James Nani reports at The Fray that there may be 16 months before the 19th District Congressional election, but already there are seven candidates and one endorsement. The VoteVets PAC, a Washington D.C.-based political action committee, endorsed Democrat Patrick Ryan to take on Rep. John Faso (R-Kinderhook). Nani scanned federal elections records and reports, "VoteVets spent $11.4 million in the 2016 election cycle. According to OpenSecrets.org, about $9.9 million of that was spent on media buys, generally supporting Democratic or opposing Republican candidates. One of its biggest donors last cycle was Majority Forward, a nonprofit that a Politico story characterized as 'a nonprofit affiliated with Democrats’ biggest Senate super PAC.'" Rick Hegdahl, veterans outreach coordinator for VoteVets, said of Ryan, “It’s important that people in the district know that Pat has never forgotten where he came from. After serving in Iraq, he went right to work, trying to better protect the men and women still in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, he’s back in his Hudson Valley home, serving his community. That says a lot about the kind of extraordinary servant that Pat is, and that he will be, as a Congressman,” Hegdahl said. Actually, Ryan currently lives in Brooklyn but says he’s searching for a home in Gardiner, Accord, or Kingston, where he graduated high school. Read the full story at The Fray.