| The results are in:
Unnofficial reports from 100% of 345 Albany County precincts show that Neil Breslin will hold his line and his seat as two challengers split a contested anti-incumbent vote in the September 9 primary.
STATE SENATOR 46 DEM
Neil D Breslin
15,796 (76%)
David N Weiss
2,750 (13%)
Charlie Voelker
2,310 (11%)
Senator Neil Breslin will be up for re-election to on the Democratic, Working Families, and Independence Party lines in November. There, he will face off against Charlie Voelker again, who has the Conservative Party line, too. David Weiss will not be on the ballot.
Senator Breslin is the brother of both County Executive Mike Breslin and Albany County Judge Tom Breslin. The 46th Senate District is entirely and exclusively Albany County. Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 80,000 in Albany County and are are expected to win all races in the 2008 General down the ticket.
Senator Breslin will likely recieve his seventh term in office after his first Democratic primary challenge, and return to the Senate in 2009. The big question facing Senator Breslin, and all Senate Democrats, is whether he will begin to serve in the majority next year. |
