Michele Frazier Launches a Second Bid for 51st Senate Seat
By BILL BELLENONEONTA
At 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 19, attendees began to gather at The Depot Restaurant in Oneonta to commemorate the launch of Democrat Michele Frazier’s 2026 campaign for New York’s 51st State Senate District. Following an unsuccessful bid for the office in 2024 against incumbent Republican Senator Peter Oberacker, Frazier is seeking a second shot at the senatorial seat for all of Delaware, Schoharie, Sullivan, and Otsego counties, as well as portions of Broome, Chenango, and Ulster counties.
Shortly before the event kicked off, Frazier sat down for an exclusive interview with AllOtsego. She emphasized her former presence on the City of Oneonta Common Council from 2017-2019 as a signifier of her past experience in office and in understanding the network needed to balance higher and lower levels of government.
Frazier spoke to her priorities of addressing healthcare access and housing in rural New York as a mother dealing with the struggle of finding adequate childcare, and as a real estate agent who has witnessed the effects of the housing crisis firsthand.
