General News: Donnery in Bid for State Assembly Seat
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| Roxanne Donnery |
June 17, 2010
Orange county legislator Roxanne Donnery, a Democrat, is running for the state assembly seat in the 96th district that has been held by assemblywoman Nancy Calhoun since 1990.
Donnery represents the towns of Highlands and Woodbury in the legislature, where she served as chair in 2009. In announcing her candidacy, Donnery said that as a county legislator she has led a bi-partisan coalition known for fiscal austerity and transparency and spearheaded the fight for government reform to establish an Office of Inspector General.
“We are tired of the dysfunction in Albany which has produced nothing but higher and higher school taxes and an exodus of jobs and young people from our state,” Donnery said. She added that assemblywoman Calhoun is “part of the status quo playing the blame game.”
Donnery has been an advocate for the Highland Falls school district where she was board president for more than seven years and has fought against the Kiryas Joel pipeline and in favor of keeping the county-owned Valley View Nursing Home. She was also instrumental in the adoption of Statewide PINS (People in Need of Supervision) reform giving parents authority over their children through age 18.
The 96th Assembly District includes the Towns of Woodbury, Highlands, Blooming Grove, Chester, New Windsor, Montgomery and Crawford in Orange County and Stony Point in Rockland County.
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