![]() “It may be only four months or so, but from a political standpoint I think it’s significant,” Della Pia said. Della Pia is also running for a full term in November, and he’s hopeful that if he could pull off the special election upset against Sempolinski, it would propel his candidacy in the fall. In the special election, Sempolinski will face Democratic candidate Max Della Pia, a former Air Force wing commander. And three of those four months, the House is going to be in session, so there’s going to be a lot more than one vote cast.” “When you swipe your little card and you press the yes or no button, you speak for about three quarters of a million people, which is a really profound thing if you think about it,” he said of his potential election. Chris Jacobs could run in a special election in one corner of the state while representing another area, talk among Republicans quickly turned to having a placeholder. Since neither Tenney nor neighboring GOP Rep. Then Reed abruptly announced his resignation in May, creating a special election to finish off the final months of his term. And when she made clear she was willing to move to run elsewhere, that meant every incumbent Republican representing upstate had a district of their own, and Sempolinski, 39, stepped aside.Įven he thought that was the end of his House aspirations. Tenney’s seat was ultimately the one that was split the most. One of the biggest questions throughout the drawn-out process was whether the Southern Tier along the Pennsylvania border would continue to have a seat of its own or whether it would be chopped up and joined with urban areas further north. ![]() Reed announced last year that he would not seek another term after he was accused of sexual misconduct, and Sempolinski quickly jumped into the race to replace him.īut the future of the district as the state debated new congressional maps was far from certain. 23 for the remainder of his term this year. Tom Reed resigned abruptly from Congress in May, setting up a special election Aug. “Nobody knows that district as well as I do,” he said. Sempolinski has spent most of the past decade working for Reed as district director, which required him to traverse the vast district stretches from the southwestern corner of New York to near Binghamton in the east and Seneca Falls and Geneva in the north. I would do it if it were for four minutes - because this is my home,” he said in a recent interview in Ithaca. “I’m running to serve for approximately four months. ![]() So if he wins the special election as expected, come January he’ll be back home in Canisteo rather than the halls of Washington. Tom Reed, his former boss.īut Sempolinski isn’t looking to be elected to a full two-year term in November under new district lines. 23 special election to fill, until year’s end, the heavily Republican seat that was vacated in May by Republican Rep. If he wins, he will have the second-briefest stint in Congress of the nearly 1,500 New Yorkers who have ever served in the chamber. House in his own right - but don’t blink. Now he’s well-positioned to be elected to the U.S. ![]()
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