The Buffalo Chronicle
New York State Assembly
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Erie County’s 2026 count isn’t finished. The 143rd Assembly race shows what is still left to tally
Five days after Election Day, Democrat Ryan Taughrin leads Assemblyman Patrick Chludzinski by 561 votes with about 800 absentees outstanding. Here is the Erie County Board of Elections’ canvass calendar, the recount…
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Niagara power and Albany spending frame the Bologna-Sholk race in the 144th Assembly District
Republican Assemblyman Paul Bologna says New York cannot spend its way to prosperity. Democrat Donna Dye Sholk wants unallocated Niagara hydropower sent to Erie and Niagara county households. Here is where the…
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Albany Democrats send $196,000 to defend McMahon as public matching money fuels McGuire’s Amherst challenge
The Democratic Assembly Campaign Committee moved $196,000 to Assembly Member Karen McMahon before a $236,000 TV buy, while Republican Terry McGuire has drawn more public matching money than she has in the…
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Flock cameras, crime and party-funded TV ads shape the 143rd Assembly race between Chludzinski and Taughrin
Republican Assemblyman Patrick Chludzinski and Democrat Ryan Taughrin are sparring over license plate readers after a Cheektowaga police scandal, while party money pays for most of their TV ads.
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In the 142nd Assembly race, Burke runs on a trooper leave law and Dickson on West Seneca’s tax record
Assembly Member Pat Burke (D, WFP) points to the trooper critical-incident leave law he sponsored, and West Seneca Supervisor Gary Dickson (R, C) to five years with no town tax increase. State…
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A democratic socialist and a Hamburg Republican face off for the open 149th Assembly seat
Tenant lawyer Adam Bojak (D, WFP) and Hamburg Councilman Frank Bogulski (R, C) are offering sharply different answers on taxes, utilities and affordability in the open West Side-Lackawanna-Hamburg seat as early voting…
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Wydysh and McMurray vie for open 145th Assembly seat as early voting begins
Early voting began Saturday in the open 145th Assembly District race between Republican Becky Wydysh and Democrat Nate McMurray, who are both drawing on public matching funds and disagree over whether to…
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Michael Kearns could be next Assembly Speaker
In the face of Sheldon Silver’s arrest on public corruption charges, the Albany establishment — long entrenched in the culture of corruption that Silver typified — has been shaken to its core. As…
