GOP’s Tague scores repeat victory in 102nd District
Republican state Assemblyman Christopher Tague has again defeated Democrat Aidan O’Connor Jr. in the race for New York’s 102nd Assembly District seat.
Tague received 28,053 votes to O’Connor’s 20,858 votes, according to results posted Tuesday night by the state Board of Elections.
The 102nd Assembly District includes all of Greene and Schoharie counties; parts of Otsego, Delaware, and Albany counties; and the towns of Saugerties in Ulster County and Stockport and Stuyvesant in Columbia County.
Tague has served in the Assembly since defeating O’Connor and Wes Laraway in the April 24 special election to replace Assemblyman Peter Lopez, R-Schoharie. A graduate of Schoharie Central School, Tague served as Schoharie town supervisor from 2015 until taking state office. The Schoharie resident is engaged to be married and has two children.
“In just my first six weeks in office, I’ve done everything I said I was going to do,” Tague said in a statement prior to the election. He said he voted to cut taxes by $72 million, sponsored and co-sponsored legislation in support of volunteer firefighter and emergency medical services, and left his job as general manager of Cobleskill Stone Products to be a full-time assemblyman. Tague said he has also used his private and public connections to work with local communities, broadband companies and internet service providers to expand services and coverage in rural areas.
Tague said he also met with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to bring attention to problems facing dairy and produce farms.
“I also plan on presenting legislation to increase incentives to local schools, colleges, and prisons that use local dairy and produce products in their food programs,” Tague said. He said he is also working with partners to establish programs for people in need of long-term recovery from opioid and alcohol addictions.