Operation Protect Your Home
New York State Senator Antoine Thompson will be holding a home foreclosure prevention workshop on Saturday, August 1st from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at Bennett High School, 2885 Main Street in Buffalo....
View ArticleLocal Groups Beg at State Senate Budget Hearing
For the second time in four days, New York State Senators sat at a table in Western New York to listen to locals beg for money. On Friday, Senate Transportation Committee Chairman Martin Malave Dilan...
View ArticleWNY’s Funniest Home Videos
Forget Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Our next big splash on ABC could be on America’s Funniest Home Videos, thanks to this heavy lifting display by State Senator Antoine Thompson. The senator also...
View ArticleThe Check’s in the Mail
Hi all, As many of you may or may not know I am the former board President of the Black Rock Assumption Boys and Girls Club. I loved this club with my heart and soul. I put all my energies into helping...
View ArticleTeaching the Poles About Dyngus Day
I mentioned this flyer in this week’s “7 Days” column and thought I’d better post it here for reference. Staffers for State Senator Antoine Thompson passed this out at a Dyngus Day luncheon at Corpus...
View ArticleDoing Right in Black Rock
Our friends at the First Amendment Club are throwing an unusual fundraiser on Thursday, April 22, at the Polish Cadets Hall, at the corner for Grant and Amherst Streets. The party runs 5-10pm. The...
View ArticleRaising Money in Black Rock
Last Thursday the First Amendment Club threw a fundraiser at the Polish Cadets Hall for the Black Rock/Riverside Little Leagues, which continue to say they have been stiffed of funding promised them...
View ArticlePartnership vs. Antoine Thompson
Another bus shelter sign targeting State Senator Antoine Thompson, paid for by the Committee for Economic Growth, the political giving arm of the Buffalo Niagara Partnership:
View ArticleThe NYS Senate Race: Opening Act Completed – Time for the Headliner!
If you read Artvoice last week (09/16/10) you learned that Antoine Thompson had garnered 13,487 votes to his opponents’ 10,751 in the democratic primary for state senate. A plurality of over 2,000...
View ArticleThe Book of Thompson
Last week State Senator Antoine Thompson accused the First Amendment Club of placing ads for his adversary in Tuesday’s general election, attorney Mark Grisanti, without registering with the Board of...
View ArticleRead It Here: Karla Thomas’ Letter to the Mayor
In today’s Buffalo News, Brian Meyer writes about the letter written by Karla Thomas, Buffalo’s Human Resources Commissioner, in which she calls Deputy Mayor Steve Casey “a cancer” and asks Mayor Byron...
View ArticleGrisanti Takes the Lead Over Thompson
This morning, the Buffalo News reported that Antoine Thompson had a 258-vote lead over Republican challenger Mark Grisanti, with two election districts yet to report. Those two election districts were...
View ArticleWhy Thompson Lost
The folks at the Buffalo News continue to maintain that Mark Grisanti beat Antoine Thompson for the 60th District State Senate seat because Carl Paladino’s candidacy brought lots of folks to the polls,...
View ArticleUpdate: Strange Doings in Thompson’s Campaign Account Explained
On October 21, two weeks before the general election, then State Senator Antoine Thompson’s campaign account sent a wire transfer of $100,000 to—well, we don’t know to whom. The recipient of the...
View ArticleFormer Thompson Staffer: Antoine Should Run Again
Last Friday evening and again on Monday afternoon, WGRZ-TV raised the possibility of former State Senator Antoine Thompson challenging incumbent State Senator Tim Kennedy. Channel 2 also brought up...
View ArticleOh, My God
Consider this scenario: Antoine Thompson returns to Albany, replacing Tim Kennedy. Byron Brown goes to Washington, replacing Brian Higgins. Tim Kennedy moves into the 2nd floor of City Hall,...
View ArticleJohn Duke: Thompson’s Advantages Over Kennedy
The prospect of a Democratic primary showdown between Antoine Thompson and State Senator Tim Kennedy won’t seem to go away; here at AV, we’ve received numerous telephone calls cataloging the pros and...
View ArticleThe Antoine Thompson Hire: Look on the Bright Side
The Buffalo Employment and Training Center (BETC) is a Buffalo city agency that exists to help people find jobs. It works with applicants to try and match them with prospective employers, and has a...
View Article141 West – The Forgotten District
There is an old saying in the political world, “Be careful of what you ask for because you just might get it.” Four years ago, after unprecedented media attacks, Antoine Thompson lost his bid to become...
View ArticleAntoine Thompson: Alleged Assailant
A campaign worker went down to Antoine Thompson’s campaign HQ this past Thursday – two days after Thompson lost a primary to incumbent Crystal Peoples-Stokes – and says he got the crap beat out of him....
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