The three-way race for the 138th state Assembly seat heated up last week as incumbent Francine Del Monte used Thomas Pryce, a Niagara Falls Bridge Commissioner, to lodge challenges against the nominating petitions of her two opponents. Pryce, who was appointed to the commission in 2008 on Del Monte's recommendation to Gov. David Paterson, lives in Youngstown. A longtime union official, he currently serves as business manager and financial secretary of Iron Workers Local 9 here. Previously he spent 12 years on the Lewiston-Porter Board of Education.
