Help us improve in just 2 minutes—share your thoughts in our reader survey.

Mary Finneran

From Ballotpedia
Revision as of 19:28, 12 June 2024 by Matt Latourelle (contribs) (added tusa campaign finance widget)
Jump to: navigation, search
BP-Initials-UPDATED.png
This page was current at the end of the individual's last campaign covered by Ballotpedia. Please contact us with any updates.
Mary Finneran
Image of Mary Finneran

Working Families Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

November 5, 2024

Education

Bachelor's

Syracuse University, 1988

Graduate

Syracuse University, 1993

Personal
Birthplace
Corning, N.Y.
Profession
Educator
Contact

Campaign website

Campaign Facebook

Campaign Twitter

Campaign Instagram

Personal Facebook

Personal Twitter

Mary Finneran (Democratic Party, Working Families Party) ran for election to the New York State Assembly to represent District 102. She did not appear on the ballot for the general election on November 5, 2024. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 25, 2024.

Finneran completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.

Biography

Mary Finneran was born in Corning, New York. She earned a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in 1988 and a graduate degree from Syracuse University in 1993. Her career experience includes working as an educator and welder. As of 2024, Finneran was affiliated with New York State United Teachers, the New York Progressive Action Network, and the Working Families Party.[1]

Elections

2024

See also: New York State Assembly elections, 2024

General election

General election for New York State Assembly District 102

Incumbent Christopher Tague defeated Janet Tweed in the general election for New York State Assembly District 102 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Christopher Tague
Christopher Tague (R / Conservative Party)
 
63.5
 
46,038
Image of Janet Tweed
Janet Tweed (D / Working Families Party) Candidate Connection
 
36.4
 
26,423
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.0
 
36

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 72,497
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 102

Janet Tweed defeated Mary Finneran in the Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 102 on June 25, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Janet Tweed
Janet Tweed Candidate Connection
 
50.8
 
1,808
Image of Mary Finneran
Mary Finneran Candidate Connection
 
48.7
 
1,731
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.5
 
19

There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 3,558
Candidate Connection = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey.
If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey.

Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Christopher Tague advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Assembly District 102.

Conservative Party primary election

The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Christopher Tague advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York State Assembly District 102.

Working Families Party primary election

The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Mary Finneran advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Assembly District 102.

Campaign finance

Endorsements

Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Finneran in this election.

Campaign themes

2024

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Candidate Connection

Mary Finneran completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Finneran's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

Expand all | Collapse all

I am a social/political/justice and environmental activist. To have the opportunity to truly serve NYS and use the experience I've gained by lobbying in the legislature and perusing many of the laws, motivates me to run for office providing me with opportunities to truly help this district and all of NY, not only by strengthening environmental and climate laws critical to agricultural districts, and the planet's survival, and the huge tourist industry here, but by strengthening health access for all, including women’s health, by strengthening affordable housing access for all, by helping build up much needed infrastructure here, and by being a stronger voice for the rural upstate residents who I’ve always fought for but whose voice is often marginalized in Albany, including many rural BIPOC and LGBTQ people .
  • The true meaning of the word "existential" in the phrase existential climate crisis is that our way of life and life other than human will cease to exist without action. We must be sure that climate policy like the CLCPA, Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which mandates a curtailment of green house gas emissions, is strengthened by other bills. The rural community is most impacted by climate chaos due to farms and tourism, and transitional help for these industries must be legislated. We must be certain that the forests and trees that are our greatest carbon sinks aren't sacrificed for renewables siting, and that along with farmland, parking lots, brown fields , and roofs, etc. are equally sited.
  • People's needs over corporate greed. Healthcare, housing, utilities, and food are all needed for survival. For the industries that provide human needs to profit, especially inordinately, at the expense of the human rights to have these needs met, is untenable. Health insurance companies should be limited to elective health services, not for profit public health care like the NY Health Act needs to be legislated. Legislation controlling housing and rental costs, needs to ensure that homelessness is reduced vs. on the rise. Changes in food distribution could significantly cut many high costs. Utility rate cases need transparency thus exposing how the utilities profit while the rate payers are forced to choose between needs.
  • Working family needs, the rights to jobs, economic parity, sustainable income for all. Basically taxing the rich is mandated in order to achieve true economic parity. Bills like removing the rebate on stock exchange tax is one step to help. Certifying truly equitable educations which will allow all access to better jobs and
Climate urgency. Power/energy, Education, Healthcare including more than adequate access, and health rights to ones own care, housing. Civil rights of all kinds, including the rights of nature. Strengthening and enforcing the Greene Amendment to the NYS Constitution, including the right to clean air, water, and food. by giving due consideration to the Great Lakes Bill of rights according to Rep. Burke, “We have shown ourselves abysmally unwise and abundantly foolish to think the Great Lakes and its complex hydro cycles could filter the enormity of our toxic assault on its watershed." Maintaining good farm policies including NOT allowing for the use of sewage sludge on farmland, proven to be laden with PFAS and other toxins.
St. Francis of Asissi, instrument of peace. Helen Keller.
Lao Tse's "Tao te Ching", "Climate Change and State Consent" by Thomas Christiano, The film "Little Big Man", the film "the Matrix" (only the first one).
Honesty, integrity, astuteness, tolerance, tenacity. Creative problem and critical thinking skills. The willingness and ability to listen to constituents and colleagues whilce maintaining a capacity to discern true needs and necessary actions. An ability to conceive of legislation that would improve the lives of the constituency and state. The willingness to change the status quo for the betterment of the district and state. An ability to convince and persuade colleagues in order to move one's legislation forward.
Broad range of understandings of issues. Compassion and concern. Critical and astute. Tenacious. Dry sense of humor.
The constituents of the district are the prime responsibilities, including the non voting voices, children, some incarcerated, also including, perhaps, the non human constituents and elements of nature. Seeking areas that need change and revision in active laws. Again conceiving and writing legislation, and also supporting/cosponsoring legislation that would be beneficial to the constituency. Knowing the district including it's critical needs and unique character. Making every effort to understand what is key and critical to individuals, and communities in the district. Trying to find common ground within disparate communities.
One of hope that the planet will be healed.
The assassination of JFK. I was 7 years old and remember being told by crying nuns to go home early and arriving home to a sobbing mother in front of the television.
Other than baby sitting the first job I had was cleaning Ingersoll Rand documents damaged by a flood in Painted Post NY. Included many diagrams for machinery. The job lasted about two months.
the first book that comes to mind is "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula leGuin.
I don't want to remember so it doesn't get stuck again!
A belief that I'm not taken seriously due to a "cute" demeanor.
One in which the governor, the executive, executes the laws agreed upon and passed by the houses upon due consideration of its merits and not due to any political motivation or personal belief. It needs to be one in which the wishes of the constituency by way of their elected representatives, is heeded. The governor is a check but should not be an X as often seems to be the case.
Climate, drug addiction, incarceration, pollution, inequity.
At times, if experience was truly a good teacher.
Absolutely, legislators must have relationships in order to have proper feedback on ones own bills, in order to build sponsorships, in order to pass laws.
Jen Metzger. outside this state, Dennis Kucinich maybe Bernie Sanders.
Not likely.
only with oversight.
Stop biosolid use (sewage sludge) on farmlands.
Working Families Party, New York Progressive Action Network, Mountain Top Progressives, others pending and hopeful...
Environment, Energy, Health, Education, Agriculture.
Financial transparency and accountability needs to be present in both corporations and governments. In NYS Corporations are mandated by charter to serve the people and this needs to be accounted for regularly and transparently. To use an example of how, why and where transparency and accountability are needed is in the utility rate cases in which collaboration between the Public Service Commission (PSC)and various utilities is kept confidential from all except those who can afford the time to be present in the rate case meetings, normally virtual. That these cases are confidential to a large degree is a disservice to the rate payers who have no ability to know how the rates they are paying are being used, and may benefit only the utilities who can write how rates can be used to increase their profits for their share holders. The PSC upholds this confidentiality which may not be in the public service but to expedite the cases or other reasons.
Depends on the initiative.

Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.

Campaign finance summary

Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.

Mary Finneran campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* New York State Assembly District 102Withdrew general$70,987 $0
Grand total$70,987 $0
Sources: OpenSecrets,  Federal 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

See also

2024 Elections

Ballotpedia Election Coverage Badge.png
What's on the ballot?
U.S. President
U.S. Congress
U.S. Congress special elections
State executives
State legislatures
State courts
Ballot measures
Municipal government
School boards
Election analysis hub

Government

Seal of New York.png
Who represents me?
U.S. Congress
State executives
State legislators
State courts
Ballot measures
Municipal government
School boards

Newsletters

Ballotpedia RSS.jpg
The Daily Brew
The Weekly Brew
The Ballot Bulletin
Checks and Balances
Economy and Society
Hall Pass
Number of the Day
Robe & Gavel


External links

Candidate

New York State Assembly District 102
  • Twitter
  • Website
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
    		•

    Personal

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
    		•

    Footnotes

    1. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 25, 2024


    Current members of the New York State Assembly
    Leadership
    Speaker of the House:Carl Heastie
    Representatives
    District 1
    District 2
    District 3
    District 4
    District 5
    District 6
    District 7
    District 8
    District 9
    District 10
    District 11
    District 12
    District 13
    District 14
    District 15
    District 16
    District 17
    District 18
    District 19
    Edward Ra (R)
    District 20
    District 21
    District 22
    District 23
    District 24
    District 25
    District 26
    District 27
    District 28
    District 29
    District 30
    District 31
    District 32
    District 33
    District 34
    District 35
    District 36
    District 37
    District 38
    District 39
    District 40
    Ron Kim (D)
    District 41
    District 42
    District 43
    District 44
    District 45
    District 46
    District 47
    District 48
    District 49
    District 50
    District 51
    District 52
    Jo Simon (D)
    District 53
    District 54
    District 55
    District 56
    District 57
    District 58
    District 59
    District 60
    District 61
    District 62
    District 63
    District 64
    District 65
    Grace Lee (D)
    District 66
    District 67
    District 68
    District 69
    District 70
    District 71
    District 72
    District 73
    District 74
    District 75
    District 76
    District 77
    District 78
    District 79
    District 80
    District 81
    District 82
    District 83
    District 84
    District 85
    District 86
    District 87
    District 88
    District 89
    District 90
    District 91
    District 92
    District 93
    District 94
    District 95
    District 96
    District 97
    District 98
    District 99
    District 100
    Paula Kay (D)
    District 101
    District 102
    District 103
    District 104
    District 105
    District 106
    District 107
    District 108
    District 109
    District 110
    District 111
    District 112
    District 113
    District 114
    District 115
    Vacant
    District 116
    District 117
    District 118
    District 119
    District 120
    District 121
    District 122
    District 123
    District 124
    District 125
    District 126
    District 127
    Al Stirpe (D)
    District 128
    District 129
    District 130
    District 131
    District 132
    District 133
    District 134
    District 135
    District 136
    District 137
    District 138
    District 139
    District 140
    District 141
    District 142
    District 143
    District 144
    District 145
    District 146
    District 147
    District 148
    District 149
    District 150
    Democratic Party (102)
    Republican Party (47)
    Vacancies (1)


    Flag of New York
    v • e
    State of New York
    Albany (capital)
    Elections

    What's on my ballot? | Elections in 2025 | How to vote | How to run for office | Ballot measures

    Government

    Who represents me? | U.S. President | U.S. Congress | Federal courts | State executives | State legislature | State and local courts | Counties | Cities | School districts | Public policy



    Retrieved from "https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Mary_Finneran&oldid=9584138"