Long Island officials have criticized New York's new election law, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul, which mandates that local elections occur in even years alongside federal elections. This change has sparked concerns about state control and diluting focus on local issues. Officials from both parties argue that this shift favors downballot Democrats by distracting voters from local matters and preventing meaningful debates over issues significant to local governance. They emphasize that New York City is exempt from this law, raising questions about fairness in the electoral process in different regions.
For over 100 years, our local elections were held on odd years. What is this all about? It's about state control - the state trying to run our counties, towns, villages, and cities from Albany with one party rule.
They're trying to take the local issues and put them down the ballot so that people won't have an opportunity to have a fair debate, and talk about the things that are important to county government, the town government, the city government, and village government.
This is not the way the government is meant to work. There are local issues that I can talk to you about, and they should be the focus of our elections.
Local elected officials and our candidates want to talk about local issues and not get drowned out by the national media and the state media.
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