105TH ASSEMBLY DISTRICT — The Fair Campaign Practices of the Capital Region organization is to hear a complaint Monday involving an allegedly misleading advertisement airing against the Republican candidate in the 105th Assembly District race.

Fair Campaign Chairwoman Joan Elliott said she has notified Assemblyman George Amedore Jr., R-Rotterdam, who filed the complaint, and Democrat Mark Blanchfield, whose campaign produced the ad, of Monday’s meeting.

Amedore said he will attend. Blanchfield said that he will seek an adjournment and that either he or a representative will attend the meeting.

Blanchfield said he will let the ad air until there is a finding and then re-evaluate whether to continue it.

In the meantime, Blanchfield’s campaign followed up the radio ad with a mailer that includes the same allegation, Amedore said Thursday. Amedore said he received the mailer Wednesday.

Amedore said Blanchfield’s radio ad and mailer took out of context comments Amedore made during an interview he gave after receiving an award from the Capital District Business Review.

Blanchfield’s ad and literature quote Amedore saying he does not look at his Assembly seat as his job. “I have building in my blood,” he says in the Blanchfield ad.

Amedore provided a transcript of an interview from which Blanchfield is said to have taken the quote. In it, he says: “I have building in my blood; that’s my job. I don’t look at the Assembly position as my job: I look at it as serving, giving back.”

Blanchfield said Amedore sent out a mailer this week that implies that Blanchfield spliced together the phase using “some fancy editing.” Said Blanchfield, “If you look at the YouTube clip, he says that.”

Blanchfield said Amedore made his business an issue in the campaign and the ad and literature accurately reflect the assemblyman’s statements.

Amedore, 39, is executive vice president of Amedore Homes, a company started by his father, George Sr.

Blanchfield, 41, is a Schenectady city councilman and a private attorney. Blanchfield said he would make being an assemblyman his full priority. But he also said that if elected, he would continue to practice law, at least initially. “I would have to make sure my clients were looked after. I can’t just walk away from clients who have active issues,” he said. “I would do my best to make sure they were transitioned appropriately.” He added that he can’t see how he could manage a full-time law practice and serve in the Assembly.

Elliott said the six-person panel will conduct the hearing and decide by consensus whether the Blanchfield campaign violated their pledges to conduct a fair campaign.

The independent League of Women Voters formed Fair Campaign Practices for the Capital Region, which reviews complaints and issues non-binding opinions.