Army veteran William Schweitzer has announced a bid to try to topple US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in the Democratic primary next year.
In remarks to The Post, Schweitzer, 35, said “Gillibrand’s record is underwhelming for a senator from New York.”
He also worked for New York Democrat Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Rochester district office, and was deputy press secretary for ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 2018 re-election campaign.first appointed Gillibrand — then an upstate congresswoman — to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton in 2009 when President Barack Obama appointed her Secretary of State.
“She’s out of touch. It’s necessary for someone to step up and hand her a primary. It’s long overdue. The position was given to her by Gov. Paterson,” he said.The vet founded his own tech firm, Schweitzer Laboratories, creating a platform to combat political corruption and foreign influence in elections, and has worked with NASA, IBM, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Mastercard, the payments platform Stripe, Amazon Web Services, LexisNexis, and other companies.
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