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Gastorino Jumps Fracking Shark: “Binghamton Could be the Dallas of New York”

May 13, 2014
Gastorino Jumps Fracking Shark: "Binghamton Could be the Dallas of New York"

What an amusing, hallucinatory thought. Somebody might point out to this gas-bag that the real Dallas, the one in Texas, has a de facto ban on fracking - with a minimum 1,500 foot setback from buildings, which pretty much precludes siting a well pad in the city limits. Has your town done like Dallas and banned fracking ? What are you waiting for ? Be like Dallas and ban it. Where even the frackers don’t want to get fracked. . . http://www.legislativegazette.com/Articles-Top-Stories-c-2014-05-12-87885.113122-Binghamton-could-be-Dallas-of-New-York.html Gastorino: Binghamton Could be ‘Dallas of New York’ By Kelly Fay Staff Writer May 12, 2014 Republican candidate for governor Rob Astorino is facing flack from the Southern Tier’s leading anti-fracking group after touting the potential benefits of the controversial drilling process last week during a visit to the […]

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Frackers Vow to Buy Governorship for Gastorino

May 3, 2014
Frackers Vow to Buy Governorship for Gastorino

According to none other than that august institution, The New York Post. Gastornino’s plans for New Yorkers in a nutshell: Frack the family planning clinics with semi-automatic weapons. Just like his guru, Rick “Pretty Boy” Perry. If I wanted to be surrounded by frackers with semi-automatic weapons, I’d move to Texas. http://nypost.com/2014/04/28/oil-gas-industry-ready-to-contribute-millions-to-astorino/ Frackers Ready to Contribute Millions to Gastorino Republican challenger Rob Astorino, badly trailing Gov. Cuomo in campaign cash, expects “a whole lot of money’’ in windfall Super PAC funding from across the nation as a result of last week’s federal court ruling in Manhattan, GOP insiders say. Some of the funding is expected to come from wealthy frackers furious at Cuomo’s nearly 3¹/₂-year delay in making a decision on “fracking’’ for natural gas in the Marcellus Shale region of […]

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Gastorino: Gas Trick Pony

March 1, 2014
Gastorino: Gas Trick Pony

If Robert Astorino is going to distinguish himself politically from Cuomo, he has to have some wedge issues. In most Republican states, the playbook is clear: bash gays, illegal aliens, gun laws, and Obama. Gastorino is not going after gays or gun laws. Or even Obama. He’s left with making up a wedge issue: hyping shale gas - that’s not even there. He has to make it seem like New York is missing out on some mythological fracking bonanza. Thousands of jobs and billions in revenue are his hollow campaign promise. (Most) members of the press are not going to challenge Gastorino on how many fracking jobs New York won’t have. Gastorino can make up any fracking number he likes. Until he’s called out on it. Then he can quote the fracking fairy tales in the […]

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