{"id":355135,"date":"2026-09-23T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355135\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:42:10","slug":"dem-senate-campaign-committee-chair-discusses-races-in-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/355135\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem. Senate Campaign Committee chair discusses races in play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Westchester Democratic\u00a0state Sen. Shelley Mayer has a lot on her plate these days. Not only is she chair of the Senate Education Committee, but she was named the new head of the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which means she\u2019s responsible for electing Democrats this November.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Capital Tonight\u2019s Susan Arbetter discussed campaign strategy with Mayer, as well as where the Democrats are looking to pick up seats in upstate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790206930_313_nys-capital-tonight-time-graphic-promo960x540jpgjpg.jpeg\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-fifty\" alt=\"\" img-data-wrap-text=\"false\" img-data-editing=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westchester Democratic\u00a0state Sen. Shelley Mayer has a lot on her plate these days. Not only is she chair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[206,204,202,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,201,200],"class_list":["post-355135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-albany-capital-region","tag-capital-tonight","tag-capital-tonight-interviews","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-susan-arbetter","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355135","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=355135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}