Spending In State Senate Races
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- October
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NYPIRG’s Bill Mahoney has put together a list of the top spenders for state Senate races during this two-year election cycle.
Republican Serphin Maltese, R-Queen, has spent the most on the general election, when you discount Democratic Sens. Darrel Aubertine and Craig Johnson, who had to compete in separate special elections.
Maltese has spent $2 million. He’s facing a tough re-election battle against Joseph Addabbo, who has spend $535,189.
After Aubertine and Johnson, Democratic candidate Richard Dollinger spent the most so far at $1.5 million, records show. The numbers include money from third-parties.
Here’s the list:
Republicans
Serphin Maltese—$2,038,264.22
Dave Renzi—$1,215,512.06
Tom Libous—$1,133,034.44
Martin Golden—$1,006,531.28
Joseph Robach—$994,188.23
Dale Volker—$956,849.60
Mike Ranzenhofer—$826,431.46
Barbara Donno—$818,474.90
Dean Skelos—$795,131.89
Roy McDonald—$792,134.53
Liz Feld—$747,283.39
Mike Nozzolio—$652,350.52
John Murtagh—$643,521.00
James Seward—$629,090.42
Jim Alesi—$532,993.70
Caesar Trunzo—$496,901.23
Vincent Leibell—$473,264.05
George Maziarz—$401,979.24
Democrats
Craig Johnson—$2,885,302.68
Darrel Aubertine—$2,298,294.66
Richard Dollinger—$1,544,003.49
Brian X. Foley—$1,529,811.88
Malcolm Smith—$1,115,792.38
Joe Mesi —$1,061,092.51
Jeffrey Klein—$1,000,168.66
Bill Stachowski—$691,578.34
Jim Gennaro—$604,179.36
Kevin Parker—$566,817.02
Joseph Addabbo—$535,189.05
Andrea Stewart-Cousins—$519,975.58
Daniel Squadron—$462,756.18
David Nachbar—$359,458.27
Liz Krueger—$329,466.71
Thomas Duane—$323,960.65
Antoine Thompson—$304,615.76
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
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