Democrat Blake Gendebien, the candidate for Congress national Democrats are counting on to flip Elise Stefanik’s seat in Upstate New York, is now the villain in his own video game.

His Republican opponent, Anthony Constantino, launched “Clean Up Blake’s Dump” on Thursday at www.BlakesDump.com. The premise is simple. Players are dropped onto a field buried in trash and told to drag it into a dumpster while the land slowly heals. Every time they make progress, a cartoon Gendebien pops up and dumps more.

The game is lighthearted fun, but there is nothing funny about the ecological impacts of NY-21 Democrat Blake Gendebien’s dumping of garbage, dead animals, and potentially hazardous waste, contaminating Upstate New York waterways.

www.BlakesDump.com uses real aerial photos obtained of Blake Gendebien’s illegal dump site, alongside a satellite timeline titled “Twelve Years of Dumping.” In 2014, the field was clean. In 2020, the garbage will appear. By 2024, it’s spreading. By 2026, the water adjacent to Gendebien’s garbage dump site has turned neon green.

The Constantino campaign also used the site to list the laws it says Gendebien is likely breaking, including New York’s open dumping rules, the state waste tire statute, state water discharge law, and the federal Clean Water Act.

Earlier this month, Constantino released drone footage of the site and a sworn affidavit from a former Gendebien employee, who said Gendebien ordered him to dump dead cattle into a creek. New York State Police told the New York Post that “the matter remains under investigation.”

The game is the latest escalation in a fight that broke open earlier this month. On October 5, Constantino released drone footage of the site along with a sworn affidavit from a former
Gendebien employee saying Blake Gendebien directed workers to dump garbage and dead cattle into a creek.

Constantino is now demanding Gendebien pay for the estimated $200,000 cleanup himself, and said the game was launched in part to raise awareness and place pressure on his opponent to clean up the land, and stop poisoning our communities.

“Blake Gendebien has spent this campaign pretending he is a steward of the land. The pictures prove he is a polluter who turned blue water neon green,” said Constantino. “We built the game to show voters how badly Blake behaves.”So far, Blake Gendebien has refused to even say publicly he’s considering cleaning up his mess.

Until he does, voters can try cleaning up after him themselves. Just don’t expect to finish. In the game, as on Upstate New York land, Blake keeps dumping. He won’t clean up his mess, so you can try. Good luck. Blake never stops dumping.