Assemblyman Greg Ball (R, C, I – Patterson) is serving his second term in the New York State Assembly, where he serves as ranking member of the influential committee on Corporations, Authorities, and Commissions.

In 2006, after knocking on at least 10,000 doors, Ball delivered a surprising and historic upset against 12 year incumbent Willis Stephens Jr., the scion of a political family who held the seat almost continuously for eighty years, with a resounding 71% of the vote.

After spending a first term marked by legislative achievements including a landmark bill that provided free college tuition to New York’s veterans, closing loopholes in the human trafficking law and enacting across-the-board spending cuts to the bloated state budget while restoring vital funding to healthcare and education, Ball trounced challenger John Degnan with 75% of the vote, and record turnout.

Degnan, a former local Mayor, ran a primary as a Republican and once defeated, continued to run as a Democrat in the general election, where he was again soundly defeated by Ball, who took almost 60% in a heavily Democratic trending election cycle. Degnan and his allies spent close to a million dollars to unseat Ball.

The assemblyman’s voting record has also ranked him as one of Albany’s most ardent pro-labor legislators, and Ball has found himself as only Republican in the Hudson Valley to receive the coveted endorsements of both the Westchester and Putnam Building and Construction Trades Council, and the Hudson Valley Building and Construction Trades Council, representing sixty-two unions from seventeen trades.

A former Vice President of Exceed International Development Corporation, Ball holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from the United States Air Force Academy, is currently completing his Masters Thesis of Liberal Studies in International Affairs at Georgetown University and received an honorable discharge in 2005 at the rank of Captain after service as an active duty officer in the United States Air Force.