Wager, son of former long-time Poughkeepsie Journal publisher Dick Wager, filed papers this week to create an exploratory committee to, well, explore the possibility of challenging U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-Hudson, in 2008."I'm excited to continue traveling the district listening to the hopes and concerns of its residents," Wager said in an e-mail. He plans to hold his first fundraiser this month with family and friends in his hometown of Hyde Park.
Wager, 36, is a 1989 Franklin D. Roosevelt High School
graduate and works as an aide in the Republican administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He is one of several people mentioned as possible candidates for the Republican nomination in the 20th District, including former Congressman John Sweeney, whom Gillibrand defeated in November to win election to her first two-year term in Congress.Wager also professes to be an avid reader of this blog, which predates his exploratory committee by only a couple weeks.
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Wager will have a tough road to hoe - Gillibrand has already proven she is truly of by and for the people - She's got the spirit to keep the 20th moving in the right direction.
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