Who Runs NYLong Island Election Guide 2026 - Rae Arora

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What it shows

• 66 unions and union PACs gave $1.80M: $1.04M to candidates and $758K to Nassau/Suffolk party committees and clubs.
• By recipient party: Republican $901K (50%), Democratic $845K (47%), Conservative $49K (3%); Working Families $0. Candidates only: Democratic $539K, Republican $499K.
• Top five: Suffolk County PBA $149K; Operating Engineers (IUOE) $142K; Laborers (NYS PAC & locals) $135K; Nassau County PBA $113K; Suffolk AME (Municipal Employees) $93K.
• Teachers: NYSUT (VOTE/COPE, also filed as Voice of Teachers for Education) and local teachers' associations gave $40.2K, almost all to Democrats ($37K); top recipients Philip Ramos $6.6K, Noah Burroughs $5K, and $3K each to Kim Keiserman, Tommy John Schiavoni, Josh Slaughter, Rebecca Kassay, Trish Kopp and Craig Herskowitz. No other local teachers' federation contributions to LI candidates were found this cycle.
• CSEA itself shows up only lightly: $2,500 (CSEA Political Action Fund $1,500 to Monica Martinez; Civil Service Employees Assoc. $1,000 to Mario Mattera), plus AFSCME $7,500. PEF (state workers) gave $5.8K.

Caveats: Union families are merged (e.g. NYS Laborers PAC + locals; IUOE Locals 15/138; IBEW NY PAC + Local 25; NASRCC + NYC District Council of Carpenters); police and correction unions are kept by county. Contributors were found by keyword search of all NYSBOE filings and matched by hand-checked name rules; ambiguous names (e.g. generic “Solidarity PAC”) are left out. Individuals, employers and trade associations are excluded, as are judicial candidates. Congress money covers only unions on FEC top-contributor lists, so it is partial. Party committee amounts come from the committees’ own NYSBOE filings; a candidate’s party is the primary line.

Cycle window: NYSBOE Nov 5, 2025 – Oct 19, 2026 · Congress: FEC 2025–26 (partial). Source: official campaign finance filings; amounts are reported contributions, transfers and spending.

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