FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
James Ostrowski
(716) 435-8918
Free New York, Inc.
jameso@apollo3.com
http://www.freebuffalo.org
1313 Main St.
Buffalo, New York 14209
Free New York Announces Advertising
Campaign to Fight High Taxes
Buffalo, New York. January 17, 2006, Free New York will unveil plans for a major advertising campaign to fight the oppressively high taxes in Western New York. Its first salvo, a billboard “welcoming” drivers to Niagara County, which has the highest property taxes in the nation (based on assessed value), will be unveiled on Friday (Jan. 19) at noon near 6701 Transit Rd., Lockport, NY (heading north, near Swimco Pools).
The billboard is based on a recent study by the Tax Foundation of Washington DC, which showed that several of the highest property-taxed counties are in Upstate New York and that Niagara was first!
This billboard will be followed by a 60-second TV ad targeted to Niagara County, then by a similar billboard and TV spot aimed at Erie County residents.
The Transit Rd. billboard was sponsored by Free York, Inc. and made possible by donations from concerned taxpayers in Niagara County. Free New York’s Niagara County Coordinator, Lee Bordeleau, conceived the billboard idea and raised the necessary funds.
Afterwards, there will be a Dutch treat lunch at Pour Boyz, 6241 S. Transit Rd., Lockport.
Free New York, Inc., is a non-profit, non-partisan New York State public policy research corporation. It has offices at 1313 Main St., Buffalo, New York, 14209.
Free New York is the research and policy arm of the Upstate tax revolt.
Please join us tomorrow to launch our ad campaign against high property taxes and for lunch afterwards.
We're asking people to bring video cameras and take footage and interview people so we can produce an ad and perhaps a documentary.
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