Congratulations To Staten Island’s Elected Officials, Who Swept Back Into Assembly, Senate, House: Local Pols Weigh In On ‘Blue Wave’ Seen Nationwide, Soon-To-Be-Confirmed

Staten Island’s elected officials who were running for office this election season were all re-elected.  However, this was not the case in every area of New York, where many red districts flipped to blue, including  the near-100 year stronghold of Hempstead on Long Island, which is also the fourth wealthiest district in New York State. See below for a statement from the Conversative Party of Richmond congratulating their candidates, along with a statement from Assemblymember Laline, a Democrat who was re-elected and points out that across the country voters turned out in record numbers to vote for Democrats. 

Texas elected its first Democrat Senator since 1988, James Talarico, familiar to many New Yorkers as much of his donation solicitation was targeted at New York, and its first Democrat governor since 1995.  This was despite the legislature of Texas gerrymandering its way to getting more Republican seats in Congress by redrawing their district lines in sometimes unusual ways, but it did not work.  Texas lawmakers brought national attention to the issue by escaping to New York without sitting for the vote, preventing quorum (a sufficient quantity of lawmakers in any given house of government must be present in order to call for a vote on any given bill.  By leaving the state, the vote was delayed by a few weeks, but at the same time, Texans got a deeper look at this issue, which the state was hoping would go unnoticed).  Governor Abbott has been governor for 11 years, and has been responsible for electing commissioners who were would enforce environmental regulations, but many of his choices faced accusations of conflicts of interest from watchdog groups.  Data centers were a big issue for Texans in this race, as Governor Abbott was very much in favor of giving more and more land and contracts to these data centers, over the objections of the local residents who would be displaced by their construction or poisoned with polluting emissions or given health problems from the noise, etc.  The Texas governor was also heavily responsible for the lack of seriousness with which climate change and environmental issues were handled, leading directly to the deaths of many children at Mystic Day Camp and others who were taken by surprise by intense flash flooding with no warning system in place (an issue that had been brought up and criticized for years), but at least this disaster inspired some sort of action.  Finally, for those who remember our review of the film    , Texas’ governor was one of the main drivers of the migrant crisis in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other big cities, where migrants who had illegally crossed the border were loaded onto buses and put on a one-way trip to one of these cities, in order to prove a point.  However, people were rushed onto buses without paperwork proving their identity, and often were not provided with their own medications, without which at least one child went into diabetic shock from not having her insulin available due to the rushed nature of her transport. 

Conservative County of Richmond:

CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT ON 2026 ELECTION SUCCESSES

Congratulations to all five of our county-endorsed incumbent legislators – Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, State Senator Andrew J. Lanza, State Assemblyman Michael Reilly, State Assemblyman Michael Tannousis, and State Assemblyman Sam T. Pirozzolo – on being re-elected to each of their public offices this year. 

The Staten Island Conservative Party is proud to have contributed significant numbers of votes to each of our candidates, including the potential margin of victory for one, in this year’s federal and state contests.

With all five of its county-endorsed legislators successfully re-elected this year, the Staten Island Conservative Party continues to boast the highest winning percentage among all party organizations in the county and one of the highest for any county organization in the entire state.  We consistently nominate and endorse candidates who share our conservative principles and commitment to good government.

Additional congratulations to our endorsed judicial candidates on their election victories and to all of the candidates elected to public office in our county this year.

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Statement from Assemblymember Lavine on 2026 Election

New York State Assemblymember Charles Lavine (D-North Shore) issued the following statement regarding the 2026 Election.

“Yesterday’s election tsunami was not only a blue wave.  In actuality, the colors of the wave were red, white, and blue. All over our great nation, real Americans who believe in the noble and exceptional spirit of our Constitution marched to the polls in record strength to condemn the cruelty, corruption, and crudity of the Trump cult. We Americans of good faith must now continue to stand together as we begin to restore our nation’s honor, decency, dignity, and strength.”

From Municipal Arts Society on the Ballot Proposals:

Public Property Must Serve the Public

Yesterday, amid a wave of change across the country, New Yorkers voted to pass all five ballot proposals developed by the Commission on Government Efficiency (COGE).

Following our testimony this summer, MAS is thrilled to see changes to revocable consent outlined in Question #1 move forward, as well as streamlining of waterfront permitting in Question #4, which we have long advocated for. Voters also voted to pass Ballot Question #3, a measure we urged New Yorkers to reject, as it will fast-track the sale of City-owned property without clear guidelines for how this land will serve the public. While we support expediting street safety projects and office leasing for City workers—the other components of the measure—these should have been standalone proposals, separate from the processes governing public land transfers.

Now that this measure has passed, it is more urgent than ever that the City has a framework to ensure that this valuable public land meets its potential to serve as housing, public space, and climate infrastructure across all five boroughs. We will continue working with the City to prioritize public land transfers that enrich our neighborhoods.

Banner Image: Blue wave tsunami. Image Credit- Matt Paul Catalano