Jeffery Aaron writes on the stargazette.com - “One of the more unusual facts about the Republican primary for the 137th Assembly District is that two of the three candidates might make it to the general election.

The names of each of the candidates — Christopher Friend of Horseheads, Paul Marcellus of Watkins Glen and George Richter of Lockwood — will appear on the GOP and Conservative Party lines on the ballot…

But their stands on the major issues facing the district’s voters this year are strikingly similar — except when it comes to solving the legislature’s habit of passing a late budget and eliminating its deficit.

Each candidate thinks the state legislature’s moratorium on using the controversial hydraulic fracturing method to extract gas from the Marcellus Shale formation is premature.”

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