{"id":94967,"date":"2018-06-06T09:26:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T13:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=94967"},"modified":"2018-06-06T09:26:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T13:26:28","slug":"madison-county-democratic-committee-endorses-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=94967","title":{"rendered":"Madison County Democratic Committee endorses candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93618\" style=\"width: 114px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-93618\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Melissa-Stearns-114x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Melissa-Stearns-114x150.jpeg 114w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Melissa-Stearns-228x300.jpeg 228w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Melissa-Stearns-685x900.jpeg 685w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Melissa-Stearns-400x525.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Melissa-Stearns.jpeg 826w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Stearns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_62276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62276\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-62276\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/valesky-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-62276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David J. Valesky<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93726\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93726\" style=\"width: 104px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-93726\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Butterman-104x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Butterman-104x150.jpg 104w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Butterman-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Butterman.jpg 324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 104px) 100vw, 104px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dan Buttermann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_33907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33907\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-33907\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Magee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Madison County Democratic Committee endorses candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Madison County Democratic Committee has endorsed Melissa Stearns, New York State Supreme Court\u00a0Sixth Judicial District justice candidate, and Sen. David J. Valesky, candidate for the New York State\u2019s 53rd\u00a0Senate District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth candidates received the overwhelming support of the committee,\u201d said Chairman Mike Oot. \u201cThey are dedicated public servants who will represent Madison County well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stearns has been the principal law clerk for Don Cerio, acting Supreme Court justice for the Sixth\u00a0Judicial District, for the past 10 years. Prior to the Supreme Court, Stearns worked as a prosecutor in the Madison County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Valesky was first elected to the state Senate in 2004. The 53rd District comprises all of Madison County and\u00a0parts of Oneida and Onondaga counties, including the majority of the city of Syracuse.<\/p>\n<p>Two candidates for the state 121st\u00a0Assembly District also spoke to the committee: incumbent Bill Magee, who was first elected to the Assembly in 1990, and Dan Butterman of Oneonta. The committee did not make an endorsement for the Assembly seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison County Democratic Committee endorses candidates The Madison County Democratic Committee has endorsed Melissa Stearns, New York State Supreme Court\u00a0Sixth Judicial District justice candidate, and Sen. David J. Valesky, candidate for the New York State\u2019s 53rd\u00a0Senate District. \u201cBoth candidates received the overwhelming support of the committee,\u201d said Chairman Mike Oot. \u201cThey are dedicated public servants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}