Anthony Constantino Says He Created Jobs for Thousands. His Own Records Tell a Different Story
October 13, 2026
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Anthony Constantino Says He Created Jobs for Thousands. His Own Records Tell a Different Story
Sticker Mule’s Amsterdam workforce shrank by more than a quarter in one year as Constantino’s jobs claims kept growing
LISBON, N.Y. — Anthony Constantino is running for Congress on the claim that he built an upstate business “creating jobs for thousands.” Constantino’s own statements and his company’s filings don’t support it.
When Constantino launched his campaign in November 2024, he said he had created “1,200+ jobs, mostly in manufacturing, in upstate New York.” Three months later, he described that same group as “a 1,200 person organization” with “people in 39 countries, all over the world.” Sticker Mule runs factories in Italy and South Carolina as well as New York. In August 2025, the company announced it was rolling out AI to “370 employees,” and the same press release claimed “1,200+ people in 30+ countries.” By December, Sticker Mule was describing itself as having “1,000+ employees worldwide.”
The local numbers are smaller still. Fifteen days before his campaign launch, Sticker Mule certified to the Amsterdam Industrial Development Agency that it employed 610 people at its Amsterdam tax-break site. The company’s next report showed 446, a loss of 164 jobs, or about 27 percent, in a single year.
Some of those jobs went to robots. In April 2025, Constantino laid off 68 Amsterdam workers after installing about 250 robots, saying “the rate of automation has outpaced sales.” Nothing on the public record explains the other 96 lost jobs. Since then, Constantino has predicted AI will let Sticker Mule “double sales with minimal staff growth,” and the company has moved customer support and other work over to AI and automated systems.
Constantino isn’t just automating jobs at his own company. His personal fortune is riding on the same thing. His congressional financial disclosure shows as much as $871,000 invested in companies that build, power and supply the data centers behind artificial intelligence, including Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta. His single largest stock holding is more than $1 million in Tesla, Elon Musk’s company, which is betting its future on robots and AI.
As the local numbers fell, his claims grew. Asked by WWNY in June how many New Yorkers Sticker Mule employs, Constantino answered, “We’re thousands, period,” then admitted he didn’t have a figure. In September, his campaign put “creating jobs for thousands” in a TV ad anyway.
“Anthony Constantino has built his entire campaign around creating American jobs, and he has lied about it from day one,” said Michael Waller, campaign manager for Blake Gendebien. “He counted workers in Italy and dozens of other countries as upstate jobs. He laid off Amsterdam workers and replaced them with robots. He bragged that AI means he won’t have to hire. Then he went on TV and claimed he created jobs for thousands. If Anthony can’t tell the truth about his own business, North Country families can’t trust a word he says in Washington.”
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Blake and his wife Carmen have raised their three sons on Twin Mill Farms in Lisbon, milking 500 cows and farming 1200 acres. Blake and Carmen also started The Jules of Life Foundation, which provides resources and support to North Country families battling pediatric cancer. For the past 10 years, Blake has served as Vice Chair of the Cooperative Board of Agri-Mark, representing the interests of farmers from across the region. He is a former member of the Lisbon Central School Board and was a longtime junior varsity basketball coach. Blake is committed to being a bipartisan leader who will lower costs, save our rural healthcare, and end the corruption in Washington.