AUGUSTA, GA (WFXG) - Senator Jen Jordan continues her campaign tour and made a stop in Augusta. Meeting with the Richmond County Democrats and later holding a meet and greet at the River Place Condomi
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A Staten Island race mired in conflict suggests that the civility expected to accompany the new ranked choice voting system is already giving way to old-school, hardball New York politics.
In theory, the system, in which voters rank up to five candidates in order of preference, takes away the motivation for negative campaigning so hopefuls can appeal to as many citizens as possible.
So when Lorie Honor’s Staten Island borough president campaign began circulating a non-aggression pact calling on her four fellow Democrats to pledge not to challenge each other’s petitions, she thought it was a “no brainer.”