Republican Party primaries in New York, 6.25.24

A Republican Party primary takes place tomorrow, Tuesday, June 25, to determine the Republican candidates who will run in the general election on November 5, 2024. It is a “closed” primary meaning only registered Republican members are allowed to vote. 

This message is meant to provide necessary information to our WCS members who plan to vote. It is a rating of the two candidates for the Republican primary in the 24h congressional district. The two candidates are the incumbent Claudia Tenney and her challenger Mario Fratto. 

SCOPE, as a nonprofit organization is unable to endorse candidates. However, we can rate them based upon their stances on the Second Amendment. Each candidate was provided with a questionnaire which was returned and reviewed by your Political Action Contact Team (PACT). Be aware that the questions were multiple choice. 

Both candidates returned answers that were identical. Was this due to their ability to ascertain the exact answer we would expect from them? Understand that the questions were based upon a statewide set deemed acceptable to state SCOPE officers. 

This left us in a bit of a quandary. Since there were no differences in their answers, it was felt that their ratings should show no distinction. Thus, each candidate was given a rating of A. 

PACT member Roy Franks, esq. suggested that future questionnaires be more open-ended. The state officers agree and will develop a new questionnaire that will allow the candidates in the future to provide feedback on questions such that we can hopefully distinguish more clearly their respective positions on Second Amendment issues. 

Your Chairman,

Don