Sunday, November 15, 2009

S-U College Democrats Celebrate Miner's Victory

November 4, 2009

For the Syracuse University College Democrats (right), Stephanie Miner’s Syracuse mayoral election victory is something to take pride in. The student organization spent the first two months of this semester actively campaigning for Miner, President Kyle Rapone said at Miner’s Election Night party at the University Sheraton.

“From the very get go, we canvassed for her, phone banked, did everything we can to put her over the top,” Rapone said. “Almost every single weekend we’d get a bunch of students and go door to door and remind people to vote and tell them if they don’t want to vote for Stephanie, why they should.”

Miner’s campaign manager, Dan McNally, noted how important their efforts were to the campaign.

“They took the initiative to reach out to the campaign, they formed their own political PAC, they organized themselves, they folded in seamlessly with our operation,” McNally said. “I can’t stress how much they have been helpful to us.”

After Miner’s victory speech at the Sheraton, the handful of College Democrats at the reception cheered and looked forward to working with her during her term as mayor.

“I’m ecstatic,” Rapone said. “All of our hard work, all of our volunteers’ hard work, paid off. I really think she’s going to bring Syracuse back to where it should be. Whenever she needs anything, we’ll be there.”

“I think she’s going to do an amazing job and I have total confidence in her,” College Democrats State Representative Emily Becker said. “I hope the College Democrats are able to work with her in the future.”

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