Just so you know, this commercial with Amedore "not my job" didn't come out of the blue, just get made up...
Here's Mark Blanchfield's announcement in Rotterdam (at the Mabie Farm) about his running for the Assembly in the beginning of August. He mentions the same thing.
Not sure that I agree with your assessment bumble. I have heard from many who supported Amedore last year and who are less enthusiastic now. Some of his support will be from those who simply oppose the election of his campaign opponent. George needs to spend more time with his constituents, particularly those in the hilltowns, hearing of their concerns.
While agreeing with you in part...I believe that some will support him simply to oppose his opponent. And that is politics! Unfortunatly...there is no black and white, right or wrong, truths and untruths in politcs. Ya have to look at the 'whole picture'. I will vote for Amedore which will hopefully give him another term to prove himself. I will vote for him for his charactor. And I will vote for him to cast a vote 'against' Blanchfield.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Blanchfield certainly had a hard time reading from his written statements! See, that's what happens when the savage woman tells you what to say and how to say it. He must feel like a fish out of water without suzie at his side.
Just so you know, this commercial with Amedore "not my job" didn't come out of the blue, just get made up...
Here's Mark Blanchfield's announcement in Rotterdam (at the Mabie Farm) about his running for the Assembly in the beginning of August. He mentions the same thing.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
105TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Amedore claims ad is misleading Blanchfield: radio spot will not be pulled BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter
Republican Assemblyman George Amedore Jr. has filed an unfair campaign practice charge against his Democratic opponent for airing a “false and misleading” radio advertisement. Amedore said Mark Blanchfield’s ad intentionally distorts comments the assemblyman made during an interview he gave after receiving an award from the Capital District Business Review. The complaint went to the Fair Campaign Practices for the Capital Region, an independent group formed by the League of Women Voters. The Fair Practices Committee reviews complaints and issues non-binding opinions. Blanchfield said he will not pull the ad, even if the Fair Practices Committee finds it misleading. He said the ad will end shortly anyway and he defended its use. “I’m at a bit of a loss to understand why anyone would regard this advertisement as objectionable, especially since it uses my opponent’s own words and merely repeats sentiments he has expressed on several occasions,” Blanchfield said. Amedore and Blanchfield both signed a pledge to run fair campaigns for the 105th Assembly District seat. Amedore is seeking re-election to a full two-year term after winning a special election last year to replace longtime Assemblyman Paul Tonko, a Democrat and former chairman of the state Energy Research and Development Authority who is now running for Congress. The ad in question quotes Amedore saying he does not look at his assembly seat as his job. “I have building in my blood,” he says in the Blanchfield ad. Amedore denounced the ad at a Tuesday morning news conference at City Hall in Schenectady. His campaign provided a transcript of the interview. In it, he says: “I have building in my blood, that’s my job. I don’t look at the Assembly position as my job, I look at it as serving, giving back.” During the news conference, Amedore used the word “service” more than a dozen times. “Helping the families of Schenectady and Montgomery counties by making positive change was — and still is — my top priority and sole motivation for serving in public office,” he said. Blanchfield said he raised the issue because Amedore is using his business interests to advance his political career. “Mr. Amedore has made his business interests an issue in this race and he has asked people to vote for him because of his business interests. He is not shy about telling people he takes part in his family business, which is constructing luxury houses,” he said. Amedore, 39, is executive vice president of Amedore Homes, a company started by his father, George Sr. Blanchfield, 41, is a Schenectady city councilman and a private attorney.
In the video he takes credit for making sure there were approvals for Rotterdam business's such as VonRoll and Golub. How was he able to do that as a City Councilman? I wouldn't think he has ANY authority over Rotterdam business ventures? I'm not being sarcastic or picking at him, I'm truly curious.
I can understand Amedore's anger over this one. I have made the same statement in the same words many times over the years. I love being the Supervisor of D'burg, it is my personal pleasure, not the job I trained for. I'm not saying I don't work very hard for the residents but a "job" can't possibly be this much fun(most days anyway) It is something you need to experience to understand. It is too bad his words were used out of context, and Blanchfield knew it. Shame on him the dirty scoundrel, but Amedore did say it and since Blanchfield is a lawyer he probably knows there is nothing illegal about using those particular words.......just doesn't make it right either.
Blanchfield is a lawyer and that's all I need to know about him to not vote for him. There aren't many lawyers who will vote for rules and laws that help the taxpayer but would hurt the lawyers income, remember no fault insurance was supposed to lower our insurance payments. The lawyers in the NYS legislature took care of that problem didn't they.
105TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT Group to hear sides in dispute over ad Blanchfield allegedly twisted Amedore quote BY MICHAEL LAMENDOLA Gazette Reporter
The Fair Campaign Practices of the Capital Region organization is to hear a complaint Monday involving an allegedly misleading advertisement airing against the Republican candidate in the 105th Assembly District race. Fair Campaign Chairwoman Joan Elliott said she has notified Assemblyman George Amedore Jr., RRotterdam, who filed the complaint, and Democrat Mark Blanchfield, whose campaign produced the ad, of Monday’s meeting. Amedore said he will attend. Blanchfield said that he will seek an adjournment and that either he or a representative will attend the meeting. Blanchfield said he will let the ad air until there is a finding and then re-evaluate whether to continue it. In the meantime, Blanchfield’s campaign followed up the radio ad with a mailer that includes the same allegation, Amedore said Thursday. Amedore said he received the mailer Wednesday. Amedore said Blanchfield’s radio ad and mailer took out of context comments Amedore made during an interview he gave after receiving an award from the Capital District Business Review. Blanchfield’s ad and literature quote Amedore saying he does not look at his Assembly seat as his job. “I have building in my blood,” he says in the Blanchfield ad. Amedore provided a transcript of an interview from which Blanchfield is said to have taken the quote. In it, he says: “I have building in my blood; that’s my job. I don’t look at the Assembly position as my job: I look at it as serving, giving back.” Blanchfield said Amedore sent out a mailer this week that implies that Blanchfield spliced together the phase using “some fancy editing.” Said Blanchfield, “If you look at the YouTube clip, he says that.” Blanchfield said Amedore made his business an issue in the campaign and the ad and literature accurately reflect the assemblyman’s statements. Amedore, 39, is executive vice president of Amedore Homes, a company started by his father, George Sr. Blanchfield, 41, is a Schenectady city councilman and a private attorney. Blanchfield said he would make being an assemblyman his full priority. But he also said that if elected, he would continue to practice law, at least initially. “I would have to make sure my clients were looked after. I can’t just walk away from clients who have active issues,” he said. “I would do my best to make sure they were transitioned appropriately.” He added that he can’t see how he could manage a full-time law practice and serve in the Assembly. Elliott said the six-person panel will conduct the hearing and decide by consensus whether the Blanchfield campaign violated their pledges to conduct a fair campaign. The independent League of Women Voters formed Fair Campaign Practices for the Capital Region, which reviews complaints and issues non-binding opinions.
Did anyone see the ad yet? It makes Amedore look pretty bad. It's too bad Blanchfield can't run on his own merits, perhaps he has none. He has to know in his heart this is dirty pool.
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