DeWitt, NY -- Onondaga County Republican Committee members are casting a second round of ballots trying to choose the party's new chairman. Out of a field of four, only Thomas Dadey and Bill Tassone made it to the run-off ballot out-going part Chairman John DiSpirito announced around 9:30 p.m. Former County Legislator Jim DeBlasi and Manlius Republican Town Committee Chairman...
DeWitt, NY -- Onondaga County Republican Committee members are casting a second round of ballots trying to choose the party's new chairman.
Out of a field of four, only Thomas Dadey and Bill Tassone made it to the run-off ballot out-going part Chairman John DiSpirito announced around 9:30 p.m.
Former County Legislator Jim DeBlasi and Manlius Republican Town Committee Chairman Len Manfrates were eliminated after the first ballot.
In speaches, candidates pledged to raise more money, recruit stronger candidates and reach out to younger voters.
Today's votes take place with the backdrop of a split between DiSpirito and Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney.
Speakers mostly skirted the issue of the split, but in on-one-one discussions committee members readily identified Dadey with Mahoney and Tassone with DiSpirto.
In making a nominating speach for Tassone, former Assemblyman William Sanford called for unity. "I want peace in the party," he said.
Contact Charles McChesney at cmcchesney@syracuse.com.