John Salka, Republican supervisor of the Town of Brookfield, has announced he is again running for the 121st New York State Assembly seat.

“We won 19 towns in 2016, up from a single township in 2014, and now seek the majority to win the assembly district,” Salka said. “Nearly 25,000 voters approved of our message in the last campaign, and we have gained considerable name recognition through the 121st district.”

The 121st assembly district contains all of Madison county, five towns in Oneida county and 13 towns in Otsego county.

Salka said he will be a “responsive legislator” and will initiate town hall meetings on a regular basis throughout the assembly district. He said he will bring his experience of legislation, lowering taxes and savings the taxpayers millions of dollars on a local level to the state assembly.

“Representation of the 121st assembly district has been lackluster at best recently, and there needs to be a stronger presence for us in Albany,” Salka said. “Our agricultural community is in crisis, and the energy is no longer there to go to bat for them. In addition, the tax-and-spend practices we see have made our state one of the most expensive to live in, and we need to have a strong voice in our capitol that will work to turn this around. I seek to be one of those voices.”

Salka has twice run against incumbent Assemblyman Bill Magee, D-Nelson, who has held the seat for the past 27 years.

Magee has not yet decided whether he will run for reelection this year, said his communications director, Laura Martino.

For more information on John Salka’s campaign, visit his Facebook at Salka for Assembly or email [email protected].