Assemblymembers Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) and Mark Walczyk (R,C,I,Ref-Watertown) were joined by county sheriffs, district attorneys and victim advocates calling for a full repeal of the “Victims Abuse Act of 2019” at a press conference...

“I was proud to stand alongside my colleagues and law enforcement officials to call for the repeal of the dangerous bail reform legislation that took effect Jan. 1, 2020. We have seen countless stories of victims impacted by the implementation of...

Editor’s note: Click Here https://youtu.be/3LtlSMfRl9A to view Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush’s interview. “Once again, the governor has left our hardworking middle-class families behind. The majority needs to stop nickel-and-diming our everyday...

Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) is fighting back against radical bail reforms passed by the Assembly Majority. The bail reform laws eliminate cash bail and pretrial detention for nearly all misdemeanors and many felonies (A.2009-C). ...

Next Wednesday, the office of Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) will be holding mobile office hours in Lowville. He’s eager to hear from the people of the 117th District, and he wants to find out more about what they’re looking...

Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) today announced his support for the “Get Kids into Survey” initiative led by the New York State Association of Professional Land Surveyors (NYSAPLS). Land surveying is one of our country's oldest...

Encouraged by the progress on one of his longstanding legislative priorities, Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) today applauded a new, targeted state investment he helped bring back to Lewis County- expanded broadband access. Three new...

“New York City Majority politicians delivered a gift to the politically-connected labor unions that fund their campaigns. New Yorkers will pay dearly for it. The farm labor bill will pile hundreds of millions of dollars in new costs on family farms...

“I opposed this bill, and I’m urging my colleagues in the Senate to do the right thing and prevent it from reaching the governor’s desk. We’re a nation of immigrants. We’re also a nation of laws. We shouldn’t be rewarding...

Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) and his Assembly Minority colleagues today unveiled Ramona’s Law, legislation which would extend the maximum allowable time between parole hearings for inmates who commit heinous violent crimes. Currently,...

“The Assembly Majority members need to stop playing politics. They’re wasting the precious time we have left together this session harassing our President by pushing ridiculous bills that take aim at constitutionally protected executive powers...

“Assembly Majority members sponsor a bill which would automatically fast-track parole hearings for inmates who have served fifteen years of their sentence and are over 55 years of age. That means that a 40-year-old who raped and murdered a child...

In response to the Assembly Majority blocking a bipartisan bill to provide cost-free college tuition to the children of active duty service members who die in action, Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) and his colleagues have launched a petition...

Calling it an “entitlement” and pointing to a supposedly prohibitive price tag of “hundreds of thousands of dollars,” New York State Assembly Committee on Higher Education Chairwoman Deborah Glick (D-Manhattan) and her Majority colleagues...

“Obviously, there was a lot for our Conference to hate in this year’s budget. As the party of the hardworking middle class in New York, Minority politicians were never going to support a budget that raised taxes by billions of dollars, prevents...

“The fact that the Assembly Majority members would vote to raise taxes by billions of dollars while gutting millions in local assistance funding for farmers shows how out of touch they are. We’re going to fight this as hard as we can,”...

Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) joined a bipartisan group of lawmakers, hundreds of local highway officials and representatives from key local government groups to rally for an increased investment in our state’s deteriorating roads,...

“When the Majority members pass gun control laws that trample all over our Second Amendment Rights, they do so under the guise of “safety.” Yesterday’s legislation referenced “safe storage.” It sounds good, right?  The...

In the coming weeks, the office of Assemblyman Ken Blankenbush (R,C,I-Black River) will be holding mobile office hours in Camden, Lowville, Gouverneur and Westmoreland. He’s eager to hear from the people of the 117th District, and he wants to learn...

“I’m proud of municipal officials and my colleagues in the Legislature for convincing the governor that millions in needless cuts to local governments would cause serious harm to New Yorkers across the state. As towns and villages across Upstate...