The green party candidate for Congress in the North Country's 21st district, Matt Funiciello, is coming under fire for his opinions on the September 11 terrorist attacks. Earlier this week, it was reported that Funiciello has questioned whether or not the U.S. government has told the truth about why the World Trade Center was destroy and Pentagon was damaged.
Democrats criticize NY-21 Green Party candidate for remarks about 9/11
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Woolf says he is in tune with North Country voters, but still trails Stefanik in polls
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North Country congressional debate gets personal, again
The issue of who is really from the North Country continues to be raised in the race for the 21st Congressional District seat. Last night, the second of three televised debates was held in Plattsburgh, sponsored by WPTZ-TV. This time, the three candidates were all asked where they maintain their primary residence and whether they were eligible to vote in the district two years ago.
Elise Stefanik, the Republican candidate, has spent the last several years living and working in Washington, D.C., but now lives at her family vacation home in Essex County.
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Final debate held in race to fill open North Country congressional seat
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In North Country, Democrat candidate Woolf wants to "tell a new story" for change in Congress
This week, WRVO will profile candidates for Congress in central and northern New York. We begin with Aaron Woolf, the Democrat running for the open seat in 21st district in the North Country.
New York's North Country Democrats surprised everyone when they chose Aaron Woolf to try to succeed Bill Owens after he announced his retirement. Woolf is running against Republican Elise Stefanik and Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello.
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Siena poll shows Republicans leading in 21st and 24th Congressional Districts
With only a week left until Election Day, the Republicans running in two of upstate New York's historically more contested districts lead their Democratic opponents, according to newly released polls.
The 24th Congressional District showed the most dramatic shift in favor of the Republican. A Syracuse.com/Post-Standard/Siena College poll released early Tuesday, shows Republican John Katko with a ten point lead over Democratic incumbent Rep. Dan Maffei. Katko was down eight points when the last poll came out Sept. 21.
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In North Country, Republican candidate Stefanik says "people want a new generation of leaders"
This week, WRVO is profiling candidates for Congress in central and northern New York. Today we take a look at Elise Stefanik, the Republican running for the open seat in 21st district in the North Country.
Stefanik hopes to return the North Country’s seat in Congress to the Republican side of the aisle as it had been for decades before Democrat Bill Owens won three times. She would become the youngest member of the House at 30 years old.
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NY21: Stefanik makes history as youngest woman in House
It was a triumphant night for Republican Elise Stefanik, the 30-year-old Republican who moved last year to Willsboro in Essex County.
She’ll go to Washington DC as the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She built a juggernaut campaign, promising bipartisanship and new ideas.
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Woolf: "I loved being your candidate"
Republican Elise Stefanik cruised to an easy victory to become the North Country’s next Congresswoman. She defeated Democrat Aaron Woolf 53-32 percent, with the Green Party candidate winning 11 percent of the vote.
At his campaign headquarters near his home in Elizabethtown Tuesday night, Woolf acknowledged some rough patches in his campaign.
Republicans pigeon-holed filmmaker Aaron Woolf from the beginning as a “Manhattan Millionaire,” a carpetbagger. But people at this folksy, Adirondack bar near his home don’t see that Aaron Woolf at all.
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Stefanik adds 'additional crack in the glass ceiling'
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Doheny says attack ad launched againgst him crosses a line
The primary race between Matt Doheny and Elise Stefanik to represent the North Country's 21st Congressional District continues to draw national attention. On Tuesday, GOP Super PAC American Crossroads joined the fray by running a television ad against Doheny in Albany, Watertown and Plattsburgh, which attacks the Watertown businessman's political and personal record."Multi-millionaire Matt Doheny just doesn't learn from his mistakes," the ad proclaims, with ominous music playing in the background. "Maybe that's why Doheny's already lost three elections for Congress."Doheny narrowly lost against outgoing Democratic Rep. Bill Owens in 2010 and 2012, and a special election in 2009.Doheny said in a written statement that he's deeply troubled by what he calls "Stefanik's out of town supporters." He says the 30-second spot, which calls him a flawed candidate, is a mean and partly untruthful attack. Doheny says Stefanik denies that she's a Washington, D.C. insider, even with two Super PACs
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Doheny, Stefanik debate local and national issues
The two candidates vying for the Republican Party's nod in the 21st Congressional District showed a lot of similarities during an hour-long primary debate held Thursday in Watertown. The debate between Matt Doheny and Elise Stefanik was broadcast on WWNY in Watertown and North Country Public Radio and public television. Both candidates want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and repair the medical care system for veterans. They were also both against the 2008 bailouts for automakers and the big banks, though their reasons why differed a bit, and they used that topic as an opportunity to criticize each other. Stefanik called out Doheny for the time he spent on Wall Street. Doheny noted that Stefanik was working for Republicans in Washington who supported the bailout."My family's small business, we aren't a Wall Street company," Stefanik said. "We're a Main Street company. If we fail, no one is there to bail us out. So we need to have an even playing field for
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Doheny, Stefanik take similar platforms to North Country voters
For the past few months, North Country voters have heard a lot about the two Republican candidates running to represent the party in this fall's election for New York's 21st Congressional District. But the differences between Elise Stefanik and Matt Doheny aren't really that vast. Both Stefanik and Doheny oppose the Affordable Care Act and want better care for military veterans. But while their national policies tow the Republican line, they have sparred some on the local level. For example, the two disagree on the I-98 "Rooftop Highway" project.Elise Stefanik says she's against it."My family's small business, we have trucks on the road five to six days a week," Stefanik said during a June 12 debate. "We feel first hand the challenges stemming from our crumbling infrastructure system. So I hope to be a committed voice to invest in what we have. To invest in rail, roads, waterways, sewers, so that we can have a 21st century growth."But Matt Doheny says it's all about investment."As
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Stefanik wins GOP 21st Congressional District primary
After entering the race as a complete unknown last year, Elise Stefanik won the Republican Party primary in New York's 21st Congressional District Tuesday night by a commanding margin over Matt Doheny.Stefanik, a 29-year-old political analyst, overcame non-existent name recognition, opposition from some senior GOP leaders, and claims that she was a "carpetbagger" from outside the North Country district.None of those challenges slowed her, as she powered to a commanding victory, winning every county across the vast district, including Watertown businessman Matt Doheny's home turf of Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties.In her victory speech, she trumpeted her youth -- Stefanik turns 30 next month -- and what she described as her fresh ideas, saying that she planned to bring new voters to Republican politics.She toppled a candidate who, on paper, appeared like a far easier sell for GOP voters. Doheny, a businessman who spent election night with his wife and family, entered the race late,
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North Country Democratic congressional candidate launches first TV ad
Aaron Woolf, the Democratic candidate in the North Country's 21st Congressional District, released his first television ad today.Woolf, a documentary filmmaker, is running against Republican Elise Stefanik and Green Party candidate Matt Funicello to replace retiring Democratic Congressman Bill Owens. Woolf's television commercial says that if elected, he would be willing to work with Republicans to get legislation passed."Because if he's going to fight for farmers and small businesspeople looking for a little economic fairness, women who happen to think equal work should mean equal pay and veterans waiting months just to see the doctor, he's going to need to make the most difficult walk of all," a narrator says. "Across the aisle."The National Republican Congressional Committee immediately issued a statement saying that it is ironic that a documentary filmmaker would leave out crucial facts from his first commercial. Stefanik already ran television ads during the Republican primary,
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Poll shows Republican Stefanik with 13 point lead in North Country congressional race
A new poll in New York's North Country's Congressional race finds Republican Elise Stefanik leading Democrat Aaron Woolf 46 to 33 percent. Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello is favored by 10 percent of those polled.The poll was conducted independent of the candidates by WWNY-TV 7 News in Watertown and Siena College. It has a four point margin of error.The poll also finds North Country voters deeply dissatisfied with their state and federal leaders, with more than 10 percent of voters saying they're unsure how to vote. Stefanik communication director Lenny Alcivar released a statement about the poll saying it appears her message has "resonated with voters across New York's 21st District." "Elise will continue her campaign's focus on meeting with voters and on communicating her common sense, positive vision," he added. In a statement released Wednesday afternoon, Woolf argued, "My momentum is building. I will continue to work hard to talk with as many voter as I can about ways we can
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Democrats criticize NY-21 Green Party candidate for remarks about 9/11
The green party candidate for Congress in the North Country's 21st district, Matt Funiciello, is coming under fire for his opinions on the September 11 terrorist attacks. Earlier this week, it was reported that Funiciello has questioned whether or not the U.S. government has told the truth about why the World Trade Center was destroy and Pentagon was damaged. In an interview, Funiciello told North Country Public Radio, “I’m definitely as an American in no way satisfied with the official story that we’ve been told over and over again about the three towers that came down and the subsequent damage on 9/11.” Wednesday, in a conference call with reporters, the Democrat in the race, Aaron Wolf, criticized Funiciello for his statements. “I think it’s incredibly offensive that anybody would allege that our government would have a hand in detonating those buildings. Just on a purely personal level, I find that extremely troubling and offensive. On a political level, I’m not sure why it would
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Woolf says he is in tune with North Country voters, but still trails Stefanik in polls
Aaron Woolf, the Democratic candidate running to represent the North Country's 21st Congressional District, says he plans to show the divide between himself and his Republican opponent Elise Stefanik during Wednesday night's debate."The very fact that she has been less forthcoming with the press, to put it mildly, lately, means that this is really a very crucial opportunity for us to make sure she's on the record and being as specific as we've asked her to be," Woolf explained to reporters during a conference call Tuesday.Woolf's statement follows an editorial in the Glens Falls Post-Star, which rebuked the Republican for her failure to answer reporters' questions. Earlier this week, Stefanik delivered the GOP's national response to President Barack Obama's weekly address, saying the Affordable Care Act has made insurance more expensive for her family's business and blaming Obama and the Democrats for not helping small businesses. Democrat says race is getting tighter Woolf also says
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North Country congressional debate gets personal, again
The issue of who is really from the North Country continues to be raised in the race for the 21st Congressional District seat. Last night, the second of three televised debates was held in Plattsburgh, sponsored by WPTZ-TV. This time, the three candidates were all asked where they maintain their primary residence and whether they were eligible to vote in the district two years ago.Elise Stefanik, the Republican candidate, has spent the last several years living and working in Washington, D.C., but now lives at her family vacation home in Essex County.“Willsboro, N.Y. is where my residence is. My family’s had a home there since I was three years old. I’m a proud resident. Upstate New York is a part of my upbringing. I was born in St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany County. I was eligible to vote in the 20th Congressional District in the 2012 election,” said Stefanik.The Democratic candidate, Aaron Woolf, is known as a documentary filmmaker from Brooklyn, but also has a home in the North
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Final debate held in race to fill open North Country congressional seat
Gun control was one of the topics the three candidates running for the North Country's open congressional seat discussed during their final debate of the election season, hosted by WWNY-TV in Watertown. Both Republican Elise Stefanik and Democrat Aaron Woolf agree the New York SAFE Act is flawed.Woolf says there needs to be a discussion about sensible gun control, and that mental health should be looked at, starting in schools."We have mechanisms to screen for physical illnesses in schools, but not so much with mental illnesses," Woolf explained. "I think that would be an incredibly important and good start."Stefanik, who is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, says she agrees that mental health should be looked at closely."We need to make sure that we are encouraging, we're protecting law abiding citizens, but we're also addressing the increasingly violent acts," Stefanik said. "And I think we can do that by addressing mental health."Green Party candidate Matt Funiciello says
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