There’s one fewer candidate running for Rochester City Council as of the weekend.
Rochester LGBTQ activist Scotty Ginett has dropped out of the race for a Democratic council nomination and thrown his support to Matt Juda. Ginett says there’s been a gay member of City Council since the 1980s when Rochester elected the first openly gay elected official in New York State. He says that community needs to continue its representation on the council.
Ginett had been running behind Juda in committee designations so far, and decided the handwriting was on the wall.
There are more than a dozen Democrats still trying for five at-large seats on council.