Month: January 2017

Ready To Run for Office?

This year there are numerous public offices up for election.

In Niagara County, all 15 seats in the County Legislature will be decided by voters this year.

There will be elections for supervisor, mayor, alderman and council members, coroner, tax receiver, town justice, judge, and more in various towns, villages and cities of this county.
Each election year, about nine months before the election, the Republican Party looks for good people who are independent, intelligent, and honest, who would like to explore the possibility of running for office under the banner of the Party.
Finding good candidates is not always easy since the best people to fill elected offices are not the ones who want it most. One of the problems with governing people is that those who want to rule are least suited to do it.
The Republican Party County Chairman, Mr. Scott P.  Kiedrowski, is now accepting resumes for people who want to express an interest in running for office with the support of the Republican Party.
Scott P. Kiedrowski
1253 Bowen Ct
North Tonawanda, NY 14120
niacountygop@gmail.com

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The Empire State Development Corp.will be issuing a request for proposals to build “greater outdoor activities” on Goat Island, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Build on Goat Island.

“[T]hat will boost tourism and give people an international destination to visit,” Gov. Cuomo said.

Among the buildings Cuomo wants to build is a lodge (a hotel).

“On Goat Island, we will create a year-round destination for tourism and build a world-class lodge with sweeping views of the Niagara River,” said Cuomo.

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With key members of his staff under indictment, a potential $3.5 billion budget deficit looming, various ill-considered initiatives like free college tuition and selling liquor in movie theaters going over like lead balloons, and being increasingly at odds with a state legislature scratching and clawing to maintain its own prerogatives in a declining and corrupt state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo brought his road show to Niagara Falls this week, cutting the ribbon at a hotel opening.

Cuomo was in town to promote was what he calls his “Buffalo Billion Squared” which, being a $500 million reprise of a previous state aid program for Buffalo, might more aptly be called “Buffalo Billion Halved.”

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It took a lot of guts.

Last week on Friday, Niagara Falls resident Ken Cosentino stood up at the end of a presentation given by Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s representative, Empire State Development’s Sr. VP Sam Hoyt, in Council Chambers at Niagara Falls City Hall, and spelled out, in no uncertain terms, the deep discontent of the people.

Hoyt had just delivered an hour-long, encapsulated version of the “State of the State” speech performed by Cuomo a couple of weeks ago at the University of Buffalo’s North Campus. Filling in for ESD President and CEO Howard Zemsky, who was ill, Hoyt appeared to recycle many of the same Buffalocentric slides Cuomo used for the previous speech. The slides that did touch on Niagara Falls mostly listed uninspiring bullet points about state spending that Cuomo had directed towards “improvements” to Niagara Falls State Park and the south Robert Moses Parkway, and how this somehow will contribute to the renewed prosperity of the city of Niagara Falls.

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