Stuart Amoriell never thought he'd run for office. For much of his career, he ran a small tech company in the mid-Atlantic, where he grew up. Then, about a decade ago, he pivoted to the restaurant business in Lake Placid. “A friend of mine owned the [Pickled Pig] restaurant before me, and he said, ‘Hey, Stu, we have a restaurant we want to sell.’ I came up and the rest is history," Amoriell explained, sitting on a picnic table outside the restaurant.