Workers' Compensation Board Attorney Wins First Political Race

Friday, September 15, 2017 | 0

An attorney for the State Workers’ Compensation Board has defeated the Democratic incumbent in the primary for the 38th District seat in the Albany County Legislature.

Victoria Anne Plotsky got 281 votes, or 70.60%, compared to Darrell Duncan’s 77 votes, or 19.35%, the Altamont Enterprise reported. Another 10.05% of the vote consisted of write-ins.

Plotsky is an attorney with the board’s Uninsured Employer’s Fund and ran on a platform of reform and protecting the environment.

Plotsky, 50, of Clarksville, grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a bachelor’s degree in Soviet studies. She worked for the British Embassy in Moscow before earning her degree from Albany Law School in 1995, the newspaper reported.

The 38th District covers most of New Scotland except for the village of Voorheesville and a piece of Bethlehem in the Feura Bush area.

She defeated Duncan, 59, the county’s former commissioner of public works who was appointed to the 38th District seat eight months ago to replace Michael Mackey after Mackey was named a Supreme Court justice in the state’s Third Judicial District.