![]() This was the last of the three candidate forums held for the Chief of Police position at IPD, following Acting Chief John Joly’s last week and Binghamton Police Department Captain Chris Bracco on Monday. Garin, who retired in March to take a job with the Ithaca College Police Department, spoke before a crowd of about 20 people in a forum led by GIAC Executive Director Leslyn McBean-Clairborne. That answer, said Cantelmo, is one of the reasons Riley has his support.Ĭantelmo said, “It’s not about looking at where one can place blame for any kind of outcome, irrespective of the race result.ITHACA, N.Y.-Another familiar name answered a raft of questions in the Greater Ithaca Activities Center (GIAC) gymnasium Tuesday evening, as retired Ithaca Police Department Lieutenant Scott Garin took the hot seat as he hopes to take the helm of his former department. “I choose to look at the positive things and draw lessons from those, and hopefully carry a lot of that forward,” said Riley. ![]() The big lesson his 2022 campaign came with was “the importance of a grassroots operation,” said Riley, but he did not express any criticism of Jacobs or the state Democratic Committee. Is Jacobs and an allegedly sleepy state Democratic party behind Riley’s loss? When asked what he thought, Riley said he was proud of his campaign, substantiating its robustness by saying that “as part of our get out the vote program, we had more volunteer shifts during the weekend before the election than any democratic challenger campaign in the entire country.” Fingers, particularly from the further left leaning Democrats, have pointed at New York State Democratic Committee Chair Jay Jacobs with the accusation that he has been an ineffective leader, and that the state party lacks organizing muster. Republicans’ strong 2022 performance in New York has led to infighting among state Democrats as they have tried to diagnose the cause of the GOP’s relative success in the Democrat dominated empire state. Cantelmo has made seeing Ithaca’s Reimagining Public Safety plan a plank of his platform. Riley said that Cantelmo “appreciates the nuances” of the issues around public safety. I am not going to defund my mom,” said Riley. She worked for decades in law enforcement. Speaking with The Ithaca Voice, Riley reprised his family’s law enforcement connections which became a staple of his TV ad campaigning. Riley, who says he is an advocate for community oriented policing and adequately resourcing police departments, has maintained that his views on criminal justice and public safety were misrepresented during the 2022 campaign. Either way, the messaging was difficult for Democrats to combat in New York. The GOP’s messaging on crime and criticisms of New York’s bail reforms, seemed to resonate with voters, or was a fear mongering tactic if you ask Riley and Cantelmo. While predictions of a “red wave” of Republican victories proved to be exaggerated nationally in 2022, Republicans did flip four seats in New York state with Molinaro being a candidate behind one of those wins. Molinaro, a moderate Republican who demonstrated during his 2022 campaign to be adept at navigating the fine lines between the centrists the GOP and the further right contingencies often associated with former president Donald Trump, has said that any opponent that goes against him will have to pry his seat from his “cold dead hands.” ![]() Eiss said that Riley’s campaign is now in a position to leverage strong relationships with local political networks across the 19th District. Riley’s campaign manager, Coby Eiss, told The Ithaca Voice that in his view the upheaval and uncertainty around redistricting in New York contributed to voter confusion in 2022, and likely to Molinaro’s victory. Having conversations with families from across the 19th District, Riley said that “whatever the issues are, the challenges are that they’re facing, you can draw a direct line from those challenges to the corrupting influence of corporate money in our politics.” ![]() Riley outraised Molinaro in the fight for the toss up seat, and has built his campaign on a strong message of working to fight corporate interests in Washington while trying to beat back attacks for being a corporate lawyer which tailed him during the 2022 midterms.
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