Category: Elections

The six candidates seeking the 54th State Senate District seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Mike Nozzolio will address the 7 p.m. Tuesday meeting of the Seneca County Shooters Committee On Public Education. Read More more

Canandaigua Supervisor Pam Helming, the Republican Party's endorsed candidate in the 54th Senate District race, is being outraised and outspent by at least three of her fellow competitors for the GOP nomination. Read more from the Auburn Citizen. more

Canandaigua Town Supervisor Pam Helming has received overwhelming support from her home county as candidate for the 54th Senate District. Numerous Ontario County elected officials and Republican party leaders are supporting Pam’s campaign to replace State Senator Mike Nozzolio who is retiring at the end of the year. Citing the need for change in Albany, Helming has vowed to fight... more

// In an obvious attempt at damage control the Ontario County GOP operatives re-endorse Pam Helming as their choice for the 54th State Senate race. Who better to seek support from than those ‘all in’ for the presumptive candidate since the ill conceived GOP ‘convention’ in May. Their allegiance occurred before public vetting of all candidates and they even passed... more

First it was New York State Senate candidate Pam Helming, who currently serves as Canandaigua Supervisor refusing to commit to the debate, which is scheduled for Thursday evening in Canandaigua. The debate, which was planned to highlight the candidates being considered for the 54th District, was not going to feature Helming, after she called the move a blatant attempt by... more

Following Pam Helming’s apparent victory in the 54th Senate District’s Republican primary, Democratic candidate Kenan Baldridge is looking ahead to the general election contest against the Canandaigua supervisor. Baldridge, D-Rose, challenged Helming, R-Canandaigua, to four issue-specific debates in the 54th Senate District race. The debates would focus on economic development, education and ethics reform, with the fourth debate being a town... more

It would be inaccurate to say that Democrat Kenan Baldridge watched the vitriol-filled Republican primary campaign for the state Senate’s 54th District with amusement. The word that comes to mind for the Democratic state Senate candidate over what transpired over the summer is “sophomoric.” Well, at least when it comes to the mailers that some of the candidates, including the... more

Now that a winner has been crowned in the Republican Primary for New York State Senate’s 54th District, focus can shift from counting to deciding While Canandaigua Supervisor Pam Helming won her primary battle against Ontario County businessman Floyd Rayburn – it was just that, an absolute battle. The mailers, argumentative tone, and overall idea that Helming is a representative... more