December 5, 2025
Assemblyman Joe Sempolinski says the Republicans in the state legislature were able to block two big pieces of far left legislation in 2025. One such bill, which was prevented from being passed by the Republicans, would have limited the number of cows, which dairy farmers could own. That bill, if passed, would have made it so farmers could not have more than 700 cows per farm. Another example of the GOP preventing a Democrat bill was when Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik almost left the House of Representatives to take a job with the United Nations. Some Democrats were urging Governor Kathy Hochul not to set a date for a special election to replace Stefanik. Had this happened, it would have weakened the GOP Majority in the House and left the people in that district without a representative. Sempolinski says the Republicans worked both behind the scenes and publicly, to prevent those two things from happening.
