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I’m running for NY State Senate! My goal is to help flip the Senate from red to blue, which would make it possible to pass a lot of truly progressive legislation. Please support me — my opponent is a very well funded incumbent who spreads a lot of pork around the district, so it’s an uphill battle to defeat him.

Huffington Post picks challenges to the IDC in the NYS Senate as a top priority for Democrats in 2018.

Sen. Valesky reiterated his allegiance to the IDC and his close relationship to Senate Republicans, as news broke about potential challenger Rachel May.

Syracuse University administrator Rachel May has filed paperwork with the New York Board of Elections to raise money for a Democratic primary campaign in the 53rd Senate District.

May, SU’s director of sustainability education, is part of the group True Blue NY-53 that formed this year.

By Darla Cameron, The Washington Post. Scroll down for a graph that shows the New York State Senate is one of the 10 most severely gerrymandered legislative bodies in the country, and the Assembly is also heavily skewed to favor Republicans.

IDC members seemed to be supporting the Climate and Community Protection Act in 2017, but they pulled their support away at the last minute and the bill never came up for a vote.