Democrats in the NY-24 Congressional District will go to the polls to choose the nominee who will run against Claudia Tenney in the Fall! We have two Candidates to choose from: Alissa Ellman and Diana Kastenbaum.
Alissa's Website Diana's Website Watch the first Debate
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The SCDC proudly endorsesTom DiNapoli for State Comptroller. Tom has served with extraordinary competence and honesty for almost two decades. He has exposed corruption, raised the pension fund for state workers to an unprecedented high, and held state government accountable. You can learn more about Tom DiNapoli's record and priorities at his website, DiNapoli for New York and follow him on Facebook
We are shocked and saddened to share the news that David Wagenhauser passed away on January 11, 2025 after a brief illness. We think this letter says it all better than we could. Thank you to Nola Heidlebaugh of Oswego for writing it.
Anolt Joseph "A.J." Laguerre Jr., Angela Michelle Carr, and Jerrald De'Shaun Gallion, murdered in Jacksonville August 26, 2023
Murdered in Uvalde, TX on May 24, 2022
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Murdered in Buffalo, May 14, 2022
Roberta A. Drury, 32; Margus D. Morrison, 52; Andre Mackneil, 53;Aaron Salter, 55; Geraldine Talley, 62; Celestine Chaney, 65; Heyward Patterson, 67; Katherine Massey,72; Pearl Young, 77; Ruth Whitfield, 86 |
In May, a judge finalized the NEW NY State Congressional districts. These replace districts that were established only a few months before but were ruled unconstitutional.
Seneca County is now part of the new NY-24 CD. It stretches from Watertown to Batavia, and includes Auburn, Geneva, Canandaigua, Geneseo and Oswego. It does not contain the cities of Rochester, Syracuse, Ithaca or Buffalo.
Our first election in this year. The Democratic candidate is Steven Holden. Check out his profile on our November 8 Election page. He is running against Republican Claudia Tenney, who currently represents the (old) NY-22 district. Tenney is perhaps most notorious for her remark, in the wake of the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018, that " it’s interesting that so many of these people that commit the mass murders end up being Democrats." Tenney is a staunch opponent of gun safety measures. She has been endorsed by Trump, and has praised the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe vs. Wade.
Early Voting at SENECA COUNTY HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES BUILDING (HSS), 2465 Bonadent Drive Suite 5, Waterloo NY
Seneca County EARLY VOTING POLL SITE will be open on the following dates & times:
Saturday June 13th, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday June 14th, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Monday June 15th, 2026 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday June 16th, 2026 12:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday June 17th, 2026 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Thursday June 18th, 2026 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Friday June 19th, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Saturday June 20th, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Sunday June 21st, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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May 8, 2026
In case you’re wondering what kind of a news day it was, President Donald J. Trump announced that the “Department of War” was releasing “Government files related to Alien and Extraterrestrial Life, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena, and Unidentified Flying Objects.” The president posted: “Have Fun and Enjoy!”
It’s hard to see the release of this information at this moment as anything more than a distraction from the many stories in the news that show the administration in an unflattering light.
The biggest of those stories was not that Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy took his family on a seven-month road trip to film a television series called The Great American Road Trip while he was supposed to be doing his job as secretary of transportation, or that he told Fox & Friends this morning that “it fits any budget to do a road trip” on a day when the national average for a gallon of gas was $4.54.
It was not the story, written by David A. Fahrenthold and Luke Broadwater and published in the New York Times, that Trump gave a no-bid $6.9 million contract to reseal the joints, waterproof, and paint bright blue the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Such contracts are supposed to be reviewed and put out for bids, but Trump ignored the review process and used an exemption designed to prevent “serious injury, financial or other, to the government” to award a no-bid contract to Atlantic Industrial Coatings, which has never before won a federal contract but which had worked at one of his golf clubs, because he wanted the work done before the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 2026.
The contract is for more than triple the $1.8 million Trump promised, and officials say the repairs will last for seven to ten years, rather than the 50 years Trump claimed. Even that might be generous: One expert warned that the motorcade the president took onto the pool yesterday to review the project was heavy enough to have sprung the newly-repaired joints between the concrete slabs that make up the pool bed.
It was not the story by economist Justin Wolfers in the New York Times explaining that the Defense Department’s claim that the war on Iran has cost taxpayers $25 billion tallies only the price of the 2,000 spent Tomahawk and Patriot missiles, the airplanes lost, and the other matériel used. It does not measure the lives lost, the disruption in global oil markets, companies shut down (like Spirit Airlines), heightened geopolitical tensions, higher interest rates, lower stock prices, lower economic growth, Iran’s new ability to charge tolls in the Strait of Hormuz to fund its nuclear ambitions, and the new need for countries to increase military spending. Wolfers notes that the Iraq war cost about $3 trillion and estimates the Iran war “will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and very possibly trillions.”
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