State Senator, District 42
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:
Democratic · Incumbent
James Skoufis is an Orange County state senator first elected in 2018 who chairs the Investigations and Government Operations Committee and served six years in the Assembly before that. He focuses on fighting corruption and corporate welfare, school funding, and opposing new middle-class taxes.
Records: Anti-Corruption 7 for, Civil Rights 7 for, Election Integrity 5 for,
Republican
Jennifer Figueroa is an Orange County real estate agent, born in Brooklyn to a Puerto Rican immigrant family, who also drives a school bus route. Her priorities are lowering costs and government waste, safer streets and schools, and housing families can afford.
Conservative
Joshua Blumenthal won one of the two Palm Tree town council seats in Orange County in 2019, taking just under half the votes cast. He ran that year on the Democratic, Republican, Conservative and Independence lines.
Sources: elections.ny.gov2