Re-elect Senator Bill Weber - SD38

10/23/2026

As Rockland's voice in Albany, Senator Bill Weber puts local families first. Bill and his wife are proud to have raised their family here, and he will always fight to keep Rockland a great place to live, work, raise a family, start a business, or retire.

10/22/2026

10/22/2026

Fighting for Rockland's fair share of school aid is a top priority for Senator Weber. That's why he works in a bipartisan way to fund education and ensure that our students and teachers have the resources they need.

10/21/2026

Senator Bill Weber will always put people before party and do what is right for Rockland. That means supporting policies that keep costs down, while also investing in commonsense priorities like childcare and infrastructure.

10/19/2026

While my opponent supports Kathy Hochul's dangerous Sanctuary State policies, I stand with law enforcement and law-abiding people in Rockland. That's why I am proud to be endorsed by the men and women in blue who protect us every day.

10/11/2026

Last Thursday, I welcomed Senator George Borrello, Chair of the NYS Senate Republican Campaign Committee, to Rockland County for meet and greets with members of our Indian American and Orthodox communities.

I'm grateful that the NYSRCC recognizes the importance of this district and is keeping it a top priority.

The stakes couldn't be higher. We cannot afford to allow the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to gain greater influence over the New York State Senate and push our state further toward their radical agenda.

10/10/2026

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October 10, 2026
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Joe Rand's Top Village Official Championed Orangetown’s Data Center Boom And Their Sweetheart Tax Deals

Rand talks tough on data centers, but the man running his village hall fought to bring them here, gave them sweetheart tax deals, and called it “my proudest moment as Town Supervisor”

Rockland County - October 10, 2026… State Senator Bill Weber (R-38) released the following statement today in response to Nyack Mayor Joe Rand's joint canvass this morning with Cait Conley on the "effects of unregulated Data Centers in Orangetown." Rand's own village administrator, Andy Stewart, led the charge to bring data center development to Orangetown as town supervisor from 2012 to 2017.

"How does Joe Rand square his alleged opposition to data centers in Rockland with the fact that his top aide in Nyack, Andy Stewart, was the chief proponent and driving force behind data center development, giving out sweetheart property tax deals, while he served as Orangetown's Supervisor? In fact, it was Andy Stewart who sold 60 acres of the former Rockland Psychiatric Center to JPMorgan Chase for a data center and rezoned the land to make it happen. He said at the time that this was one of the things he was proudest of as supervisor. Joe, let us know how your conversation goes with voters when you tell them that your village administrator was responsible for what you are supposedly outraged and protesting about today," said Senator Weber.

Stewart celebrated his work bringing data centers to Orangetown. At the June 2013 topping-off of Bloomberg's 130,000-square-foot data center in Orangeburg, he called the project "the beginning of what we predict will be a boom in high-tech business for the town." On May 14, 2013, the board approved a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes deal that cut the data center’s local and school taxes to $250,000 in its first year, phasing up to $581,000 by 2025.

In 2017, Stewart’s Town Board rezoned 61 acres of the former Rockland Psychiatric Center campus from residential to a new office-park district and agreed to sell the land to JPMorgan Chase for $7.5 million. That October, Stewart told the Nyack Free Press that landing the Chase data center was “my proudest moment as Town Supervisor”. Three of the four data centers operating in Rockland today opened or won approval while he ran Orangetown.
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10/09/2026

and I visited Sparkys in Garnerville and it was a whole lot of fun. He'll make a great Governor!

10/07/2026

It was a pleasure greeting constituents yesterday with Bruce Blakeman for Governor at Sparky’s Diner in Garnerville, as we gear up for the November 3rd election.

10/04/2026