Former assistant AG Ambrosio takes on Tonko in NY-20 race
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Republican congressional candidate Ralph Ambrosio poses for a photo outside River Stone Manor in Glenville.
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BETHLEHEM — While patrolling the highways as a New York state trooper in the late 1970s, Ralph Ambrosio dreamed of starting a law career. Thanks to an accommodation by State Police brass, Ambrosio began pursuing his law degree in 1980. He trekked regularly from the state police barracks in Claverack 142 miles round trip to Western New England University School of Law in Springfield, Mass., for four years until he earned his law degree.
After a decade spent in private practice, with two stints as an assistant district attorney in Columbia and Greene counties mixed in, Ambrosio took a job in 1998 as the state’s assistant…