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Post-convention, Latimer takes county exec. nomination By COREY STOCKTON Staff Writer After a delayed nominating process, the Westchester County Democratic Party announced today that state Sen. George Latimer has secured the party’s official backing in the county executive race this fall. Latimer, if the party’s leaders have their way, will now go on to challenge two-term, incumbent County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican. Two days after county Democratic officials held a nearly sixhour-long convention on Wednesday, May 10, to nominate its slate of candidates for the November election, party leaders reconvened on Friday, May 12 at county Board of Elections headquarters in White Plains to count the votes between Latimer and county Legislator Ken Jenkins, of Yonkers. Latimer, 63, who announced his candidacy in April, received 71 percent of the convention vote of local
committee district leaders to Jenkins 29 percent. After handily securing his party’s backing, Latimer reflected on previous campaign challenges, and honed in on uniting the Democratic Party, a message he also focused on during his convention speech. “Through all of those things, I’ve persevered; and I’m going to continue persevere and look forward to November,” Latimer told the Review after officially receiving the nomination. “Amongst Democrats, we’re all brothers even if we disagree.” But which Democrat will ultimately run against Astorino in November remains undecided at this point, as Jenkins confirmed that he plans to primary Latimer for the right to represent Democrats in the general election. Jenkins, 55, has consistently called for the registered Democratic voters of Westchester to be have their say instead of party officials through the normal nominating
Voters OK $100.5M school budget By FRANCO FINO Staff Writer
process. Jenkins has said since he entered the race in August 2016 that he would take the nomination to a primary election if he did not get the party’s backing after the convention. “The convention is not at all a reflection of everyday Americans, of everyday voters,” he said in a statement before the votes were tallied. “And if we have learned anything from the Trump era, it’s that all Democrats should be involved— not less.” LATIMER continued on page 8
Registered voters in the Harrison Central School District overwhelmingly approved the 2017-2018 school district budget that calls for several capital improvements and preserves all current programs. According to the school district’s clerk, Christine Beitler, voters approved the $100.5 million budget with an unofficial tally of 1,395 voting in favor of it and 264 against the proposal on Tuesday. “We’re extremely pleased with the outcome of the budget vote,” said Superintendent of Schools Dr. Louis Wool. “We spent a considerable amount of time in the com-
munity sharing the information and clearly the message was understood and well-received.” While increasing spending by $1.96 million over the current year’s budget, the approved proposal preserves all current programs and adds a total of 6.9 academic-based positions amongst a few other roles for extracurricular activities. One full-time position will be added at Louis M. Klein Middle School for music, art, physical education and the English as a New Language program, ENL, which offers non-native speakers the opportunity to improve their English
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