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Pat Ryan is running in a critical August Special Election for New York’s 19th Congressional District. We’re counting on grassroots support to defend this toss-up seat and hold the House. But if you would like to unsubscribe, you can here.
Friend, My name is Pat Ryan and I am running in the August Special Election to succeed Lt. Governor Delgado in Congress and defend our fragile House majority. I wanted to reach out to explain why I’m running, what’s at stake in this race, and why I have been called to serve this community my entire life.
As a young man, I chose to go to West Point, to become an Army officer, and ultimately to put my life on the line in combat because I believe deeply in our country, in our core values – equality, justice, opportunity; and because I trusted that our elected officials in Washington would do right by me and my fellow soldiers. But instead, they sent us to war in Iraq with no strategy and without the resources to fight it. And rather than working together to fix the problem, they devolved into partisan bickering and posturing. Seeing the situation worsen – and doing nothing to fix it – while my fellow soldiers and I were losing lives, limbs, and years away from our families. Unfortunately, our national politics have only become more broken, more dysfunctional, and more divided in the years since. That’s why, a few years ago, I decided that rather than throwing up my hands in frustration and giving up, I needed to jump in and try to be part of the solution – to start fixing our politics, improving our country, renewing our democracy from the ground up: that’s why I ran for local office in the community I grew up in in the Hudson Valley. The last few years serving as Ulster County Executive, I have had the tremendous and humbling opportunity to lead our community through some of the most challenging times in the last century. Guiding our community through a once-in-a-century pandemic, and figuring out how to come out the other side, better, stronger, and more equitable. And I have seen firsthand that it can be done! I am running for Congress to represent the community where I was born and raised, where my family has been for five generations, where I graduated from West Point, where I am raising my two young sons with my wife Rebecca, and where I serve as Ulster County Executive. If you've saved your payment information with ActBlue Express, your donation will go through immediately: My very first day at West Point I was taught there are three answers to any question: yes sir, no sir, and no excuse sir. That’s it, period. As a leader, if we’re not getting it done – whether at the local level or in Washington – there is no excuse. I’ve seen that government can actually work on the ground level, if you’re willing to do the right thing as an elected official. Not to divide people for your own political gain, but to do the hard work, to bring people together towards consensus and to drive actual results. It is clear right now that things are not getting done in Washington, things are not working for people in this community. We have near-record inflation, we have global instability and a war in Ukraine, and we’re witnessing a direct and radical assault on women’s rights to control their own bodies, voting rights, and much more. With so much on the line, we need a leader in Washington who will actually step up and fight. First, I will run in a Special Election to succeed Lt. Governor Antonio Delgado in Congress. After the Special Election in August, I will then turn to the General Election in the newly-drawn New York 18th Congressional District in November. Both of these races will be tough, but are very winnable as long as we build strong grassroots support and work as a team. We need leaders in Washington who will actually approach the job as public servants, not politicians. People who have really put it on the line for our country – serving in combat, building a business from scratch, bringing people together in tough times. I hope you’ll join me in this fight. Yours in service, Pat Ryan
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