{"id":116958,"date":"2026-01-30T02:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116958\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T02:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T02:00:18","slug":"whos-running-for-the-new-yorks-119th-assembly-district-seat-in-2026-decision-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/116958\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Running for the New York&#8217;s 119th Assembly District Seat in 2026? | Decision 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Who's Running for the New York's 119th Assembly District Seat in 2026?\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/697bf13fd0171.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; The race for the 119th Assembly District seat now has more candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Mike Gentile, who recently ran for county legislator, has announced a campaign for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>Gentile would face Deerfield Town Board member Dan Fusco.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, Utica Councilman Joe Betar and Jon Lipe, who works for Congressman John Mannion, are running.<\/p>\n<p>The 119th District is currently represented by Marianne Buttenschon.<\/p>\n<p>She announced earlier this month that she will not run for re-election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UTICA, N.Y. &#8212; The race for the 119th Assembly District seat now has more candidates. Republican Mike Gentile,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[51674,416,9,11,10,2964],"class_list":{"0":"post-116958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-119th-assembly-district","9":"tag-elections","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-oneida-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116958","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=116958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}