FLIPPABLE: Sarita Bhandarker for NY-AD99

I’m running for Assembly because residents of the Hudson Valley deserve a real advocate in Albany.
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In the Assembly I pledge to stand up against special interests, and fight for a fair shake for our neighbors who need lower taxes, affordable health care coverage, help with the opioid crisis, and better public schools.
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I'm an attorney, a small business owner, and a first generation American. I've been standing up for what's right all my life; now, I'm ready to stand up where it matters most.






https://www.saritaforny.com/meet-sarita

FLIPPABLE: Matthew Miller for NY-AD131

Hi, my name is Matt Miller and I'm running to represent the 131st district, Ontario County and the Northern half of Seneca County, in the New York State Assembly. Growing up and living in Rochester and the Finger Lakes, I worked various jobs waiting tables, retail, and working in emergency and trauma centers. I also served in the New York Army National Guard as an Intelligence Analyst. My experience in the military and working in healthcare helped me realize my ability to make the state a better place through public service.

Our community is facing new and challenging issues everyday. Climate change has led to floods that have created poor conditions for farmers and damaged our already crumbling infrastructure. With conditions worsening every year, the crisis we are facing will impact everyone’s livelihoods. As the crisis advances, Climate Change will worsen the refugee crisis, increase the risk of illness, and harm major industries important to the Finger Lakes’ economy. If we begin to act now, we can use our voices to ensure that Albany addresses climate change in an urgent matter by bringing clean jobs to the state, lower the costs of health care, and invest in the social well-being of New York by addressing mental health, child poverty, and homelessness.

The people in this district are ready for a new generation of leadership with fresh ideas to combat these problems head on. We need solutions that work for everybody in New York and leaders who will contribute to those solutions. As a member of the Assembly, I will try to make myself as available as possible for constituents to voice their concerns. I’ve spent most of my life in service, whether in the private sector or in the military, and if elected to the New York State Assembly, I will put all my energy into serving the people of Ontario and Seneca Counties.






https://www.mattmillerfornewyork.com/

FLIPPABLE: Jennifer Lunsford for NY-AD135

Jen is a 38 year old resident of Penfield, NY. She moved to Rochester in 2009 with her husband, Scott Hildebrandt, a graduate of Pittsford-Sutherland High School. Jen was raised by a working mom and a stay at home dad, which was certainly not the norm on Long Island in the 1980's. Jen's mom worked first as a secretary and then later as a sales manager at a lamp and lighting manufacturer. Her father, a Vietnam Vet and former NYPD Officer, returned to the workforce as a retail manager once Jen started public school.


Jen graduated from Patchogue-Medford High School and then went on to major in Political Science and Philosophy at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York, where she graduated with honors. After college she moved to Los Angeles where she worked as a paralegal at the international law firm Sullivan & Cromwell where she had the good fortune to work on a major wrongful conviction case. Jen returned to the east coast to attend law school at Boston University where she concentrated in healthcare law. While in law school Jen won the Dean’s Award for Constitutional Law and was appointed as an editor to the American Journal of Law and Medicine.

​Following law school Jen settled in Rochester to start her family and legal career. Soon after she was admitted to practice, Jen began volunteering in the community with the Rochester Teen Court acting as a mediator for cases involving first time, nonviolent teen offenders. A staunch defender of those most vulnerable in our community, Jen has continued to dedicate her time to helping lift up her neighbors and make Rochester a better place to live. She was a regular volunteer at the Center for Youth's Crisis Nursery where she cared for children whose parents were undergoing great hardship such as escaping domestic violence or recovering from unexpected illness. She has volunteered her time with many local charities including the Young Entrepreneurs Academy, Volunteer Legal Services Project, Empire Justice Center and the American Lung Association.

Jen has dedicated her legal career to working with injured and disabled people, like her father. She is currently an attorney at Segar & Sciortino where she advocates for people at some of the most difficult times in their lives. She also serves as the Co-Chair of Lawyers for Good Government, a progressive legal activist group, and sits on the board of the Anthony Poselovich Memorial Foundation, which helps families of young children diagnosed with cancer.






https://www.votejenlunsford.com/meet-jen

FLIPPABLE: Brittany Vogel for NY-AD107

For the past two decades I’ve been waiting for our politicians to address the issues that have made the lives of the working people, like mine, harder. After many years I have realized that if we are ever going to get the leaders we need, ones who care about the people and want to see us do better, then we would have to run ourselves.
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Being from a working-class family I know what our people have been up against. I grew up in Upstate New York, my mother worked full-time, raised two children, and tried to get by living paycheck to paycheck. My father working 80 hours a week to keep up with the bills. At 16 I got a job at the local grocery store to help lighten the burden on my family. It happened to be the same year that the recession began. I went to Hudson Valley Community College to study business administration, and was the first one in my family to get a college degree. I worked very hard to move up the ladder to get into management, quickly working my way to assistant store manager. I knew I would need to try my best and avoid what I could see coming so clearly for us in the working class, how difficult things were about to get for us. I made my focus on leadership, reading all the books, watching all the lectures, and figuring out what it truly meant to be a good leader and serve my people. I had to put in the work and forge my own path, because nothing was guaranteed for me.
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Being a leader of over 120 people at a time has given me a real window into the realities of our broken system, specifically in Rensselaer county where I have lived and worked for the past several years. Experiences that have changed my understanding if the world around me. The young daughter in Kinderhook that I worked with, who lost her mother to the opioid epidemic. My own family getting caught up in the heroin epidemic, which ripped our family apart. The people I’ve helped sign up with the local food pantry when they didn’t have enough to eat, and the hundreds of birthday cakes I made for children living in poverty in my community, starting Upstate Cakes for Kids. I’ve listened many times to people who talk about their childcare and housing costs eating up their paychecks, forcing them to work a second job, their stories of being evicted, their struggle to live paycheck to paycheck, their battles with mental health issues, and their turn to drugs and alcohol to dim their pain. I see everyday how much our people are hurting, and I don't see anyone coming to help.
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This is why I’m running for office. Our politicians have ignored us for too long. We need leaders at all levels of government that understand what our people have been up against, and that are ready to fight to make it better for all of us. I have the experience, the perspective, and the insight into the daily lives of our working people, and I am ready to fight for us, because my future is just as much at stake as everyone I am running to represent.
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I hope you will join me in my effort to bring real representation and change to the lives of the working people of our community.

Thank you for supporting my campaign.






https://www.brittany2020.com/

McEnany Gives Up Trump's Banking Info

But on Friday, Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, did not just reveal that the president was sending his salary to the Department of Health and Human Services to help “support the efforts being undertaken to confront, contain and combat the coronavirus.”

She also displayed the president’s private bank account and routing numbers.

The $100,000 check she held up like a prop appeared to be a real check from Capital One, complete with the relevant details. An administration official said mock checks were never used in the briefing.





https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/22/us/politics/coronavirus-trump-press-secretary-check.html

IA-SEN: Iowa Democrat tops Ernst in early fundraising report

Iowa Democrat Theresa Greenfield outraised Sen. Joni Ernst (R) in the state’s Senate race in the first half of the second quarter of 2020, according to a pre-primary report.

Greenfield raised about $1.5 million and has $4.7 million in the bank, according to her campaign’s latest filing with the Federal Election Commission. Meanwhile, Ernst raised $1.2 million, but boasts a beefier balance of $7 million, according to her campaign's filing.

Campaigns with primaries on June 2 have filed so-called pre-primary reports that cover from April 1 to May 13. Iowa is one of a handful of states that will hold its primary June 2.

“We outraised @joniernst in the weeks leading up to our #IASen primary! Iowans are ready to flip this seat, and we have the momentum to get it done,” Greenfield tweeted.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499216-iowa-democrat-tops-ernst-in-pre-primary-fundraising-for-senate-race

MT-SEN: Bullock outraises Daines in Montana Senate race

Montana Gov. Steve Bullock (D) outraised Sen. Steve Daines (R) in the state’s high-profile Senate race as Democrats hope to score an upset.

Bullock raised about $2.4 million in the first half of the second quarter and has about $4.1 million in the bank, according to his campaign’s latest filing with the Federal Election Commission.

Daines raised $1.3 million and has a war chest of $5.8 million.

Campaigns with primaries on June 2 have filed so-called pre-primary reports that cover fundraising from April 1-May 13. Montana is one of a handful of states that will hold its Senate primary on June 2.

Bullock entered the Senate race after his short-lived presidential run flamed out, giving Democrats a top-tier competitor in a state where they’d previously been lacking a serious candidate for the race.

Campaigns with primaries on June 2 have filed so-called pre-primary reports that cover fundraising from April 1-May 13. Montana is one of a handful of states that will hold its Senate primary on June 2.

Bullock entered the Senate race after his short-lived presidential run flamed out, giving Democrats a top-tier competitor in a state where they’d previously been lacking a serious candidate for the race.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499224-bullock-outraises-daines-in-montana-senate-race

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6 months on, Trump hasn't completed his physical. The White House won't say why.

WASHINGTON — It’s been more than six months since President Donald Trump claimed to have started his annual physical at Walter Reed hospital but the White House is declining to explain why he has yet to complete the yearly doctor’s examination.

Senior administration officials did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment about the delay — despite Trump announcing this week he was taking an unproven and potentially dangerous drug after being exposed to an aide who tested positive for coronavirus.

Asked in early March about when he would complete his physical, the president told reporters, “I’m going probably over the next 90 days. I’m so busy, I can’t do it.”

A month later, as the coronavirus pandemic hospitalized UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Trump said he would finish the exam “at the appropriate time” adding, “but I feel very good.”

A president’s annual physical typically occurs at the beginning of a new year. Trump’s 2019 exam was conducted in February, and his 2018 physical was conducted in January. It is uncommon for a president to complete a routine physical exam months apart and in multiple stages.

“As a part of granting a president as much power as we do, he has the obligation to demonstrate that he is well or, if he is not, to let us know exactly what is amiss,” said presidential historian Michael Beschloss.



https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-remains-mum-questions-about-trump-s-annual-physical-n1213266

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