Nate McMurray in a video announced his candidacy for New York\u2019s 145th\u00a0Assembly District.<\/p>\n
Current\u00a0assemblyman, Republican Angelo\u00a0Morinello,\u00a0will not seek reelection and will retire after his term is up<\/a> at the end of the year.<\/p>\n Former Niagara County Legislature\u00a0chairwoman\u00a0Rebecca\u00a0Wydysh, who announced her candidacy last week, has been endorsed by\u00a0Morinello\u00a0as his replacement.<\/p>\n The district includes Niagara Falls,\u00a0North\u00a0Tonawanda, Grand\u00a0Island\u00a0and Lewiston.\u00a0The election will be held in November.<\/p>\n As a Democrat, McMurray ran for the 26th\u00a0Congressional District seat in 2018, losing to\u00a0Republican\u00a0Chris Collins<\/a>, and in 2020, losing to\u00a0Republican\u00a0Chris Jacobs<\/a>.\u00a0In February 2023, he announced he would run for Erie County\u00a0executive, but\u00a0dropped out of the race just a few weeks later.<\/a> In January 2024, he announced his intention to run for the\u00a026th Congressional District seat<\/a>, but dropped out that February<\/a>.<\/p>\n He\u00a0was\u00a0elected\u00a0as\u00a0Grand\u00a0Island\u00a0town\u00a0supervisor\u00a0in\u00a02015\u00a0and served in that role until\u00a02019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nate McMurray in a video announced his candidacy for New York\u2019s 145th\u00a0Assembly District. Current\u00a0assemblyman, Republican Angelo\u00a0Morinello,\u00a0will not seek…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,113,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,380],"class_list":["post-108353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","tag-buffalo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-ny-state-of-politics","tag-politics","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}