{"id":164367,"date":"2026-04-13T10:20:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164367\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T10:20:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T10:20:38","slug":"former-erie-county-da-eyeing-tonawanda-supervisor-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164367\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Erie County DA eyeing Tonawanda supervisor job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Erie County District Attorney John Flynn tells Spectrum News 1 that he is interested in the town of Tonawanda town\u00a0supervisor job.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Supervisor Joe Emminger announced on\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0he\u00a0would be <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2026\/04\/08\/town-of-tonawanda-supervisor-joseph-emminger-stepping-down\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stepping down in May.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Flynn says he has told the town&#8217;s\u00a0Democratic\u00a0Party chair that he would like to be considered being appointed supervisor when Emminger does indeed step down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He would then have to win a special election in November to serve out the remaining year in Emminger&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n<p>Flynn\u00a0stepped down in 2024 after being appointed\u00a0DA\u00a0in 2017, limiting himself to two terms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that eight years is enough, quite frankly, for any politician,\u201d Flynn said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Erie County District Attorney John Flynn tells Spectrum News 1 that he is interested in the town&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8255,1611,136,138,137,139,41582,50,1592],"class_list":["post-164367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-buffalo","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}