www.JimMaisano.com is back online!!!

We have fully converted our campaign website. Last year, www.JimMaisano.com was used for our judicial campaign (where we lost a heart-breaker by about 1% of vote).

Now we will start putting up posts about Jim's re-election campaign for County Legislator.

Jim Maisano has served as County Legislator for 14 years (7 terms) and is running for another term on November 8. Jim currently serves as the Republican Minority Leader and has earned a reputation as an independent and bipartisan leader that works diligently to protect and improve his district - District 11, New Rochelle & Pelham - and as a reformer of the Westchester County government.

Jim is one of the most experienced county legislators and concentrates his efforts on promoting fiscal responsibility, including holding the line on property taxes and eliminating wasteful and unnecessary spending. Jim regularly advocates to his colleagues that consolidation of departments, streamlining of service-delivery and finding innovative ways to control costs must be priorities in all county policy decisions.

With Jim having announced his candidacy for re-election at his "Campaign Kickoff" fundraiser on May 5 at Davenport Club in New Rochelle, we are off and running:

1) The May 5 fundraiser was packed, there was much excitement in the air, and Jim gave a terrific speech.

2) Our volunteers are already ringing doorbells and collecting signatures to get Jim on the ballot. Under NYS Election Law, a candidate must get 5% of the registered voters of a political party to sign a petition to run on that line. We will be collecting petitions for two more weeks.

3) We are having a "Beach Party" on July 21 at Dudley's in New Rochelle from 6:30 to 8:30. Please join us for a fun relaxing night on the New Rochelle waterfront.

Jim wishes to thank his wonderful supporters who have rallied around this campaign. Jim has been elected as County Legislator 7 times and is looking forward to running a positive and aggressive campaign to earn an 8th term on the Westchester Board of Legislators.

Please bear with us as we finish up the conversion of this website. In 2010, it was used for the campaign for Supreme Court Justice, and it will be ready soon for Jim's re-election campaign for County Legislator in 2011.

Thanks

The Maisano Re-Election Team

The official vote count for Supreme Court Justice in the 9th Judicial District has not been concluded. While we do not expect that Jim will win the election, there are still a greater amount of uncounted votes than the amount of votes by which Jim trails the candidate in 4th place. Jim remains in 5th place to date.

Therefore, we will wait until every vote is counted before Jim makes any final comments about the campaign. Once again, we thank our volunteers and supporters for helping us come so close to victory. We remain proud of the campaign we waged. We are certainly frustrated that the votes are still being counted almost two weeks after Election Day.

We still do not know the result of our race. There are many votes that have not been counted. It appears there are three candidates that have a chance at 4th place (top 4 win). Unfortunately, we may have a long recount here. We will update you as this process moves forward. We thank you all for your support and well wishes.

The big day is finally here! We posted our first blog on May 17th when Jim announced his candidacy for New York State Supreme Court.  We've met so many kind, wonderful people throughout the five-county district. Jim wore out a pair of shoes, handed out 15,000 nail files and more than 35,000 palm cards and gave up quite a few hours (days?) of sleep and put about 15,000 miles on his car! Thank you all for your support and trust.  There is still time to help...send an email to your friends and family and ask them to vote for Jim and link them back to this website to check out the videos and radio spots.  Most importantly, please remember to VOTE MAISANO! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Jim's received so many wonderful and prestigious endorsements but THIS is the most important of all! Please share! PS: Michael asked that we amend this post to include that he is an elected Peer Mediator, so this is really an endorsement of one elected official to another.

We've gotten a lot of great feedback regarding Jim's radio commercials which are airing throughout the Hudson Valley. The vocal talents are those of Lynne Darlington (pictured above), a voice-over professional who met Jim when her family adopted one of the Maisano family foster dogs. "Sandy" the dog found a great home! Take a listen to the 30 second or 60 second spot here.


30 Second Spot


60 Second Spot

Friends, family and supporters packed the room at Juliano's in New Rochelle to wish Jim the best as we head into the last 10 days of the Supreme Court race.  Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino headlined the event and warmly spoke about his work with and admiration for Jim.  Jim thanked everyone for their kind and generous support over the years -- and urged everyone to give just one more effort as we head into the final stretch.  Visit the campaign office and lend a hand! Check out the flickr photos to the right.

Monday marks 9 days to Election Day!  Visit the Campaign HQ (175 Main Street in New Rochelle -- across from Salesian High School) and lend us a hand! We're open nightly 6:30 - 8:30 PM for phone banks and can use extra callers.  Monday, 1 - 3 PM; Wednesday, 10 AM - 1 PM; Thursday, 1 - 3 PM; Friday 10 AM - 1 PM.  Stop by to fill out your "Do Me a Favor" cards and leave them at the office so we can get them in the mail to your family and friends.  Pick up materials for lit drops -- walk your own neighborhood or another one.  Help us get out the vote and bring home a win on Election Day.  Send an email to: MaisanoForJustice@gmail.com . Thank you for your support!