Campaign Roundup: Kaplowitz Promotes Green Collar Jobs
By Mike Connery on 09/09/2010 @ 02:45 PM
TODAY'S CAMPAIGN ROUND-UP.... Today's installment of campaign-related news. Mike Kaplowitz moves green collar jobs to the top of the agenda; Greg Ball is AWOL; and two of our women candidates continue to rack up the endorsements.
- Democrat Mike Kaplowitz has a plan to bring green collar jobs to New York. According to reports from Politics on the Hudson, the plan would create 22,000 green jobs, provide up to a 30% tax credit for investments into the manufacture of clean products, and boost economic output by $20 billion.
- Where in the district is Greg Ball? Not at his own town hall forums, according to reports by North County Local. Fortunately Democrat Mike Kaplowitz has shown up in his stead to talk to local Republican voters.
- Didi Barrett received two more endorsements in her bid for the New York State Senate’s 41st district. Local 21 of the Plumbers, Steamfitters and Service Technicians Union, and the New York State Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Political Action Committee both announced their support for Barrett. “This endorsement only magnifies the impeccable record of public service and level of commitment she has displayed in the past. Her integrity, professionalism and high moral fiber are a testament to why she has maintained an unmatched level of respect amongst her peers and the community,” declared Local 21’s endorsement.
- Eleanor’s Legacy, a committee dedicated to increasing women’s roles in politics, endorsed Joanne Yepsen for State Senate. Yepsen is the ninth Democrat running for State Senate that the group has endorsed. "Each [women endorsed] is running to unseat an entrenched incumbent or to reclaim an open seat. Each [woman] promises the change to honest, effective government we need. We are proud to endorse Joanne Yepsen who encompasses these qualities,” ERLC’s President Nora Bredes said in a statement. Eleanor’s Legacy has yet to endorse a Republican for this election cycle.
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