Geoff Kelly

Government and Politics Writer at Investigative Post

Writes about government and politics, and other things, for Investigative Post.

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Sean Ryan wins Buffalo mayoral primary

2 days ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

State Sen. Sean Ryan scored a resounding victory in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Buffalo mayor, beating Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon — his chief rival — by 11 percentage points. Ryan finished with over 46 percent of the vote in the five-way race, while the incumbent had just over 35 percent. The three other candidates — former fire commissioner Garnell Whitfield, University District Council Member Rasheed Wyatt and former Assembly staffer Anthony Tyson-Thompson — split the rest.
Sean Ryan handily wins Buffalo mayoral primary

2 days ago | niagara-gazette.com | Geoff Kelly

State Sen. Sean Ryan beat Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon in yesterday’s Democratic primary by about 11 percentage points — nearly 3,000 votes. I thought it would be closer. So did Ryan’s campaign team. There are provisional ballots still to be counted, but not enough to change the results. kAm(6’== AC@G:56 2? 2?2=JD:D @7 E96 C246 2?5 H92E G@E6CD D2J >@E:G2E65 E96> E9:D 27E6C?@@? @? @FC H63D:E6] qFE 96C6’D 2 76H E9:?8D E@ <?@H 23@FE 9@H :E 3C@<6 5@H?ik^Am kAm• #J2?
Sean Ryan wins Buffalo mayoral primary

3 days ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

News and analysis by Geoff Kelly, Investigative Post's political reporter State Sen. Sean Ryan beat Acting Mayor Chris Scanlon in yesterday’s Democratic primary by about 11 percentage points — nearly 3,000 votes. I thought it would be closer. So did Ryan’s campaign team. There are provisional ballots still to be counted, but not enough to change the results. We’ll provide an analysis of the race and what voters say motivated them this afternoon on our website.
Buffalo election for mayor a $2 million affair

1 week ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

News and analysis by Geoff Kelly, Investigative Post's political reporter Next Tuesday’s Democratic primary election for Buffalo mayor is already a $2 million affair, as of the most recent campaign finance disclosures, with a weekend of TV and radio spots, phone banks, social media ads and mailers still to come. That figure doesn’t count independent expenditures — money spent by political committees unaffiliated with, but supporting, a one candidate or another.
Podcast: Profiling 5 candidates for Buffalo mayor

1 week ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

There’s just one week left until the Democratic primary fro Buffalo mayor, the marquee race this election season. In the last month, Investigative Post’s government and politics reporter, Geoff Kelly, profiled four of the five candidates on the ballot: state Sen. Sean Ryan, University District Council Member Rasheed Wyatt, former Assembly staffer Anthony Tyson-Thompson and former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield.
Podcast: Profiling 5 candidates for Buffalo mayor

1 week ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

There’s just one week left until the Democratic primary fro Buffalo mayor, the marquee race this election season. In the last month, Investigative Post’s government and politics reporter, Geoff Kelly, profiled four of the five candidates on the ballot: state Sen. Sean Ryan, University District Council Member Rasheed Wyatt, former Assembly staffer Anthony Tyson-Thompson and former Buffalo Fire Commissioner Garnell Whitfield.
Profile: Buffalo mayoral candidate Garnell Whitfield

2 weeks ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

Garnell Whitfield at his Dec. 3, 2024 ,mayoral campaign launch. Photo by Nate Peracinny. Garnell Whitfield, the former fire commissioner, has specific ideas about what he’d do if elected mayor of Buffalo — about city finances, overtime costs, the shortage of affordable housing, and a host of other issues. But those policy positions aren’t the platform on which he’s built his campaign.
Profile: Buffalo mayoral candidate Anthony Tyson-Thompson

2 weeks ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

Mayor candidate Anthony Tyson-ThompsonAnthony Tyson-Thompson is to many voters the least familiar of the five candidates running in the June 24 Democratic primary for Buffalo mayor. He was the last candidate to join the field, skipping the party’s months-long endorsement process and announcing his candidacy in mid-April, just two weeks before nominating petitions were due. His campaign is largely self-funded, he said, and it shows.
Political profile of Buffalo mayoral candidate Rasheed Wyatt.

2 weeks ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

Rasheed Wyatt in Council chambers. There is a consistent theme in University District Council Member Rasheed Wyatt’s solutions to almost every ailment and policy question confronting Buffalo and its government. Ask the people what they want, he says. And then do what they tell you to do. In an hour-long interview with Investigative Post, Wyatt — one of five Democrats competing in the June 24 primary for Buffalo mayor — invoked “the people” and their wishes no fewer than a dozen times.
Buffalo mayoral candidate Sean Ryan's stance on the issues

3 weeks ago | investigativepost.org | Geoff Kelly

State Sen. Sean Ryan at a May 30 press conference in Lafayette Square. This is the second of two stories on mayoral hopeful Sean Ryan. On Tuesday we published a political profile. Sean Ryan doesn’t lack for ideas on how to fix what he sees as dysfunction in City Hall and the impact it has had on neighborhoods across Buffalo. “We can’t do the basics. We’re not delivering basic services for our people. And that’s not even scratching the surface on our systemic problems,” he told Investigative Post.