OP-ED for a Newspaper (3 Pages/750 to 825 Words) Use AP Style Format.

Write an OP-ED from the perspective of the candidate about the need for and the benefits of tax free zones for new businesses

in the State of New York and how these zones would help make the New York economy in general recover.

Write an email pitch to a journalist, pitching an exclusive story on the candidate (2 Pages/550 Words) Use AP Style Format

The facts are all based on a fictional U.S. Senate run against Sen. Schumer. (https://www.schumer.senate.gov/)

Use these facts below to write these documents. You are welcome and encouraged to be creative ? as far as writing quotes and

adding in any other ?facts? to complete whatever document you are creating.

These documents will be graded based on grammar, format, and strategic thinking.

Here is the fact sheet for the collection of documents:

Mary Smith, 50 years old, is running as a Republican against Sen. Schumer in 2016.

She has already won the Republican Primary ? winning easily.

No one expected this race to be real but the polls are showing 40 percent for Schumer, 40 percent for Smith and 20 percent

undecided.

It is October 2016. Election Day is around the corner.

Could a Republican take this Blue State?

We are headed to a one-on-one race against Schumer.

Mary is from Nyack, New York.

She was once mayor of Nyack and now is a sitting NY State Assemblywoman.

As mayor, she is credited with bringing in more tourists and cutting red tape for businesses. She eliminated parking fees

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

businesses needing permits and licenses. She was mayor for eight years, serving two terms. Her approval rating when she left

as mayor was high — 80 percent. She decided not to run again and ran for the State Assembly. In the Assembly, she has not

been able to get much done. Some question whether she can work in a legislative body and get results.

The documents (pitch email and op-ed) are being written for one event. Mary is holding an event to announce she will fight

for national 20-year tax free zones for new businesses that maintain 5 or more full-time employees. She said this will be her

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-

election.

She graduated from Fordham in political science in 1987 and then in 2000 received her masters from Fordham in Elections and

Campaign Management.

Before being elected as mayor of Nyack, she ran her own business ? a coffee shop in Nyack, which her adult children now own

and run. Her family has owned the coffee shop since 1990.

She is married and both her children went to public school. Her husband is a police officer in Nyack.

She is liberal on social issues like abortion and gay rights. She is fiscally conservative.

Her positions:

? Less taxes or no taxes.

? Her biggest issue: We need more federal enterprise zones (tax free zones for start-ups) for businesses. Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.

? She is known for fighting for Wall Street and those upstate New Yorkers, who often feel left out. She is criticized by some

for being too friendly with the 1 Percent and she hasn”t got a record on important matters like education and helping the

poor.

? She is as active on constituent services as Schumer. Like Schumer, she has a reputation for working on Sundays. She doesn”t

do news conferences like Schumer, rather, she visits local businesses, asking them what she can do for them in Albany.

? She is against Obamacare and says over and over ? Republicans need to be against this law but also propose something

better. She says it will kill small business.

? She likes to say ? Washington doesn?t work. Schumer has been there way too long. Time for new representation.