Supermarket magnate Neil Golub and wife, Jane, are hosting a June 13 fundraiser for Roger Hull, the Republican/Alliance party candidate for Schenectady mayor. The "requested contribution" to be a sponsor is a hefty $1,400. Other classifications are cheaper, including host, $1,000; patron, $500; and attendee, $250. The event will be at the Golubs' Rosendale Road home. Hull, who was president of Union College, and the Golubs have been friends for years. Hull and Neil Golub founded and nurtured the Schenectady 2000 program that helped create the Metroplex Development Authority. Hull is running against Democrat Gary McCarthy, who is serving as acting mayor in addition to his regular main role as City Council president. McCarthy had a recent well-attended $100-a-head fundraiser. He said he also turned down several contributions in the $1,000 range to keep the playing field level......................>>>>................>>>>...........Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/defa.....97.php#ixzz1NGT1PcZ4
Alliance Party mayoral candidate Roger Hull has named a Schenectady resident with experience in running state Assembly campaigns as his campaign manager. Brian Young, 30, will also assist in the day-to-day operations of the Alliance Party, which Hull formed....................>>>>..................>>>>................http://www.dailygazette.com/weblogs/votes-notes/2011/may/23/52311_hull_names/
Interesting. With this event it would seem that the Alliance Party means business. The Golubs are heavy hitters. Their backing should provide more validaty to the AP. What may be somewhat curious is if somewhere down the road Mr. Golub somehow gets elevated to the Chair of the Plex. I had heard years ago that Mr. Golub had hoped to aspire to such a post. No doubt the Plex has an image problem and maybe a new chair could reverse that trend. Yes the City does not control the Plex, but if the perception of the Plex continues to seem a failure in the eyes of many, what better way to improve it's image. With none other than the co-architect, with Mr. Hull, of Schdy 2000 which was the foreunner of the Plex. What may be a stickey to all this may be the view by some that having him as Chair, conflicts with the benefit of the new PC HQ that he received. By the way does anyone know how long the Chair term is and how long the board members can serve? And what does it take to remove a Chair. Are the appts. open ended?
Schenectady mayoral hopeful to propose scholarship fund Schenectady mayoral hopeful Roger Hull says home buyers to benefit By LAUREN STANFORTH Staff writer Updated 09:43 p.m., Wednesday, May 25, 2011
SCHENECTADY -- Third-party candidate Roger Hull will announce Thursday a plan to start a scholarship fund for home buyers if he's elected mayor in November.
Hull would attempt to privately raise $200,000 so that up to 25 students could attend Schenectady County Community College for two years if they or their families purchase a house in the city.
Campaign manager Brian Young said the privately funded program would be similar to one Hull helmed in 1998 while he was Union College president that gave people who purchased houses on neighboring Seward Place or Erie Boulevard up to $22,000 in tuition to the college.....................>>>>..................>>>>............Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/loca.....97.php#ixzz1NVuHpI4Y
Probably not. They all seem to have hitched their wagons to the Plex horse. May seem like the city's only hope to them. The Plex is in too deep to turn back now.
Oh this certainly can and just may be an issue for Hull. But let us be reminded of the alternative........MCCARTHY!!! Just another stratton/savage clone.
A vote for Hull is clearly a NO VOTE for mcarthy!! It's a no brainer here folks!!! Schenectadians shouldn't have to think hard andlong on this one. Give Hull a shot at it...and if he fails....kick his a$$ out in the next election rounds. Let them know the electorate means business!!! Unlike the stratton/savage/mccarthy crew....Hull will listen!!
However........before election, schenectadians must ask hull the tough questions regarding the plex and where he stands on the issue.
The plex is really the only bone of contention here!!
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However........before election, schenectadians must ask hull the tough questions regarding the plex and where he stands on the issue. The plex is really the only bone of contention here!!
Roger Hull would be a welcome change but he seems tone deaf to the biggest problem too much City spending which creates the highest taxes in the region and 12th highest in the country. His campaign hires are cause for alarm. He recently released a plan for free tuition at SCCC for new City homeowners. WTF? The problem is disgusting over taxation not lack of educational opportunities.
Hull just doesn't connect with the average Joes and Janes. There's time but he really needs to propose serious spending cuts, elimination of hand outs/departments and major property tax relief. Get specific. People want change and you are the only change candidate.
dudes, u do not even live in the city,, so your opinions mean squat... perahps you should stay focused on something you know, like .......... on jeez, is there anything you know?
Roger Hull and Al Jurzynski were the ones who gave us the Seward Street "makeover" that is now falling apart -- and will cost a fortune to rebuild.
Roger Hull will lose in his bid for Mayor -- because he is a retread from the failed Jurzynski era -- and it is the many failures of the Jurzynski era that have taken 8 years to recover from ..
BUT . have no fear .. the Renaissance HAS BEGUN .. and the voters of Schenectady will NEVER go back to the days when they were ineptly led by the likes of Hull, Jurzynski, Bob and Hugh Farley -- and Joe Surhada.
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GOP lawmakers join Hull on idea Third-party candidate for mayor draws support on anti-crime plan from GOP By LAUREN STANFORTH Staff writer Published 12:02 a.m., Wednesday, July 13, 2011
SCHENECTADY -- For a third-party candidate, mayoral hopeful Roger Hull is getting a lot of support from the right.
Hull, who served as Union College's president for 15 years before retiring in 2005, was joined on the steps of City Hall Tuesday by Republican Assemblymen Jim Tedisco and George Amedore to promote a city anti-crime program that Tedisco is trying to reinvigorate from 2003. Tedisco and Amedore represent parts of the city in the Legislature.
Tedisco said the event wasn't meant as an endorsement of Hull's candidacy against City Council President Democrat Gary McCarthy, but for what it is -- a chance for someone to push through his idea to promote the city's crime tip line through advertising. Later however, state Senate Republican Hugh Farley of Niskayuna confirmed that the three state GOP members are endorsing Hull, who created a third party called the Alliance Party for his mayoral run.
Hull said Tedisco and Amedore's support should not be viewed as proof that he exclusively subscribes to GOP beliefs. Hull, who is not enrolled in a political party, said he'll take support from anyone who likes his platform. City Republicans have endorsed Hull and three of the Alliance Party's four candidates for City Council -- a bid to gain strength in the wake of Democratic Mayor Brian U. Stratton's April departure for a state job. McCarthy has since taken over the duties of acting mayor and the reins of a party that has a large enrollment advantage over Republicans in the city.
"I think the biggest crime is we don't reach across party lines and take the best idea," Hull said after Tuesday's news conference.
Hull and the assemblymen were joined by various Republican candidates for Schenectady County Legislature, including 2003 city mayoral candidate Peter Guidarelli, who mulled running again but is now seeking a legislature seat in District 1.
U.S. Rep. Democrat Paul Tonko of Amsterdam has thrown his support behind McCarthy by attending the candidate's announcement in late April. His district includes Schenectady.
Tedisco's anti-crime initiative says the city should promote its tip line through bus ads and billboards and that the Metroplex Development Authority should pay for it -- a theme echoed in another Hull proposal in which the county redevelopment authority would pay for knocking down derelict properties. Hull, who helped develop the idea of Metroplex in the 1990s, said the authority has plenty of money in its $75 million bond cap to throw $1.5 million at some lingering city ills.
"I'm not looking for Metroplex to solve all the problems," Hull said, "I'm looking for it to carry out its vision."
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Roger Hull would be a welcome change but he seems tone deaf to the biggest problem too much City spending which creates the highest taxes in the region and 12th highest in the country. His campaign hires are cause for alarm. He recently released a plan for free tuition at SCCC for new City homeowners. WTF? The problem is disgusting over taxation not lack of educational opportunities. 
