It Begins: Kane Files Exploratory Committee for Statewide Office in 2018.

Maybe the growing state budget deficit will not require every legislator’s full attention. State Senator Rob Kane must have a $3 billion solution in his laptop. The Senate ranking member of the legislature’s spending committee is jumping into the 2018 campaign just days after the 2016 one ended. The Watertown Republican has kicked off a campaign for an undetermined statewide office, Daily Ructions can report, by forming an exploratory committee in documents filed with the State Elections Enforcement Commission.