I couldn’t help noticing that Tom Golisano, in explaining why he is leaving New York, said that his tax dollars “will not continue to fund Albany’s bloated bureaucracy, corrupt politicians or regular handouts to the special interests.” I just find it a bit ironic since his own organization, Responsible New York, endorsed Joe Mesi for state senate last year. Mesi, after losing that election, accepted a $70,000/year patronage job in the state senate.
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Last week, Robert Harding at The Albany Project posted the first round of endorsements by Tom Golisano’s Responsible New York which included 6 Democrats and 7 Republicans. His post, while it included the entire bipartisan list, only linked to the campaign websites of the Democrats. So, I thought I’d post the list, and link to the Republicans. Here’s the list of endorsed candidates:
REPUBLICANS
- SD-7: Barbara Donno
- SD-43: Roy McDonald
- SD-51: Sen. Jim Seward
- SD-57: Sen. Catharine Young
- SD-62: Sen. George Maziarz
- AD-138: Paula Banks-Dahlke
- AD-142: Jane Corwin
DEMOCRATS
- SD-25: Sen. Martin Connor
- SD-56: Rick Dollinger
- SD-58: Sen. Bill Stachowski
- SD-59: Kathy Konst
- SD-61: Joe Mesi
- AD-144: Barbra Kavanaugh
I would like note that several of the above campaign sites were extremely difficult to find, even with multiple Google queries.
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