Mahar for Onondaga Supervisor

08/25/2026

🪧Lawn signs anyone? I’d love your support. I am committed to continuing to serve my neighbors throughout Onondaga so I can preserve our neighborhoods and rural areas, keep taxes among lowest in the County and continue to expand services. Message me below and we will get a sign to you! Thank you!

07/24/2026

A big THANK YOU to the 85+ supporters who came out for our fundraiser last night, including this motley crew of late night stragglers. 😆 HUGE THANKS as well to our incredible sponsors and the Tuscarora staff who hosted us.
It’s my great honor to serve as your Supervisor and when re-elected, I will continue focusing on preserving neighborhoods, keeping taxes down and supporting local businesses.

07/11/2026

🇺🇸ENDORSED! The Onondaga County Veterans Party has endorsed me for re-election as Town Supervisor. This endorsement is especially meaningful to me.

My dad served in the Army during the Korean War as did his four brothers. My Uncle Raymond made the Army his career and served in combat in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada and Desert Storm, before retiring as a Master Sargent.

I have committed to honoring their legacy of service as a long-time member of the Sons of American Legion Post 1468. I experienced firsthand the ongoing generosity of the Veteran community and am ever grateful to the Post for hosting a fundraiser and offering incredible support to my family during my daughter’s battle with spinal cancer.

As a former Town Councilor, former Deputy Supervisor, and now Supervisor, I have made Veterans a priority. Among the ways I have done so is mailing information directly to local veterans about grant programs available to them, offering Veteran FAVOR cards via the Town Clerk’s office for exclusive discounts on services and products at locations around the county; hiring Veterans at our Highway and Codes Departments; supporting and introducing a local law to increase property tax exemptions for Veterans and more.

Each Memorial Day weekend for the past seven years, I participate in the flag planting at the County Veterans Cemetery, where both my parents are buried, and attend the Honor Ceremony. I’ve also increased communications channels via an improved website and page to better alert Veterans and other Town residents to important programs, exemption application deadlines and other information.

I look forward to continuing to help improve the quality of life for Veterans and all residents of the town. Thank you so much to the Veterans Party for your support!

07/10/2026

Join the Fun to Re-Elect John Mahar as Town Supervisor! Your donation includes food, w**e and b**r!

06/25/2026

🇺🇸🗳️ENDORSED! I’d like to humbly thank the Town of Onondaga Conservative Party for its endorsement of my reelection campaign for Town Supervisor. It was my honor to appear at the Conservative Party Caucus last week to seek its support and share my credentials and leadership experience, accomplishments, and focus for the future of our great Town. I am proud to have the Conservative Party backing me.

06/21/2026

Happy Father’s Day to all the amazing dads out there. To me, there’s nothing better than being a dad to my two girls. (Except maybe being a grandpa to their kids. 😁)

05/25/2026

05/23/2026

🫡🇺🇸🪖I started participating in this important local tradition seven years ago and it has become a very meaningful annual activity for me. It gives me an opportunity to show gratitude for the supreme sacrifices of our military services members. My parents are buried here as well and visiting their graves makes the event that much more impactful.
This Memorial Day weekend, please be sure to take every chance you have to remember and honor our Veterans. 🫡🇺🇸🪖

05/10/2026

🥰Happy Mother’s Day to all the incredible moms out there! You each deserve a special day for all you do. Thank you!

05/06/2026

PLEASE READ!!

📢 ‼️ This is an Urgent Call to Action: Who you elect in November as your Town Supervisor and County Legislator has never mattered more.

Yesterday (5/5), the new Democrat majority of the County Legislature appointed four new representatives to the Onondaga County Industrial Development Authority, whose expertise is “eliminating housing discrimination and ensuring equal access to housing opportunities”.

While on the face of it, that sounds like a truly positive move, it masks a bigger agenda. One that affects every resident of our Town and Towns across the County.

These appointments are aimed squarely at fast-tracking the County Legislature’s goal to mandate low-income density housing in the suburbs and eliminate your Town government’s decision-making (Home Rule) when it comes to zoning.

In other words, they want to take away each municipality’s ability to make decisions about development in our own Towns. That means large scale low-income affordable apartment complexes - anywhere and in whatever number they see fit.

At the County Legislature’s meeting on Tuesday, the Chair plainly stated that it is their intention to work toward New York State take control of “affordable housing” zoning laws that will supersede towns’ Home Rule zoning.

No longer would each development proposal receive a thorough and thoughtful review by our Zoning, Planning and Town Boards with accompanying Public Hearings as is done today. Decisions would be made at the County and State levels without considering the impact on the quality of life in our Town, neighborhood input, and the potential strain on our schools, the Highway Department, overall infrastructure, our fire departments – which are already faced with recruitment challenges - and public safety.

This November, please cast your vote for me for Town Supervisor and Geneanne Keegan-Smith for County Legislator. Local governing in the Town of Onondaga is best done by local officials who know and love their Town and are dedicated to the residents who live there.

We CANNOT allow New York State to take control of our communities. I will fight against that tooth and nail for the residents of the Town of Onondaga.

Thank you. Please share with Town residents.