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Candidates Emerge To Become New County Exec After Pat Ryan's Congressional Swing-District Win
Now that Democrat Pat Ryan has won the special election for New York’s open 19th House seat, the jockeying has begun to fill his vacant Ulster County executive position.
Three names, all Democrats, have emerged so far.
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They include March Gallagher, the current Ulster County comptroller, Jennifer Metzger, a former state senator, and Marc Rider, the deputy county executive.
Gallagher, who served as president and CEO of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley, announced her interest in a Face…