Fredonia Man Launches Candidacy For Chautauqua County Clerk

FREDONIA – A Fredonia man recently announced his candidacy for Chautauqua County Clerk this fall.

David Salley says he’ll be running as a Democrat against incumbent Republican Larry Barmore. Salley is a computer science professional, which he says will help him work with current county employees to meet customer demands at the Department of Motor Vehicles in three county communities, direct efficiencies at the County Court House, and work with the Sealer of Weights and Measures staffs.

“It’s all about the employees we have working now and me providing full time support and
leadership so they each can best deliver the best services possible,” Salley said. Salley has done a wide variety of programming applications in a number of languages over his career, starting with Y2K programming for Plantrol Systems of Westfield and, most recently, database report writing for the Seneca Nation Medical Center.

The candidate is a 30-year experienced amateur historian, with membership in the Society for Creative Anachronism. He says he looks forward to working with County Historian Michele Henry, if elected.

Salley was born and raised in Buffalo in a Polish Catholic family and is a lifelong Western New Yorker. Since 2000, he and his wife, Dr. Karen Ehrlich, have owned and maintained a 150-year-old Victorian era home in Fredonia. The couple has been married for 30 years.

As a teen, Salley stocked grocery store shelves after high school classes and worked his way through college at a second shift factory job. The first in his family to graduate from college, David holds an Associates Degree in Computer Programming from Bryant & Stratton, a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Canisius College, and was a non-traditional student earning a Master of Arts degree in Informatics from The University of Buffalo. (The field would later be known as Information Technology.)