2 weeks Ago By Patricia R. Doxsey
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Democrats Taylor Bruck and Alexandria Wojcik will square off in a June 24 countywide primary election that will determine who will be the next Ulster County clerk.
Bruck, the county’s acting county clerk, and Wojcik, deputy mayor of the village of New Paltz, each filed petitions with the Ulster County Board of Elections by Thursday’s deadline to claim the Democratic Party line, setting the stage for a countywide primary race for the party line.And, because no other candidates filed petitions in the race, the victor of the June primary will have run unchallenged in November. Bruck declined the GOP and Conservative party lines.
Alexandria Wojcik, Deputy Mayor of the Village of New Paltz, speaks at the rally in support of the Equal Rights Amendment on Saturday, March 30, 2024. (Connor Greco, Daily Freeman)Bruck, who served as deputy county clerk under former clerk Nina Postupack, became acting county clerk on Aug. 22 after Postupack resigned following a career in the department that spanned more than four decades.
Postupack died on Thursday, Oct. 10.Wojcik was first elected to the New Paltz Village Board in 2019 and has served as deputy mayor since 2021.
She announced her candidacy via the Sunday, Dec. 1 creation of a Facebook page entitled “Alexandria Wojcik for Ulster County Clerk.”Wojcik is an external relations specialist with the state Senate Majority Conference.
Bruck was overwhelmingly endorsed by the Democratic Party at the party’s February 22 convention, garnering 86% of the committee’s weighted vote, outpolling Wojcik 27,675-4,339.Acting Ulster County Clerk Taylor Bruck is overwhelmingly nominated as the Democratic candidate for county clerk during the Ulster County Democratic Convention on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025, in Kingston, N.
Y. (Patricia R. Doxsey/Daily Freeman)Also filing petitions to run in the Nov.
4 election were incumbent Comptroller March Gallagher and Family Court judge hopeful Lara Olivieri.No other candidates filed petitions by Thursday’s deadline, so Gallagher and Oliveri will run unopposed on the Democratic line on the ballot.Gallagher is seeking her second full four-year term as comptroller.
She became the county’s second elected comptroller in 2020. The first county comptroller, Democrat Elliott Auerbach, stepped down in May 2019 to become a deputy state comptroller.Oliveri is running for the Family Court seat now held by Anthony McGinty, who is not running for re-election.
The Family Court judge serves a 10-year term..
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