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While neither has served in public office, Brown and Moodie explained how their unique backgrounds can translate into representing voters in the county.
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Kevin Munger and Maurice Brown participated in the “Gen Z and the Future of Politics” panel on Monday.
Before Maurice "Mo" Brown began calling family and friends asking them to support his campaign for Onondaga County Legislature, he received donations.
Cindy Schultz State Sen. Rachel May never planned to run for office, and when she finally did, she didn’t expect to win. The Syracuse resident spent her entire career in higher education, while dabbling in progressive political activism. But she decided to challenge seven-term incumbent state Sen. David Valesky in 2018 because he belonged to the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of Democrats that caucused with Republicans. Despite a deal that reunified the IDC with the mainline Democrats in April 2018, May was one of six successful challengers to the eight ex-IDC members and the...