For election day I did two wraps. For the first, I talked to a man named Chuck Duprey who is the political director of the Onondaga County Republican Party committee.
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I called him at the party's headquarters on Onondaga Street, and he agreed to talk to me. It was actually a really good interview. I got the information I wanted for my story--what the party was doing on election day. I also got good bites for another story I was planning to do about college students voting. I think one interesting thing that I wish would have made my story is that according to Mr. Duprey, there are 96,000 registered republicans in Onondaga County. Of those, only about 40 percent vote in an off year election. Mr. Duprey said the main job of the party on election day was calling the five percent of the forty percent who for some reason wouldn't have voted that day. While I alluded to this information in my actual story, I didn't have time to explain what was meant when I said Duprey admits that most republicans won't be voting on election day.
I got my second story at the Holiday Inn in Liverpool when I attended the republican party's celebration. When I went, I really didn't know what to expect or who I wanted to talk to, but I ran into Lara and she was a huge help. She pointed out Bernie Mahoney, Joanie Mahoney's father, and said that she had seen him talking to the media. I knew that's what I wanted to do. I really like taking different approaches to learning about a subject, so talking to her father, rather than her campaign manager, seemed like a great solution. Mr. Mahoney was really personable, and I really enjoyed talking to him. While on one hand, he was feeding me lines about how proud he was of his daughter, he also talked a lot about Ms. Mahoney when she was growing up. He told me about how she helped with her father's campaign for office in Onondaga county. I also liked learning about her siblings. Joanie is one of nine children in the Mahoney family, and Mr. Mahoney told me about how and why he was proud of all of them. I value family a lot, and it was really nice to hear Bernie Mahoney talk about his.
Thursday was a completely different story for me. I was sent home from my first class for being sick. (I was treated like a third grader, not an adult, and I'm not very happy about it). Professor Nicholson was very understanding about the situation, and in addition to steering me away from a piece that was bound to be a disaster, really helped me to take short cuts in my new story about Nick Pirro's press conference. I wish I had time in my story to include where the land is that Pirro wants to sell. He wants to sell almost 40 acres of land along Onondaga Lake and 51 acres of land in Salina, including the former Ley Creek Sewage Treatment plant. Pirro talked about how the land needs considerable environmental clean-up, and he said the Pyramid Companies have agreed to take full responsibility for cleaning it up.
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