Art Garrison, local business owner, and candidate for the 126th district assembly seat has been endorsed by the National Federation of independent business. Congratulations Art, you deserve it. Art Garrison is running against incumbent Democrat Donna Lupardo. The Republikid Political Blog proudly endorses Art Garrison for Assembly. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CONTACT: Mike Elmendorf (518) 434-1262 Jack Mozloom (609) 987-8777 Small Business Endorses Arthur Garrison for Assembly ALBANY - New York’s leading small business …
Jason Stokes, a candidate for the 126th Assembly District seat has caused a bit of a stir after he asked that his request for the third party "Our Founding Fathers" line be withdrawn, as he paid supporters 1$ per petition signature collected, an act which violates state election law. Jason Stokes, 34, asked the Broome County Board of Elections on Thursday to withdraw his petitions for the Our Founding Fathers line, saying he paid people $1 per signature they collected for him. Under state election law, you are allowed…
Last weekends Spiedie Fest was a great opportunity for candidates to get out and meet the people. With such a large crowd, it was easy to walk about and talk to folks, or just sit by your tent and let them come to you. This years election cycle in New York is as critical as it gets. The Democrats have run the states economy in to the ground, they have raised taxes, taxed smokers to unreasonable levels, and Governor Patterson has tried to tax everything from Soda to iTunes downloads. It's apparent that Democrats simply do not care about p…
As we inch closer to November, the candidates in this years political races here in New York are once again taking their message to the people. This years Spiedie Fest and Balloon Rally in beautiful Otsiningo Park in Binghamton. I spent the afternoon with George Phillips, candidate for Congress and some of the other local folks who are making their bid for office this year in the hopes of cleaning up New York, and wrangling control away from the Democrat controlled Senate and Assembly. On hand for the event were George's dedicated s…
RP:Let's start with the basics. Why are you running? AG:That's probably the hardest question you're going to ask me. I'm running for the same reason a lot of people are upset, with what's going on in Albany. I'm just taking it one step further. It's a mess, the folks who represent us down there are doing a lousy job. We get polls that come out and 75% 83% of the people say that Albany is failing us. I agree. I'm a small business man, I have a degree in economics, that puts me two steps ahead of the folks …
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