Three Republicans are vying for the party\u2019s ballot line in the race for New York\u2019s 118th State Assembly District seat.<\/p>\n
New York\u2019s 118th Assembyl District seat is currently held by Republican Robert Smullen, who is vying for the GOP ballot line in the race for New York\u2019s 21st\u00a0Congressional District\u00a0seat\u2014Congresswoman Elise Stefanik is not seeking reelection.<\/p>\n
Democrat Colleen Maxwell will appear on November\u2019s ballot in the race for the state assembly seat that encompasses large portions of the Mohawk Valley and North Country.<\/p>\n
For Republican hopefuls Chanda King and Heather Scribner, it\u2019s a different story.<\/p>\n
A third GOP candidate running in the June 23rd\u00a0primary, Charles Potter, will appear on November\u2019s ballot regardless \u2013 he\u2019s already set to appear on the states Conservative Party line.<\/p>\n
Currently a\u00a0Gloversville city representative on the Fulton County Board of Supervisors,\u00a0he\u00a0did not respond to requests for comment\u00a0on this story.<\/p>\n
Scribner says increasing affordability will be a priority if\u00a0she is\u00a0elected.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe affordability crisis is the major challenge. High taxes continue and the cost of unfunded mandates that are crushing family budgets. Those are the things that everyone is talking about. We have numerous issues based in New York under the one-party rule and under our Governor Kathy Hochul. And it\u2019s trickling down to upstate New York,\u201d said Scribner.<\/p>\n
The current Fulton County treasurer\u00a0adds\u00a0that\u00a0she\u2019s got all the qualifications for the\u00a0job.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen tax season came up in March I had people coming in, Veterans coming in who couldn\u2019t afford their taxes because their National Grid bills were so high. This should not be happening. And this is part of the affordability crisis, this is part of the one party ruling in Albany,\u201d said Scribner.<\/p>\n
Scribner says regardless of who is elected to represent the 118th\u00a0district, it will be vital for them to work across the aisle to advocate for their constituents.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolitical push does work, we\u2019re seeing it right now in the minority where we are fighting as Republicans for some of these things. For example, pushing back the electric school buses. I don\u2019t think 5 years if should be pushed back, I don\u2019t think it should be mandated, it should be a choice. But we are pushing back on that and what we have to do is be more proactive all the time and keep political pressure on [Democrats] because I think that is effective,\u201d said Scribner.<\/p>\n
King, on the other hand, is positioning herself as a less traditional candidate for the seat.
\u201cWell, I\u2019ve been in politics for a while on the outskirts. I don\u2019t look like Albany, I look more like the founding fathers who went in and carried the load and then went home. That\u2019s exactly what I plan on doing. I don\u2019t plan on spending a lifelong time in the assembly and making a career out of it, I don\u2019t plan on becoming rich. I\u2019m going to do the job and go home. That\u2019s what our founding fathers did,\u201d said King.<\/p>\n
King also takes issue with what she calls the growing gap between Albany\u2019s priorities and the priorities of the 118th.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s too many mandates including on myself. Things are expensive, things are hard. <\/p>\n
And we don\u2019t want the mandates of what Albany and New York City are telling us what we need to do here. They don\u2019t live here, they don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like. I think it\u2019s local control, they should be able to decide what they want. An electric bus is not going to work up in the town of Wells or Indian Lake. If Albany wants to have an electric bus, good for them, they should be able to make that decision for themselves. Just like here, we should be able to make that choice ourselves,\u201d said King.<\/p>\n
Early voting runs through\u00a0Sunday, election day is\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three Republicans are vying for the party\u2019s ballot line in the race for New York\u2019s 118th State Assembly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-270074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270074","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=270074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}