Smith Gets Kennedy Endorsement
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Jonathan Smith, a Democrat who is challenging Assembly Republican incumbent Joel 
Miller, in the 102 District, which covers Poughkeepsie, received the endorsement today of the Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy, right, who heads the environmental group Waterkeeper Alliance, said he’s backing Smith because “he is running a campaign that focuses on creating jobs and reducing New York’s reliance on foreign oil through new green energy technologies like solar, wind and geothermal,” Smith’s campaign said in a statement.
Smith, left, has also got th
e backing of the Citizen Action of New York.
Smith is challenging Miller in a district with just 2,000 more Republicans than Democrats.
Here’s Smith talking about energy alternatives for the Hudson Valley.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
