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Joseph Chenelly
Joseph Chenelly (Republican Party, Conservative Party) ran for election to the New York State Assembly to represent District 135. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Chenelly completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Joseph Chenelly was born in Rochester, New York. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1998 to 2004. His career experience includes working as the national executive director at a large congressionally-charted veterans service organization. He previously worked as a journalist. He reported the stories of service members and combat operations.[1]
Chenelly has been affiliated with AMVETS, VFW, American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Marine Corps Association, Sons & Daughters of Italy, Parent Teacher Association, Fairport Football Boosters, Fairport Wrestling Boosters, Perinton Republican Committee, and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondents Association.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: New York State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for New York State Assembly District 135
Incumbent Jennifer Lunsford defeated Joseph Chenelly in the general election for New York State Assembly District 135 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jennifer Lunsford (D / Working Families Party) | 55.4 | 35,569 |
 | Joseph Chenelly (R / Conservative Party)  | 44.6 | 28,674 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 12 | ||
| Total votes: 64,255 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Jennifer Lunsford advanced from the Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 135.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Joseph Chenelly advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Assembly District 135.
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Joseph Chenelly advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York State Assembly District 135.
Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Jennifer Lunsford advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Assembly District 135.
Campaign themes
2022
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Joseph Chenelly completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Chenelly's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Joe has spent the past 20 years in the non-profit, advocacy community, working to ensure our federal government keeps its promises, striving to improve everyone's quality of life, especially those in need.
Joe is the national executive director of a large veterans service organization, fighting on behalf of 19 million military veterans. His work includes close interaction with federal lawmakers, administration officials, and the president of the United States, regardless of political party. Joe's job is to inform and urge officials to take action to best serve veterans.
Now, as our state is in crisis, Joe wants to fight on your behalf. Joe Chenelly is committed to represent you in the NYS Assembly with a common sense approach, always putting you above party or personal interests.- Joe Chenelly is your tough on crime candidate, by being tough on criminals. We cannot trust those who broke our criminal justice system to fix it now that everyone sees their policies and inaction were wrong. Over the past two years in Albany, the one party controlling all three branch of our state government has focused on granting more rights to criminals than providing justice for victims. Joe will put the innocent and victims first with the top goal of preventing victims, not creating more.
- Soaring prices are impacting every aspect of our daily lives. Joe Chenelly will fight to push our state government to take meaningful action to ease the extremely heavy tax burden carried by so many in the 135th District - the highest tax rates in the United States. Western New Yorkers need and deserve broad tax cuts, made possible by reduced and wiser spending by our state government. Under one-party rule, New York State spends wildly, not at all being a responsible steward of tax payers' money.
- Joe Chenelly will fight relentlessly to stop NYS Democrats' efforts to steal control of local zoning away from every village, town, and city in the state. The one party controlling all three branches of state government in Albany badly want to end neighborhoods that are only for single-family homes, and they are getting close. Your neighbor could turn their house into an apartment building or put up another entire house on the same property as a multi-unit rental with no minimum lot size requirement and no impact studies.
Mental health as long been Joe Chenelly's top public policy focus for very personal reasons. He lost his mother and numerous fellow Marine Corps veterans to suicide. He testified before Congress, spoke with two Presidents of the United States, and appeared on every major news network in the country to raise awareness of the mental health crisis plaguing society and taking many lives. And he always brings solutions to the table, especially empowering and resourcing services at the most local levels.
Joe will prove his integrity, courage, and commitment to earn the trust of voters as well as the trust of his fellow legislators in Albany, making him productive in achieving what his constituents want and need.
Joe wants to work on your behalf to reverse that trend, to make living here affordable, to stop the state from being so unfriendly to small businesses, and to restore public safety.
The Assembly wrongly delegated its authorities, but responsibility cannot be delegated. This means the Assembly continues to fail to meet its duties as elected representatives. Governor Hochul has used her unchecked powers in corrupt ways, making large purchases with taxpayers' dollars without using a bidding process. In some cases, the out-of-state companies benefiting from those purchases turned around and made large contributions to Hochul's campaign this year. That is wrong and would not have happened if the Assembly did its job.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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