CSEA, the union that represents many state and local public employees in Livingston County has decided not to make an endorsement in this year’s hotly contested Geneseo Town Supervisor’s race. Only two of the four candidates, incumbent Wes Kennison and Republican Will Wadsworth, returned CSEA’s questionaire and participated in interviews with the union.
Both Bob Wilcox and I neglected to get the questionaire back in time and therefore were not scheduled for an interview. There was a fairly short response time and we both just lost track of it.
Four years ago, the union endorsed incumbent Wes Kennison in his bid for a second term. This time around, however, Kennison’s loss of the Democratic Party nomination and acceptance of a spot on the Conservative party line may have hurt him.
The union did endorse Democrat Ron Niedermaier in his challenge to Groveland Supervisor and Chairman of the Livingston County Board of Supervisors Jim Merrick. The union also took out a large ad in this week’s LC News with a chart showing which candidates for Supervisor returned the questionaires and participated in the interviews. The ad makes no mention of any endorsements, but those were received in a fax from the union’s Buffalo office.
