Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb to Discuss Taxes, Job Creation and Government Reform at Town Hall Meetings

January 27th, 2010

Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,I,C-Canandaigua) today invited Seneca County citizens to the first in a series of Town Hall meetings he will be holding throughout his Assembly District.

The feedback, views and opinions received at the Town Hall meetings will help shape Kolb’s public policy agenda during the 2010 legislative session. Issues to be discussed include the need for a comprehensive statewide economic development program to create more private sector jobs; a property tax and state spending cap; state government ethics reform, and a “People’s Convention to Reform New York.”

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Albany Times Union Op-Ed: Convene to fix constitution

January 11th, 2010

 
By GERALD BENJAMIN AND MARIO CUOMO

Recently published year-end retrospectives universally agree: State government in New York reached a new low of dysfunction and nonperformance in 2009. Cries were heard from every quarter: Throw all the rascals out. But in truth, only a state constitutional convention can give us reforms that will help cure us of our governmental malaise and bring hope back to New York.

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The Capitol Pressroom: Interview with Assembly Republican Leader Brian Kolb and Assemblyman Will Barclay on People’s Convention to Reform NY

January 5th, 2010

Assembly Minority Leader Brian M. Kolb (R,I,C-Canandaigua) and Assemblyman Will Barclay (R,C,I-Pulaski) were interviewed today by Susan Arbetter, host of “The Capitol Pressroom.”  Kolb and Barclay discussed the 2010 prospects for a “People’s Convention to Reform New York” and how it could help deliver long overdue fiscal and governmental reforms New Yorkers have been demanding.  You can listen to the entire interview here.

http://thecapitolpressroom.org/the-capitol-pressroom-program-for-january-4-2010/

New York Observer: The Constitutional Convention and Its Multi-Dimensional Benefits

January 5th, 2010

By Jimmy Vielkind

ALBANY—Assemblyman Richard Brodsky says pushing for a Constitutional Convention is going to be his next big thing.

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