TROY — Kermit McCauley has high hopes for Tiffani Silverman.
McCauley, president of the North Central Community Solidarity Group, met Silverman, a 52-year-old Democrat, when she was running for county executive against Republican Steve McLaughlin. Despite losing the race, McCauley was impressed by her results in Troy, where she won 4,806-2,992.
“I think it was Nov. 7 or 8, he called me up, and he said, ‘With those numbers, wow, you have to be our mayor,’” Silverman recalled…