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State Senator, District 45

What does this office do?

  • Voting on how much you pay in state taxes
  • Voting on how much money your local public schools get
  • Voting on which roads and highways get built or repaired

Affects: AI Regulation, Healthcare Affordability, Environment and Public Health,

Candidates:

Republican · Incumbent

Dan Stec is a Navy veteran and chemical engineer who served as Queensbury town supervisor and for four terms in the State Assembly. He focuses on better broadband and cell service and on repealing bail reform.

Records: Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties 3 against, Civil Rights 2 against, Environment and Public Health 1 for, 1 against,

Democratic

Melissa Seale is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who founded Well Child Psychiatric in Glens Falls, and she served on the Lake George school board. She focuses on expanding health and mental health care and rural broadband.

Sources: elections.ny.gov2