Crunch Time for the Tea Party Coalition

[Jim Ostrowski]

There are four days left for folks in the Erie County tea party movement to prove they can do more than shout at a few rallies. Can you get out out and work? Will you vote? Will you give a last minute donation?

The Tea Party Coalition endorsed five good candidates, all challengers, in winnable districts now controlled by the Democrats. Going clockwise around the county:

Kevin Hardwick, District 10, Tonawandas/Grand Island

Shelly Schratz, District 14, Amherst/Tonawanda

Dino Fudoli, District 5, Lancaster/Alden and due south

Brian Wirth, District 9, West Seneca/Cheektowaga

Lynn Dixon, District 12, Hamburg, Evans, Eden....

What can you do?

Pick up a sign.

Volunteer.

Make a small donation--write "tea party" on the check.

Vote and encourage others to do likewise.

Add a banner for your favorite candidate on your website or in your email.

Follow this link for breaking developments.

Here's contact info and scheduled events:

Hardwick
693-0486
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Text "hardwick" to 42039 for updates.



Saturday, October 31
FINAL LIT DROP
Grand Island and City of Tonawanda (meeting place __________)
WE NEED AS MANY VOLUNTEERS AS WE CAN GET FOR THIS ONE

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Schratz
796-9346
voteshellyschratz@roadrunner.com
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Fudoli
dinofudoli@dino4district5.com
donate
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From: Domenico & Maria Berardi
Subject: Final Campaign Push

We are headed into the stretch and have to really finish strong for Dino. We will need volunteers to go out Saturday AM (one last time!) and drop off literature at some targeted district neighborhoods. If you have a couple of hours to spare please meet at Dino’s house at 9am ( 12 Farm View Ct. ). Second, if anyone is not working, or has some extra time, on Election Day we can use help with placing volunteers at key polling places. Please let me know if you are available on Tuesday. This is an important duty and we need as many volunteers as possible. Lastly, we will be forwarding a list of voters for you to review. If you identify any familiar names from the list we ask that you call these people and remind them to vote. Please try to identify and reach ten people. More information on this ‘call tree’ will come in the next day or two. At the very least, please contact any family, friends, or acquaintances who live in this district and ask them to vote for Dino. Thank you in advance for your continued support.

Domenic Berardi

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Wirth
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Dixon
info@taxpayersfirst.com
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Final Thoughts:

Would love to have signs around the county:

CLEAN SWEEP!

Hardwick--Schratz--Fudoli--Wirth--Dixon

TEA PARTY COALITION

Also, I urge the candidates to hold a Ron Paul-like sign wave the day before the election or the morning of.

See these videos. It works!





Also posted at Speakupwny.com.

Also see Tea New York for updates.

[Frank Broughton]

Where can I pick up a Lynne Dixon sign?

[Frank Broughton]

Jim, on the sign waving, how close can one get to a voting place?

[Jim Ostrowski]

100 ft I think but sign waves are for main intersections not polling places.

[Frank Broughton]

Thanks Jim for the info. Do you know where I can pick up a Lynne Dixon sign? Anyplace in Southern Erie County? I live on a prominent State Route.

[Jim Ostrowski]

I will get one for you. Check your email.

[Jim Ostrowski]

The TPC was 3/5 last night with two close losses. Great result really given how rare it is for an incumbent to lose for co. leg. Three lost last night and a third almost lost.

Consensus tax revolt hero Steve Walters swamped his two opponents in Hamburg.

My God, there may be hope for this area yet!

That said, the three newbies need to come up with a real agenda for change, and put aside that PR stuff about cutting the leg.

They can start here:

http://freenewyork.org/reports.html

[Jim Ostrowski]

Two quick ones.

Abolish all cultural funding, all tourism/convention funding. Sell the Convention Center.

That's a quick $10,000,000 to lower the property tax.

[Frank Broughton]

Jim why in other cities is the above a meal ticket to more revenue yet here it is a drain?

[Jim Ostrowski]

I reject your premise.

These are just coercive transfer payments from productive to non-productive sectors of the economy.

Plus, all who receive money are forever bought off in elections. It's a vote-buying and contribution kick-back scheme.

[Frank Broughton]

I believed in removing those type funds long before there was even a WWW or the internet. I have always been against cultural funding. Not funding of parks and recreation but art and so forth.

Are you saying that conventions in other cites do not bring monies in at all in all cases? I am not challenging your idea as I agree with it.

[Jim Ostrowski]

The government should not be in the convention business. It's a way for certain business firms (hotels, restaurants) to seek a subsidy from the taxpayer.

Of course, we subsidize hotel-building so one subsidy creates the need for the next.

[Frank Broughton]

I get it - thanks. Another means of funding private business with public funds.