Gillibrand To Formally Launch Congressional Campaign (Event - 20th Dist.)

[Lavender Brown]

Gillibrand To Formally Launch Congressional Campaign
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer to Introduce and Endorse Kirsten Gillibrand

Come and join Kirsten Gillibrand when she formally announces her candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in 2006. On this Tuesday, January 31st at 11:30am, Attorney General Eliot Spitzer will introduce and endorse Kirsten at the Historic Canfield Casino in downtown Saratoga Springs.

Kirsten will also travel throughout the 20th Congressional District in order to reach out to as many of you as possible! She will be in Hudson at the Vincent Mulford Antique Shop earlier on Tuesday, then on Wednesday, February 1st, she will be in Delaware and Dutchess Counties.

Come one, come all! You will hear Kirsten's vision for the future and be part of an exciting campaign that is going to change politics as usual!

Joining Kirsten Gillibrand and Attorney General Elliot Spitzer in Saratoga will be the newly elected Mayor of Saratoga Springs, Valerie Keehn, along with a host of esteemed local officials as well as friends, family, and local supporters in Hudson, Harpersville, and Rhinebeck.

WHO: GILLIBRAND FOR CONGRESS

WHAT: 20TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT CAMPAIGN KICK-OFF

Tuesday, Jan 31st, 2006
Where:
11:30 AM The Historic Canfield Casino, Saratoga Springs
9:00 AM Vincent Mulford Antique Shop,419 Warren St, Hudson

Wednesday, February 1, 2006
Where:
12:00 PM Shaver-Hill Farm, 310 Shaver Road, Harpersville
4:00 PM Delamater INN Route 9, Rhinebeck

Gillibrand for Congress PO Box 1279 Hudson, NY 12534

[Nite Owl]

1. Going to try to make

this if work permits.

[Lavender Brown]

2. Me too, hopefully

:hi:

[Nite Owl]

3. We went

did you get to go?
I got some good pics taken by my friend who is a professional photographer, will try and post them tonight.
She was good and Elliot was wonderful. Got to shake his hand too.

[Lavender Brown]

5. I didn't make it

I had a job interview. I was looking for some coverage of the event on the local news but didn't catch any. :shrug:

[Nite Owl]

6. Caught a little bit of

coverage on I think it was NBC. Kirsten was talking to a reporter when I tuned in, don't know what they showed before. Having trouble on the computer that I downloaded the pics to so I'll get them up as soon as I can.

Hope the interview went well!

[DinahMoeHum]

4. Here's her website. . .

Link:
http://www.gillibrand2006.com/


:kick:

[nuxvomica]

7. I couldn't make it but I plan to support Gillibrand

Is it just me or do other folks think we really have a chance this year to unseat that riot-monger Congressman Kick-ass?

[Lavender Brown]

8. Interesting Gillibrand interview from her college newspaper

I've been following the LTTEs on the Gillibrand v. Sweeney race in the Capital Region papers, and her detractors are focusing on how most of her funds are coming from New York City and downstate as opposed to Sweeney's local financial support. I think they're going to push the idea that she's not "one of us," especially as she continues to go after Sweeney for his corporate connections:

http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006033101030

Some snippets:

Gillibrand, who has never held political office, has drawn press coverage since the beginning of her campaign by openly targeting Sweeney for his weekend ski trips to Utah with pharmaceutical lobbyists, asserting that he votes for legislations based on his own interests and the interests of the companies to which he is "beholden."

She has also publicized her "ethics I.O.U.," essentially the focus of her campaign. The proposal includes vows that she would not take a trip with or accept gifts from lobbyists and that she would call for an independent ethics council to investigate allegations of corruption in Congress.