To the Editor:

I am and will always be a loyal, lifetime, Liberal Democratic but even with that said I have always kept my options open in any and everyone of the previous 54 Annual Election Cycles that I have had both the privilege and pleasure of voting in New York State .

This year 2026 will be no different. The majority of my support will primarily be to our best quality candidates from my Democratic Party that I can vote for. But just as in 2018 and 2022, the other constant this year is I will again be voting for the re-election of the incumbent Republican, Ms. Rita Curran in my home 15th Legislative District of Saint Lawrence County Government here in Upstate NY. 

I have also never posted my support for any candidate on my property until this year and that decision has been based on the clearest individual overall experiences I have had the honor and privilege these past two years of the close interaction with the gifted, vastly knowledgeable, tremendously dedicated and absolutely outgoing humanistic character traits of Ms. Rita Curran.

Ms. Rita has well earned my trust and belief in her individual abilities to legislate from a firmly and well grounded centrist position on every issue, of which I can find no issue or disagreement with.

Ms. Rita Curran embodies every trait that exemplifies a person who is a fair, open minded public servant, who simply gives a great deal of her very valuable time and undivided attention to any and all of her constituents regardless of their specific political/social or ideological make-up . She always makes herself available to us all and has championed many worthwhile causes for all of us without fanfare.

My viewpoint is firm; she has all the traits to combine all her many decades in Public Health Care Service , decades in many forms of philanthropy, considerable, additional varied services to "Our North  Country Regions Populous," the uncanny ability to network with all forms of potential private capital infusions for new and better paying, sustainable job creations to help keep our youth from leaving our own home towns.

My viewpoint is also very consistent. Of all the remaining incumbents up for re-election, Rita is the most talented of all and the most diligent.

Please support her in this election cycle and in all those thereafter. She will never disappoint any or all of our realistic expectations.

Gennaro DeFiore

Louisville