The Lander RecordNew York State Senate
Case FileSubject: Devin Lander

Most voters in this district have never heard of Devin Lander.

He wants that. A blank name is easier to sell as “common sense” and “affordability.”

Here is the pattern. Then the file.

$0In federal grant money improperly drawn by the museum on his watch
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01The Pattern

This is not a pile of stray facts. It is one candidate.

  • He learned the business in an Assembly office that delivered higher taxes, bigger budgets, and the climate law on your utility bill.
  • He spent a decade as State Historian in a museum federal investigators caught cheating a $597,624 grant — the same museum that put drag cabaret in front of children.
  • He would stamp Kathy Hochul's agenda: the gas-stove ban, higher costs, the Working Families Party line that blocks ICE from criminal illegal aliens and aims new gun rules at you.
  • He talks affordability and sues Prada over sneakers.
  • A farm family had to sue him over land.
  • He missed general elections. Now he wants to vote in Albany.

Wrong for the job.

Wrong direction for the state.

Do not send a Hochul rubber stamp to the Senate. Don't be fooled by Devin Lander.

Read the record below. Then vote the record.

02Where He Learned the Business

Before the museum. Before the Senate race.

Nearly seven years as Steve Englebright's deputy legislative director.

That office authored the Climate Act. The Climate Act helped bring you soaring utility bills.

That is where Devin Lander learned the business.

  • Higher spending.
  • Higher taxes.
  • Higher energy costs.

Now he wants to bring that Albany experience to the State Senate.

03The Museum on His Watch

Same payroll. Different building.

In 2016 they made him State Historian.

In July 2026 the Times Union reported what federal investigators had already written down. The New York State Museum improperly drew U.S. Geological Survey grant money between 2020 and 2022.

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USGS STATEMAP funds improperly drawn — FY 2020–2022
What investigators found
  • Inflated hours on a federal mapping project.Substantiated
  • Salaries billed for people who were not on the grant.Substantiated
  • A proposal changed without approval.Substantiated
  • Field money moved onto payroll.Substantiated

The Interior Department's inspector general and Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli substantiated it. The Education Department — Lander's employer — closed the whistleblower file first. Then the federal report landed. No one on that leadership bench was held to account.

This page does not say he signed the time sheets.

It says he is the State Historian of the house that did.

A man asking for a vote on the state budget came out of an institution that billed Washington for work it did not do.

Same building. Same tenure:

June 24, 2023 · Huxley TheaterDrag Cabaret & Story Hour for KidsA public museum. Advertised for children.

They could not steward six hundred thousand federal dollars. They could find a stage for that.

04The Agenda He Would Stamp

He is not running as a check on Albany. He is running to join it.

Stamp 1

Kathy Hochul.

Out-of-control spending. Policies that raised the cost of living and pushed families out of New York. The state is headed in the wrong direction. Sending him to the Senate is how you keep it there.

Stamp 2

The stove and the bill.

Albany Democrats passed the All-Electric Buildings Act — the gas-stove ban in new homes. Failed climate policy from the same program his old boss wrote into law. Higher electric bills. A grid already under strain.

Stamp 3

The checkout.

The same program does not stop at the meter. It shows up in the cart. He is not running against it. He is running to join it.

Stamp 4

The line.

He asked for the Working Families Party line. He is running on it. That party wants the New York Health Act — a tax increase analysts have called the largest this state has ever contemplated — and New York for All, which tells police and sheriffs not to help ICE.

  • He wants to block ICE from removing criminal illegal aliens.
  • He took the gun-control stamp that wants to take self-defense from law-abiding citizens.

Protect them from ICE. Regulate you.

05Who He Is When the Cameras Are Off

He will say he fights for working people and affordability.

Exhibit A

The sneakers.

No. 1:26-cv-03020 (S.D.N.Y.)

April 13, 2026: Lander v. Prada USA Corp., Southern District of New York. A federal lawsuit over custom sneakers. The complaint puts the price at about $0 and says the wrong color arrived.

June 16, 2026: dismissed with prejudice.

Common sense does not file in federal court over luxury sneakers. That filing is who he is. An elitist with a campaign slogan.

Exhibit B

The farm.

Filed July 2022

In 2022, Eric and Mary Dahl sued Lander, his wife, and mortgage-related entities. A farm family that had held land for decades sold the Landers 10.77 acres on the promise that 8.76 acres would come back after zoning. The land came back still wrapped in a mortgage. The Dahls said they could not use the acres they were promised. The case was discontinued after a settlement in 2023.

That is not a jury verdict. It is a farm family that had to hire a lawyer to get their ground back.

Exhibit C

The arrest.

2000 · Plattsburgh

Plattsburgh police arrested him for the unlawful use of fireworks. Character is not only the job title. It is the file.

Exhibit D

The votes he skipped.

2012 · 2015 general elections

A man who wants to sit on the Senate floor and vote for this district did not vote in the 2012 and 2015 general elections. Print the voter history.

He wants your ballot. He did not always use his.

No novel required. The dates are enough.

The Lander Record
  • Wrong for the job.
  • Wrong direction for the state.
  • Do not send a Hochul rubber stamp to the Senate.

Don't be fooled by Devin Lander.

Read the record. Then vote the record.