Local initiative to decrease size of legislature
When Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek announced his resignation following last week’s election, he did so in the knowledge he was going out a winner. For his opposite number — county Democratic Chairman Dan Rivera — the mood was more somber. Incumbent Democrats in North Tonawanda and Lewiston lost by huge margins, Niagara Falls’ Fifth District county Legislature seat had gone Republican for the first time since the Eisenhower administration, and highly respected members of his own party were publicly calling for his resignation.