Ryan helps launch New York Veterans for Biden

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NEW YORK – A group of New York military veterans including Ulster County Executive Patrick Ryan has formed a group backing Joe Biden for president.

New York State Veterans and Military Families for Biden was launched on Thursday led by Ryan and a number of other former members of the military including Columbia County resident and Navy veteran Andrea Goldstein.

Ryan is a graduate of West Point.

The group is planning social media, virtual events, and organizing veterans for canvassing in the neighboring battleground state of Pennsylvania.

“We are proud to come together as veterans and launch the group to elect Joe Biden as our next president,” the organizations wrote in a joint statement. “Serving in uniform, we know what it means to have each other’s backs. Joe Biden has always had our backs as veterans, and now it’s our turn to have his.”

The group said they have “watched with dismay and concern as the current administration attempts to use the U.S. Military in increasingly political ways, including against U.S. citizens peacefully demonstrating on American soil. We join many fellow veterans across the country, including several former chairs of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in condemning this distortion of the Constitutionally-defined relationship between the military and its civilian leadership.”
The veterans’ support group said Biden understands “the struggles and the triumphs of military and veteran family life. He has felt the pain of sacrifice and loss. As commander-in-chief, we trust him to know when to send our young men and women into harm’s way and to care for them upon their return.”




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