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Holding New York's Re-Election-Seeking D.A.s Accountable --
& Testing the Fitness of the Very Few D.A. Candidates Challenging
Them
2024 ERIE COUNTY D.A. ELECTION
Board of Elections
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GUIDE FOR ERIE COUNTY "LOCAL JOURNALISM"
Erie County (8JD)
(4th
Judicial Dept)
2020 population: 951,232
& 2022 median household income: $68,014
Erie County D.A.'s salary interests
impacting on his duty to Erie County & its taxpayers
D.A. salary, statutorily-linked to Supreme Court judge salary:
$232,600
Incumbent DA Flynn stepped down March 31, 2024 to join law firm
Acting D.A. Michael Keane (D,
WF) --
no primaries
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James Gardner (R) (C) --
no primaries
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1.
CJA's July 18, 2024 NOTICE
& grand jury/public corruption complaint to
Acting D.A. Keane --
"Your
D.A. salary increases, the judicial salary increases on which they
are based,
and the violations of New York’s penal laws by state legislators and
others within your geographic jurisdictions, established by CJA’s
February 23, 2024 grand jury/public corruption complaint to Albany
County D.A. Soares
that he has been 'sitting on'”
2.
July 19, 2024 facebook message to Candidate Gardner
July 21, 2024 facebook message to Candidate Gardner
cc: to Acting D.A. Keane
CJA's July 24, 2024 e-mail to Candidate Gardner --
"Winning Your Erie D.A. Race & Demonstrating Your Fitness for the
Office:
NOTICE & Grand Jury/Public Corruption Complaint"
3.
OUTREACH TO "LOCAL JOURNALISM"
cc: to Candidates Keane & Gardner
CJA's August 8, 2024 e-mail to Buffalo News --
"YOUR 2024 ELECTIONS REPORTING:
Erie County D.A. Candidates Keane & Gardner --
& Erie County's 13 re-election-seeking state legislative incumbents,
etc."
cc: to Candidates Keane & Gardner
CJA's August 8, 2024 e-mail to WBFO --
"YOUR 2024 ELECTIONS REPORTING --
Erie County D.A. Candidates Keane & Gardner --
& Erie County's 13 re-election-seeking state legislative incumbents,
etc."
cc: to Candidates Keane & Gardner
CJA's August 8, 2024 e-mail to Investigative Post --
"YOUR 2024 ELECTIONS REPORTING:
Erie County D.A. Candidates Keane & Gardner --
& Erie County's 13 re-election-seeking state legislative incumbents,
etc."
cc: to Candidates Keane & Gardner
CJA's August 28, 2024 e-mail to Spectrum News --
"INFORMING THE VOTERS:
Erie County's D.A. Candidates Keane & Gardner,
its 15 State Legislators, 4 Uncontested for Re-Election
& its 4 Uncontested Supreme Court Judgeships"
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4.
MORE OUTREACH TO "LOCAL JOURNALISM" --
now occasioned by their reporting
A.
CJA's October 13, 2024 e-mail to WGRZ/News Channel 2 --
"Your Oct 11 & Oct 3 'WGRZ On Your Side' Investigative Reports --
& the deceit & manipulation of you & the public
by BOTH D.A. Candidate Gardner & Acting D.A. Keane"
October 3, 2024
"Acting
DA Keane speaks about DWI arrest from 1985"
WGRZ-2 (Charlie Specht, Sean Mickey)
October 11, 2024
"Gardner
D.A. campaign criticized for misleading attack ad"
WGRZ-2 (Charlie
Specht, Sean Mickey)
CJA's October 20, 2024 e-mail to WGRZ --
URGENT: Your Oct 11 & Oct 3 "WGRZ On Your Side" Investigative
Reports -
& the deceit & manipulation of you & the public by BOTH D.A.
Candidate Gardner
& Acting D.A. Keane
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B.
CJA's October 21, 2024 e-mail to WKBW/News Channel 7 --
"Your news broadcast 'Gardner for Erie County DA campaign
criticized for misleading attack ad'”
(cc to WGRZ)
October 16, 2024
"Gardner
for Erie County DA criticized for misleading attack ad"
WKBW-News Channel 7-WABC (Michael Wooten,
with News 7 Political Analyst Robert McCarthy)
prior:
"Discussing
the race for Erie County District Attorney" --
Michael Wooten, with
News 7 Political Analyst McCarthy
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C.
CJA's October 22, 2024 e-mail to WBEN --
"Follow up to your today's article
'Zeroing in on race for Erie County District Attorney' (WBEN/Brayton
Wilson),
extensively quoting SUNY/Buffalo Asst. Political Professor Shawn
Donahue"
(cc to Donahue, WGRZ, WKBW)
October 22, 2024
"Zeroing
on the race for Erie County District Attorney" & here
WBEN (Brayton Wilson) posted
on X
WBEN Radio/website -- facebook
Shawn Donohue/SUNY/Buffalo Center
for Information Integrity website
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D.
CJA's October 23, 2024 e-mail to Buffalo News |