Experience and Qualifications
Real Estate & Business Attorney, 2019-present; Lyons, NY Town Councilman, 2023-present
Community Involvement
Finger Lakes Community Action Board of Directors, 2020-present; Lyons Main Street Program Board of Directors 2019-present; Wayne Pre-Trial Inc., 2020-present
Education
Juris Doctor - Georgetown Law, Class of 2019; B.A. - George Washington University, Class of 2016, Magna Cum Laude
Party Endorsements
Republican Party of Wayne County, NY; Conservative Party of Wayne County, NY
Affordability (utility, housing, grocery, insurance costs)
Public Safety (roll-back bail reform; protect the vulnerable; back the blue)
Protecting Freedoms (school choice, religious freedom, Second Amendment)
Directing more resources to nuclear power could reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and keep prices low for working people. Regardless, any action taken by government to protect the environment must first consider the costs to working people in the state of NY. For example, the average working person cannot afford the addition $4,100 per year it is estimated to cost if Governor Hochul's CLCPA goes into effect.
To quote the Chief Justice: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating based on race." This includes the government showing preferential treatment to any person based on the color of their skin.
Gerrymandering is a race to the bottom. Democratic states do it, and now Republican states are trying to catch up. The best thing to do would be to expand the House of Representatives. That would make it harder to gerrymander and would more closely connect each representative to his or her constituents.
Experience and Qualifications
I have extensive knowledge and experience in high tech, network, IOT, telecommunications and have several published patents. We have our own business Seamless Communications Group since 2005. This is a small high tech company providing networking an telecommunications to large enterprise and small businesses. We currently focus on several small business clients. I ran for Monroe County Legislature LD-15 twice. We lost each time in our Republican leaning district, but gained more votes than expected and came very close the second time overcoming quite a disparity in Dem to Rep voters. We had a large number of Republican votes (on the WP line) which we feel was due to the strong door to door campaign we ran where we spoke to all registered voters, not just our own party. Our messaging has been updated for the times, but was the same as it is today; inclusion, equal rights, equal pay, public energy coupled with new energy development, improved education and more.
Community Involvement
I have served as Chair of the Town of Sodus NY and Town of Webster NY Democratic Committees, ben active member of Progressives in Action (PIA) and Progressive Democrats of America (PDA). I have also been a member of the Sodus Point Planning Board, a small-business owner, an assistant scout leader, a youth sports coach, and a longtime Science Olympiad mentor and judge.
Education
AAS Electrical Technology Degree
Party Endorsements
Democratic Primary Candidate; NYPAN
Campaign Phone
5856368981
Campaign Instagram
www.instagram.com/butchfitzsimmons
NY Health Act
Public owned renewable energy
Public Education
There are several parts that need to work together and all will require street power to align with electoral power.
1. Create a Energy Department
2. Publicly owned energy. This will require owning the lines at the street
3. Opt In - Opt out policy enabling residents to install Solar and Wind (wind mills are not just those propellor blades). Opt Out and you pay the same rates. Opt In and you receive reduced rates. This also enables municipalities to group purchase reducing the costs per panel and can also use their borrowing capability to purchase at lowest interest rate. Communities employ local talent so the $$$ recycle in the local economy as many times as possible.
4. Communities with sewage treatment plants can add Renewable Natural Gas to their portfolio
5. Building code upgrades to require energy efficient insulation, windows, geo-thermal HVAC
This plan would substantially reduce emissions, save citizens money and boost the local economy and I’m ready to get started on it.
This is going to require education. To quote Albert Einstein who defined common sense as "the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen". This suggests what people call common sense is merely a set of ingrained, unexamined beliefs rather than universal truths. True understanding requires questioning conventional wisdom.
I support cultural events such as ethics days that are rich in tradition, food and dance and the furtherance of Civil Rights.
This Common Sense piece is part of the ‘problem’ prevalent in all forms of humanity from religious to political to economics. Speaking truth to prejudice is a start. For example when going door to door and I hear bias epithets of different cultures, ethnicities or sexual orientation I have responded with the following with respect to color. “You know there is one thing and only one thing you can tell by the color of a persons skin - that is how long their ancestors were exposed to the sun.” Now you need to find out who that person is.
This is an indicator of how far the country has strayed from the constitution.
Grover Norquist first popularized in a 2001 interview with NPR, is: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub. He supports the Lewis Powell Memo of 1971 which became the basis of the conservative think tanks creating the 2 Santa Claus theory to dismantle Democratic power and destroy unions thereby forcing Democrats into austerity or political ruin.
This is going to require street power coupled with electoral power. If these two elements do not align, this trend will continue. This is work that is needed now and I am ready for it.
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