Hamburg, NY – In the two weeks since Congressman Chris Collins was indicted by the FBI, Nate McMurray’s campaign for New York’s 27th Congressional District has steamed ahead with huge momentum.
Nate McMurray, the current Grand Island Supervisor and Democratic and Working Families Party Candidate for Congress, has run non-stop across the 27th District, meeting with hundreds of voters, doubling the number of volunteers helping his campaign, making key staff hires, and raising more than $100,000 in just a few days.
“I’ve spent the last seven months crisscrossing the district talking to voters and I can tell you that there was always a palpable grassroots energy but now it’s absolutely booming,” said McMurray. “Everywhere I go, I meet voters of all parties and I’ll tell you what I hear: they tell me that the system is broken. They feel ripped off by politicians who abuse their power and feel insulted by party bosses playing kingmaker. They use the word ‘corrupt’ and they’re right. Every day I hear them say that the system isn’t working for them and that want a real change.”
“The energy here in the 27th district is electrifying,” said Campaign Manager Victoria Dillon, Western New York native and an alumna of the Obama Administration, Iowa Caucuses and Capitol Hill where she helped Congresswoman Louise Slaughter pass the STOCK Act to stop insider trading in Congress. “The campaign’s growing, Nate’s everywhere and voters are listening.”
For photos from Nate’s dozens of events from the past two weeks, click here.
In the two weeks since Congressman Collins was indicted:
- Nate McMurray has crisscrossed the 27th district eight times.
- Nate’s campaign has received more than $100k in donations in the past two weeks from thousands of contributors.
- Nate’s campaign has more than doubled the number of volunteers in our movement to get him elected to Congress.
- Nate’s campaign has hired two additional staffers including Amherst-native and Capitol Hill and Obama Administration alumna Victoria Dillon as campaign manager.
- Local leaders have publicly cheered Nate on including: Former Congressman John LaFalce, former WKBW Anchor Susan Banks, and Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster.
- Nate has received huge support from the labor community including: the United Steelworkers, Service Employees International Union 1199 and the New York State United Teachers.That adds to his support from the Western New York Area Labor Federation, New York State AFL-CIO, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1342, United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local One, Communication Workers of America, International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, International Union of Painters and Allied Trades and United Auto Workers.
- In Ontario County: Nate walked into a standing-room-only crowd in Farmington, a town that hadn’t had an established Democratic committee until six months ago.
- In Livingston County, Nate talked to more than 100 voters in Hemlock.
- In Wyoming County: the day after Congressman Collins was indicted, our expected crowd doubled at a house party in Silver Springs
- Nate has held rallies and barnstorms and house parties in Avon, Clarence, Canandaigua, Hemlock, Farmington and Silver Springs and received support from friends and neighbors at events in Grand Island, Amherst, and Buffalo.
- Nate drove in the World’s Largest Demolition Derby at the Erie County Fair and attending the Wyoming County Fair.
- Nate has conducted more than 30 national and local media interviews and held four press conferences.
About Nate McMurray
Nate McMurray is a native of North Tonawanda. He is one of seven children raised by his widowed mother when his father died of cancer at the age of 39. Nate worked his way through community college, earned a bachelor’s degree at SUNY-Buffalo, then went on to law school and a successful career in business. For the last two years, he’s served as Town Supervisor of Grand Island, a conservative community in Western New York, where he has been instrumental in bringing fiscal responsibility to local government and millions of dollars in new business investment to the town. For more on Nate McMurray and his campaign for Congress in NY-27, visit www.votemcmurray.com.
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