George Dobbins

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George Dobbins is a Republican candidate for the New York State Assembly in the 130th District and a lifelong resident of Lyons, New York, where his family has proudly owned and operated Dobbins Drugs, Inc. since 1942. Raised in a close-knit community shaped by hard work, faith, and neighborly responsibility, Dobbins carries those values into both his professional and public life. After studying law at Georgetown University and spending time in Washington, D.C., he and his wife made the deliberate decision to return home to Lyons to raise their family in the place that shaped them.

Before law school, Dobbins managed Brian Manktelow’s 2016 State Senate campaign, an experience that strengthened his understanding of state government and deepened his commitment to conservative principles. He is now running to succeed Manktelow in the Assembly, backed by the Wayne County Republican Committee, the Wayne County Conservative Committee, and Manktelow himself. For Dobbins, the campaign is not about ambition, but about service and giving back to the community that gave him so much.

A practicing attorney who commutes daily from Lyons to Rochester, Dobbins focuses on commercial real estate and business law, working alongside developers, investors, and job creators across Upstate New York and the country. He brings that same practical, solutions-oriented mindset to public service. His campaign is centered on the issues that matter most to hardworking families: good jobs, strong schools, and public safety. Grounded in the principles of life, liberty, free enterprise, and rugged individualism, Dobbins is committed to being a strong, conservative, independent voice for the people of the 130th District and to protecting the values and way of life that make Upstate New York worth fighting for.

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April 24, 2026

He Came Home to Fight for What New York Forgot

New York affordability crisis is the story of a state growing harder to love and harder to survive. Beneath the beauty of the Finger Lakes, the shoreline, and the small towns that once felt steady, a deeper unraveling is underway. Utility bills rise. Housing strains. Grocery costs climb. Child care becomes a second mortgage. Crime erodes peace. Rights are buried beneath bureaucracy. And working families are left asking how a place they built now feels designed to push them out. This conversation follows that fracture where it hurts most: in the home, in the paycheck, in the long drive to work, in the fear that public life no longer serves the people carrying it. It confronts the slow violence of bad policy dressed up as virtue, where energy mandates punish the practical, bail reform weakens public trust, and government speaks of fairness while ordinary people absorb the cost. What emerges is not just a discussion about economics or politics, but a warning about belonging. A stat…
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