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Mike Sigler
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Republican Party, Local 607 Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

Northeastern University, 1993

Graduate

Columbia University, 1996

Personal
Birthplace
Boonton, N.J.
Religion
Episcopalian
Profession
Sales manager, county legislator
Contact

Mike Sigler (Republican Party, Local 607 Party) ran for election to the New York State Senate to represent District 52. He lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.

Biography

Mike Sigler was born in Boonton, New Jersey. Sigler earned a bachelor's degree from Northeastern University in 1993 and a graduate degree from Columbia University in 1996. His career experience includes working as a sales manager for Park Outdoor Advertising and as a county legislator for Tompkins County, New York. Sigler has been affiliated with the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency, the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce, and the East Hill Flying Club.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: New York State Senate elections, 2024

General election

General election for New York State Senate District 52

Incumbent Lea Webb defeated Mike Sigler in the general election for New York State Senate District 52 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Lea Webb
Lea Webb (D / Working Families Party) Candidate Connection
 
57.5
 
79,175
Image of Mike Sigler
Mike Sigler (R / Local 607 Party)
 
42.4
 
58,429
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
140

Total votes: 137,744
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Incumbent Lea Webb advanced from the Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 52.

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Mike Sigler advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Senate District 52.

Working Families Party primary election

The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Lea Webb advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Senate District 52.

Campaign finance

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Sigler in this election.

2022

See also: New York's 23rd Congressional District election, 2022

General election

General election for U.S. House New York District 23

Nick Langworthy defeated Max Della Pia in the general election for U.S. House New York District 23 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Nick Langworthy
Nick Langworthy (R / Conservative Party)
 
64.9
 
192,694
Image of Max Della Pia
Max Della Pia (D)
 
35.1
 
104,114
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.1
 
233

Total votes: 297,041
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Democratic primary election

The Democratic primary election was canceled. Max Della Pia advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House New York District 23.

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 23

Nick Langworthy defeated Carl Paladino in the Republican primary for U.S. House New York District 23 on August 23, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Nick Langworthy
Nick Langworthy
 
51.3
 
24,450
Image of Carl Paladino
Carl Paladino
 
47.5
 
22,603
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.2
 
570

Total votes: 47,623
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Conservative Party primary election

The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Nick Langworthy advanced from the Conservative Party primary for U.S. House New York District 23.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

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2022

Candidate Connection

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A 12 year Tompkins County Legislator, Mike Sigler lives in Lansing, NY with his wife Sarah and daughters. Prior to his public service, Mike lived on Green Street in Syracuse and worked as a WTVH television reporter and producer. After 9/11 Mike decided to enter public service with a run for Assembly and then the Tompkins County Legislature. While serving his Central New York neighbors in the County Legislature, Mike also works for Park Outdoor Advertising, a job which has taken him into hundreds of businesses in the 22nd Congressional district. As a result, Mike uniquely understands the infrastructure, tax, labor, inflation, and bureaucratic challenges facing Central New York. Mike, his wife and family have roots stretching back five generations in the 22nd District. They worship at Lansing United Methodist Church and have hiked throughout CNY and the Finger Lakes, touring in their 1972 VW bus and enjoying the dozens of festivals in the area. Mike has been in Rotary and is on the Chamber of Commerce board and a member of the Tompkins County Industrial Development Agency. An active hunter and private pilot, Mike earned his bachelors from Northeastern University and his Masters in Journalism from Columbia University.
  • Control Inflation - I do the weekly shopping at BJ’s for my family, mostly produce, a block of New York sharp cheddar, milk and some bread. For the longest time, it’s been $80 every time. It’s now $120. To many, that may not sound like much, but it adds up to $160 a month, almost $2,000 a year. That’s someone’s post-COVID-19 vacation, part of someone’s college savings or half a year of car payments. I’m fortunate to have a wife who’s a saver and was able to pre-buy our heating oil over the summer, locking in the price. Many don’t have the means to do that and are now trapped paying high prices to heat their homes. They’re in those homes more because they can’t afford to fill their cars with gas as prices shoot toward $5 a gallon. 
  • Policing - Connie Tuori was killed in her apartment just a block from my old apartment on Green Street. A woman who lived through the great depression, a world war, travelled the world, killed in her own home by a woman who just eight days before had been arrested for attacking a woman. She was released without bail because of bail reform; the judge’s hands were tied with their judicial discretion stripped by the state. John Katko was pushing to tie federal funding to the effort to repeal bail reform which has failed. I’ll continue that effort, just as I pushed back against defund the police as a Tompkins County Legislator. Crime is on the rise. Just this year, Juli Boeheim was robbed in broad daylight in a Destiny USA Mall parking lot. You
  • Immigration- United States immigration policy is non-existent. If someone were to fly into JFK from another country, burst through security and made a run from the street, they would be arrested and vetted. But we’re not doing that at the US southern border. Thousands, the most in four years, are arriving and being taken to cities and towns in the interior of the US with few checks for criminal backgrounds or infectious disease. In addition to human trafficking that’s going unchecked, the southern border is acting as an open door for the smuggling of opioids which have been a crippling families across the district. You likely know someone, maybe someone in your family, who’s harmed themselves and those around them abusing opioids like oxyco
Foreign policy, city development, rural agriculture, energy
Chuck Yeager. I’m a pilot, but what he was able to do in an airplane is remarkable much like what Jimmy Doolittle did before him. Where Doolittle went into the unknown piloting without visual references, Yeager punched through the speed of sound. They follow and are followed by a long line of innovators who changed the world.
You need to show up. The quote is 90 percent of life is showing up. I win election in my town because I work hard, I get out to my neighbors. I am their voice on the legislature. They may not always agree with me, but they know I come from a good place and that I also know that I am not infallible. I will listen to them. If you make a solid argument, I may adjust my approach or even my position if new evidence presents itself and the argument is compelling enough.
I work hard. I'm a finisher. At everything I do. I decided to get my private pilot's license at 45 after putting it off for two decades. I finished my degrees. I've worked at Park for 20 years, in part so I could serve part-time on the legislature. It's a service position. It's so I can represent my neighbors, my family, my friends. I've never not served my community in some fashion.
Setting the budget. As you mentioned, spending originates in the house. My main responsibility is to represent my constituency. I am the one closest one to them representing them at the federal level. I'm the only one who will be representing Central New York and a good part of the Finger lakes and only those areas in the federal government. Their voice must be heard, and I must carry it to Washington.
That I made a difference. To one person, to many. To have mattered.
Busboy. Two years. Lifeguard. Four years. Ice Cream man. Two years.
Harry Potter Goblet of Fire. It's when the story turns.
You have representatives of vast and very different constituencies. What is important in Queens may not be in Montana and yet, the representatives have to balance the needs of their voters with the needs of others.
Duck walks into a bar. "Got any grapes?"

No... I don't have any grapes.
Next day... "Got any grapes?"
No... I don't have any grapes. And if you come in here tomorrow and ask do I have any grapes, I'm going to nail your bill to the bar." Duck waddles off upset.
Next day... "Got any nails?"
NO... I DON'T HAVE ANY NAILS!

Duck: "Got any grapes?"
The congress must reassert its role in adopting. We can no longer govern by continuing resolution. The budget is how you set priorities. The way we've been going is governing by crisis. One of the main jobs of Congress is to pass a budget We have failed in that.

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Mike Sigler campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* New York State Senate District 52Lost general$519,944 $0
2022U.S. House New York District 23Withdrew primary$199,374 $166,462
Grand total$719,318 $166,462
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete

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Footnotes

  1. Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 19, 2022


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