Party Business

Let me take a moment and let you know what I have been up to.

1. I have been interviewing committee people for the Independence Party . All the folks names will be announced within a week or so. I am happy to say that Coz in the Southern Ulster is staying and is a great guy. I am happy to have him on our team.
2. Met with the Chairman of the Legislature, Dave Donaldson.
3. Chatted with Assemblyman Peter Lopez - who is also a great guy who always has an open door to the Independence Party. He made a great speech at the Republican Fundraiser in Saugerties. If anyone has a copy of the speech, I would like to get a copy of it.
4. Had a healthy chat with Assemblyman Frank Skartados. (This is a guy that we may get behind in the future..... Business owner.... feels the pain of the taxpayer and walks the talk of the jobs line.
5. Have a call into Assemblyman Kevin Cahill requesting a meeting.
6. Have met with the Republican candidate and possible Democratic candidates for County Clerk.
7. Have met with three of four possible County Judge candidates on the Republican side. Have not met with any of the Democratic Judge candidates yet. (none of the Democratic judge candidates have contacted me to seek the endorsement)
8. Have attended and will continue to attend both Republican and Democratic Caucuses, and Legislative meetings.... (watching the Legislators vote)
9. Attended the League of Women Voters discussion on Golden Hill as to whether or not it should continue to be run by Ulster County and rebuilt at a cost of approximately 90 million collars or if it should be privately run. Let me note that there was no request for stimulus money for the rebuild of Golden Hill in the submission to the Governor that our County Executive submitted. Not the Boxer Patterson, as the letter was addressed. This was a Hugh Reynolds catch. Perhaps Reynolds could apply for the County proof reader job for Vinny the Press Release guy.
10. Attended several Center for Innovation job creation breakfasts. We need jobs in Ulster County!!!!
11. Attended the Lodging Coalition annual meeting. Or as I called it the "Where is the off switch on John Guerin?" What the heck did Mike Hein do to John Guerin??????
12. I hosted a fundraiser forMike Madsen in Kingston, Ward Nine with our County Comptroller Eliot Auerbach.
13. I am working on a fundraiser for the Independence Party.
14. I am working on enrolling college students in the Independence Party
15. Launched HudsonValleyVoter.com, the Independence Party website for the Hudson Valley Independence Parties. The website will become a sources of information, party platform, events, candidate surveys, and other news about the party. If you are interested in staying informed via e-mail, please sign up by clicking on the "stay informed" button. We need enrollment, so if you are non-enrolled or in a party and are unhappy with your Party - join the Independence Party.
    
16. We always need volunteers! Make this election season count make it your passion help me send the message to the Candidates that we WANT JOBS, TAX Reform, More Action and less Politics as usual and Leaders we can Trust.

Len

KCR Redux

When I started this blog I thought it would be a great way to build discussion points for the Radio show on KCR. I hit a bump in the road with Walter Maxwell and as the poll showed he got some political pressure not to have me on the Wednesday show. I will continue the fight to get the Independence voice out to the taxpayers of Ulster County on KCR. I am thinking of asking Hugh Reynolds("KING MAKER") to start a Blog with me, yes the "King of the Universe" (as Hugh called me) in his column for help.
Last Monday I was asked to host the show with Gary Bischoff. It was the first show and it went very well. We took several calls, one caller was happy to get the Independence voice or opinion, hoped it will continue. We took three or four calls about the plastic bag Resolution asking the Taxpayers to dig in the pockets for Ten Cents a plastic bag to encourage the use of cloth reusable bags. For those of you who don't know where the Independence party stands on this issue, I will just say it is issue of less legislation we don't need a law we need more education. Please understand this is not a TAX, the money is collected by the stores as revenue, that does not go to the County. After the show Gary and I had a cup of coffee and discussed other ways to reduce the use of plastic bags and to encourage the use of cloth bags without charging us a dime. I can only hope he was listening. Remember what I said during my campaign we are not ATM machines and we do not want to see ONE MORE TAX. Please come out to the public hearing for the plastic bags. While Gary is thinking about having me on every other Monday please call in and ask him to let me be his co host on Monday's. Let your voices be heard. Please be respectful, name calling as one caller found out will not be tolerated and you will be disconnected.
Thanks, Len