Meet Congressional Candidate Aaron Woolf at May 12th Event in Queensbury

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20. Thanks! I'm certainly wishing him well!

We had a Republican in office in these parts for years and years, until Kirsten Gillibrand came along. She was my congresswoman and I worked for her Democratic successor who won the first time, lost badly to a teabagger the last time around. There's going to be a Republican primary here, hoping they cancel each other out, LOL.

BTW, Aaron Woolf is apparently a documentary filmmaker, has some good ideas. All the Republicans have to offer is criticism of the President.

http://www.woolfforcongress.com/about/

Career:

For more than 20 years, Aaron has produced and directed award-winning documentaries that have highlighted the human consequences of government policy.

Aaron is the director and producer of the critically acclaimed film, King Corn, for which he was awarded a 2008 George Foster Peabody Award. King Corn looks at the ways that agriculture policies affect farmers and consumers on the ground -- an inside view of how crop subsidies affect how and what we eat, as well as the people who grow our food. The film was released theatrically in 60 cities across the country as well as on PBS and Discovery.

In 2003, he directed Dying to Leave: The Global Face of Human Trafficking and Smuggling, which examined immigration systems across the world, and the flow of people, legal and illegal, across national borders. The film won an Australian Emmy Logie Award for best documentary series, aired as a two-hour special on the PBS series Wide Angle, and has been screened at the Secretary’s Open Forum at the US State Department.

In 2010 Aaron completed another PBS special, Beyond the Motor City, which focuses on Detroit, and the struggle to modernize transit in the nation's automotive heartland. The film was broadcast as part of the Blueprint America series on American infrastructure.

In 2010, Aaron toured the country supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, speaking about the future of America’s transportation infrastructure. Aaron’s work on this film profoundly shaped his belief that investment in infrastructure allows local businesses to compete in a global marketplace.