Announces Endorsement in Amherst, Citing Need for Fiscal Responsibility
The surging Joe Mesi campaign was the beneficiary of added momentum in the final days before the November 4th election, as New York Governor David Paterson visited the headquarters of the United Auto Workers (UAW) Region 9 to endorse Mesi’s candidacy for the New York State Senate.
“Western New York, and the whole state, needs Joe Mesi’s discipline and toughness to help us get through the current fiscal crisis in Albany,” said the Governor. “Joe has the perfect set of skills which we need in these difficult financial times. The State of New York is the epicenter of an extraordinary financial crisis, and we need leaders with the toughness, discipline and strategic vision to take bold and aggressive action to reduce spending.”
“We need to be aggressive and thoughtful in how we deal with the current financial crisis,” said Mesi. “In order to turn the Western New York economy around and fix the state’s finances, we need serious responses to serious problems, not glib sound bites and easy answers.”
Mesi has spelled out his platform for fiscal responsibility — cutting taxes and wasteful spending while investing in job growth in Western New York — in a 16-page booklet titled, “A Plan for Change-Specific New Ideas for Our Future.” Mesi’s plan for change includes investments in green jobs and education, a middle-class property tax cut and reductions in wasteful spending. Mesi’s “A Plan for Change” is being distributed door-to-door. (You can view the online booklet here.)
“Joe knows what it means to struggle, to face adversity,” said Sam Williams, Education Representative for Region 9 of the UAW. “He understands in his gut the everyday struggles of ordinary, hard-working Western New Yorkers. In tough times, that is the perspective we have to have in our representatives to change Albany.”
“From sky-rocketing property taxes and inflated gas prices to a local economy which isn’t creating enough jobs to the need for affordable health care and reform, we need new leadership that believes in the future of Western New York,” said Mesi. “That’s why I’ve offered very specific proposals to create new jobs, retain existing ones, cut taxes and wasteful spending, and invest in our future.”
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