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Just when you thought the Republicans were starting to get it - they are going to nominate a Teamster agent.  Are they trying to give the seat to Angelo?

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Benny  - I don't think Santabarbara is as much of a shoe-in. Quack is a pretty likeable guy, even if he's not exactly the type of Republican some will back. But I agree, he's facing an uphill battle. No doubt, this was a deal brokered in Albany, where the Dems agree to give Amedore a senate seat in order to strengthen their own hold on the Assembly. Sad nobody gives a damn about true democracy anymore...

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ROTTERDAM
New board clears out IDA panel
Leadership also repeals plaza transfer
BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter

    The new Town Board wasted
little time Friday putting its stamp
on the town, sacking the entire
board of the town Industrial Development Agency and appointing
replacements.
    The move prompted opposition from the agency’s attorney, q u e s t i o n i n g the legality of the move amid indications that the old board members would ask a judge to sort the situation out through an Article 78 proceeding.
    The resolutions passed by votes of 4 to 1, with the Town Board’s now-lone Republican member Gerard Parisi voting against.
    Parisi echoed a call from agency attorney Robert Ryan to table the motions until legal issues could be sorted out.
    “The IDA board has been there for several years, through multiple administrations,” Parisi said. “They are a very nonpartisan board and they have done a lot of hard work, in my opinion.”
    Parisi noted that there was no indication a change would be made until the meeting agenda came out Thursday.
    “I don’t find that to be transparent and open in the least,” Parisi said.
    New board member Nicola DiLeva, one of the four voting for the measure, responded quickly, referring to a contentious meeting last month between the incoming board members and the town IDA.
    She blamed the IDA for failing to give them information, something an IDA official responded later was information on negotiations.
    “If there’s no transparency, it’s because they did not work with us. They did not give us the information,” DiLeva said. “We’ve been fighting for information to move Rotterdam forward and that’s what we intend to do.”
    DiLeva’s comments were followed by loud claps and cheers from a gallery filled with friends and supporters there to watch the new board sworn in. One woman in the audience twice shouted “You go girl!” in response to DiLeva’s statement.
    Supervisor Frank Del Gallo and board members Robert Godlewski, Matthew Martin and DiLeva were all sworn in Friday. DiLeva won an unexpired term of a board member who had resigned earlier.
BREWING BATTLE
    Friday’s IDA vote was the latest salvo in a battle brewing since the campaign. Defeated Republican Supervisor Steve Tommasone said after the election that he feared the new board would push the town IDA under the control of the county Metroplex Development Authority.
    Republicans controlled Rotterdam for the past several years and so, while working with Metroplex on economic development projects, they remained reluctant to embrace consolidation efforts.
    The Rotterdam IDA maintains its own operating officers and has an agenda different from Metroplex’s.
    After Friday’s meeting, DiLeva said she expected the town to continue with its own IDA but one that will work with Metroplex.
    “It will remain separate, but we will work in conjunction with them,” DiLeva said. “I can’t talk about the past because I wasn’t here, but in the future, I will tell you we’re going to open our arms to the county and hope for all the help we can possibly get from them to move Rotterdam forward. It’s going to be exciting.”
    Off the IDA board as a result of the vote are Angelo Santabarbera, Robert St. John, Alex Stramenga, Paula Marshman, Rick Poltorak, Joseph Sicilia and William LaRoe.
    Appointed to fill the fresh vacancies were Robert Mallozzi, Brian McGarry, Delores Dargussi, Joseph Mastrianni Jr., Richard Leet, John Kochem Jr. and Frank Natalie.
    Parisi argued that the move replaces a nonpartisan IDA board with a partisan one.
    The board also repealed a resolution passed just last week by the old board transferring the Curry Road plaza from the town to the IDA. .......................>>>>....................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00901&AppName=1
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SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- Schenectady County Legislator Angelo Santabarbara announces his candidacy for the state assembly's new 111th district.

Santabarbara made the announcement at Proctor's Theatre Sunday. As a democrat, he has served as a legislator for Schenectady County since 2008. Santabarbara said his priorities as an assemblyman would be economic development, job creation and lowering taxes for everyone in the newly outlined district,

That new district will cover Montgomery County, parts of Schenectady County, and the Albany County towns of Berne and Knox.

Santabarbara said he has fought to bring millions of dollars in private investments to Schenectady County, creating job growth.

Congressman Paul Tonko said Santabarbara has the skill set to do the job.

"Here's an engineer well trained in science and technology. We are one of the fastest growing regions in the country for high tech, clean energy innovation jobs. We need someone technically savvy to carry on with the lobbying and advocacy and the resource networking in Albany. That person is none other than Angelo Santabarbara,” said Tonko.

Santabarbara ran two years ago and lost to republican George Amedore. Amedore announced he'll run for the State Senate in November.

Quoted from 2511

I have been pleasantly surprised the past two mornings to find that Mr. Santabarabara enclosed his campaign literature in our morning paper. I know everyone here at our home will be voting for this fine young man come election day. He has certainly proved himself to be a hardworking and insightful legislator.

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And I have been disgusted to find his literature littered all over the town of Rotterdam.  Nice little politician he is, to spew his junk and not clean it up.