“This influx of migrants has reached a critical mass here in New York and upstate counties simply do not have the resources to shelter and provide for this massive wave of undocumented individuals. The last thing we should be doing is diverting critical...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C-LaFayette) recently sent a letter to Chairman of the Congressional Agriculture Committee Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, requesting that Adverse Effect Wage Rates (AEWR) for New York be altered to lower costs for farmers who...

**Click Here to Read the Entire School Safety Report** Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C-LaFayette) today called for increased safety and security at New York’s schools at a press conference in Albany flanked by his Assembly Minority colleagues. The Assembly...

At a press conference today in Albany, Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C-LaFayette) joined a coalition of state assemblymembers, Saratoga County District Attorney Karen Heggen and Chief Assistant District Attorney from Delaware County Shawn Smith to call...

ALBANY, N.Y. – Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris, Senator Andrew Gounardes, Senator James Skoufis, Assembly Member Michael Tannousis, and Assembly Member John Lemondes honored Greek Independence at the State Capitol on Wednesday, welcoming His Eminence...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C-LaFayette) has met with representatives from the American Red Cross to begin planning a series of community blood drives that he will be sponsoring in the district throughout 2023. The drives will be announced later this...

“The governor’s proposed executive budget is the most expensive spending plan in state history, but worse than that she is going back on her word and raising taxes. New Yorkers cannot afford these historic increases in spending, especially now when...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C-LaFayette) congratulated student athletes at the first ever New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) Girls’ State Wrestling Invitational Tournament, which was held on Jan. 27, 2023, at the SRC...

“The downstate-driven Majorities in Albany have ignored the fact that their bail reforms have enabled career criminals for far too long. New Yorkers do not want to live in a state where their government doesn’t listen and doesn’t care about protecting...

Gov. Hochul often touts how well she got to know New York while she was traveling the state as Andrew Cuomo’s lieutenant governor, saying she knows “every rest stop on the Thruway.” But after hearing her first State of the State address as a duly...

“People are working very hard right now to keep things going amid rising inflation costs, ever-present New York state taxes and skyrocketing energy bills. While we heard a lot of grand political pandering only action will help farmers and small businesses...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C,I-Lafayette) recently joined the Auburn/Cayuga NAACP chapter for the 55th Annual Freedom Fund Gala, an event with a changing theme every year that looks to promote community engagement and activism. This year’s theme was...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C,I-Lafayette) spent the evening of October 26, 2022 at the Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES facility in Liverpool hosting a forum that investigated the current status of safety for students, teachers and faculty in New York...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C,I-Lafayette), a longtime proponent against lowering the overtime threshold for farm workers and laborers, is anguished by the revelation that the Department of Labor has adopted a proposal to reduce the overtime cap from...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C,I-Lafayette) is celebrating the announcement revealing that technology company Micron will be setting up shop in Central New York very soon. The company announced it would be constructing its new chip manufacturing campus...

This past week, I attended the opening ceremony for the Harriet Tubman Auburn Mural Commemoration. It was a lovely event attended by the organizers of the mural, the Harriet Tubman Boosters, and the artist commissioned to do the piece, Arthur Hutchinson....

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R, C, I-Lafayette) is making his feelings clear in regard to the alarming notion gaining traction in many school districts nationwide that sex education and gender identity studies be taught to students in public schools as...

New York State has a unique relationship with the 9/11 terrorist attacks, of course: 25,000 people were injured in those attacks, and of the 2,996 that died, 2,753 were killed in the World Trade Center and the surrounding area, 184 at the Pentagon, and...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C,I-Lafayette) is continually disappointed with New York’s decision to relax laws designed to punish drug lords and those who bring illicit substances onto our streets and into our communities. Following the news that the...

Assemblyman John Lemondes (R,C,I-Lafayette) is calling for immediate action in response to the increasing immigration crisis, as New Yorkers grow more frustrated with the wave of undocumented immigrants flooding the state. As over 9,000 migrants have...