Liz Joy to run against Tonko again in 2022 | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS 20th CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT — Liz Joy, the conservative activist who lost the race against incumbent U.S. Rep. Paul D. Tonko, D-Amsterdam, in 2020, has filed paperwork to run against him again in 2022. A campaign finance committee for the 2022 congressional election cycle has been filed with the Federal Elections Commission, a year and a half before the election. The filing is unusually early, though some political scientists argue that in a two-year election cycle like that for the House of Representatives, the campaigning never really stops. “It’s early, but in a district like this you have to be early, and I believe we have to start early and stay out there,” Joy said on Thursday. “We just took a few months to watch things play out, there’s been so much turmoil. I thought about it, and refiled last Thursday.”