GOP Assembly Primary Starts Up
July 16, 2008
Republicans Tony Jordan and Christopher “C.J.” Laing kicked off their respective campaigns Tuesday as they head to a primary for the Assembly seat now held by Roy McDonald.
Jordan, a 43-year-old Washington County attorney and resident of Jackson, announced his candidacy for the 112th District in Wilton’s Gavin Park. The district includes all of Washington County and parts of Saratoga and Rensselaer counties.
He pledged to reach across party lines and fight to ease “the growing financial squeeze being placed on middle-class families and seniors.”
“The only way for families to escape this is for Albany to change,” Jordan said. He has the support of all the major party leaders in the predominantly Republican district.
Meanwhile, Laing, from Northumberland in Saratoga County, said the GOP must get back to the basics of fiscal responsibility.
“Property taxes have reached a dangerous level,” Laing, a 46-year-old builder and business owner, wrote in a news release. “We had a Republican governor and a Republican state Senate for 12 years. We cannot fix the problems until we accept that our party was responsible for this mess, too.”
He said he has filed more than the required 500 signatures needed to run in a September primary.
The winner of the Republican primary would face Wilton Democrat and Town Councilman Ian McGaughey, who on Monday said he had secured the Independence Party endorsement over Jordan.
“I have the ideas and energy to help chart a new direction for state government,” McGaughey said. If Jordan wins he would be the first Washington County resident to hold a state Assembly seat since Lawrence Corbett of Fort Edward, who served from 1963 to 1972.
The seat is currently held by McDonald, a Republican, who is running for the 43rd state Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Joseph L. Bruno, R-Brunswick.
Source: Times Union
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