Jackie Auringer

Jackie Auringer grew up in Kingston, in a family that operates crane and construction companies in the Hudson Valley.¹ Her own roles include project manager and managerial accountant, work she described in a May column about running for Congress.² She identified housing, schools and infrastructure as projects undertaken by her family's businesses.² She writes that those businesses have operated locally for more than two decades.²

In that column, Auringer described belonging to a multiethnic family, organizing with conservatives in Palm Beach and attending a Black Lives Matter demonstration.² She also wrote about younger adults struggling to remain in the communities where they grew up.² In her October News12 interview, she described difficulty paying rent and being unable to build a home herself.¹

Auringer comes to the race without previous service in elected office.¹ Her published agenda calls for easing regulations that raise housing costs, treating mental health as an urgent public issue and holding social media companies accountable for harms they cause.²

She is the Republican challenger to Democratic incumbent Pat Ryan in the November election.¹ Auringer describes herself as fiscally conservative and socially moderate, opposes AI data centers near Hudson Valley communities and says she would oppose a federal abortion ban, leaving that authority to the states.¹