Clark secures County Family Court Judge
Parisi challenged the GOP incumbent Amedore during the primaries, but voters choose to keep their current representative of the New York State 105th Assembly District for the general election.
I very much appreciate and look forward to continuing to serve them all the way through November, said Amedore. `I’m not a career politician as my opponent tried to paint me as the people’s message is resonating.`
The unofficial primary election results as of election night are Amedore receiving 1,545 votes and Parisi receiving 827 votes, with 93 percent of districts reporting.
Amedore said people want government `off their back and out of their pockets,` so they can afford the way of life people deserve and want to live.
`I think tonight was a very strong showing in a primary that typically the turnout may not be very high, well, I think it was a little higher or average, but our supporters are very much behind us and my campaign to carry us through November.`
Besides now attaining the Republican ticket, he’s also obtained the Conservative and Independent nomination.
Parisi thought obtaining around a third of the votes was significant considering the short primary election cycle.
`I think having gone from 2 percent to a result of 35 percent is a pretty good result,` said Parisi. `It is a short election cycle after labor day you have about a week and half to get your message out.`
Paris also stood by his message that Albany still needs to change to serve the public better.
`I still think we need to bring change to Albany cause if we don’t I think the state is going to be in serious financial trouble,` said Parisi. `We need to bring a lot of change to Albany and one person is not going to do it.`
Unlike Amedore, Christine Clark doesn’t need to worry about the primary election, because there is no Republican nominee running and Clark already received the Independent, Conservative and Working Party nominations for the Schenectady County Family Court Judge position. Voters will have the option to write in a candidate for the general election.
`I’m very happy the Democrats decided to make me their family court judge,` said Clark. `I think it is a wonderful opportunity to help the people of Schenectady County. I’m looking forward to helping more families and more children in my role as Family Court Judge.`
Clark said she was confident in herself and her experience, but she worked hard knocking on doors and making calls to ensure voters would also be confident.
Clark received 3,270 votes and her opponent Bruce Trachtenberg received 1,243 votes according to Schenectady County Board of Elections’ unofficial results.
`I’m sorry that people did not get our message that was 30 years experience,` said Trachtenberg. `As I told my daughters, we did the best job we could and we have nothing to be ashamed of.`
Trachtenberg said he called Clark once most of the votes came in on election night to congratulate her on her victory and he said Clark would do a `fine job.`
The new voting machines introduced in Schenectady County during the primary might be removing some of the allure of voting as the level gets pulled and the curtains close.
`It would always kind of give me goose bumps when I would pull that level it is all gone now,` said Fred Lee, 63, of Schenectady. `When the curtains closed it gave you the sense that, no matter who you were, for a little moment you were inside government and you were making big decisions and when you would pull that lever it would make a loud clicking sound.`
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