After an unsuccessful bid for the Onondaga County Legislature, Democrat Timothy Rudd is running for Syracuse's Common Council. Rudd said he is not opposed to the idea of one day merging the governments of the county and the city. Rudd said he opposes the current Consensus proposal to merge the governments. “I think right now it looks like dissolving the city into the county structure, just adding a few more seats to ensure there would be some minority representation," Rudd said. "That could be tokenism very quickly. Just because you have a few minority seats doesn’t mean they will ever have access to resources or real power." But he said ultimately, a new governing body would help enact Consensus’ other recommendations for service consolidation and more. "If you don’t have a new government that has a more regional outlook, then none of these problems will be addressed," Rudd said. "Schools will remain unaddressed. The zoning restrictions will remain unaddressed. The revenue sharing of
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