In 2005, while still in college, Hyers was a volunteer campaign manager for Cheryl Keyrouse, a Saratoga Springs Democrat who won election to a seat representing the city on the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors. Some saw the action as an attempt by the council, which had a Republican majority, to discourage voting by Skidmore students, many of whom were Democrats. The magazine interviewed Bulman for an article about the controversy, which centered on the Saratoga Springs City Council’s attempts in 20 to redraw voting district boundaries and move a polling place from the Skidmore campus to downtown.
“I tell people that it was Eric Hyers that got me into Rolling Stone,” Bulman quipped. Larry Bulman, a local union leader who was the Saratoga County Democratic chairman at the time, recalled that Hyers was involved in the fight to keep a polling place on the Skidmore campus, a debate that made national news. In his sophomore year, his was president of Skidmore Democrats, a campus political organization. He enrolled at Skidmore as a political science major and became active in campus and city politics. “I realized that I wanted to take my life and dedicate it to electing Democrats,” he said in a recent telephone interview. Hyers said he decided on a career in politics as a teenager in North Adams as he followed the tight presidential race in 2000 between George W. Based on results of the 2020 census, New York will lose one of its 27 congressional seats, and the boundaries of the remaining 26 districts must be redrawn before the 2022 election.
Neither Stefanik nor her would-be challengers know for certain, however, how the boundaries of her district might be redrawn within the next year. Stefanik has become a bigger target for national Democrats since May, when her Republican colleagues elected her to the party’s third-ranking House leadership post. Other Democratic contenders are reported to be exploring the race but have not yet announced their intention to run. The others are Ezra Watson, a semi-conductor engineer from Wilton, and Bridie Farrell, a former Olympics hopeful in speed skating and advocate for child sexual abuse victims who grew up in Saratoga Springs and recently moved from New York City to the Warren County hamlet of North River. Putorti, who recently moved back to Whitehall from New York City, is one of three announced candidates seeking the Democratic nomination to run against four-term incumbent Rep. Hyers now is managing the campaign of Matt Putorti, a lawyer who grew up in Whitehall, where his family had run Putorti’s Broadway Market for generations. “He’s the only student that ever won the Skidmore dodgeball tournament playing with a separated shoulder,” Turner recalled. Turner, who taught Hyers at Skidmore and still keeps in contact, said Hyers is a fierce competitor, not just in politics but also in life in general. “He’s a local boy, sort of, who made good,” said Bob Turner, a political science professor at Skidmore. John Sweeney, a Rensselaer County Republican, in a race most experts initially gave her little chance of winning.įifteen years later, Hyers is back in the area, organizing another local congressional campaign, after managing the Michigan operation of Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in 2020. That year, Gillibrand defeated four-term incumbent Rep.
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He had his first professional gig in 2006 as a field organizer on the initial congressional campaign of Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, who now is New York’s junior senator. Hyers, a veteran of Democratic campaigns both locally and nationally, grew up in North Adams, Mass., and graduated in 2006 from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs. “You have to really love what you do,” he said.
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Most people would figure the job of a political strategist demands long hours, but Eric Hyers says he ultimately came to realize that he never truly has time off.Įven a Friday night trip to a movie theater can be interrupted when his phone lights up with an urgent matter that demands immediate attention. Now he’s back in the area to manage a congressional campaign. Eric Hyers, who grew up in North Adams and studied political science at Skidmore College, became a prominent campaign strategist for red-state Democrats.
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