Pete Harckham.YourHigher Bills.
He didn't fight Albany. He voted it into your life — higher taxes, soaring utility bills, catch-and-release.
He made energy a sermon. You got the collection plate.
Pete Harckham is not a bystander on energy. He chairs the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee. He co-sponsored Hochul's Climate Act and said New York must “end the development of new fossil fuel infrastructure.” Then he spent years enforcing it.
He voted for the All-Electric Buildings law that takes away gas appliances. He co-sponsored the HEAT Act, which lets Albany take your gas service and adds thousands of dollars to the cost of a home. He sponsored solar on lakes, canals, and reservoirs. He opposed the NESE pipeline that would have brought more natural gas into the region.
When the state's own agency warned Cap-and-Invest could cost families thousands, he didn't protect ratepayers. He attacked the experts.
He called the warning Hochul's “weapons of mass destruction” moment. The bill is theoretical in Albany. It is real in your mailbox.
While families paid more to heat the house, solar and green-energy businesses cut him more than $85,000.
Local towns lost say over what gets built on farmland and water. Albany kept the power. He kept the checks.
He votes for the spending. You vote with your paycheck.
Pete Harckham did not resist Hochul's budgets. He voted for all ten of the budget bills that built the record $277 billion state budget — a spending plan bigger than most countries'.
The line items don't make headlines. They make your bills.
- The bag tax and the expanded bottle tax.
- Congestion pricing — a toll to drive into your own city.
- The pied-à-terre tax on New York homes.
- $2.5 billion in new business taxes passed on to you.
- The NY Health Act he co-sponsored — a $139 billion tax increase, the largest in state history.
A senator who never met a budget he wouldn't sign will never meet a tax he won't pass to you.
Every one of these is a recorded vote or a bill with his name on it.
He calls it investment. You call it the reason the check keeps getting bigger.
He voted to open the jailhouse door.
When Albany rewrote the rules so judges could no longer hold dangerous defendants, Pete Harckham was on the yes side. He backed bail reform and the changes to parole that put repeat offenders back on the street faster than they were booked.
He didn't stop there. He voted for a state-funded drug-checking program and a sweeping gun-control package that reaches past criminals and onto law-abiding owners — including a push to ban common handguns like the Glock.
The people who followed the law got the new restrictions. The people who broke it got the open door.
Every count here is a recorded vote in Albany, not a talking point.
He calls it reform. Your neighborhood calls it the reason the same names keep coming back.
He made it harder to remove criminal illegal aliens.
When the choice was between public safety and a sanctuary agenda, Pete Harckham chose the agenda. The votes are on the record:
- Backed limits that block ICE from doing its job in New York.
- Supported a ban on 287(g) agreements that let local police cooperate with immigration enforcement.
- Voted to give driver's licenses to people in the country illegally.
- Backed taxpayer-funded health care for non-citizens.
- Supported protecting people from immigration enforcement at polling places.
The tab for the sanctuary policies runs into the billions — roughly $3 billion and climbing — and it is not paid by Albany. It is paid by you.
A senator who works to keep criminal illegal aliens in the country is not confused about whose side he is on.
He was never the rebel. He was the hire.
Pete Harckham likes to sound independent. The paper trail tells a different story. Four lines, and every one of them is documented:
- Andrew Cuomo recruited him to run for the State Senate.
- Cuomo's operation put roughly $11,000 behind him and endorsed him.
- Kathy Hochul inherited him — and he has voted with her agenda ever since.
- Eight years in Albany voting for the taxes, the mandates, and the sanctuary rules.
Each item stands on its own. Put together, they answer a single question before you ever ask it:
When Albany needs another yes vote, whose interests does Pete Harckham serve — yours, or Kathy Hochul's?
Eight years in Albany. A paper trail of votes that landed on your utility bill, your tax bill, and your streets.
Pete Harckham wants another term representing New York's 40th Senate District. The mailers are glossy. The voting record is not. New York cannot afford another term of Hochul and Harckham.
- Read the record.
- Follow the bills.
- Then vote.
Pete Harckham. Your higher bills. Then vote.