plans for an immigration detention center<\/a> at Rochester\u2019s federal building.<\/p>\n\u201cI think it’s so inappropriate to put a detention center in that building,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can stop one detention center,\u201d said Morelle\u2019s opponent, Sherita Traywick. \u201cBut what happens in the rest of the country? Children are still going to be detained. Innocent people that are working are still going to be detained. We have to fix the system.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a relative newcomer to politics, Traywick isn\u2019t shy about getting her message out and taking on an incumbent.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m grateful for his service,\u201d said Traywick. \u201cI just think that we have a president in office right now that requires a different kind of leadership. We need bold, we need fresh ideas. We need people that are going to be willing to make the other side work with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
She adds that the economy and affordability are top priorities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s no Democrat price. There’s no Republican price. All the groceries are too expensive,\u201d Traywick said. \u201cAnd so, you start to think about, well, what are the reasons that are driving those costs up? One, we’re in a war that hasn’t even been sanctioned by Congress. It’s an illegal war. We need to get out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve never been somebody who has been beholden to the Democratic establishment and the powers that be,\u201d said opponent Robin Wilt.<\/p>\n
Wilt is a former local school board member.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m running because I think that, especially at this time, we need leadership that is meeting this moment in history,\u201d said Wilt. \u201cRight now, we have an executive branch that is targeting certain people in our communities. We have immigration fairness is not a thing right now. And I think that we need to make sure that we are all assured our equal rights and due process is under the law.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilt says she will focus on healthcare, economic justice and justice and equality.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that we need somebody who is going to lead boldly on the issues of equal protection under the law, on the issues,\u201d Wilt said. \u201cAnd, right now, we don’t have a champion in the seat who is actually doing all of those things.\u201d<\/p>\n
The winner will face the Republican candidate in the race, Virginia McIntyre, in the general election in November.<\/p>\n
New York’s primary elections will be held on June 23. Early voting runs from June 13-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCHESTER, N.Y. \u2014 It’s a three-way race this year in the effort to win the Democratic primary in…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":855987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,327,25223,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,43431,5227,80,879,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284,196568],"class_list":["post-855986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-congress","tag-decision-2026","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-rochester","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-vod","tag-wendy-wright"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116722301038599959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/855987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}