BUFFALO COMMUNITY LEADER EGRIU TO PUSH JOBS AGENDA USING 21ST CENTURY COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUES

If Buffalo businessman and community leader Eddie Egriu decides to seek public office in 2010, he will run on a pledge to create more and better jobs for the many unemployed residents of WNY, a traditional theme if there ever was one. Still, he plans to use decidedly non-traditional means to get his message out, including the continuing use of internet social networking sites such as Facebook.

"If I run for office this year, my three top priorities will be in this order Jobs   And, then Jobs....And, then my third priority will be Jobs as well," he declares. "Jobs, jobs, jobs. The creation of more and better jobs will be my message and it will also be my total preoccutation once I'm elected. However, just as I'm campaigning for change and innovation, I am also committed to using innovative, technologically up-to-date methods to get my message across to the people of WNY."

Following the pattern laid out by President Barack Obama, Egriu plans to make his campaign a model of cyberspace effectiveness.

"I'm already using Facebook and other social networking sites to gain many allies and supporters, not only in WNY but nationally and even internationally," he reports. "Every day more and more people are coming on board from all over our community and all over the world. We are seeing a lot of young people become part of my team because they want change like I do and they especiall appreciate the fact that I am reaching out to them uisng their own language and using the 21st Century mediums of communication that they love, just like President Barack Obama did in 2008."

The result, in Egriu's view, is the beginnings of an effective political campaign which will be well financed, while enjoying plenty of grassroots support. Still, this avowed friend of the forgotten people in our society has still not made up his mind as to which office he might run for.

"I may run for federal office, but if I don't raise enough money to do that, I will run for the NYS Senate," he pledges. "I want to do everything I can in 2010 to bring the people of WNY the genuine change that our people are seeking so desperately and want so much."