The Buffalo Chronicle
NY Senate
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Grisanti-Panepinto’s web of deceit backfires in a big way
Political insiders within the local Democratic Party have begun to reveal an election scheme that has been derailed. The plan was hatched by operatives backing incumbent Senator Mark Grisanti, namely the disgraced Joel…
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Panepinto seeks to oust Chairman, rather than unite party
Marc Panepinto, the Democrat candidate for New York State Senate who emerged from his primary severely weakened by a narrow 300-vote margin of victory, is unsettling many members of his own party. While…
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The Buffalo News reveals Grisanti’s shockingly deceptive plan
An article in today’s Buffalo News, reveals a particularly deceptive campaign strategy that incumbent Senator Mark Grisanti plans on deploying in the general election, says Mike Madigan, the Republican Party’s nominee for Congress in…
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Will Grisanti step aside for the party?
In a stunning — but not all together unexpected — upset defeat, Sen. Mark Grisanti lost the Republican Party’s nomination for the 60th district Senate Senate seat that he now holds. While…
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Coppola down by 613 votes, absentees still to be counted
Former Senator Al Coppola would have decisively won the Democratic party nomination for State Senate, but the Buffalo News didn’t want to tell you about Marc Panepinto’s history of election fraud. “That publication…
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Senator Coppola calls for a “Great Lakes Environmental Restoration Act”
If he is reelected to the New York State Senate, retired Senator Alfred Coppola is pledging to introduce the “Great Lakes Environmental Restoration Act” (GLERA) to address several ongoing threats to the Great Lakes’ ecosystem. “There…
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Palma backs Antoine, as Peoples-Stokes falls flat in North Buffalo
Carmen Palma — one of the most politically influential community leaders in the city — is giving former Senator Antoine Thompson a big boost in a part of the 141st Assembly district where the incumbent Assemblywoman…
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Panepintos’ marriage raises questions about conflicts of interest
Over the last two months, some of the most prominent members of Buffalo’s legal community have been raising questions privately about the propriety of State Supreme Court Justice Catherine Nugent Panepinto sitting on the bench…
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For Panepintos, election fraud was a family affair
When Marc Panepinto was charged with a Class D felony in 2001, he quickly plead the charge of Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument to a lesser misdemeanor, involving tampering with petitions. The…
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Panepinto is not worried about his election fraud conviction, no bid legal work
Despite being dogged with ethics’ criticisms that identify deep character flaws, Democrat town zone chair Marc Panepinto continues to challenge former Senator Al Coppola, who has been pulled out of retirement by various factions of…
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Senator Coppola will work to repeal the NYSAFE Act
Perhaps no other issue this election cycle has as many New Yorkers outraged over the excesses of government overreach than Andrew Cuomo’s NYSAFE Act, which severely infringes on second amendment protections. Republican…
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Coppola wants CSEA, PEF union reps on Roswell’s Board, “before it’s too late”
Senator Al Coppola, the Democrat challenging Republican Mark Grisanti, is pledging to introduce a bill that requires that the presidents of Roswell Park’s three largest unions be appointed to the institution’s board of directors upon being…
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Gun advocates are furious, as Grisanti claims fraudulent endorsements — again!
Two years ago, the embattled State Senator Mark Grisanti falsely claimed to have the endorsements of several groups that never endorsed him, including the First Amendment Club (which endorsed him only in…
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Senator Coppola: “Stop bashing teachers, stupid”
Senator Al Coppola, the Democrat running for State Senate against Mark Grisanti, is disgusted with the way that today’s political discourse has wrongly bashed teachers in the media, often using hard working career professionals as political…
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Panepinto’s election fraud conviction disqualifies candidacy
Few behaviors are more demonstrative of a willingness to betray the public’s trust than to knowingly commit election fraud so egregiously that one’s license to practice law gets suspended. That is precisely…
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Grisanti’s betrayal of West Side Italians infuriates base
The historic neighborhoods of Columbus Park and Prospect Hill have deep Italian American roots. State Senator Mark Grisanti continues to maintain a law office on Niagara Street near Jersey, where he is…
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Stocker to repeal Cuomo’s NYSAFE Act
Former Town Prosecutor Kevin Stocker is dead set against Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s NYSAFE Act, which was pushed through the New York State Senate swiftly and secretly — with Sen. Mark Grisanti’s help.…
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Panepinto is owned by the teachers’ unions
State Senate candidate Marc Panepinto, a Buffalo Democrat who was once convicted of election fraud and whose license to practice law was suspended for one year, is expecting that the New York…
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Senator Coppola: the 60th District’s only unequivocal “NO-VOTE” on hydrofracking
Perhaps no other issue has riled environmentalists more feverishly than the prospect of large scale hydrologic fracturing in New York. The natural gas extraction process known colloquially as “fracking” shatters the earth’s deep…
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Forster reflects on downfall of longtime political foe
By Mike Hudson, The Niagara Falls Reporter Niagara County Democratic Chairman Nick Forster told the Niagara Falls Reporter that, while he takes no pleasure from the downfall of State Sen. George Maziarz,…
