That is outstanding.  If you haven’t gotten a chance to vote please note that the polls close at 9PM.  If you are in line at 9PM you will be allowed to vote.

I’d go vote just to get outside in this great weather.

Said Mesi, “We’re going against an incumbent if you will, Mike’s name has been out there for over 20 years now.  But I think voters are looking for change and I have a good feeling about tommorow.”

As part of the early morning tour Mesi met with the Leroy Town Supervisor Tim McCulley:

Mesi will be continuing his tour later today:

• Tonawanda (10:15 – 10:45) – Royal Family Restaurant, 1320 Sheridan Drive
• City of Batavia (5:00 PM – 6:00 PM) – Main Street Coffee, 111 Main Street
• Williamsville (7:55 PM – 9:00 PM) – The Eagle House, 5578 Main Street

“With the polls showing a neck-and-neck race, Joe Mesi’s campaign is heading into the final 48 hours with a wave of momentum from endorsements by Senator Hillary Clinton and Governor David Paterson.  Joe Mesi will be fighting to the finish – talking to families across Western New York – with a marathon ‘Countdown to Change’ campaign blitz through each of the 17 towns of the Senate District in 17 hours on election eve.“

No rest ’till victory!

Well respected web site Five Thirty Eight take a high-tech statistical model approach to political predictions, and their fancy math agrees with what we more simple folk know in our hearts– door knocking is the single most effective thing you can do to win an election.

For every twelve voters who you talk to at their doors, one voter goes and votes who would not otherwise have voted. If you’re asking: “how can I be most effective in helping my candidate win the election?” then an organizer’s answer is going to be: knock on doors.

We know that our opponent cannot match the hard work of our volunteers, our staff, and most of all Joe himself.

That is why we are on the verge of victory come Tuesday.

The surging Joe Mesi campaign was the beneficiary of added momentum in the final days before the November 4^th 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.”