Senators Schumer and Gillibrand Endorse Kim Beaty for Sheriff

New York Senators Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D-NY) today endorsed Democrat Kimberly Beaty for Erie County Sheriff. Each cited her decades of experience, professionalism, demonstrable success, and dedication to the highest ideals of law enforcement and justice.

“It is an honor have the endorsement of New York’s US Senate delegation in a campaign so critical to the safety of the nearly one million people who call Erie County home,” Beaty said. “Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, who have always been tireless advocates for 9/11 first responders and emergency personnel, stand for the values that I will work hard to uphold each and every day as Erie County Sheriff, as I have over my entire career in law enforcement. Sixteen years of scandals, needless deaths, and costly Republican mismanagement are enough, and I will fight every day to make the changes the people of Erie County demand and deserve.”

 

“Kimberly Beaty is a true-blue law enforcement professional who is both a capable leader and a skilled manager,” said Senator Schumer. “Over more than three decades of service, Kimberly Beaty has shown that she knows how police can best serve the communities they protect and has a proven track record of effective community policing, crisis intervention, and serving the people of Erie County with dignity, respect and fairness. I have every confidence that a Sheriff Beaty will restore public trust to the Erie County Sheriff’s Office.”

“From his days in the Assembly to US Senate Majority Leader at one of the most difficult moments in our nation’s history, Senator Schumer has always been the embodiment of what it means to be a leader, and I am deeply grateful for his support,” said Beaty.

“I am proud to endorse Kim Beaty for Erie County Sheriff,” said Senator Gillibrand. “She is the only candidate with the experience to make the instrumental changes the office needs. Her compassion, integrity, and drive will make her the best choice to run the office. Kim Beaty is the candidate who represents Erie County’s values, and I put my full support behind her.”

“Senator Gillibrand has always been a strong voice for equality and justice, especially for women in uniform and those who have suffered violence in their lives,” Beaty said.

Beaty, who over 34 years rose from patrol office to District Chief and Deputy Commissioner for Operations and Homeland Security for the Buffalo Police Department, is currently Director of Public Safety at Canisius College. Her honors include an Outstanding Achievement in Community Policing award and the Buffalo Mayor’s Award of Merit for Heroism.

Go to https://kimberlybeatyforsheriff.com to learn more about Beaty and her vision for change at the Erie County Sheriff’s office.

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Calling the North Carolina Republican Party’s new congressional district map “surgical racism with surgical precision,” Bishop William J. Barber II of Repairers of the Breach was in Raleigh Thursday, announcing a lawsuit challenging the redistricting effort—pledging that the state’s voters will “challenge gerrymandering in the courts, in the streets, and at the ballot box.”

“This is a direct attack on the state’s Black Belt district and marginalized communities,” said Barber at a news conference announcing the legal challenge, a day after the state House of Representatives approved the new map in a party-line vote.

The new map, which was passed by the state Senate earlier this week and cannot be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Josh Stein under state law, will likely give the GOP an additional seat in the US House after the 2026 midterm elections.

President Donald Trump has called for mid-decade redistricting efforts by the GOP in states including Missouri and Texas, as well as North Carolina, with state Republicans heeding his demands.

North Carolina’s new map will likely give Republicans 11 of the state’s 14 districts by moving some Black voters out of the 1st District and into the 3rd District. Had the new map been in place in 2024, Trump would likely have won 55% of the vote in the new 1st District in 2024, up from the 51% he won.

Barber denounced the redistricting efforts across the country as “political robbery” by a party that wants “to rob people of their rights through this racially based gerrymandering... so that they can give power or keep power in the US Congress to engage in political violence,” including by cutting healthcare and blocking the passage of living wages.

“We’ve seen this pattern before—the use of redistricting and voting laws to divide, diminish, and deny,” said Barber. “But the truth is simple: When you steal people’s representation, you steal their healthcare, their wages, and their future. That’s why we will fight back... to make clear that in North Carolina, and across America, the people’s will cannot be gerrymandered out of existence.”

Barber said Republicans in the state Legislature are “gambling” to win another seat, instead of trying to win over voters.

“They’re saying, ‘Let’s move this county over here, let’s move this county over here,’ he said at the press conference. ”Black voters in Congressional District 1 make up approximately 40% of the population, and there’s a growing Latino population that makes up 7%... Black communities, Latino communities, and rural, working-class, poor white voters, if the districts are fair, have the power to build a fusion electorate that can overcome the greedy oligarchs’ will to control elections in our state.“

Along with filing a legal action against state lawmakers to challenge the legality of the map, Barber said Repairers of the Breach will hold a ”Mass Moral Fusion Meeting“ and public hearing on November 2.

”If they won’t hold public hearings, we will,“ said Barber. ”This is our Edmund Pettus Bridge moment... Black, white, and brown together—because our democracy is not for sale.“

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