OP-ED for a Newspaper (3 Pages\/750 to 825 Words) Use AP Style Format.<\/p>\n
Write an OP-ED from the perspective of the candidate about the need for and the benefits of tax free zones for new businesses<\/p>\n
in the State of New York and how these zones would help make the New York economy in general recover.<\/p>\n
Write an email pitch to a journalist, pitching an exclusive story on the candidate (2 Pages\/550 Words) Use AP Style Format<\/p>\n
The facts are all based on a fictional U.S. Senate run against Sen. Schumer. (https:\/\/www.schumer.senate.gov\/)<\/p>\n
Use these facts below to write these documents. You are welcome and encouraged to be creative ? as far as writing quotes and<\/p>\n
adding in any other ?facts? to complete whatever document you are creating.<\/p>\n
These documents will be graded based on grammar, format, and strategic thinking.<\/p>\n
Here is the fact sheet for the collection of documents:<\/p>\n
Mary Smith, 50 years old, is running as a Republican against Sen. Schumer in 2016.<\/p>\n
She has already won the Republican Primary ? winning easily.<\/p>\n
No one expected this race to be real but the polls are showing 40 percent for Schumer, 40 percent for Smith and 20 percent<\/p>\n
undecided.<\/p>\n
It is October 2016. Election Day is around the corner.<\/p>\n
Could a Republican take this Blue State?<\/p>\n
We are headed to a one-on-one race against Schumer.<\/p>\n
Mary is from Nyack, New York.<\/p>\n
She was once mayor of Nyack and now is a sitting NY State Assemblywoman.<\/p>\n
As mayor, she is credited with bringing in more tourists and cutting red tape for businesses. She eliminated parking fees<\/p>\n
from 11 am to 11 pm every day to entice more business to her town. She opened a 24-hour help desk and phone line for<\/p>\n
businesses needing permits and licenses. She was mayor for eight years, serving two terms. Her approval rating when she left<\/p>\n
as mayor was high \u2014 80 percent. She decided not to run again and ran for the State Assembly. In the Assembly, she has not<\/p>\n
been able to get much done. Some question whether she can work in a legislative body and get results.<\/p>\n
The documents (pitch email and op-ed) are being written for one event. Mary is holding an event to announce she will fight<\/p>\n
for national 20-year tax free zones for new businesses that maintain 5 or more full-time employees. She said this will be her<\/p>\n
first bill to introduce if she is elected and that if she can?t get that passed in her first term, she won?t run for re-<\/p>\n
election.<\/p>\n
She graduated from Fordham in political science in 1987 and then in 2000 received her masters from Fordham in Elections and<\/p>\n
Campaign Management.<\/p>\n
Before being elected as mayor of Nyack, she ran her own business ? a coffee shop in Nyack, which her adult children now own<\/p>\n
and run. Her family has owned the coffee shop since 1990.<\/p>\n
She is married and both her children went to public school. Her husband is a police officer in Nyack.<\/p>\n
She is liberal on social issues like abortion and gay rights. She is fiscally conservative.<\/p>\n
Her positions:<\/p>\n
? Less taxes or no taxes.<\/p>\n
? Her biggest issue: We need more federal enterprise zones (tax free zones for start-ups) for businesses. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.<\/p>\n
? She is known for fighting for Wall Street and those upstate New Yorkers, who often feel left out. She is criticized by some<\/p>\n
for being too friendly with the 1 Percent and she hasn\u2019t got a record on important matters like education and helping the<\/p>\n
poor.<\/p>\n
? She is as active on constituent services as Schumer. Like Schumer, she has a reputation for working on Sundays. She doesn\u2019t<\/p>\n
do news conferences like Schumer, rather, she visits local businesses, asking them what she can do for them in Albany.<\/p>\n
? She is against Obamacare and says over and over ? Republicans need to be against this law but also propose something<\/p>\n
better. She says it will kill small business.<\/p>\n
? She likes to say ? Washington doesn?t work. Schumer has been there way too long. Time for new representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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