{"id":129598,"date":"2026-02-11T01:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T01:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T01:41:11","slug":"state-sen-michael-gianaris-announces-he-will-not-seek-re-election-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/129598\/","title":{"rendered":"State Sen. Michael Gianaris announces he will not seek re-election in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysenate.gov\/senators\/michael-gianaris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">State Sen. Michael Gianaris<\/a> announced Monday that he would not seek re-election in 2026 after representing western Queens in Albany for more than 25 years. He first won a seat in the state Assembly in 2000 before moving to the upper chamber after winning his Senate seat in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Born and raised by Greek immigrant parents in <a href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/neighborhoods\/astoria\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Astoria<\/a>, Gianaris said his decision was based on spending more time with his own family and embracing his new role as a father.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/qns.com\/2026\/02\/michael-gianaris-re-election-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at QNS &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tState Sen. Michael Gianaris announces he will not seek re-election in 2026 &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; State Sen. Michael Gianaris announced Monday that he would not seek re-election in 2026 after representing western&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[310,40774,9,24,12,63,122,124,123,55794,856,55795],"class_list":{"0":"post-129598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-daily-newsletter","9":"tag-michael-gianaris","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-queens","15":"tag-queens-headlines","16":"tag-queens-news","17":"tag-re-election","18":"tag-state-senate","19":"tag-state-sen-michael-gianaris"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129598","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=129598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}