It’s official: Treadwells leaving North Country

There have been rumors for weeks that Sandy Treadwell from Essex County — once the chair of New York’s Republican Party, a major ally of Governor George Pataki, and a mainstay of North Country politics — is leaving NY state.

The Daily Politics website confirms it today:

Treadwell, who mounted an unsuccessful campaign to oust then-Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand last fall, has maintained a home in California because his children and grandchildren are there, according to longtime Treadwell associate Bill McGahay.
McGahay said Treadwell, who is independently wealthy (he spent a total of $11.5 million on his unsuccessful congressional bid, $6 million of which was his own money) , is…leaving New York…because he wants to spend more time with his family.

Treadwell and his wife Libby have been major players in the political and cultural life in the Champlain Valley and Lake Placid.
They won’t be pulling up stakes entirely. They still have family in the North Country and Libby has a book on hiking with dogs in the Adirondacks coming out soon.

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