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I got Hoyt’s mailers…. These types of mailers are not affordable for a challenger, I know, I tried to run against Hoyt with no luck in this heavily gerrymandered democratic district. Who ever wins this primary is the next assemblyman in this district, there is no republican candidate.

Here is a sampling of Hoyt’s headlines.
Hoyt works to remove Grand Island Tolls—-all the work he did ended after the press conference.
Hoyt helps return schools resource officer.
Fisherman’s park one step closer to reality.
Hoyt helps support senior programming at Golden Age center.
What is Buffalo’s other Waterfront?
Continued progress on Buffalo’s other Waterfront.
Working to build the green economy.
New Huth Rd playground equipment.
Hoyt secures $1.3 million for Beaver Island upgrades.
Grand Island fire company to get new equipment.
Hoyt’s landbanking legislation will help address vacant properties…..

This is all on just ONE mailer.

The kicker is this one statement.

“Making government more open, accountable and responsive to the needs of New Yorkers is an important part of legislative reform. I’ll continue to work in the assembly to advance additional measures that do just that.”

What a bunch of crap… He and Iannello share the same platform just change the words to reflect Erie County.

Legislators’ mailings are public expense
Volker and Hoyt sending out fliers

It’s an election year, time for state lawmakers around New York to crow about their job performance on the public’s dime.

State Sen. Dale M. Volker, R-Depew, is doing it. So is Assemblyman Sam Hoyt, D-Buffalo.

Both are in tough party primary contests that will be decided next month.

Consider this mailer Volker sent around his district at taxpayer expense:

“It’s time for Albany to stop wasting our money,” it says.

There’s a picture of hard-earned cash spilling from a wastebasket — a wrong that Volker, it seems, intends to right.

“Sen. Dale Volker is fighting to keep your money where it belongs — in your pocket,” his piece continues.

Here’s one of the four mailers Hoyt sent in one week:

“Assemblymember Sam Hoyt . . . protecting your hard-earned money.”

Even amid huge budget deficits, the trappings of incumbency go beyond the ability to bestow “member item” money to charities and festivals back home. State lawmakers can paper their districts with taxpayer-funded propaganda as they wish, especially in an election year.

“It’s an ongoing problem. And one that I think citizens should be questioning,” said Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause/New York,

the government watchdog group. “It is one of the things that create an incumbent’s advantage — the ability to send out self-promotional literature with the public’s money.”

Lerner said incumbents need not worry about their mailers being blatantly political, because the laws are lax, and there is no enforcement.

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