Latest updates from the campaign:
Azi Paybarah, co-host of New York politics podcast FAQ NYC, and Christina Greer, co-host of the New York politics podcast FAQ NYC and political professor at Fordham University, speak about the Independent Democratic Conference and challengers to its members.
A group of New York State Senate Democrats that aligned with Republicans is refusing to return hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of contributions, mostly from corporations and PACs, that the state Supreme Court ruled illegal in June.
Equality New York PAC (EQNY PAC), the New York State political entity seeking to elect candidates who support Trans, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Questioning, and Intersex people and their families, is proud to endorse John C. Liu, Jessica Ramos, Zellnor Myrie, Robert Jackson, Alessandra Biaggi, Julie Goldberg, Rachel May, and Blake Morris for New York State Senate.
In New York State, progressive insurgents are challenging eight Democratic state senators who spent years voting with Republicans. Five of these challengers are women — and if their grassroots campaigns and left-wing policy platforms succeed in primaries next month, they could remake politics in New York.
Susan Arbetter interviews Rachel about her primary challenge to Dave Valesky.
I am proud to receive Our Revolution's endorsement for the upcoming September 13th primary.
A fundraising agreement between a statewide third party and the state Senate's now-defunct Independent Democratic Conference has been deemed invalid by a state Supreme Court justice.
The Working Families Party is endorsing three state Senate candidates running in Democratic primaries against members of the Independent Democratic Conference: Alessandra Biaggi in the Bronx, Jessica Ramos in Queens, and Rachel May in Central New York.
The only female leader of a legislative conference in Albany is taking issue with the newly revised state Senate anti-sexual harassment policy because it includes a warning to false accusers. The distribution of the new policy comes amid sexual harassment allegations a former Senate staffer leveled against Sen. Jeff Klein, of the Bronx, the leader of the IDC.
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.
