Joanie Mahoney spent a busy day Wednesday on her trail to the Onondaga County executive's seat, appointing new members to her transition team, announcing a way for residents to give that team ideas, and meeting for the first time since her election with Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll.
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As Republican Joanie Mahoney gets ready to take over as Onondaga County Executive, she will need a transition team to get her ideas off the ground.
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On Nov. 6, the voters of Onondaga County spoke clearly about their desire to move our community in a new direction. Thank you for electing me county executive.
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Throughout her campaign it was a theme. Joanie Mahoney said she would bring together the best and the brightest to fuel her new administration with ideas. Now, as her transition team takes shape, she says she's done that.
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Onondaga County Executive-elect Joanie Mahoney tapped two familiar names Wednesday to serve as honorary chairs of her transition team: the current county executive, Nicholas Pirro, and former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young.
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Joanie Mahoney will become the first woman to hold Onondaga County's top political post as she handily defeated Bill Magnarelli on Tuesday in the race for county executive.
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Republican Joanie Mahoney had a lead in the race for Onondaga County Executive from the time the first results were reported Tuesday, and ended the night as the winner.
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Her own party didn't side with her at first. Her challenger was an experienced politician, but those things didn't matter. Joanie Mahoney was victorious.
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It was a night for celebration. Two years after a disappointing loss in a race for mayor of Syracuse, Joanie Mahoney was able to deliver a victory speech, this time in a battle for the job of Onondaga County Executive.
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As we mentioned, Nicholas Pirro is stepping down after more than two decades as County Executive. He was at the republican headquarters watching those votes add up for fellow republican Joanie Mahoney. He says the former trial lawyer brings an enthusiasm that resonates with voters.
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Tuesday, Joanie became executive-elect by defeating Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli, her Democratic rival. She ran, she said, because she has a vision for the region.
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Joanie Mahoney on Thursday released the third part of her "Opportunity Agenda," a plan the Republican candidate for Onondaga County executive called a new approach toward helping companies create jobs and promote growth.
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Young or old, male or female, city resident or county, if you were a likely Onondaga County voter called by a survey researcher last weekend for The Post-Standard, you were more likely to be ready to elect Joanie Mahoney the next county executive than Bill Magnarelli.
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Joanie Mahoney, the Republican running for Onondaga County executive, was endorsed today by Syracuse Tomorrow, the political action committee of the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce.
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Mahoney released the second part of her own economic development plan, focusing on new efforts to ease crime problems and to improve the quality of life in the county.
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The republican candidate for Onondaga County Executive says the key step toward economic revitalization in the region is dependent on lowering property taxes.
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Forgoing a court challenge he said he thought he could win, Dale Sweetland instead conceded defeat Wednesday to Joanie Mahoney in the Republican primary for Onondaga County executive.
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One extra nursing home visit. A few more hands grasped at a Clinton Square festival. One last block of doors knocked on late on a Saturday night.
All of these any of these and more could have provided the difference Tuesday as Joanie Mahoney declared herself the victor by a razor-thin margin over Dale Sweetland in the Republican primary for Onondaga County executive.
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Dale Sweetland claimed all three absentee ballots remaining in the Republican primary for Onondaga County executive but that wasn't enough to propel him past Joanie Mahoney.
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The Onondaga County Board of Elections has counted the last of the absentee ballots in the Republican primary battle for Onondaga County Executive.
Joanie Mahoney held on to win the race with an unofficial margin of 21 votes over the party's designated candidate, Dale Sweetland.
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She stopped short of declaring victory, but Joanie Mahoney said Friday she planned to take her newly diminished 24-vote lead in the Republican county executive primary on the campaign trail this weekend.
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The results are in for primary races throughout Central and Northern New York. The biggest races in the Syracuse area are for Onondaga County Executive. And the results don't get much closer than this.
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Joanie Mahoney campaign volunteers Sharon and Jim Mullen and Thomas "Cal" Callahan snagged the best table in the room at Pascale's Wine Bar & Restaurant.
The table sat just in front of the big-screen TV that nearly every eyeball in the room fixated on for the better part of 30 minutes. A crowd, including Mahoney's father, Bernard Mahoney, campaign staffers and volunteers, formed a semi-circle around the table as they watched the numbers come in.
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Joanie Mahoney, who challenged the designated Republican candidate for Onondaga County executive, held a slim lead Tuesday night in a race that was too close to call.
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Joanie Mahoney and Bill Magnarelli came out of Tuesday's primaries leading their races for Onondaga County executive, but a lot of absentee ballots remain to be counted before the lineup for the Nov. 6 general election is official.
In the Republican primary, Mahoney, a former Syracuse councilor, clung to a 129-vote lead over Legislature Chairman Dale Sweetland, the GOP county committee's designee, in unofficial returns.
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Republican candidate for county executive Joanie Mahoney stopped by St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church parish center in Onondaga Hill at 12:10 p.m. today to cast her vote in the Republican primary.
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Will Onondaga County Republicans uphold their county committee's choice and make Dale Sweetland their candidate for county executive, or will they cast him aside for challenger Joanie Mahoney?
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All four candidates for Onondaga County executive promise to create change.
But of the quartet, Joanie Mahoney most looks like change. At 42, the former Syracuse common councilor is a generation younger than her opponent in the GOP primary, Dale Sweetland, and the two Democrats ¬ Bill Magnarelli and Ed Ryan.
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The candidates were only on stage a few moments before Dale Sweetland reminded voters that he's the one who has the backing of the man who county voters elected five times to the post he and Mahoney want.
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Discussion of lower taxes, economic development and consolidation of government services dominated two separate Onondaga County executive debates filmed at Time Warner Cable studios Monday afternoon.
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If Joanie Mahoney is elected Onondaga County executive, she would designate a small-business specialist to help out-of-town entrepreneurs relocate here and aid homegrown startup firms, the candidate said Wednesday.
Mahoney said the specialist would gather information from public and private agencies that do economic development in the county - her campaign staff identified 91 of them.
The specialist then would become the point person to help small-business owners find sites, incentives and workers, locate training programs, get marketing advice, tap business expertise, wade through zoning and permitting and otherwise cut through red tape, she said.
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All four of the candidates running for Onondaga County Executive are talking about steps to ease the property tax burden. At least two, republican Dale Sweetland and democrat Edward Ryan, have called for a cut in overall taxes to reflect a county surplus. The other republican in the race, Joanie Mahoney, has a new targeted tax proposal. News 10 Now's Bill Carey has the details.
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The race for Onondaga County executive is going to be a clean contest concentrating on the issues - at least if Joanie Mahoney gets her way.
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As might be expected, the bill of fare at the Civil Service Employees Association's "No Berger" picnic Monday at Van Duyn Home & Hospital featured only frankfurters as the main course.
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Workers at Van Duyn Home and Hospital concerned about the Berger Commission recommendations even banned burgers from the menu, sticking to hotdogs all around.
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Around 75 CSEA Union workers listened to the four candidates running for Onondaga County Executive. Republicans Dale Sweetland and Joanie Mahoney along with democrats Bill Magnarelli and Ed Ryan fielded questions from the audience.
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June 13th - Political Notebook from the Post Standard
Van Duyn Home & Hospital will remain an Onondaga County-owned nursing home if she's elected county executive, Joanie Mahoney said Wednesday.
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Candidates and their volunteers have collected blank petition forms that they'll begin circulating over a six-week period, gathering the signatures they need to qualify a candidate.
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It seems as though just about everyone was surprised at County Exec Nick Pirro's decision to step down when his four-year term ends this year. Neither party seemed to have an heir apparent, and it may take months before we know who is definitely running in November.» read more
As recently as 1970, a Supreme Court in New York state used this language in De Kosenko vs. Brandt, a decision which upheld the exclusion of women from jury service: “Her lament should be addressed to the ‘19th Amendment State of Womanhood’ which prefers cleaning and cooking, rearing of children and television soap operas, bridge and canasta, the beauty parlor and shopping, to becoming embroiled in plaintiff’s problems.”
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Joanie Mahoney officially entered the race for Onondaga County executive Thursday, promising a fresh approach to county government and an old-fashioned, grass-roots campaign against fellow Republican Dale Sweetland.
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Joanie Mahoney officially announced she will run for Onondaga County Executive Thursday afternoon. The decision by the former Syracuse Mayoral candidate sets up a primary in the Republican Party. In April, the G.O.P. announced they would back Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Dale Sweetland in the race.
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For its entire 45-year existence, the position of Onondaga County executive has always gone to the candidate designated by the county Republican Committee.
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Republican committee members meet next week to decide who they think should succeed longtime incumbent Nicholas Pirro. Former Syracuse Common Councilor Joanie Mahoney is pressing hard for support, saying it's time for a fresh face in county government.
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Neither Dale Sweetland nor Joanie Mahoney will know if they're the designated Republican candidate for Onondaga County executive until next week, but both GOP hopefuls have already taken their campaigns to the Internet.
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Onondaga County Legislator Sam Laguzza has joined the pack of Democrats mulling a run for Onondaga County executive this year, widening the field of candidates hoping to become the first Democrat to run county government.
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Onondaga County voters are more inclined to elect a Democrat as Onondaga County executive than a Republican, according to a recent poll commissioned by Joanie Mahoney, one of two Republicans running for the county's top elected post.
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Nicholas Pirro stood before a bank of microphones for the 20th time as county executive. Many expected a summary of two decades in leadership. Instead, Pirro focused on 10 months still left to serve.
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Take away a popular incumbent republican county executive, add the potential for a bruising nomination fight between two prominent republicans, and then add the fact that democrats continue to narrow a gap in voter registration with the Republican Party.
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A battle is shaping up for the republican nomination for Onondaga County Executive. The incumbent, Nicholas Pirro, announced last Friday that he will not run for another term.
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