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Conor Amendola is a reporter with PolitiFact New York and a media studies major at St. Bonaventure University. A native of Erie, Pa., Conor is a student government senator and music director for campus radio station WSBU-FM.

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Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 3, 2024 in a newsletter for constituents:

“Marijuana is currently classified in the same category of drugs as heroin and a more dangerous category than fentanyl or cocaine.”

By Conor Amendola • February 20, 2024
X posts
stated on May 20, 2023 in on social media:

A printer error in Nassau County, New York, turned every registered voter Democratic.

By Conor Amendola • June 19, 2023
Paul Tonko
stated on March 20, 2023 in a press release:

“Individuals released from incarceration are 129 times more likely to die of a drug overdose during the first two weeks after release.”

By Conor Amendola • April 26, 2023
Charles Schumer
stated on March 10, 2023 in a news release:

Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.

By Conor Amendola • April 4, 2023
Nicholas Langworthy
stated on February 10, 2023 in a tweet:

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met "with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban," which "has ties to the" Chinese Communist Party.

By Conor Amendola • March 9, 2023