Early this morning, the Take Back New York bus pulled in to the parking lot of the Park Diner in Binghamton, NY. The stop is one of many for the bus on it's seven county tour to highlight the campaigns of some of the GOP's top Congressional candidates. The bus will be rolling through Albany, Newburgh, Kingston, Binghamton, Owego, Corning, Olean, and Auburn. This portion of the tour features local Congressional candidate George Phillips . Phillips, a school teacher from Endwell, NY is running against Democrat incumbent Maurice Hinch…
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seat has caused a bit of a stir after he asked that his request for the third party "Our Founding Fathers" line be withdrawn, as he paid supporters 1$ per petition signature collected, an act which violates state election law.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…
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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