Member NYS Assembly, 116th, just solutions no rhetoric, Doggy dad x4
Watertown, NY
Joined January 2013
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100%!!! “…that no elected Republican with ‘half a brain’ believed that Blakeman would beat Hochul.”
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Last night was a referendum on the national stage. But winning because you oppose someone is not the same as earning a mandate to govern. You have to govern with ideas and purpose, and no one had a better idea in the lead-up to Election Day.
Nobody owned the mantle of affordability in this election cycle. Neither the national nor the state agenda has tackled utility costs, housing costs, or mandates, fees, and charges governments keep adding to New Yorkers' everyday taxes and expenses.
The challenge to our colleagues as we head back to Albany: don't swing so far the other way that we create the same opposition from a different angle. Solutions come from a coalition of ideas, not one side.
As President Kennedy said, "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer." New Yorkers deserve it.
Earned media: a time-honored pillar of nearly every campaign strategy.
Bludgeoning the media: a less conventional approach, whose results, shall we say, remain unproven.
Proud to represent such a critical facility in our energy system
Twenty-two thousand men moved the St. Lawrence. The dam they built still runs.
The St. Lawrence–FDR Power Project sits on the river at Massena, in St. Lawrence County. Ground was broken on August 10, 1954, on both shores at once: New York at Massena, Ontario at Cornwall, across the water.
The Power Authority of the State of New York built the American half, Ontario Hydro the Canadian half, and the two halves meet at the international boundary in the middle of a dam 3,300 feet long.
The job was bigger than the dam. The river had to be moved out of its bed so the dam could be poured in the dry, behind cofferdams. Fifty-seven million cubic yards of channel were dug for the Seaway alongside it. Before the first kilowatt, the dam alone took 1,900,000 cubic yards of concrete and 110,000 tons of steel. Six villages on the Canadian side went under the new pool; on the New York shore, cottages and the cemeteries at Waddington were moved above it.
On July 1, 1958, the cofferdam was blown and the river filled the reservoir. The first of the 32 generators, sixteen on each side of the border, began to turn that month. By July 1959 all sixteen American units were running and every drop of water the treaty gave the United States was going through a turbine. The U.S. share of the cost was $335 million, paid by bonds the Power Authority sold against the power it would make, not by taxes.
The customers were there from the first day. Alcoa’s Massena smelter, running since 1903, signed for power in 1955. Reynolds and General Motors built new plants at Massena while the dam was going up. The rest went to municipal systems, rural co-ops and the grid.
It is still running. In 2024 the Robert Moses Power Dam made 7.4 billion kilowatt-hours, about what a million New York households use in a year, from sixteen units and 912 megawatts, every one of them on the grid.
Between 1998 and 2013 the Power Authority replaced all sixteen turbines, at $281 million for the lot, and the federal license runs to 2053. The water is set each week by the International Joint Commission; the plant has made between 6.9 and 7.8 billion kilowatt-hours every year of the last ten.
Sixty-eight years after the first unit turned, the biggest power plant New York ever built in one piece is doing exactly what it was built to do.
I'm hearing NYSDOT has been told no lane closures on Election Day. Easier travel for voters is a good thing. Still, have to wonder: who made that call, and why this year?
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At #NuclearSymposium2026, this expert panel explored the policy choices, technology decisions, and industrial partnerships needed to extract nuclear energy’s potential.
Thank you to @anthrop_inst for sponsoring the symposium!
Your campaign says there is no time on the schedule for a debate, but showing up in Brooklyn is the definition of a fatal error.
If polling is the measuring stick, the numbers speak for themselves. 69% of New Yorkers want a steady transition that uses every energy option to keep bills affordable and the lights on. That is not my poll. It comes from a firm that works for the other side of the aisle, the same side of the aisle that is following the polling on data centers. Follow this poll and build the Constitution Pipeline.
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My Support Progression
Landowners’ rights come first!
Community decision. Whether a town wants to host a project like this or not, the decision rests with the residents after going through planning and zoning. NYPA should never be used to bypass local concerns or obstacles and push a project forward against opposition.
Transparency above everything else. NYPA owes the public full details. I understand some information needs to wait during negotiations and to prevent market disruptions, but host communities and NYS taxpayers deserve to see the full picture as soon as possible.
I opposed the legislative action to mandate NYPA's 15/3 GW initiative when it was considered in the Legislature. But now that we are here, I prefer @NYPAenergy to be at the table rather than a private developer acting alone. NYPA will be more responsive, especially regarding host community agreements and community benefits.
A major solar development coming to St. Lawrence County will have a new owner: the NY Power Authority announced this morning they’ll own 51% of the 240-mw Rich Road solar plant.
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Neither party can claim affordability this cycle.
NY electric rates: up 18% in 5 years, 58% above the national average. The high rates are driven by mandates along with high taxes and spending. That’s Albany.
Gas: $3.26 in 2021, $4.39 today. That's Washington.
Families need results, not finger pointing.
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Thank you Capitol Pressroom @poozer87 for the interview regarding the development of nuclear power. “note that the audio quality varied throughout the recording due to connection in my Canton NY office. Also no emojis from @poozer87 so counseling may be necessary to his regular followers.
Fort Drum could launch New York's nuclear wave by The Capitol Pressroom on #SoundCloud
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Fort Drum is going nuclear. The Army has chosen @drum10thmtn for its Janus Program, paving the way for the first nuclear reactor built in New York in nearly 40 years. Secure, on-site power. Stronger readiness. A historic win for the North Country. 🇺🇸 #NorthCountry #FortDrum
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The loudest DSA influencers criticize wealth despite living comfortably on family money and streaming fortunes with multi-million dollar net worths. Socialism is just their brand. Young voters are their target audience. Democratic voters are being duped.
Working families deserve real solutions to affordability, from both sides in the middle working together to address issues, not political shows that benefit the performers like @unionGustavo or Hasan Piker first.
Every issue starts and ends with affordable, reliable home energy!
The public message is clear: utility costs override every other concern. And 63% of New Yorkers oppose home heating electrification—no surprise in a state where winter means business. Albany should start writing policy to reality.
When policy is rammed through without proper public input and vetting, the people paying the bills are the last ones consulted. Affordability isn’t one issue. It’s THE issue. @empirecenter
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On nuclear power— “Where does public support come from? It comes from the people,” @JoAnneSimonBK52.
Agreed. So let’s ask the people paying for a $6 billion CHPE transmission line to NYC on every utility bill in the state how they feel about that arrangement. Time to rethink the tab on that?
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Appreciate @SenSchumer letter urging DOD to select Fort Drum for Project Janus. Nine posts on the list, one that is top of class. Energy security, mission readiness, and North Country jobs all in the same package.
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