{"id":97712,"date":"2026-01-12T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97712\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T20:17:07","slug":"a-familiar-candidate-enters-the-race-for-new-yorks-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/97712\/","title":{"rendered":"A familiar candidate enters the race for New York\u2019s assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Aburn School Board president Ian Phillips announced he will be running for Assembly in New York\u2019s 126th District as a Democrat, potentially leading to a repeat matchup of 2024\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came just days after three-term incumbent Assemblyman John Lemondes dropped out of the race for Congress in New York\u2019s 22nd District. Lemondes, a Republican, instead chose to run for reelection.<\/p>\n<p>Lemondes\u2019s decision to drop out of the congressional race leaves Republicans without a candidate to oppose the current Democratic Rep. John Mannion.<\/p>\n<p>The shakeup sets up a Republican primary this June. Republican David Knapp, an Onondaga County legislator, said he would be running for 126th Assembly District seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Phillips and Lemondes squared off for the state Assembly seat in 2024, with Lemondes securing his third term by more than 7,000 votes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Aburn School Board president Ian Phillips announced he will be running for Assembly in New York\u2019s 126th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[257,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,112,87,11077],"class_list":["post-97712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-central-ny","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-tyler-oldano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97712","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=97712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}