Tea and Vitriol

 On May 19, 2021 the husband of Rochester mayor Lovely A. Warren was arrested for drug trafficking and illegal weapons charges. Their home was also raided by the NYS Police that day. On May 20, Mayor Warren called a press conference and stated that she would not offer her husband support regarding the criminal charges against him. She also stated that they were "separated" (not legally) for years and that they were residing together to provide a family atmosphere for their daughter. In a home with illegal drugs and illegal weapons? She also stated that she didn't know anything about her husband's activities (questionable) and that she hadn't done anything wrong (also questionable). Then she launched into one of her usual diatribes, stating that it was part of a plot against her and that her husband's arrest was political and really an attack on her, not him. We can ignore that last part, because the Warren administration has been obsessed with plots against th...

 By now, everyone in the US knows that there was a drug raid on Rochester mayor Lovely A. Warren's home on Wednesday, May 19. It was conducted by the NYS Police after seven months of investigation, at the prompting of the Monroe County DA's office. Usually, such raids also involve the local police departments. In this case, RPD's interim police chief was not notified. The DA and the NYS Police didn't trust her NOT to inform the mayor of the investigation or the raid. The state troopers arrested Mayor Warren's husband, Tim Granison. They also removed more than two kilos of cocaine, $100,000 in cash, a loaded pistol (illegal) and a rifle from Mayor Warren's home. Granison, as a convicted felon for an earlier crime in his late teens, is not allowed to own firearms. Yesterday, Mayor Warren held a press conference about this event. She did nothing wrong, she said. She and Granison had been legally separated for years, she said, and were only living together for the s...