The Upstate Jobs Party Media Center
People Over Party
Many of us are sick and tired of the hyper-partisanship that has become the default in politics. Back room deals, rule by executive order, and legislative gridlock are now the hallmarks of government across America. [...]
Media Coverage of Unite NY
Launched earlier in April, the UJP's new initiative - Unite NY - is already making significant strides and attracting media attention. This bold new initiative seeks to embrace the moderate voters left behind by both [...]
UJP Launches Unite NY Effort
Bold New Initiative Seeks to Embrace the Moderate Voters Left Behind by Both Major Parties The Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced a major effort to embrace non-partisan problem solving and allowing a new path [...]
UJP Launches Statewide Unite NY Effort
Bold New Initiative Shifts the Party’s Focus to Statewide Issues and Offers a Home to the Moderate Voters Left Behind by Both Major Parties Albany, NY – The Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced a [...]
Media Coverage of UJP Leadership
Great story about the new UJP leadership team. We've got a great team in place to build significant momentum in 2021. From last week's press release, today's Daily Gazette has this to say about our [...]
UJP Launches Bipartisan Legislative Caucus
UJP Announces the Upstate Jobs Caucus in Legislature to focus on common sense, bipartisan solutions to problems facing Upstate New York Albany, NY – The Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced the creation of the [...]
UJP Announces New Leadership Team
UJP announces new leadership, Executive Director
Football, Bruce Springsteen and Unity
If you’re like us, you watched every second of the Big Game on Sunday, enjoying a not just the game and the food, but the commercials! And no commercial from yesterday landed with as much [...]
New York Must Unite To Recover
As we watched today’s Inauguration of President Joe Biden, it’s difficult to shake the horrific events that transpired just two weeks ago. The events of January 6, 2021 will be forever seared into our collective [...]
UJP Claims Strong Election Night Victory
With the 2020 election being one like none other, UJP celebrated victory! We went into the night with a strong bipartisan slate across the State, based on our platform. In total, UJP had endorsed 19 [...]
For State Lawmakers, Secrecy May Pay…Literally
Just in case you weren't totally fed up with Albany yet, take a look at this most recent post from our friends at the Empire Center. The bottom line is that State Lawmakers may be [...]
Why UJP Thinks Public Money Going to Private Companies is a Bad Idea
UJP has some core tenets or things we truly believe in. We're a new political organization, so that's a pretty important. We often talk about stemming the outflow of our talent in Upstate, and achieving [...]
UJP Endorses CNY Jobs Champion Al Stirpe
Independent Political Organization Rounds Out Bipartisan Team of Candidates in CNY by Endorsing Al Stirpe for Assembly Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced another major 2020 endorsement in Central New York, endorsing [...]
UJP Announces First-Ever Endorsement in Southern Tier
Independent Political Organization Supporting Senator Tom O’Mara as Its First Candidate Endorsement in Southern Tier Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced its first ever endorsement in in the Southern Tier, endorsing Senator [...]
UJP Endorses Catalfamo in 113th Assembly Race
Upstate Jobs Party Announces Major New Endorsement in Capital Region Independent Political Organization Supporting Challenger Dave Catalfamo for State Assembly, Noting Strong Support for UJP Platform Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) founder Martin [...]
Capitol Insider: UJP Pursues Party Status
The Times Union in Albany is one of the state's foremost authorities on what's happening in State politics. Because of that, it was exciting to find this excellent article in today's edition that focuses on [...]
Times Union: UJP endorses bipartisan slate of legislators in Capital Region
Our Founder, Martin Babinec, recently spoke with Mandy Fries of the Albany Times Union about the UJP 2020 endorsements in the Capital Region. Learn more here.
Upstate Jobs Party Announces Bipartisan Endorsements in Mohawk Valley
Independent Political Organization Supporting Joe Griffo and Peter Oberacker for State Senate and Marianne Buttenschon in Assembly, Noting Strong Support for UJP Platform Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) founder Martin Babinec today announced [...]
Upstate Jobs Party Announces Major Endorsements in Hudson Valley
Independent Political Organization Supporting Dynamic Team of Candidate to Fight for Private Sector Job Growth from Westchester to Ulster and Sullivan Counties Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced new endorsements for State [...]
Upstate Jobs Party Announces Endorsements in Western New York
Independent Political Organization Supporting Dynamic Team of Candidates to Fight for Private Sector Job Growth in Rochester, Finger Lakes and Buffalo Area Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced new endorsements for State [...]
Upstate Jobs Party Announces Major Endorsements in Central New York
Independent Political Organization Supporting Dynamic Team of Candidates – Angi Renna and Sam Rodgers - to Fight for Private Sector Job Growth in Syracuse and Central New York Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) [...]
Upstate Jobs Party Announces Bipartisan Endorsements in Capital Region
Independent Political Organization Supporting Daphne Jordan for State Senate and Rich Amedure for State Senate; Angelo Santabarbara in Assembly, Noting Strong Support for UJP Platform Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) founder Martin Babinec [...]
Fixing a Broken Government
The news stories about a broken New York State government have become too many to mention. In the last 15 years, we’ve seen the leaders of both houses of the legislature convicted of corruption, a [...]
Upstate Jobs Announces Economic Platform
Calling on candidates and policymakers to reinvigorate the Upstate Economy by scrapping a broken system and supporting entrepreneurs Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP), a nonprofit 501(c)-4 independent organization, today announced the economic component [...]
UJP Interview on Capitol Pressroom
Recently, our founder Martin Babinec was featured on the Capitol Pressroom with David Lombardo. This statewide radio show focuses on issues of importance in the State Capitol, and Martin was interviewed to discuss the impact [...]
Bring Upstate Back by Supporting Startups and the Innovation Economy
As we assess where we need to focus our economic recovery, Upstate Jobs believes now is the time to look to a new approach with greater potential for creating more good jobs throughout Upstate. Our [...]
COVID Didn’t Kill the Upstate Economy – Politicians Did
Long before we were faced with the challenges of the COVID shutdown, Upstate Jobs noted New York’s failed economic development approach. New York has long had its priorities out of whack as more productive investments [...]
Upstate Jobs Announce Education Reform Platform
Calling on candidates and policymakers to act upon lessons learned from homeschool and virtual learning model used in COVID pandemic, UJP calls for significant reform in State Education approach For Immediate Release: Tuesday, June 16, [...]
COVID Crisis Highlights Outdated Approaches to NYS Public Education
One of the major adjustments of the COVID-19 crisis is the sudden shift to home learning families with children have been forced to make. No one expected to suddenly have to shift to this new [...]
Bringing It Back
We’ve seen the headlines for many years and felt it personally. Upstate has lost more than 1 million residents leaving the region in just the last decade. While it is an indisputable statistic, it is [...]
Upstate Leads the Way in Reopening New York
For two months, we have endured a lockdown unlike anything in recent history – eight weeks of the NY PAUSE effort that has required extensive work-from-home and business shutdowns to avoid the spread of the [...]
Leadership in Crisis
It’s the right time for the Governor to continue to show his strength as a chief executive by engaging a team within his administration tasked with accelerating decisions on the regional reopening schedule.
Upstate is Different. Let’s Acknowledge it and Get to Work
One thing we see and hear regularly during this pandemic is “we’re all in this together.” It’s a statement that can actually carry several different meanings. Are we all supporting health care workers and first [...]
Recovering from COVID and Restarting Upstate
As we appear to have seen a plateau in COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations in New York -particularly Upstate where we were fortunate to avoid the worst of the outbreak – the attention of many is [...]
Get Involved
2020 is going to be a very important year for the UJP. With much of the media attention focused on COVID-19 and Bail Reform, Upstate economic issues look to again be taking a backseat for [...]
Our 2020 Approach
Candidates backed by UJP have seen incredible success all over New York State. In 2020, we'll be building our volunteer network and seeking like-minded candidates all over the State — in the Capital Region, Mohawk [...]
UJP Seeks Fairness in Petitioning Requirements
Given the challenges posed by the COVID-19 outbreak, NYS rightly cut short petitioning and minimum signature requirements for major party candidates last month. However, the State didn't do the same for the upcoming independent designating [...]
Governor seeks to kill independent voices
With a major health crisis impacting our State, nation and world, most eyes are turned to important issues of public health. However, that hasn't stopped the Governor from trying to kill off the chance for [...]
Upstate Jobs Party Calls for Fair Reduction in Candidate Petitioning Minimums
Independent Organization asks for similar reductions for minimums signatures for independent designating petitions as enjoyed by major parties Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today called for a reduction in the minimum number of [...]
New York’s Attack on Political Independence
As we share just a few weeks ago in this post, the New York State Campaign Finance Reform Commission released its final report earlier this week. This Commission was tasked with devised a system for publicly-funded [...]
Freedom – We still cherish that, right?
Freedom of speech is vital to our democracy. However, in the latest wave of bullying by the Albany political power brokers, a proposal to dismiss the will of the people has been offered by none [...]
Upstate Jobs post big wins on Election Day 2019!
UJP Newsletter, November 12, 2019 Focus on local races elevates leaders across the State Many will tell you that local elections are vitally important for several reasons, including the scale of impact these local races [...]
Upstate Jobs post big wins on Election Day 2019
Focus on local races elevates leaders across the State Many will tell you that local elections are vitally important for several reasons, including the scale of impact these local races have on our daily lives. [...]
Tesla’s Buffalo Plant gets $884 M Write Down
Image courtesy of the Buffalo News UJP has regularly raised questions about the wisdom of New York Economic Development officials trying to pick winners and losers in funding major projects. One such project [...]
Upstate group backs Dixon for executive
Article from October 5 edition of the Observer Today: Upstate group backs Dixon for executive BUFFALO — The Upstate Jobs Party has announced its endorsement of Lynne Dixon for Erie County Executive, citing her focus [...]
UJP Endorses Dixon for Erie County Executive
Organization dedicated to improving Upstate economy calls Independent candidate the “clear choice for change” Buffalo, NY – The Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced their endorsement of Lynne Dixon for Erie County Executive, citing her [...]
Buffalo must work on sustaining its STEM economy
From the August 22nd Edition of the Buffalo News: By Brett Orzechowski M&T Bank’s late-June announcement that it will create 1,000 new tech-focused jobs for a proposed hub is an outlier for any New York [...]
Upstate Jobs Party Files Law Suit Against New York State, Onondaga County Boards of Elections to Prevent Unfair Line Consolidation in Central New York
Litigation to Prevent Suppression of Expression and Protect the Constitutional Rights of Voters and Candidate Syracuse, NY – The Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced major litigation to prevent a consolidation of ballot lines in [...]
Upstate Jobs Party Announces Policy Forum in Central New York
Independent Civic Engagement Organization to Host Upstate Regional Policy Forum July 17 in Syracuse Syracuse, NY – The Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) today announced the next in a series of events that will focus on [...]
Upstate Jobs Party Announces Bipartisan Slate of Local Candidates in CNY, Mohawk Valley
Democratic Mayor of Little Falls and Republican Onondaga County Executive File Petitions to Run on Independent Line, Noting Strong Support for of UJP Priorities Albany, NY – Upstate Jobs Party (UJP) Chair John Bullis today [...]
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