Incumbent Louise Slaughter has defeated Republican challenger Maggie Brooks in the 25th Congressional District.
Slaughter, 83, has served in Congress since 1987. Her district has since been redrawn to include most of Monroe County.
In her first run for Congress, Brooks, 57, came away with 42.78 percent of the vote, to Slaughter's 57.13 percent. Brooks is currently serving her third term as County Executive.
"I still have the best job in the world," she said.
"The race was never about me," Brooks added. "It was about the people frustrated with the inaction in Washington...It was always about people, never about politics."
Slaughter credited her win in a very heated campaign to voters seeing through the negative ads. People in the community know her, she said.
"We built a campaign that withstood distortions and attacks, and we sent a message to the special interests: our democracy cannot be bought," Slaughter said.
She said the focus of her next term will be creating local jobs, protecting Social Security and Medicare from privatization, and reforming the tax code. As for running again in 2016, Slaughter said she it isn't on her radar yet.
"I should have brought my cane because I wanted to raise a little."
— Includes reporting by Colleen Farrell
Incumbent Louise Slaughter has defeated Republican challenger Maggie Brooks in the 25th Congressional District.
Slaughter, 83, has served in Congress since 1987. Her district has since been redrawn to include most of Monroe County.
In her first run for Congress, Brooks, 57, came away with 42.78 percent of the vote, to Slaughter's 57.13 percent. Brooks is currently serving her third term as County Executive.
"I still have the best job in the world," she said.
"The race was never about me," Brooks added. "It was about the people frustrated with the inaction in Washington...It was always about people, never about politics."
Slaughter credited her win in a very heated campaign to voters seeing through the negative ads. People in the community know her, she said.
"We built a campaign that withstood distortions and attacks, and we sent a message to the special interests: our democracy cannot be bought," Slaughter said.
She said the focus of her next term will be creating local jobs, protecting Social Security and Medicare from privatization, and reforming the tax code. As for running again in 2016, Slaughter said she it isn't on her radar yet.
"I should have brought my cane because I wanted to raise a little."
— Includes reporting by Colleen Farrell
