KINGSTON – Republican-Conservative candidate Jack Hayes is challenging Ulster County Executive Patrick Ryan who will be on the Democrat, Independence and Working Families Party lines, in a rematch of the special election held earlier this year after former Executive Michael Hein was hired as a commissioner in the Cuomo administration.
Ryan took over the helm of county government introducing new ideas and programs in his first-ever elected position.
Since the special election, there have been no public statements or appearances by Hayes.
County GOP Chairman Roger Rascoe believes Hayes will do well in the general election.
“I think Jack Hayes is a qualified person,” Rascoe said. “He has been discussing issues throughout the county and I think he will make a good race of it and I think that the voters, when it comes time for this November to come around that he will have a lot more support than people think right now.”
Hayes is a former county legislator, Gardiner town supervisor and a retired member of the State Police.
Ryan, a former Army intelligence officer, was a director of defense technology firm Second Front Systems and was a 2016 Democratic congressional primary candidate.
