WBTA reported this morning:
- Billionaire businessman Tom Golisano of Rochester may form a PAC, enabling him to spend vast amounts of money in support of favored political candidates.
- U.S. Parachute Association is also looking into the death during the holiday weekend of Joseph Schickler. The FAA has already launched an official investigation.
- A tractor trailer hauling brand new Dodge Chargers caught fire along Route 63 near Geneseo.
Tune into WBTA 1490-AM for these and other news updates throughout the day.
Their just reporting this
Their just reporting this now? Man is Batavia's main stream media slow, that's been out for months now.
@ Daniel: Since I'm
@ Daniel: Since I'm summarizing the summary of their radio report they posted online, there may be some nuance of new news I missed, especially since I'm a relative newbie to area politics.
Well, I believe that it has
Well, I believe that it has been brought up here before, but this is the first time that WBTA has covered it, and I was surprised that it took them this long to jump on the story, thats conventional media for you though.
On Tuesday of this week, Tom
On Tuesday of this week, Tom Gollisano at least put his money where his mouth is by offering $5 Million to Start a Political Action Committee. I am not sure this is even legal yet....BUT....it does seem to have attracted some of the candidates in New York State's attention. Mr. Gollisano is a great humanitarian that funds a number of our local charities. I just hope he is doing this to better the political system rather than buying influence.
There's nothing slow about
There's nothing slow about WBTA's coverage on this. They reported the news when Golisano first started to talk about forming a PAC whenever it was — maybe a month ago or so.
But the story became news again this week, when Golisano got more official about it and then, yesterday, announced an actual dollar figure: $5 million.