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TexasTowelie

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Thu Sep 15, 2016, 08:32 AM Sep 2016

GOP picks Bill Nojay's replacement for Nov. 8 election

Former state Assemblyman Joseph Errigo will replace Bill Nojay on the Republican line in November for a Rochester-area seat.

Errigo was selected by Republican leaders in the 133rd Assembly District, which covers parts of Monroe, Steuben and Livingston counties. The unusual selection process came after Nojay killed himself last Friday, just four days before the primary.

Nojay's challenger, Honeoye Falls Mayor Richard Milne, did not want the Nov. 8 slot, the Democrat & Chronicle reported.

Nojay was facing a fraud trial in Cambodia and reportedly under FBI scrutiny when he went to his family's cemetery plot in Rochester and shot himself in front of an arriving police officer last Friday, the Associated Press reported.

Read more: http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2016/09/gop_picks_bill_nojays_replacement_for_nov_8_election.html

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GOP picks Bill Nojay's replacement for Nov. 8 election (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP
I live around here, did not know of his suicide, and, pangaia Sep 2016 #1

pangaia

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1. I live around here, did not know of his suicide, and,
Thu Sep 15, 2016, 08:39 AM
Sep 2016

without wishing to speak ill of the recently departed, must say the guy was a disaster as a representative of the people he, well, claimed to represent. One of the worst in recent memory.

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