Eric Massa's Listening Tour - Monroe Couty Feb 7

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 30, 2006

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Amy Gergely
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Congressional Candidate Eric Massa Gains Support in Monroe County, Announces Listening Tour

CORNING, NY – Eric Massa, the Democratic candidate for New York’s 29th District Congressional seat, will launch his district-wide listening tour in Monroe County on Feb. 7 with a daylong series of events. A retired Navy Commander who currently resides in Corning, Massa has also gained an important endorsement from a leading Monroe County Democrat.

Massa is challenging first-term incumbent Republican Congressman John R. “Randy” Kuhl, Jr. in the western New York district, which comprises all or portions of eight counties, extending from the Southern Tier to the southeast portion of Monroe County, including the towns of Gates, Henrietta, Mendon, Pittsford and Rush and portions of Brighton, Chili, Penfield and Perinton.

Lynda Garner Goldstein, who served four terms as a Monroe County Legislator representing the 14th District, which includes most of the Town of Brighton, this week officially put her support behind Massa.

“I met Eric at the start of his campaign about fourteen months ago,” said Garner Goldstein. “I have been impressed by the enthusiasm and vigor with which he has reached out to the residents of the 29th Congressional District. Eric's life experience has given him the ability to understand the diverse needs of the constituents of the district, which include some of the state's wealthiest and some of the neediest. It is for this reason, as well as Eric's grasp of core Democratic values, that I have chosen to endorse his candidacy.”

Massa has made numerous trips to Monroe County in recent months, presenting before the Democratic Committees in the towns of Gates, Henrietta, Perinton and Brighton. The Gates Democratic Committee, in September, unanimously endorsed his candidacy. The committee extended its endorsement “with excitement and enthusiasm for your campaign and the future of our community,” said Committee Chairwoman, Sue Swanton, in a letter to Massa.

Massa’s goal for his Feb. 7 listening tour stop is to provide “an open forum conducive to the airing of local and national issues and grassroots, bottom up solutions, based on realities not political ideology,” said Massa, who hopes to attract a variety of Monroe County residents, regardless of political affiliation, to his public meetings.

He will continue his tour of the district with stops in each of the seven remaining counties in coming weeks.

Massa’s Monroe County listening tour will include the following events. All are open to the public. For additional information, contact Ethan Rabin, 607.346.5455 or [e-mail].

Eric Massa’s Monroe County Listening Tour Schedule

9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. - JCC Men in Transition
Location: Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester, 1200 Edgewood Avenue, Rochester, NY

12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. - Henrietta Senior Center
Location: Don W. Cook Senior Center, 515 Calkins Road, Rochester, NY

4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. - Henrietta Neighborhood United
Location: Henrietta Public Library, 455 Calkins Road, Rochester, NY

For more information, visit www.massaforcongress.com.