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syracuse mayoral race 2017
Poll: Walsh leads Perez Williams Poll released Sunday shows Walsh has edge over Perez Williams By Jordan Muller asst. news editor
Syracuse mayoral candidate Ben Walsh is leading competitor Juanita Perez Williams by two percentage points, according to a poll released Sunday by Spectrum News/Syracuse.com/Siena College. Walsh’s lead falls within the poll’s 4.3 percent margin of error, meaning he and Perez Williams are roughly tied with two days left in the 2017 mayoral race. According to the poll, 36 percent of likely voters would cast their ballots for Walsh, an independent candidate. The poll found 34 percent would vote for Perez Williams, a Democrat. The previous poll, released in midOctober, showed Perez Williams with a 7 percent lead over Walsh.
Seneca Falls, New York is known as the birthplace of American feminism. The small upstate town was host to the first largescale meetings for women’s suffrage in the United States. hieu nguyen staff photographer
NY women continue fight for equality after suffrage
Event to celebrate 100 years of women’s suffrage in NY
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n 1848, at the birthplace of American feminism in Seneca Falls — a town 50 minutes west of Syracuse — a network of women legitimized the women’s suffrage movement, which would eventually grant white women the right to vote. It’d take 72 years after the Seneca Falls Convention for women across the country to receive the right to vote through the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Women in New York state were granted the right 100 years ago, on Nov. 6, 1917, while the struggle to obtain the right raged on in other parts of the country. Today, women’s movements appear different than in the 20th century, but the motivating issues are largely the same. Women demanded equal rights in the United States for decades before the 19th Amendment was ratified and are still demanding equality today. A century after New York women got the vote, American women still struggle to maintain health care and reproductive rights, face sexual assault and abuse and receive unequal pay in the workforce. When Syracuse University was founded in 1870, Jesse Peck, the first Board of Trustees chairman,
atilda Joslyn Gage, a suffragist who Sally Wagner said was “written out of history,” will be among the activists celebrated Monday night at an event commemorating the centennial of women’s right to vote in New York state. Wagner is the executive director of the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation, which will benefit from Monday’s “100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in NYS Celebration,” along with the YWCA of Syracuse and Onondaga County. The celebration will be held at the Palace Theatre from 5-9 p.m., and profits from the event will go to the foundation and YWCA. As a prominent suffragist who lived from 1826 to 1898, Gage believed the women’s suffrage movement was more than attaining the right to vote, Wagner said. Gage thought women were under fourfold oppression by religion, capitalism, a male-dominated society and the government, Wagner said. To Gage, voting was an important tool to transform those parts of society and fight for gender equity. In “Woman, Church and State,” a book Gage wrote in 1893, she discussed the importance
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Percentage of voters who would likely cast ballots for independent Ben Walsh, according to the poll
Both candidates continue to hold double-digit leads ahead of Republican Laura Lavine and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins. Of likely voters, 7 percent would vote for Lavine and 5 percent would vote for Hawkins, according to the poll. Joe Nicoletti, who ended his campaign in September after losing the Democratic primary to Perez Williams, would receive 6 percent of the vote, the poll shows. Twelve percent of the poll’s 620 respondents were undecided. Republican support for Walsh jumped about 10 percentage points since the last poll. Roughly half of likely voters who would cast ballots for Walsh are Republicans. Two-thirds of likely voters said they view Walsh favorably, compared to about half who said the same of Perez Williams. The Democrat’s unfavorability rating among likely voters rose about 10 percent in the last month. Walsh’s rating rose 3 percent. Respondents said the city’s two most important issues are crime and public safety and jobs and the economy. About half of respondents said they believed Syracuse is heading in the wrong direction. jmulle01@syr.edu