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  • McDonald to drop out of Senate race (NY 43)

    09/27/2012 8:40:10 AM PDT · by Upstate NY Guy · 18 replies
    The Times Union ^ | September 27, 2012 | Jimmy Vielkind
    ALBANY, NY — Sen. Roy McDonald will announce Thursday that he will not push forward with a third-party campaign, two people familiar with this campaign said. One source said McDonald, a two-term Republican incumbent who lost a GOP primary to Saratoga County Clerk Kathy Marchione, made his decision "for the good of the party." He has been largely silent since the Sept. 13 primary, as he weighed whether to push toward the November general election on the Independence Party line, which he secured over the summer. While she always maintained her platform was broader, Marchione's challenge to McDonald was shaped...
  • Kathy Marchione calls herself a 'true conservative’ (and she is)

    09/13/2012 2:53:16 PM PDT · by Upstate NY Guy · 4 replies
    The Register Star ^ | Sept. 7, 2012 | Billy Shannon
    Hudson, NY - Kathy Marchione, who has been Saratoga County Clerk since 1997, decided to challenge state Sen. Roy McDonald in the Republican primary for the 43rd District seat in part due to his 2011 vote in favor of same sex marriage in the state. “I would not have voted for gay marriage,” Marchione said in a phone interview last week. “He actually told people he was voting no and then he voted yes. I won’t tell people something and do something else.” Marchione calls herself a “true conservative” and said her belief is that the definition of marriage is...