July 8, 2008 - 12:49pm
News Round Up: Billonaire political donations and accidents
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.
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July 8, 2008 - 5:43pm
#1
Their just reporting this now? Man is Batavia's main stream media slow, that's been out for months now.
July 8, 2008 - 8:08pm
#2
@ 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.
July 8, 2008 - 10:14pm
#3
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.
July 9, 2008 - 9:31am
#4
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.
July 9, 2008 - 9:56am
#5
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.
