Our state was hit, New York was the target, and make no mistake about it; New York is still the target.

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The bureaucratic nightmare that is the Department of Homeland Security will require independent solutions to ensure New York receives its fair share of homeland security funding. Now, more than seven years after September 11th 2001, our first line responders, the heart and soul of the Hudson Valley, are still not being properly supported. As the years have passed the national homeland security fund has become a cash cow for other states, many of which have a much lower security risk, to use and manipulate to fill their spending gaps.

Greg will be a driving force in reducing the size and scope of government while improving the capabilities of our first responders, and securing our border.

Greg Ball believes that forming a secure border and fair immigration policy are the two most important steps we can take as a country.

Some elected officials turn the other way when confronted with a tough issue, but Greg Ball has been willing to roll up his sleeves and get the job done. Greg Ball is a pro-immigrant state legislator who will continue to lobby for efforts that will expand and streamline opportunities for legal immigration, but continue to fight the failed federal policy that forces 6 million people to wait in line an average of 7 years, needlessly.

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During his service in the assembly, Greg Ball accomplished a great deal on this issue; fighting back local attempts to construct a workstation for illegal aliens using taxpayer dollars, stopping efforts of a local municipality to issue illegal aliens identification cards in coordination with the Guatemalan Consulate, fighting to recall 23,000 drivers licenses issued to temporary residents with no "temporary resident" stamp, and spearheading efforts against Governor Spitzer's insane plan to aid and support 1 million illegal aliens as well as the terrorists in their midst.

Greg Ball has always maintained that as a country, America has been a success because of our large immigrant population, not in spite of it. As a people, we are a blend of the world and throughout our history a healthy immigration policy, largely open, yet tightly regulated, has ensured a constant flow of new faces, bright minds, talented souls and strong backs into the mainstream of our population.

Greg Ball comprehends the fundamental reality that with gas prices and oil imports rising dramatically with each passing year, our national security and prosperity requires that we chart a fresh course based upon renewable, cleaner energies.

As a State Senator, Greg will fight to develop an intelligent energy policy that comprehensively includes wind, geo-thermal, nuclear and other forms of clean energy and partners with the private sector to build green collar jobs here in the Hudson Valley.

As a community leader, Greg will work with labor, private industry and the education sector to make sure New York state has the energy needed to power our economy and the energy supply and infrastructure needed to grow and expand into the 21st century and beyond. We cannot build the New York and Hudson Valley of the future if our power sources are expensive and hard to come by.

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Greg Ball is wholly committed to taking care of the men and women who have put their lives on the line to protect our country through military service. Our veterans deserve the finest medical care, employment opportunities and education in the nation and we must provide substantive tax relief to keep veterans in this state.

Greg Ball has delivered thousands of dollars in grants to help our local veterans and introduced the legislation that was eventually enacted in the 2008 State Budget to provide free graduate and undergraduate college tuition at SUNY and CUNY institutions for combat veterans.

Our veterans deserve the finest medical care in the nation and we must provide substantive tax relief to veterans throughout the state. Greg Ball is fighting to keep the Montrose VA facility to be used as it was intended: for veteran's only, not private development. Ball also supported bipartisan efforts and bills to help ensure veterans have the mental health care they need and deserve Ensuring that all veterans have top-notch, timely medical treatment in a fully-funded VA health care system is a key priority for Greg.

Those who have served in uniform or been injured in action, as well as the survivors of those who have passed on or made the ultimate sacrifice must continue to have ready access to the benefits they have been promised and deserve.

The New York Rifle and Pistol Association honored Assemblyman Greg Ball as Legislator of the Year twice in a row, and he was presented the award by NRA President John Sigler.

Since being elected to the State Assembly, Greg Ball has supported law abiding gun owners by taking on microstamping and other anti second amendment initiatives.

Greg Ball was named the NSSF legislator of the year, awarded an "A+" rating from the NRA for his support of the Second Amendment, and was officially endorsed by the National Rifle Association.

While Assemblyman Ball may be in the minority, every law abiding gun owner and sportsman should know that Greg is fighting for their rights everyday in the Assembly, and will continue to do so in the State Senate.