Pete Meyers, the Green Candidate for Sheriff in Tompkins County, got 26% of the vote county-wide. In Ithaca, Pete got 38% of the vote. Pete, a social worker whose campaign focused on restorative justice and stopping a proposed $20 million jail expansion set a new record for a Green Sheriff candidate -- the previous record was 20%, set by Geralid J. M. Amato in Bernalillo County, New Mexico. Last year, James Caldwell of Monroe County ran for sheriff and got 11% of the vote. Pete's performance was almost equalled this year by Adam Benedetto, who got 23% of the vote in Dane County, Wisconsin.
