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	<title>Artvoice Daily &#187; Common Council</title>
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		<title>If Holt Had to Go, So Does Davis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/14/if-holt-had-to-go-so-does-davis/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/14/if-holt-had-to-go-so-does-davis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the letter Erie County Attorney Larry Rubin wrote to Legislature Chair Lynn Marinelli in January 2007 after Legislator Butch Holt plead guilty to tax evasion charges:
January 24, 2007

VIA HAND DELIVERY
Hon. Lynn M. Marinelli, Chairperson
Erie County Legislature
92 Franklin Street, 4th Floor
Buffalo, New York 14202
Dear Madame Chairperson:
It is my duty to formally advise you that, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Davis and the Public Officers Law</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/13/davis-and-the-public-officers-law/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/13/davis-and-the-public-officers-law/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m told the Common Council President Dave Franczyk has asked city attorneys for a ruling on whether the guilty plea offered in court today by Ellicott District Councilmember Brian Davis vacates his office.
As you may recall, former Erie County Legislator Butch Holt lost his seat upon pleading guilty to misdemeanor tax evasion charges in 2006, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Question for Brian Davis</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/06/question-for-brian-davis/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/06/question-for-brian-davis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Davis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an anonymous commenter left this note on the long-abandoned blog of  Ellicott District Councilman Brian Davis:

  Anonymous said&#8230;

November 05, 2009
How could you?


Good question.


Related posts (automatically generated):Brian Davis: No on Domestic Partnership BenefitsBrian Davis UpdateBrian Davis! On Facebook!]]></description>
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		<title>Man vs. Machine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/05/man-vs-machine/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/05/man-vs-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[red light cameras]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Redflex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[According to a source in City Hall, the push for red light cameras has lost momentum since the home-rule measure was passed in Albany and approved by the Common Council this past spring.
Since then, one traffic surveillance company, Redflex, has met on more than one occasion with council members to voice their displeasure at this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Davis AWOL</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/05/brian-davis-awol/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/11/05/brian-davis-awol/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Borsa at Channel 7 News reports:
 // 
Sources on Buffalo&#8217;s Common Council tell Eyewitness News that Ellicott District member Brian Davis could lose two weeks of salary on payday if he fails to show for Tuesday&#8217;s regularly scheduled meeting. This after Davis failed to show for a committee meeting on Wednesday.
&#8220;Avoiding state police investigators [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Davis: No on Domestic Partnership Benefits</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/30/brian-davis-no-on-domestic-partnership-benefits/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/10/30/brian-davis-no-on-domestic-partnership-benefits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:19:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it strike anyone odd that Ellicott District Councilman Brian Davis—who must represent more same-sex couples than any other Buffalo legislator—is the only member of Council to vote against a resolution asking the city&#8217;s Law Department to write up a bill that would extend domestic partner benefits to all city employees.
He represents Allentown, the epicenter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mickey in Masten</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/25/mickey-in-masten/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/25/mickey-in-masten/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took a while for Mickey Kearns to draw a round of genuine laughter from the crowd at True Bethel Baptist Church last night. He&#8217;d come at the invitation of the Buffalo Association of Black Journalists, whose three-person panel peppered him with questions about policy and race and qualifications and expectations. He also fielded questions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Davis! On Facebook!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/07/brian-davis-on-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/08/07/brian-davis-on-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Common Council]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Ellicott District Councilmember Brian Davis!
You know! He&#8217;s got problems! Big problems!
But he keeps in touch with his constituents via Facebook!
And he loves! exclamation! points!
Some excerpts from his page:
August 2:
Brian C. Davis Is wishing everyone a great week! Let this week be the week that we all be mindful of our Civic Responsibility!
July 28:
Brian C. Davis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stonewall Endorses Kearns</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/30/stonewall-endorses-kearns/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/30/stonewall-endorses-kearns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday night, Stonewall Democrats of Western New York endorsed Mickey Kearns for mayor. Stonewall joins the PBA, Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, and Nosotros. Four of his fellow councilmembers support Kearns, as well.
Mayor Byron Brown was not deemed eligible for the Stonewall endorsement, according to Outcome magazine, because his campaign has paid for advertising on Joe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HUD Inspector General will launch probe of block grant funds</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/29/hud-inspector-general-will-launch-probe-of-block-grant-funds/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/29/hud-inspector-general-will-launch-probe-of-block-grant-funds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:28:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a letter from South District Councilmember Mickey Kearns, US Department of Housing and Urban Development Inspector General Kenneth M. Donohue has pledged to audit Buffalo’s administration of federal anti-poverty funds. The probe will focus on the Buffalo Economic Renaissance Corporation.
In a July 24 letter, Donohue writes, “Based on our review of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only With America!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/16/only-with-america/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/16/only-with-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Duke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
As Summer began, the rock band America (Horse with No Name, Tin Man and countless other chart topping hits) performed at Artpark in Lewiston.  Summer in Western New York doesn’t begin until America does so; it’s part of some cosmic agreement written some where. As always America’s performance was by far and away as good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LoCurto and Hertel-North Buffalo Business Association Purchase Street Cleaner</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/16/locurto-and-hertel-north-buffalo-business-association-purchase-street-cleaner/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/16/locurto-and-hertel-north-buffalo-business-association-purchase-street-cleaner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Duke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Delaware District Councilmember Michael J. LoCurto recently collaborated with the Hertel-North Buffalo Business Association for the acquisition of a new street cleaning machine that will aid in trash and snow removal on Hertel Avenue.  This is good news for one of Buffalo’s most vibrant business districts.   The “Bobcat Toolcat,” as it is known, arrived just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Byron Scissorhands</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/14/byron-scissorhands/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/14/byron-scissorhands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Buck Quigley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Byron Brown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crystal peoples]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is mayor Byron Brown cutting a ribbon with Brian Davis on June 4, as covered by BuffaloRising.com.
But now with the election fast-approaching, he brought out the big scissors on Sunday for the opening of two-way traffic on the 700 block of Main Street, according to the Buffalo News.
Then, just this morning, he was at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brian Davis Proves He Can Still Rack Up Votes</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/13/brian-davis-proves-he-can-still-rack-up-votes/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/07/13/brian-davis-proves-he-can-still-rack-up-votes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[City Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Buffalo Rising&#8217;s weekly poll, Brian Davis is running away with what is probably the last election he&#8217;ll ever face.


Related posts (automatically generated):More on Brian DavisBrian Davis: No on Domestic Partnership BenefitsBrian Davis! On Facebook!]]></description>
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		<title>The Mayor&#8217;s Race Officially Begins Today</title>
		<link>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/09/the-mayors-race-officially-begins-today/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.artvoice.com/avdaily/2009/06/09/the-mayors-race-officially-begins-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today the operatives hit the streets bearing petitions. In 2005, Byron Brown pulled down an impressive 17,465 signatures (more than the number of votes he received in the subsequent primary, which he won). Brown ought to improve on that number this year, given the machine at  his disposal. Challenger Mickey Kearns has fewer resources, but [...]]]></description>
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