The signs of the political candidates have hit Amherst like a tornado. The law in Amherst is clear. Signs can only be placed on the property of the owner of that property. No signs can be placed from the edge of a sidewalk to the street. This law is never obeyed.
Take a ride around town. You will see more than 50 Jon Powers signs in illegal places, more than 60 signs with the name ‘Alice’ in big letters, are illegally placed. The candidate with the fewest illegally placed signs is Dan Ward.
A class act. That’s what she was. Hillary Clinton was gracious and kind. She made a soaring appeal for Democrats to support Senator Barack Obama for the good of America.
“No way, no how, no McCain,” said told her audience.
“Mrs. Clinton, who was once certain that she would win the Democratic nomination this year, also took steps on Tuesday — deliberate steps, aides said — to keep the door open to a future bid for the presidency. She rallied supporters in her speech, and, at an earlier event with 3,000 women, described her passion about her own campaign. And her aides limited input on the speech from Obama advisers, while seeking advice from her former strategist, Mark Penn, a loathed figure in the Obama camp.”
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Health insurance is what Hillary Clinton has been publicly speaking about since he husband was President. Last night she mentioned it more than a few times in her address at the National Democratic Convention. Believe it or not the number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than a million in 2007, to 45.7 million, the Census Bureau reported.
“The drop was the result of growth in government-sponsored health insurance programs, officials said, most of them focused on children. At the same time, the number of people covered by private insurance continued to decline.”
“Experts cautioned that the report, which also included data on income and poverty, did not take into account the economic downturn that began late last year, and therefore it probably presents a rosier picture than the current economic reality.”
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Mark Manna has declared his support for Dan Ward in his race for the 61st NY Senate Seat.
“Ward is an honorable man who is always fighting FOR the people of Amherst. He does not wait for others to take a stand and then decide what to do. Ward doesn’t choose a popular position to back, he does what he knows is right,” said Manna.
Ward is in a three way race with Joe Mesi and Michele Iannello.