Sumner
Canfield-Greene
MID-HUDSON – The women in charge of the Dutchess County Democratic
Committee and the Orange County Republican Committee have been reelected.
But, Dutchess Democratic Chairwoman Elisa Sumner and Orange County GOP
Chairwoman Courtney Canfield-Greene have different takes on the political
climate.
Calling herself the “bulldog of the Dutchess Dems,” Sumner
she is “proud to be its cheerleader, it’s Don Quixote…
tilting at windmills and every once in a while I get the thrill of toppling
one.”
Sumner said the “complacency” of the Democratic Party has,
in part, led to the “shame and ugliness visited upon us by the horror
in the White House.” She said the administration has brought a “heightened
prejudice and bigotry” to the country.
That has brought “one unintended consequence – it has awakened
us Dems,” she said, noting Democrats must go to the polls to get
their candidates elected.
Meanwhile, Canfield-Greene said Republicans are poised for a sweep in
November. She said under her leadership, Orange County Republicans have
not lost a countywide race and have won “decisive victories”
in the state legislature, county legislature and in towns throughout the
county.
Over her next two-year term, she said she hopes to boost Republican enrollment
in Orange County, elect a supermajority in the county legislature, hold
local state Senate seats, expand the Republican caucus in the state Assembly
and help elect a Republican governor.
This November, the GOP said it is “poised” to re-elect County
Executive Steven Neuhaus, District Attorney David Hoovler and County Clerk
Annie Rabbitt. Former Republican Chairman William DeProspo, running unopposed,
is seeking a county court judgeship.
