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Joseph Lamanna

Common Sense Party

STH · NY · District 130

Age 66Williamson,NY

New York State Assembly District 130

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$64,305

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PAC Support

$1,000

Background

Joseph Lamanna is a retired engineering manager who spent 34 years with Chrysler/Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, later Stellantis, in engineering, quality, manufacturing, management, and strategic planning roles. He has also served as a union steward, chairman, local union president, and UAW Community Action Program chairman, and is the founder and president of Advanced Innovative Solutions, an engineering consulting firm. His campaign biography also lists current local public-service roles with the Williamson Town Planning Board, Board of Assessment Review, Zoning Board of Appeals, and local fire department.

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Healthcare

Joseph Lamanna identifies healthcare as a top priority for his 2026 campaign for New York State Assembly District 130, specifically framing the closure of a maternity ward as a crisis rather than a solution. His healthcare-related statements emphasize preserving local healthcare access, supporting nurses and working families, funding veterans' healthcare and mental health commitments, and protecting healthcare benefits through labor advocacy.

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Opposes treating maternity ward closures as an acceptable healthcare solution

2026-10-21

Lamanna lists healthcare as a top campaign priority and states that closing a maternity ward is a crisis, indicating support for preserving local maternity care access in District 130.

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Supports healthcare access for working families and local nurses

2026-10-21

On his priorities page, Lamanna frames policy decisions around whether they help working families, including nurses traveling to Newark-Wayne, and lists healthcare as a top priority.

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Supports funding veterans' healthcare and mental health commitments

2026-10-21

Lamanna states that veterans are owed healthcare, housing, mental health support, and actual funding for those commitments.

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Supported protecting healthcare benefits in labor negotiations

2026-10-21

Lamanna's biography says his national bargaining committee advocacy helped deliver a contract with healthcare protections, economic gains, and workers' rights.

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Campaign focus includes healthcare

2026-06-21

A Times Union primary voter guide for Assembly District 130 reports that Lamanna says his campaign is focused on affordability, public safety, economic growth, infrastructure, and healthcare.

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Healthcare

Economy & Jobs

Joseph Lamanna emphasizes affordability, small businesses, farms, workers, and responsible economic development for New York Assembly District 130. His Economy & Jobs positions include supporting local agriculture and procurement, opposing tariff impacts on farms, requiring accountable incentives for data centers, and investing in workforce pipelines while protecting taxpayers and ratepayers.

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Responsible data center development tied to local jobs and community benefits

2026-10-09

Lamanna supports allowing data centers only when developers pay for infrastructure impacts, meet environmental standards, and demonstrate measurable local benefits such as jobs, tax revenue, and community investment.

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Small-business tax and regulatory relief

2026-10-21

Lamanna says small businesses are the economic backbone of District 130 and pledges to fight regulations, mandates, and taxes that make it harder for them to stay open.

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Protecting manufacturing jobs and worker benefits

2026-10-21

Lamanna says he stood up to corporations as a union leader and helped protect nearly 3,000 jobs and worker benefits, framing that record as preparation to fight for workers in Albany.

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STEM workforce development and employer partnerships

2026-10-09

Lamanna supports investing in STEM education, workforce development, apprenticeships, and school-employer partnerships so New York can grow its own talent pipeline while supporting innovation and economic growth.

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Economy & Jobs

Immigration

No specific Joseph Lamanna policy position, proposed action, vote, or bill on immigration was found for his 2026 New York State Assembly District 130 campaign. Available sources only note his immigrant background and his statement that the United States gave him opportunities and a welcoming community, which is biographical rather than a concrete immigration policy stance.

Immigration

Climate & Energy

Joseph Lamanna, the Common Sense candidate for New York State Assembly District 130 in 2026, presents a "pro-environment, pro-common sense" approach: clean water, clean air, Lake Ontario shoreline protection, farmland protection, and environmental policy that works for residents and farmers. His climate and energy-related positions focus more on local environmental protection and affordability than on broad decarbonization mandates.

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Protect Lake Ontario shoreline and farmland through practical environmental policy

2026-10-21

Lamanna says he supports clean water, clean air, and protecting the Lake Ontario shoreline and farmland, while requiring environmental policy to work for people who live on the land.

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Climate & Energy

Education

Joseph Lamanna has stated that public education should emphasize critical thinking, media literacy, source evaluation, and the scientific method while avoiding government censorship or making government the arbiter of truth. He also supports expanding pathways into STEM careers through affordable education, apprenticeships, research placements, internships, and workforce training.

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Teach critical thinking and media literacy in public education

2026-10-09

Lamanna says schools should help students evaluate sources, distinguish fact from opinion, recognize bias, verify claims, and understand the scientific method, while helping families access reliable expert information.

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Expand STEM education and workforce pathways

2026-10-09

Lamanna says he would support policies to strengthen STEM education and workforce development, including affordable education, apprenticeships, internships, research placements, and training that helps New Yorkers enter STEM careers.

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Education

Public Safety

Joseph Lamanna identifies public safety as a campaign priority for New York State Assembly District 130 and says residents deserve to feel safe where they live, work, and sleep. His most detailed public-safety position found concerns Automated License Plate Reader technology: he supports law-enforcement use for serious public-safety purposes while proposing limits on retention, sharing, and audits to protect privacy.

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Make public safety a top campaign priority

2026-10-21

Lamanna’s campaign lists public safety among his top priorities and states that residents deserve to feel safe where they live, work, and sleep.

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Invest in public safety, infrastructure, and essential community services

2026-10-21

In his VOTE411 candidate response for New York Assembly District 130, Lamanna says he would prioritize investments in public safety, infrastructure, and essential community services to support safe, healthy, and thriving communities.

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