{"id":120882,"date":"2026-02-03T02:30:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120882\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T02:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:30:15","slug":"democrats-could-see-primary-for-119th-assembly-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/120882\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats could see primary for 119th Assembly seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic primary could take place for the 119th Assembly District seat.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Lipe launched his campaign in Utica over the weekend. He currently works for U.S. Rep. John Mannion.<\/p>\n<p>Utica Councilman Joe Betar is also running as a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican side is Deerfield Town Board member Dan Fusco and former Oneida County Legislator <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2026\/01\/29\/former-oneida-county-legislator-to-run-for-mohawk-valley-state-assembly-seat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gentile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 119th District covers Utica and Rome, and several surrounding communities in Oneida County. It is currently represented by Marianne Buttenschon. She previously announced <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2026\/01\/14\/marianne-buttenschon-119th-assembly-district-election-decision\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">she would not run for re-election.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Democratic primary could take place for the 119th Assembly District seat. Jon Lipe launched his campaign in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[109,116,257,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,380,3476],"class_list":{"0":"post-120882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-local-state-politics","9":"tag-app-ny-state-of-politics","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ny-state-of-politics","19":"tag-politics","20":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","21":"tag-state-assembly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120882","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=120882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}