“Rural New York can have a voice in the Assembly that our leaders will actually listen to. A voice that will provide alternatives to the current solar model that will both support landowners and preserve farmland. A voice that can explain the true financial burden of high labor costs and high property taxes crushing our farmers and local food systems. A voice that can articulate the inadequacy of our rural health care and a system that forces our farmers and store owners to drive school buses just for insurance so they can see a doctor; forcing them to drive buses rather than tending to the work of running their farms and businesses."