FBI’s interviews stir discontent among Erie County Democrats

For Erie County Democratic Chairman Jeremy J. Zellner, Saturday’s reorganization meeting was supposed to prove a no muss, no fuss affair.

Zellner faces no announced opposition for another two-year term as chairman, and compared to many of the party’s raucous elections of the past, the meeting at the Grapevine Banquet Center in Depew was supposed to celebrate the sweep of victories by headquarters candidates in last week’s primaries.

But now rumblings of discontent are infesting the party once again following reports that the FBI last week interviewed two members of the committee in connection with Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s probe of campaign funds spent in the 2014 elections for State Senate.

While nobody is predicting Saturday’s meeting will result in anything but Zellner’s re-election, dissidents are – at the least – raising questions.

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