The race is on.
After several months of waiting, local businessman Richard Hanna will formally announce his candidacy for the 24th District Congressional seat today, a news release from his campaign stated.
Hanna, a Republican, will run against first-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Michael Arcuri, D-Utica. Arcuri won the seat in 2006 after longtime U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, R-New Hartford, retired.
In a previous interview, Hanna characterized himself as, a "self-made businessman and philanthropist," and "a social moderate, a fiscal conservative, and just as importantly to me, an environmentally progressive person."
He has residences in Barneveld and Cooperstown and is the owner of Hanna Construction.
Like most other GOP challengers this cycle, he'll have to largely self finance. The NRCC just blew most of the cash on three successive losses in what they believed to be "safe" seats. They aren't likely to put a dime into this race. Richard Hanna will be on his own.
