Ball exploring in Orange County? – Updated a bit.
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- February
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State Assemblyman Greg Ball, R-Patterson, tomorrow plans to unveil his “Task Force of Job Creation and Retention in the Hudson Valley.” The plan, according to a press release from the assemblyman, is meant “to help prevent future job loss and strengthen the region’s economy. ”
From Ball’s press release:
Ball’s plan is multifaceted: demanding transparency for usage of taxpayer dollars that go towards economic development; making smart use of the $24.6 billion in stimulus dollars New York State will receive from Washington, DC; reforming Industrial Development Agencies and Empire Zone Programs to attract and assist businesses; holding the line against job loss through outsourcing and worker misclassification.
The assemblyman, as you may recall, is considering running for Congress against Rep. John Hall, D-Dover Plains.
Ball is scheduled to make two stops tomorrow. One is in Carmel, which is part of his 99th Assembly District. The first stop of the day, though, is in Warwick in Orange County – which isn’t in the assembly district but is part of the 19th Congressional District.
As a side note, the press release sent out on Wednesday (2/25) says the event is this Friday and gives the date as 2/24. A call to Ball’s office, though, confirmed the event is 2/27.
UPDATE: Ball’s office sent out a revised and corrected release with the 2/27 date.
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Mr. Risinit:
When you called to Ball’s office to confirm, was it his official New York State taxpayer-funded office or his campaign office?
The reason I ask is because if Mr. Ball were using his Assembly office to hold events in Orange County, in an apparent boost to his Congressional campaign, wouldn’t that be a tad bit unethical or, daresay, illegal?
– Peter Schaus
Campaign office, NYS taxpayer funded office… there’s no difference to Ball. How about just the fact that we’re paying for him to drive his Range Rover to Orange County to campaign? I wish all of you would pay for my gas.
Ball will tie in any forums and gatherings out of his NYS Assembly Office. Of course he will begin to spread into a wider area to get his name out there. We probably will see him including all areas of Halls congressional district more and more. Sure, why not utilize taxpayer dollars to gain what he wants. What else is new.
Ball has been nothing but a drain on taxpayers since he moved out of his parents house. Wait, I think he might actually be back living there.
We’ve paid for his education and now we pay for him to campaign full-time.
Rumor going around is that Ball’s “exploring” hasn’t been going so well. He’s finding it pretty difficult to get commitments for campaign cash and that John Hall isn’t as unpopular as he would have hoped. Some Republican leaders have actually told Ball that even they like Hall.
The uphill battle continues.
Actually, people seem to like Hall from both parties. Senior citizens/baby boomers are Halls kind of people and there are plenty of that age group around.
Where does Ball live anyway? Does he reside in the 99th district as required? Do his parents live in the district as poster mentioned he may live back home with Mom and Daddy. Interesting news to read.
I’m a baby boomer and a Republican and I voted for Sue Kelly in 2006 but voted for Hall in 2008 because he’s been doing a good job and the Republicans ran a light weight.
Gregg Ball is no different. He’s a light weight. Has this guy ever held a real job? Does he have any concrete accomplishments?
I don’t think so. It’s all hype. I’ll be supporting Hall unless I see a real Republican opponent, someone deserving who could serve with us with dignity in the House.
out for dignity, you better pass on Ball.
John Hall out astroturfing a bit early, no? Must be concerned, he knows he’s living on borrowed time.
Any “Republican” who is supporting Hall is not a Republican. Hall couldn’t even pull 58% in an Obama year, against a first-time candidate!
Kirsten Gillibrand (with an even more Republicand district) took 63% against the former Republican Party chair, who spent 12 million dollars…
Hall couldn’t even pull 58%!
LOL
The way people feeling about the country and the dire financial problems, hard to say how they will vote.
One thing Hall seems to have lots of campaign money on his financial filing while Ball is running fumes. Takes lots of money to run a campaign. Maybe Ball will have a few financial surprise supporters for this election.
Rumor has it he got engaged, maybe he will marry a rich woman like John McCain !
Actually, Hall DID get 58%, or more precisely, 58.2%, to Lalor’s 41.8. Contrasted to the previous cycle, where Hall beat Runaway Sue Kelly by only 2%.
LOL, indeed.
Maybe Greg Ball will try the charity polo match scam again?
I’m a Republican. More of a Republican than Greg Ball will ever or could ever be. I care deeply about the GOP whereas Greg Ball cares deeply about Greg Ball.
That’s why I cannot and will not support Greg Ball. I have witnessed the cancer that is Greg Ball spread throughout Putnam County with people like mentally unstable individuals like Michael Rights being put in positions of power based on hot rhetoric, false claims and impossible promises.
So if I pull the lever for John Hall in order to save my Party and my community, how does that make me less of a Republican?
I just hope the GOP is wise enough to not unite behind Ball. There’s got to be someone else out there. Someone who can actually win and support the Party in the process.
Anyone? Anyone? Anyone?
It makes you less of a Republican because 75% of us supported Greg Ball in the 2006 and 2008 primaries, and 95% of us in the general elections.
You are some Democrat-John Hall staffer pretending to ‘care deeply about the GOP’ but nobody buys it.
Hey buddy, my name is Edward L. MacMahon, Jr. and I have been a registered Republican for over 40 years.
I have never been anything but a Republican. Can Greg Ball say the same for himself?
What’s your name? How about your Party registration and who the hell do you work for?
Wake up and realize that Greg Ball does not have the unified support of Republicans.
“santos’ missing campaign filings”
what about greg ball’s best friend and sugar daddy michael rights and his missing campaign filings? and what of the campaign cash from a certain local developer? sworn ball enemy one day, best friend the next. people are looking into it.
Ed McMahon? LOL.
People like you are the reason that we’re shut out of statewide offices, the legislature, congress, etc.
Go back to Publisher’s Clearing House.
BTW, a quick Intelius search reveals there are no Edward MacMahons who are registered Republicans and no David Littles whatsoever in Westchester, Putnam, or Dutchess Counties.
So what exactly are you doing blogging under a fake name pretending to be a disaffected Republican?
Expanded Search Results
* We searched Edward Macmahon and found 0 records in NY
* We searched Ed Macmahon and found 0 records in NY
* We searched Eddy Macmahon and found 0 records in NY
* We searched Edmond Macmahon and found 0 records in NY
* We searched Edmund Macmahon and found 0 records in NY
* We searched Edward Macmahon and found 21 records nationwide
I don’t necessarily want to chime-in to this pissing contest but I believe the use of the name “David Little” was a jab at Southeast Town Supervisor Michael Rights as that was his old name which he changed for reasons that he still has not disclosed.
And I believe the other gentleman’s name was Ed MacMahon not McMahon but still, it seems like too much of coincidence.
A better question is, who are you santos?
Good that Greg Ball is starting early. It worked for him for his first Assembly run.
, just not good for us taxpayers that pay him to campaign full-time.
Last time I checked, the Assemblyman has two bills that would end incentives for companies that offshore jobs, such as IBM, and IBM Sterling Forest is located in Warwick.
Why shouldn’t he be able to talk about an IBM bill at IBM? State legislators represent ALL New Yorkers. I live in Orange County. If I call a state senator from Queens, or an Assemblymember from Buffalo, they will help me fix my problems just as Annie Rabbitt would.
He’s traveling to Orange County because no one else will stand up to IBM. Has anyone else noticed that IBM is one of John Hall’s biggest contributors? Probably not, but then again, you have not been laid off and had your job sent to India.
Ball and these unions should be commended for standing up for us when no one else will.
If only that was really what Ball was about.
Last time I checked, the Assemblyman has never been to Orange County before. And now that he’s running for Congress it’s a little too obvious what’s going on here. Also, wasn’t the Assemblyman, before he was the Assemblyman, the guy who offshored American jobs to India? Hypocrite.
i remember that from his first campaign. will stephens made an issue of it but then it went away. what ever came of that? did ball really “offshore” american jobs? that would be terrible news for his congressional bid.
Last we heard when he ran for the Assembly the first time in 2006 was that the company Ball was working for, (cant remember name), Ball arranged for jobs from a company in his home town of Pawling (Pawling Corp) to have jobs OUTSOURCED to india. Not sure if this is true but that was said at the time.
The anti-Ball crowd has ZERO credibility left (not that they had very much to begin with, with a mouthpiece convicted of libel, not to mention the fabricated a sexual harassment lawsuit, and swearing that their candidate wasn’t a slumlord, only for him to be sued by his own tenants for being… a slumlord). At times, we hear Ball’s company never existed. Then, we hear it did exist, but that it was outsourcing. Nobody believes, or listens to you. That’s irrelevance for you.
Enjoy.
GREG BALL IS A HYPOCRITE. THE NAME OF THE COMPANY WAS EXCEED INTERNATIONAL. BALL WORKED OUT OF AN OFFICE IN PAWLING ON 22 NEAR HANNAFORD’S. THIS OFFICE WAS THERE FOR ONLY TWO YEARS AND BALL AND ANOTHER EXCEED EMPLOYEE NAMED CHRISTOPHER WOOD WERE THERE. THIS IS THE SAME OFFICE GREG BALL ILLEGALLY RAN HIS FIRST CAMPAIGN OUT OF. THEY HELPED PAWLING CORPORATION CUT OPERATING COSTS BY OUTSOURCING JOBS TO EXCEED’S OFFICES IN INDIA.
SO GREG BALL CAN TALK UNTIL HE’S BLUE IN THE FACE ABOUT JOB CREATION AND SAVING JOBS BUT LAST I CHECKED, JOHN HALL NEVER PERSONALLY OUTSOURCED AMERICAN JOBS. ONLY GREG BALL HOLDS THAT DUBIOUS DISTINCTION.
ANY REPORTER WORTH HIS OR HER SALT WOULD INCLUDE THIS PART OF BALL’S HISTORY IN ANY STORIES ABOUT HIM AND SO-CALLED JOB CREATION.
Any reporter worth his or her salt would note that to date, Truth About Ball has still illegally failed to file any financial disclosures.
Sitting here and making up obviously fake names like ‘Edward MacMahon’ is one thing, but wantonly breaking the law is quite another, and you my friend, are guilty.
What about Greg Ball’s sugar-daddy Michael Rights?
Not only did Rights drink & drive twice (that’s at least the times he was caught) but he also wantonly broke the law along with a Greg Ball employee, Matt Neuringer, by failing to file their campaign financial disclosures or falsely reporting information.
Greg Ball was over two months late with a financial disclosure in 2007.
Those in glass houses…
Hmm, and were they fined by the board of elections? No. Can the same be said for Truth about Ball? Check, and mate.
(One of these groups is not like the other)
C30184
SAVE OUR SOUTHEAST
REPORTS FILED FOR FILING YEAR 2007
32 DAY PRE PRIMARY REPORT
11 DAY PRE PRIMARY REPORT
10 DAY POST PRIMARY REPORT
32 DAY PRE GENERAL REPORT
27 DAY POST GENERAL REPORT
JANUARY PERIODIC REPORT
JULY PERIODIC REPORT
A38238
TRUTH ABOUT BALL
REPORTS FILED FOR FILING YEAR 2008
JULY PERIODIC REPORT
Hmm, that’s… 0 missing… to… 7… what’s the tab for that, $7000 in fines?
Must be nice to be that wealthy in these rough times. Oh, that’s right, it wasn’t your money to begin with.
Where are Ball’s filings for his attempted takeover of the Republican committee? I guess all of his candidates broke the law as well? Did they file CF16’s? What committee did they list?
are the Putnam Pioneers? I thought three months ago they were going to be listed with the BOE any day?
Why would anybody give any of these guys their money?
So it seems a lot of people are upset that Ball is presumably campaigning while getting paid by the taxpayers. Well, I hope none of you people voted for Obama – all he has done is campaign. Oh wait, he voted “Present” a bunch of times too. To be fair Clinton and McCain did the same thing, only for a significantly less time in McCain’s case.
Any so-called republican that voted for Hall, change parties and spare us real Conservative Republicans. John Hall is a radical liberal and if you didn’t see it before – watch closely. Congress believes they have a mandate to create the USSA (United Socialist States of America).
You guess they broke the law? Nice try, grasping at straws. There is only one committee that has been fined by the BOE, and that my friend, is yours.
is there filing? How can candidates have run in the Primary with no filing?
I should have discovered this great discussion long time ago. Many thanks!
Ball held a great Town Hall meeting. The only out burst came from a plant from the Orange Democratic leader going around wiring up those who attended. A young fellow come up and attacked our Seniors and Military what NERVE… Gregg even offered his seat to Cong. Hall if he showed up and would debate him. Great job Gregg. Gregg is for the people not for and cutting costs.
To his credit, Hall doesn’t always take the politically expedient approach or stance on controversial issues, such as the bailout. He also defends earmarks, funds that go to specific projects in specific congressional districts and are usually tucked into big spending bills. Hall points out these funds can have a lot of useful purposes, such as to pay for sewer lines and waste water treatment plants, big-ticket items that would wildly drive up a locality’s property taxes without federal assistance.
Ball held a great Town Hall meeting. The only out burst came from a plant from the Orange Democratic leader going around wiring up those who attended. A young fellow come up and attacked our Seniors and Military what NERVE… Gregg even offered his seat to Cong. Hall if he showed up and would debate him. Great job Gregg. Gregg is for the people for and cutting costs.
Hall is for BIG EAR MARKS, Hall doesn’t always take the politically expedient approach or stance on controversial issues, such as the bailout. He also defends earmarks, funds that go to specific projects in specific congressional districts and are usually tucked into big spending bills. Hall points out these funds can have a lot of useful purposes, such as to pay for sewer lines and waste water treatment plants, big-ticket items that would wildly drive up a locality’s property taxes without federal assistance.