The DCCC forwarded on this mailer sent out by former Ulster County Democratic Chairman Julian Schreibman in advance of the June 26 primary in the newly-drawn 19th Congressional District.

This isn’t the first mailer from Schreibman, the party’s preferred candidate to take on GOP Rep. Chris Gibson, who must first face off against Dutchess County Legislator Joel Tyner in an intra-party contest.

(Tyner, in case you’ve forgotten, was a long-shot 2010 uber-liberal gubernatorial contender who walked from Wall Street to Albany in hopes of generating enthusiasm for his campaign, but missed the 15,000-signature requirement to get onto the ballot).

Given Tyner’s liberal leanings, it’s interesting to see Schreibman playing up the whole “Republican extremist” angle in this mailer, and also featuring praise from a victims’ rights advocate to soften his record as a former prosecutor.

NY-19 is the new NY-20. It was one of the districts that changed the most significantly in the redistricting process, skewing further down into the Hudson Valley and removing a fair-sized chunk of the more conservative northern end of the old district.

Gibson, who was first elected in 2010, has a lot of new constituents to meet and territory to learn – a challenge to which he has applied himself with his usual energy and enthusiasm. He has studiously positioned himself as a moderate and pragmatic Republican, even when that requires voting against the House GOP leadership, in hopes of improving his odds in the upcoming election.

Schreibman – Anne MC12 Final

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