Press release:
In the two weeks since Congressman Chris Collins was indicted by the FBI, Nate McMurray’s campaign for New York’s 27th Congressional District has steamed ahead with huge momentum.
Nate McMurray, the current Grand Island supervisor and Democratic and Working Families Party candidate for Congress, has run nonstop across the 27th District, meeting with hundreds of voters, doubling the number of volunteers helping his campaign, making key staff hires, and raising more than $100,000 in just a few days.
“I’ve spent the last seven months crisscrossing the district talking to voters and I can tell you that there was always a palpable grassroots energy but now it’s absolutely booming,” McMurray said. “Everywhere I go, I meet voters of all parties and I’ll tell you what I hear: they tell me that the system is broken.
"They feel ripped off by politicians who abuse their power and feel insulted by party bosses playing kingmaker. They use the word ‘corrupt’ and they’re right. Every day I hear them say that the system isn’t working for them and that want a real change.&rdquo
“The energy here in the 27th District is electrifying,” said Campaign Manager Victoria Dillon, Western New York native and an alumna of the Obama Administration, Iowa Caucuses and Capitol Hill, where she helped Congresswoman Louise Slaughter pass the STOCK Act to stop insider trading in Congress. “The campaign’s growing, Nate’s everywhere and voters are listening.”
In the two weeks since Congressman Collins was indicted:
McMurray has crisscrossed the 27th District eight times.
McMurray's campaign has received more than $100k in donations in the past two weeks from thousands of contributors.
McMurray's campaign has more than doubled the number of volunteers in our movement to get him elected to Congress.
McMurray's campaign has hired two additional staffers including Amherst-native Victoria Dillon as campaign manager.
Local leaders have publicly cheered Nate on including: Former Congressman John LaFalce, former WKBW anchor Susan Banks, and Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster.
McMurray has received huge support from the labor community including: the United Steelworkers, Service Employees International Union 1199 and the New York State United Teachers.
That adds to his support from the Western New York Area Labor Federation, New York State AFL-CIO, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1342, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local One, Communication Workers of America, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades and United Auto Workers.
In Ontario County: McMurray walked into a standing-room-only crowd in Farmington, a town that hadn't had an established Democratic committee until six months ago.
In Livingston County, he talked to more than 100 voters in Hemlock.
In Wyoming County: the day after Congressman Collins was indicted, our expected crowd doubled at a house party in Silver Springs.
McMurray has held rallies and barnstorms and house parties in Avon, Clarence, Canandaigua, Hemlock, Farmington and Silver Springs and received support from friends and neighbors at events in Grand Island, Amherst, and Buffalo.
He drove in the World’s Largest Demolition Derby at the Erie County Fair and attending the Wyoming County Fair.
He has conducted more than 30 national and local media interviews and held four press conferences.
About Nate McMurray
Nate McMurray is a native of North Tonawanda. He is one of seven children raised by his widowed mother when his father died of cancer at the age of 39. Nate worked his way through community college, earned a bachelor’s degree at SUNY-Buffalo, then went on to law school and a successful career in business.
For the last two years, he’s served as town supervisor of Grand Island, a conservative community in Western New York, where he has been instrumental in bringing fiscal responsibility to local government and millions of dollars in new business investment to the town. For more on Nate McMurray and his campaign for Congress in NY-27, visit www.votemcmurray.com.
I thought about making the
I thought about making the headline, "McMurray campaigning hard everywhere except where it matters most, Batavia." It would be accurate.
Howard, he isn't coming here
Howard, he isn't coming here because he knows this is solid red Trump territory. I will even go as far to say, if Collins is on the ballot in November, Collins probably wins. It's sad that so many are so blinded by populist rhetoric, they will vote for a criminally indicted candidate.
Bud, that isn't stopping him
Bud, that isn't stopping him from going to Wyoming and Orleans counties ... both very big Trump counties.
Well the system is unfair
Well the system is unfair enough without precluding a viable Republican choice. I didn't partake of the illegal trading alleged against the candidate, why should I be made to suffer any consequence. I think I'm actually registered Republican but my faith is pledged to my country not a political party. And to the American people, not necessarily the government.
Just because someone had a different opinion in politics, religion, or philosophy does not mean that I should should not be their friend.
Thomas Jefferson
Howard, and Bud; Nate
Howard, and Bud; Nate McMurray was here actively campaigning during the 2018 Picnic in the Park, on the 4th of July Independence Day. I can easily walk to the Centennial Park from my house. I have been setting up my chairs adjacent to the same tree, since 1991. Out of the area, Democrats, one of them Nate McMurray, had to popup tents with a full regalia of campaign material set up within 20 feet of my tree.
I was wearing a yellow Gadson flag tee shirt to celebrate our Republic's Independence when Nate approached me with his handlers and a photographer. He introduced himself. I did the same, advising him I'm on the City and County Republican Committees. We had a polite and quiet conversation, and we then we verbally spared a bit, and then he moved on. My wife and I watched as he had a loud and heated conversation with another City Resident. Nate walked away red-faced back to the Democrat Campaign booth and then approached me again. He asked to sit down, I said yes, and he did. He was visibly upset, and he asked, "Did you see what he did to me? I know you'll never vote for me, but at least you're a nice guy", and I agreed he was the same.
We had a few more friendly back-and-forths, and he left to attend a parade somewhere.
He's been here three times I
He's been here three times I know of ... few and far between.
Nate is focusing his time
Nate is focusing his time where people like and agree with him, and where he can avoid conflict and confrontations with those who don't. Many people got into his face at the picnic in the park. He didn't like what they told him, and perhaps that is why it has been few and far in between?
Mate McMurray is shown in a
Nate McMurray is shown in a YouTube video talking about the 2nd amendment and how his party has unfairly treated and vilified gun owners, and how guns are a deterrent to tyranny. Then goes on to say that certain guns and bullets aren't something the public needs. Typical politician talking out of both sides of his mouth. Even our local police are armed with automatic weapons, grenades, and soon a super armored vehicle. And we should fight tyranny with. 22's?
No disrespect to the locals as most of them would probably be on the side of the righteous, however ther are avenues that could be used to deceive them Into thinking they are doing the right thing by helping to subvert our constitutional rights.
If the proverbial s#/+ hit the fan, Marshall law would kick in and (for our own good) our rights would be out the window.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."
Thomas Jefferson
Rich, Kathy Hochul visited
Rich, Kathy Hochul visited Batavia frequently as a candidate and as our representative and as far as I observed, was treated respectfully.
Howard, she was generally
Howard, she was generally treated respectfully. Nate's message was to bash Collin's that day. It didn't go so well for him with a few people, and he saw no problem with the New York Safe Act, or unfunded mandates from Albany.
There is an unspoken agreement between local Republicans and Democrats to abstain from conspicuous campaigning at the Picnic in the Park. Many people were annoyed, if not outright offended. It is what it is.
Most importantly, it was Independence Day; when friends and family gather to honor our Founding Fathers.
I wish I had said this, "By signing the Declaration of Independence the Fifty-Six Americans pledged their lives, their fortunes, and sacred honor. It was no idle pledge.
Nine died of wounds during the Revolutionary War. Five were captured or imprisoned. Wives and children were killed, jailed, mistreated, or left penniless. Twelve signer's houses were burned to the ground. Seventeen lost everything they owned. No signer defected-their honor like their nation remained intact."
I'd be curious as to when
I'd be curious as to when this "unspoken agreement" was formalized and exactly what "conspicuous campaigning" is. I operated the sound system for Picnic in the Park for a decade or more which afforded me a good vantage point for most of went on. I've seen politicians pressing flesh with attendees at every one. I did likewise during my run for assembly. The only event I was ever asked to leave was a strawberry festival in Hamlin. It was hosted by a church, and a few attendees felt that politics was too dirty a business to be conducted in "a house of God." Being a life-long resident of Genesee County, I didn't have much ammunition to mount an argument.
C.M., I don't think it was
C.M., I don't think it was ever "formalized", but you are right to a point. I remember Ed DeJanerio and others walking around the Picnic in the Park when running for office . They might have a logo on their shirt or something and just walked around saying hi. Very low key. And most candidates around here don't do it.