{"id":264211,"date":"2026-05-09T01:08:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264211\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T01:08:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T01:08:22","slug":"trade-union-derides-auringer-for-ny-18-campaign-video-out-of-florida-daily-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/264211\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade union derides Auringer for NY-18 campaign video out of Florida \u2013 Daily Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, N.Y. \u2014 A construction trade group lambasted 18th Congressional District Republican candidate Jackie Auringer on Thursday for filming a campaign spot<\/a> at a construction site in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, rather than in the district she wants to represent.<\/p>\n

Auringer is running against U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan, D-Gardiner, securing a spot on the ballot last week<\/a> after a challenge by Democrats to the GOP\u2019s candidacy.<\/p>\n

The Hudson Valley Building Trades called out Auringer for filming a \u201ccampaign video on a Fort Lauderdale, Florida construction site\u2014reportedly a project of her family\u2019s business\u2014in which the candidate, standing on a job site 1,200 miles from the district she seeks to represent, lectures voters about what\u2019s wrong with the New York economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile Hudson Valley operating engineers, laborers, carpenters, and ironworkers were home with their families on a cold, rainy April day, Auringer was in 80-degree Broward County sunshine gathering B-roll for her campaign\u2014and telling the camera that the way to fix the economy is to listen to the people doing the work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to fix the economy,\u201d Auringer says in the video posted on her campaign\u2019s Instagram account<\/a> on April 25. \u201cWe need to start by listening to the people who are out here doing the work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The construction trades group says Auringer is correct on that account.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s right\u2014you have to listen to the people doing the work,\u201d said Todd Diorio Hudson Valley Building Trades President \/ Business Manager Eastern NY Laborers\u2019 District Council. \u201cBut in NY-18, that work is happening in Kingston, Newburgh, Poughkeepsie, and Middletown\u2014not Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t need a plane ticket to hear from Hudson Valley workers. You need to drive across town. It says a lot that when this candidate filmed a video about the Hudson Valley economy, she did it on a job site in Florida.\u201d Diorio said. \u201cHudson Valley is where our membership lives and works; local workers don\u2019t need a lecture from Florida.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Auringer said Ryan\u2019s supporters are targeting her again.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust weeks into this campaign, Pat Ryan already tried to knock me off the ballot. Now his political allies are launching personal attacks against me and my family over an Instagram post,\u201d Auringer said in a statement. \u201cThat tells you everything you need to know about what\u2019s wrong with politics today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aurigner\u2019s campaign said the Instagram video was shot in Florida at a site where she was working.<\/p>\n

The trades group noted that Auringer is \u201ca regular\u201d at Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago resort, \u201cfounded the political organization Palm Beach Conservatives and served as an officer of the Palm Beach Federated Republican Women,\u201d adding that she just recently registered to vote at a family-owned property in Kingston.<\/p>\n

The trades organization said the \u201cbroader Auringer-family network of non-union construction enterprises\u2014operated by the Auringers, and including crane, hoist, and structural steel companies\u2014has a documented public record of conflict with workers and regulators.\u201d<\/p>\n

The town of Kingston has been dealing<\/a> with controversy since 2020 over a proposal to build a concrete and steel fabrication plant at a former quary site at 850 state Route 32 by U.S. Crane owner Tom Auringer, at the property within the Bluestone Wild Forest near Onteora Lake. After several years of disputes that filled the Town Hall meeting room, the company opted for the ability to use six acres for the storage of large cranes and associated equipment.\u00a0 Jackie Auringer is Tom Auringer\u2019s daughter. According to her campaign site,<\/a> she \u201cworks in her family\u2019s construction business, where she serves as a project manager and managerial accountant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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