June 11th, 2010
VERONA, NY (WKTV) – Assemblyman Dave Townsend, (R) 115th District, hosted a town hall meeting Thursday night at VVS gymnasium pushing for a constitutional convention.
Almost 50 people attended the town hall meeting.
Assemblyman Townsend has co-sponsored legislation that would create a “people’s convention.”
June 11th, 2010
By MATT POWERS
Dispatch Staff Writer
VERONA – New York State Assemblyman Brian Kolb, R-129, made an appeal to local voters to make urgent calls to their legislators at a “People’s Convention to Reform New York” town hall meeting on Thursday night that filled the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Middle School gym.
“There has never been a better time for people to mobilize their anger and call legislators,” he said. “People are ready to make a stand.”
Kolb along with New York State Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-47, and Assemblyman David Townsend, R-115, were on hand to answer questions about a bill currently before the Legislature to place a referendum on the ballot for a 2012 state constitutional convention.
June 11th, 2010
A new bill introduced by state Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R-Canandaigua, could lead to regular citizens having an opportunity to change the state constitution.
But it won’t get off the ground without grassroots support, local Republican legislators said.
June 10th, 2010
By The Dispatch Staff
VERONA — There will be a “People’s Convention to Reform New York” town hall meeting tonight in the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Middle School gymnasium at 6:30 p.m.
New York State Assemblyman David Townsend, R-115 and Assemblyman Brian Kolb, R-129, will co-host the event, which is designed to inform constituents of the people’s convention and its purpose.
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May 27th, 2010
By MATT POWERS
Dispatch Staff Writer
ALBANY — Area residents will have a chance to put in their two cents at a “People’s Convention to Reform New York” town hall meeting in the Vernon-Verona-Sherrill Middle School gymnasium on June 10 at 6:30 p.m.
New York State Assemblyman David Townsend, R-115 and Assemblyman Brian Kolb, R-129, will co-host the event, which is designed to inform constituents of the people’s convention and its purpose.
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May 20th, 2010
Just days after state Senate President Malcolm Smith claimed that he was going to help the Democrats “redistrict the Republicans into oblivion,” several “good government” groups convened a meeting in Albany to discuss reform of state government. They invited Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
May 10th, 2010
Two separate events are scheduled in the Hudson Valley Wednesday, with one common theme — the concept of a Constitutional Convention. WAMC’s Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Greg Fry has a preview…
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May 10th, 2010
Written by Cory Twibell and Victoria Caruso-Davis
“Is Albany working for you?” asked New York State Assemblyman Minority Leader Brian Kolb (129th A.D.) to those gathered for a town hall meeting last week. “Is the New York State government working for you?”
The response from an audience of about 50 gathered at the Hicksville Knights of Columbus was silence; not a single person raised their hand.
April 23rd, 2010
By Mid-Hudson News Network
HUDSON — Some 100 people attended a state Assembly Republican session Wednesday about the possibility of calling a people’s convention to reform New York.
Most people in attendance supported the proposal.
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April 22nd, 2010
By Jamie Larson
A town hall meeting was held Wednesday night at the Hudson Elk’s Lodge by state representatives to gain support for new legislation which would move up the date of the next public vote on moving up the date of the next New York State Constitutional Convention, from 2017 to this November.
The meeting was led by State Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb, R,C,I-Canandaigua, and local Assemblyman Marcus Molinaro, R,C,I-Red Hook.
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