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Antoine Thompson

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Antoine Maurice Thompson (born March 1, 1970) was a Democratic New York State Senator who represented the state's 60th Senate district, which includes parts of Buffalo and Tonawanda, the City of Niagara Falls and the Town of Grand Island. [1]

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Alfred Coppola

Alfred "Al" Coppola is a former state senator and politician in New York.

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Alien (law)

In law, an alien is a person who is not a national of a given country, though definitions and terminology differ to some degree.

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Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the first African-American, intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity.

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Andrew Cuomo

Andrew Mark Cuomo (born December 6, 1957) is an American politician, author, and lawyer serving as the 56th and current Governor of New York, since 2011.

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Anthony Masiello

Anthony M. Masiello (born April 28, 1947) was Mayor of Buffalo, New York from 1994 to 2005.

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Aqueduct Racetrack

Aqueduct Racetrack is a Thoroughbred horse-racing facility and racino in South Ozone Park, Queens, New York City. Its racing meets are usually from late October/early November through April.

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Attorney General of New York

The Attorney General of New York is the chief legal officer of the State of New York and head of the New York state government's Department of Law.

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Bachelor of Science

A Bachelor of Science (Latin Baccalaureus Scientiae, B.S., BS, B.Sc., BSc, or B.Sc; or, less commonly, S.B., SB, or Sc.B., from the equivalent Latin Scientiae Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for completed courses that generally last three to five years, or a person holding such a degree.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Bennett High School (Buffalo, New York)

Bennett High School was an American high school located in the University Heights section of Buffalo, New York.

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Brownfield land

Brownfield land is a term used in urban planning to describe any previously developed land that is not currently in use, whether contaminated or not or, in North America, more specifically to describe land previously used for industrial or commercial purposes with known or suspected pollution including soil contamination due to hazardous waste.

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Buffalo Common Council

The Buffalo Common Council is the legislative branch of the city of Buffalo, New York government.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Byron Brown

Byron William Brown II (born September 24, 1958) is the 62nd and current mayor of Buffalo, New York, elected on November 8, 2005 and is the City's first African-American mayor.

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Carl L. Marcellino

Carl L. Marcellino (born December 23, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York) is a member of the New York State Senate.

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Charles Rangel

Charles Bernard Rangel (born June 11, 1930) is an American politician who was a U.S. Representative for districts in New York from 1971 to 2017.

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Congressional Black Caucus

The Congressional Black Caucus is a political organization made up of the African-American members of the United States Congress.

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Cross country running

Cross country running is a sport in which teams and individuals run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain such as dirt or grass.

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Dale Carnegie

Dale Harbison Carnegie (spelled Carnagey until c. 1922; November 24, 1888 – November 1, 1955) was an American writer and lecturer and the developer of famous courses in self-improvement, salesmanship, corporate training, public speaking, and interpersonal skills.

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David Franczyk

David A. "Dave" Franczyk is a councilmember of the Buffalo Common Council, which is the representative legislative branch of the government of Buffalo, New York.

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David Paterson

David Alexander Paterson (born May 20, 1954) is an American politician who served as the 55th Governor of New York, succeeding Eliot Spitzer and serving out the final three years of Spitzer's term from March 2008 to the end of 2010.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Diane Savino

Diane J. Savino (born September 28, 1963) is a Democratic politician representing the 23rd Senate Districthttp://www.nysenate.gov/district/23 in the New York State Senate, in northern Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn, including Sunset Park and Coney Island.

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Driver's license

A driver's license is an official document permitting a specific individual to operate one or more types of motorized vehicles, such as a motorcycle, car, truck, or bus on a public road.

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Eliot Spitzer

Eliot Laurence Spitzer (born June 10, 1959) is a retired American politician, attorney, and educator.

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Erie County, New York

Erie County is a highly populated county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Grand Island, New York

Grand Island is a town located in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Howard Milstein

Howard Philip Milstein (born May 15, 1951) is an American entrepreneur, innovator, real estate developer, financier, and philanthropist.

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Hydraulic fracturing

Hydraulic fracturing (also fracking, fraccing, frac'ing, hydrofracturing or hydrofracking) is a well stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid.

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Independent Democratic Conference

The Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) was a group of Democratic members of the New York State Senate that caucused separately from other Democratic members of the State Senate.

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Iraq War

The Iraq WarThe conflict is also known as the War in Iraq, the Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, and Gulf War II.

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James D. Griffin

James Donald "Jimmy" Griffin (June 29, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American politician who served in the New York State Senate (56th District, 1967–77) and then for 16 years as the Mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–93).

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Jeffrey D. Klein

Jeffrey David Klein (born July 10, 1960) is a Democratic New York State Senator representing parts of Bronx and Westchester Counties who serves as Deputy Democratic Conference Leader.

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John Edwards

Johnny Reid "John" Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina.

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Leonard Lenihan

Leonard Lenihan was the Chairman of the Erie County Democratic Committee in Erie County, New York.

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Lieutenant Governor of New York

The Lieutenant Governor of New York is a constitutional office in the executive branch of the Government of the State of New York.

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List of mayors of Buffalo, New York

In 1853, the charter of the city was amended to include the town of Black Rock and the city proper was divided into thirteen wards.

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Louise Slaughter

Dorothy Louise McIntosh Slaughter (August 14, 1929 – March 16, 2018) was an American politician who served as a United States Representative from New York from 1987 until her death in 2018.

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Marc A. Coppola

Marc A. Coppola (born 1967/1968) is a resident of the Town of Tonawanda, New York and a former member of the New York State Senate, where he represented the New York 60th Senate district which includes parts of the Cities of Buffalo and Tonawanda, the City of Niagara Falls and the Town of Grand Island.

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Mark Grisanti

Mark John Grisanti (born October 21, 1964) is an American lawyer and politician.

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Minority business enterprise

A Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is an American term which is defined as a business which is at least 51% owned, operated and controlled on a daily basis by one or more (in combination) American citizens of the following ethnic minority and/or gender (e.g. woman-owned) and/or military veteran classifications.

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New York State Senate

The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature, the New York State Assembly being the lower house.

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New York's 28th congressional district

The 28th district of New York is an obsolete congressional district for the United States House of Representatives.

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NewsBank

NewsBank is a news database resource which provides archives of media publications as reference materials to libraries.

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Niagara County, New York

Niagara County is a county in the U.S. state of New York.

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Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Pay to play

Pay to play, sometimes pay for play, is a phrase used for a variety of situations in which money is exchanged for services or the privilege to engage in certain activities.

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Primary election

A primary election is the process by which the general public can indicate their preference for a candidate in an upcoming general election or by-election, thus narrowing the field of candidates.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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The Buffalo News

The Buffalo News is the daily newspaper of the Buffalo–Niagara Falls metropolitan area, located at 1 News Plaza in Downtown Buffalo, New York.

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The College at Brockport, State University of New York

The College at Brockport, State University of New York (also known as SUNY Brockport, Brockport State, College at Brockport, or the State University of New York at Brockport) is a four-year liberal arts college in Brockport, Monroe County, New York, United States, near Rochester.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Times Union (Albany)

The Times Union is an American daily newspaper, serving the Capital Region of New York.

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Tonawanda (city), New York

Tonawanda (formally City of Tonawanda, from Tahnawá•teh meaning "confluent stream" in TuscaroraRudes, B. Tuscarora English Dictionary Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999) is a city in Erie County, New York, United States.

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Track and field

Track and field is a sport which includes athletic contests established on the skills of running, jumping, and throwing.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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Upstate New York

Upstate New York is the portion of the American state of New York lying north of the New York metropolitan area.

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Urban planning

Urban planning is a technical and political process concerned with the development and design of land use in an urban environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportation, communications, and distribution networks.

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Western New York

Western New York is the westernmost region of the state of New York.

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WKBW-TV

WKBW-TV, virtual channel 7 (UHF digital channel 38), is an ABC-affiliated television station licensed to Buffalo, New York, United States and owned by the E. W. Scripps Company.

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WNYC

WNYC is the trademark, and a set of call letters shared by a pair of non-profit, noncommercial, public radio stations located in New York City and owned by New York Public Radio, a nonprofit organization that did business as WNYC RADIO until March 2013.

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WUFO

WUFO (1080 AM; "Power 96.5") is a radio station licensed to Amherst, New York, and serves the Buffalo metropolitan area.

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2004 Democratic National Convention

The 2004 Democratic National Convention convened from July 26 to 29, 2004 at the FleetCenter (now the TD Garden) in Boston, Massachusetts, and nominated Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts for President and Senator John Edwards from North Carolina for Vice President, respectively, in the 2004 presidential election.

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2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis

The 2009 New York State Senate leadership crisis was a political dispute that began on June 8, 2009.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Thompson

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