The days are truly getting shorter, and Election Day is right around the corner. The time is soon coming for you to exercise your constitutional right and cast your votes for those who will represent you. It is time for you to make a choice for the Niagara County Legislator in the 12th district, and your vote will have a long-lasting effect on you and your families.

I have spent the last nine months with many of you, meeting you face to face, listening and learning about you. During that time, you have shared your hopes and fears, dreams and disillusionments with me. Based on the momentum and energy I gained from you and my own passion for our common interests, I present the following scenarios to you in an effort to show what your "Vote for Change" can mean to us all - how voting can affect our daily lives:

· While we, the many, share the dubious "honor" of living in arguable the highest-taxed county in the entire nation, the Majority Caucus (consisting of Republicans, those who have switched parties, and those who feign to be true Democrats) boasts of a budget surplus.

· While we, the many, voice our outrage over proposed landfill expansion and increased truck traffic, they, the few, tabled proposed guidelines to promote "green" energy conservation initiatives for new county biddings as "too prohibitive".

· While we, the many, demand reform of the Industrial Development Agency (IDA), they, the few, allowed $93,000,000 worth of corporate welfare to be doled out to AES in Somerset.

· While we, the many, were presented with scant and incomplete information on the long and short-term effects of the proposed closing of Mount View, they, the few, closed Mount View. We are now faced with the possibility of a $15,000,000 gap which, if actualized, will be paid by taxpayer money.

· While we, the many, demand to know why our county taxes are so high, they, the few, voted down a proposal (in December of 2006) which would have cut taxes by eliminating patronage jobs, duplicated or unnecessary jobs, and prevented over-budgeting.

· While we, the many, have trusted our legislators, they, the few, have proven to us that they have not acted in accordance with that same trust.

On Election Day, Tuesday, November 6th, we have the power to stand up and take back what is ours. That POWER to VOTE is ours. I urge you, I petition you, to use that power to initiate change. I anxiously await your call to service on November 6, 2007. Together we will be a part of a new era of openness and accountability. We, the people of the 12th district, can no longer afford the status quo.

I ask for your trust. I ask for your confidence. I ask for your vote.

Jerry Mosey
Candidate for Niagara CountyLegislature, 12th District (Lewiston)

Endorsed: Democratic, Working Families, and Lewiston's Choice Parties