Common Council nominations in two of Kingstons nine wards.

In the Third Ward, incumbent Rennie Scott-Childress, who has the backing of the city Democratic Committee, is being challenged for the party line on the November ballot by Ellen DiFalco, who served as confidential secretary to former Mayor Shayne Gallo during his time in office and sits on the Kingston Library board.

DiFalco already has the backing of the city Republican, Conservative and Independence Party committees.

Scott-Childress was appointed to the Third Ward seat on the council in April 2016 by Mayor Steve Noble after fellow Democrat Brad Will resigned.

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In the Eighth Ward, incumbent Steve Schabot, also backed by the Democratic Committee, will face off against Cassandra Burke and former city Safety Officer Jim Rodden for the party line on the ballot.

Rodden has the backing of the city Republican and Conservative committees.

Candidate petitions were due to the Ulster County Board of Elections last week. The primaries will be in September.

All nine seats on the council are up for election in November, and the winners will serve two-year terms. The mayor and alderman-at-large are elected every four years, and those positions will not be on the ballot again until 2019.

In the wards other than 3 and 8, the races are as follows.

Ward 1: Jeffrey Morrell will run on the Democratic line against Michael Russell on the Republican, Conservative and Independence lines. Incumbent Democrat Lynn Eckert is running for an Ulster County Legislature seat.

Ward 2: Incumbent Democrat Douglas Koop is running unopposed.

Ward 4: Democrat Rita Worthington is running unopposed. Incumbent Democrat Nina Dawson has chosen not to seek re-election.

Ward 5: Incumbent Democrat William Carey will run against Republican Teryl Mickens, who also is expected to be on the Conservative and Independence lines.

Ward 6: Incumbent Democrat Anthony Davis is running unopposed.

Ward 7: Democrat Bryant Drew Andrews will run against Republican Patrick OReilly, who also is expected to be on the Conservative and Independence lines. Incumbent Democrat Maryann Mills is not seeking re-election.

Ward 9: Incumbent Debbie Brown, the lone Republican on the council, will run against Democrat Andrea Shaut. Brown also is expected to appear on the Conservative and Independence lines.

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Charging incredible incompetency and disservice to Iowa voters, Jim Mowrer of Des Moines is considering challenging Secretary of State Paul Pate in 2018.

Mowrer, whose experience in conducting elections goes back to helping fellow Iowa Army National Guard members vote while in Iraq in 2006, said Pate is trying to make it as expensive and difficult as possible.

Mowrer, 31, a two-time Democratic candidate for the U.S. House, now works for an Iowa human services nonprofit agency and is an adjunct instructor at Grand View University in Des Moines.

In conversations with county auditors Republicans and Democrats, he said, who oversee elections Mowrer has heard that Pates office does not work well with them.

Thats really what its about working with county auditors and others to make sure our elections are as free and fair and secure as possible, Mowrer said Friday. Frankly, thats not happening right now.

In addition to voting registration and election systems, the Secretary of States Office business functions are out-of-date and way behind the times compared to what other states are doing with online instant filings, he said.

Theres a lot of work that needs to be done, Mowrer said, adding it would be similar to work he did at the Army Office of Business Transformation at the Pentagon to improve business practices.

Pate, a former state senator and mayor of Cedar Rapids, was elected secretary of state in 2014 after having previously served in that office from 1995-99. He has often spoken of the lack of funding to update hardware and software, some of which is no longer available from the manufacturers.

Mowrer attributed that to severe mismanagement by Pate.

Rather than get funds to update those systems, Mowrer said, Pate went to the Legislature to get resources to make it more difficult to vote. Pate proposed the Voter Integrity Act that, among other things, will require Iowans, beginning in 2019, to show an ID before they vote.

Despite Democratic opposition, polls showed that requiring a voter ID was popular with voters.

Mowrer did not call for repealing the law but said there needs to be a reprioritization, such as returning to 40 days of early voting before Election Day. The new law reduced that to 29 days, which Mowrer said could limit voter access.

As he considers the race, Mowrer is encouraged by a June 19-21 20/20 Insight poll of 526 Iowans showing that in a head-to-head match-up he tops Pate 38 percent to 33 percent. The poll had a 4.3 percent margin of error.

Mowrer said he is talking to his family and friends about challenging Pate and expects to make a decision before Labor Day.

Other Democrats said to be considering the race are Des Moines business owner Deidre DeJear and Johnson County Auditor Travis Weipert.

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BY: Elizabeth Harrington July 22, 2017 5:00 am

Democratic candidate for Congress Brian Flynn received the maximum campaign contribution from Emma Sulkowicz, the Mattress Girl who made questionable allegations of rape against a classmate at Columbia University.

Sulkowicz, whose art performances now include being tied up and beaten in front of onlookers to protest President Donald Trump, contributed the maximum $5,400 to Flynn's campaign, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Kerry Sulkowicz, Emma's father who is a psychoanalyst in New York City, also donated the maximum $5,400.

Flynn's office said the candidate and the Sulkowicz family are close friends and that Flynn supports Sulkowicz's artistic expression.

"Brian has known Emma and her family for years," a spokesperson said. "Her parents are longtime friends. They all donated online as soon as they heard he was running."

"Like all artists, Brian supports Emma's freedom of expression," the spokesperson added.

Sulkowicz received notoriety after accusing a college friend of raping her in 2013, and using the accusation for her senior art thesis project by carrying a dorm mattress around campus. The height of her mattress fame came when she attended the State of the Union address in 2015 as Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's guest.

Her allegations have since been called into question. The university cleared her accused classmate, Paul Nungesser, of any wrongdoing, and a police investigation did not produce any charges.

Nungesser recently received a settlement from Columbia for a Title IX lawsuit that argued the university mishandled the sexual assault allegations by allowing Sulkowicz to harass Nungesser with the mattress stunt. Sulkowicz even crossed her graduation stage carrying the mattress.

Sulkowicz, a Hillary Clinton supporter, followed up the mattress act with another art project many have described as a sex tape. Earlier this year she added teeth to a pink vagina sweater.

Sulkowicz is now "channeling her rage through BDSM."

"Her most recent piece, in which she was bound, berated, and hung from the ceiling, tackles the question of the value of art under the Trump administration," according to Vice.

Sulkowicz's performance at the Whitney Museum in New York City involves an older bearded man tying her up, beating her with his belt, and asking audience members if they want to slap her. She argues the performance is about an "intense questioning of art and politics."

"[I chose] to have a white man tie me up while wearing a business suit with a Whitney necktie, while I wear a Whitney ISP thong bikini," Sulkowicz said. The man is a "close friend" and trained dominatrix, she said.

Female viewers have been so concerned that they have requested a "trigger warning" before the performance.

Sulkowicz also showed her disdain for white male artists in the VICE interview, saying she is no fan of Jackson Pollock.

"White men have the privilege of entire institutions built for their paintings. These paintings are very often abstract," she said. "You have people like Pollock splattering a bunch of shit and then saying it's art. It doesn't say anything political and in fact, that actual political statement it does say is: I'm a white man and I can do whatever the fuck I want and make a ton of money off of it.'"

Sulkowicz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Flynn is a "lifelong progressive Democrat" running in the Democratic primary to represent New York's 19th district. He established himself as a legitimate contender in the race after donating $500,000 to his own campaign.

His campaign website claims that America has a "disturbing culture of misogyny."

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