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New York State Assembly District 118

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Colleen Maxwell

Democratic Party

STH · NY · District 118

Newport,NY

New York State Assembly District 118

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Background

Colleen Maxwell is a Democratic candidate for New York State Assembly District 118 in 2026. Her campaign biography says she grew up on a family dairy farm in Newport, worked in accounting for numerous businesses, started the WBE Nature's Footprints to help manufacturers recycle byproducts, served on the West Canada School Board, and served on the Newport Planning Board.

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Healthcare

Colleen Maxwell’s campaign materials for New York Assembly District 118 include limited healthcare-specific content. She supports reforming retiree health benefits for state elected officials to align with private-sector standards while preserving reasonable healthcare security, and she frames rural energy reliability as a health/safety issue for seniors and medically vulnerable residents.

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Align retiree health benefits with private-sector standards

2026-10-21

Maxwell supports transitioning retired state elected officials to Medicare and supplemental coverage under standards comparable to private-sector retirees while protecting taxpayers and providing reasonable healthcare security.

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Protect medically vulnerable rural residents from unsafe all-electric mandates

2026-10-21

Maxwell supports preserving practical heating and backup-power choices for rural residents, arguing that outages in all-electric homes can place seniors and medically vulnerable residents at risk.

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Healthcare

Economy & Jobs

Colleen Maxwell’s Economy & Jobs platform for New York Assembly District 118 emphasizes affordability, lower tax burdens, fiscal discipline, and protection of rural economic sectors such as small businesses, farms, forestry, wood products, transportation, and manufacturing. She argues state mandates should be more flexible for rural communities so costs are not shifted to taxpayers, schools, homeowners, farmers, and local employers.

Specific Actions & Proposals

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Property tax and affordability relief for rural communities

2026-10-21

Maxwell supports reducing affordability pressures on rural families, farmers, seniors, homeowners, and small businesses, including relief from high state and local tax burdens and property taxes.

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Fiscal discipline and government transparency for rural communities

2026-10-18

Maxwell is running on bringing fiscal discipline and government transparency to rural Herkimer-area communities, according to Patriot PAC’s candidate profile for NYS Assembly District 118.

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Flexibility from state electric school bus and building electrification mandates

2026-10-14

Maxwell supports flexibility for rural school districts under state electric school bus and building electrification mandates, a position framed around avoiding added costs for rural taxpayers and school budgets.

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Protect productive farmland from large-scale solar siting

2026-10-19

Maxwell supports protecting farmland from large-scale solar development and preserving agriculture as a key part of the 118th Assembly District’s economy, food security, identity, and future.

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Keep practical rural heating options that support local jobs

2026-10-21

Maxwell supports allowing rural residents to keep practical heating options such as wood and pellet heating, which she says can support local forestry, wood-product, transportation, and manufacturing jobs.

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Economy & Jobs

Immigration

No explicit Immigration position was found for Colleen Maxwell, the Democratic candidate for New York State Assembly District 118 in 2026. Her campaign issues page focuses on affordability, rural mandates, energy, agriculture, and government accountability, but does not state an immigration policy position.

Immigration

Climate & Energy

Colleen Maxwell frames Climate & Energy around rural affordability, reliability, and local control rather than one-size-fits-all electrification mandates. She supports flexibility for rural school districts on electric bus requirements, opposes mandates that eliminate practical rural heating choices, and supports protecting farmland from large-scale solar siting while prioritizing solar on rooftops, brownfields, landfills, and other already-developed sites.

Specific Actions & Proposals

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Flexible rural implementation of electric school bus mandates

2026-10-21

Maxwell says New York should not impose a one-size-fits-all zero-emission school bus mandate on rural districts and supports extended timelines, technology-neutral purchasing rules, greater state funding, winter-route pilot programs, and continued use of practical alternatives such as clean diesel, renewable fuels, and propane.

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Protect farmland from large-scale solar siting

2026-10-21

Maxwell lists protecting farmland from large-scale solar siting as a top priority and argues renewable energy projects should not sacrifice productive agricultural land or override local land-use priorities.

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Climate & Energy

Education

Colleen Maxwell emphasizes flexibility for rural school districts on New York’s electric school bus requirements, arguing that statewide mandates should account for rural routes, winter weather, infrastructure limits, staffing, classroom costs, and property-tax impacts. She supports extended timelines, technology-neutral purchasing rules, more state funding, pilot programs, and continued use of practical alternatives such as clean diesel, renewable fuels, and propane.

Specific Actions & Proposals

SUPPORTS

Flexibility for rural districts under electric school bus mandates

2026-10-21

Maxwell says New York should not impose a one-size-fits-all electric school bus mandate that could force rural districts to choose between transportation, classroom instruction, staffing, and property-tax increases.

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Extended timelines and technology-neutral school bus purchasing

2026-10-21

Maxwell supports a more flexible approach to school transportation mandates, including extended timelines for rural districts, technology-neutral purchasing requirements, and continued use of clean diesel, renewable fuels, propane, and other practical alternatives.

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Greater state funding and rural pilot programs for school bus electrification

2026-10-21

Maxwell supports greater state funding for buses and infrastructure and pilot programs based on actual winter and route performance before rural districts are required to comply with electric school bus mandates.

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Education

Public Safety

No dedicated Public Safety platform page or voting record was found for Colleen Maxwell, who is running as a Democrat for New York State Assembly District 118 in 2026 and is not listed as holding the Assembly seat. Her campaign materials touch public-safety-adjacent issues through emergency-response planning, emergency access, rural outage risk, infrastructure safety, and involving emergency responders in state policy design.

Specific Actions & Proposals

SUPPORTS

Local emergency-response planning for large-scale solar projects

2026-10-21

Maxwell supports giving local governments a meaningful role in determining emergency-response plans for large-scale solar development in rural communities.

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