Sarah Hughes, Olympic Gold-Medal Figure Skater, Running For NY Congressional Seat

Olympic determine skater Sarah Hughes, who received a gold medal in determine skating on the 2002 Winter Olympics, has filed to run for Congress in New York, becoming a member of a number of different Democrats looking for to unseat Lengthy Island Republican Anthony Esposito. (AP Picture/Evan Agostini, File)

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celeNEW YORK (AP) — Sarah Hughes, who received a gold medal in determine skating on the 2002 Winter Olympics, has filed to run for Congress in New York, becoming a member of a number of different Democrats looking for to unseat Lengthy Island Republican Anthony D’Esposito.

Hughes, 38, will make a proper marketing campaign announcement of her marketing campaign for New York’s 4th Congressional District ”within the subsequent few weeks,” spokesperson Max Kramer mentioned Tuesday.

Hughes was simply 16 when she scored her upset win over teammate Michelle Kwan on the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake Metropolis.

She later earned an undergraduate diploma from Yale and a regulation diploma from the College of Pennsylvania.

Hughes spent three years as an affiliate at Manhattan-based company regulation agency Proskauer Rose and is at present learning towards an MBA from Stanford.

She made headlines in 2011 when she dated Andrew Giuliani, the son of former New York Metropolis Mayor and Donald Trump adviser Rudy Giuliani.

Hughes lives in Manhattan and is on the lookout for a house throughout the 4th Congressional District in southern and central Nassau County, Kramer mentioned.

Hughes grew up in Nice Neck, which is within the adjoining district now represented by Republican George Santos, who pleaded not responsible final week to a 13-count federal indictment that accused him of duping donors, stealing from his marketing campaign and mendacity to Congress about his funds.

D’Esposito and Santos each flipped seats beforehand held by Democrats, a part of a robust 2022 exhibiting by New York Republicans within the suburbs surrounding New York Metropolis.

Different candidates who've filed for the Democratic nomination for the 4th Congressional District embody Laura Gillen, a former Hempstead city supervisor who misplaced narrowly to D’Esposito in 2022; Patricia Maher, who ran unsuccessfully towards Rep. Peter King within the 2nd Congressional District in 2014; and Lawrence Patrick Henry.

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The final title of Republican Rep. Anthony D’Esposito has been corrected.