From DailyGazette:

Assemblyman Roy McDonald, R-Saratoga, formally announced his campaign for state Senate Wednesday, while a rival for the Republican nomination, Ray Seney, blasted the front-runner and the party establishment.

McDonald made two announcements, the first in Troy, his hometown, where the gathered supporters included Sen. Joseph Bruno, R-Brunswick, the former Senate majority leader. Bruno is not running for re-election in the 43rd Senate District, and Republican Party leaders in both Saratoga and Rensselaer counties have endorsed McDonald as his successor.

Seney, a councilman and former supervisor in the Rensselaer County town of Nassau, issued a statement complaining about the number of Republican county committee members getting signatures for McDonald, which means “the chance for another Republican to even get on to the ballot [is] seriously reduced.” Candidates must files petitions with 1,000 valid signatures by July 10.

Seney also alleged that McDonald moved from Wilton, where he had been town supervisor, to the town of Saratoga “purely for his own personal benefit so he could be hand-picked for the Senate job. That should send a message loud and clear that his priorities are not for the people he represents. They are focused on himself and the Republican political machine. How can he be trusted to not abandon his new constituents for another hand-delivered job?”

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