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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of Nassau County and asked of all candidates for this office.
Read the answers from all candidates (who have responded).Questions & Answers
1. Public education is financed through property taxes and state funds. What other means of raising revenue would you support?*
We need to, first and foremost, attack the issue of Medicaid waste and fraud. State taxpayers are losing $12 million a day due to Medicaid fraud and abuse. I support strengthening the Attorney General's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Secondly, New York pays $4.7 billion dollars a year in interest on its debt. We need to make immediate efforts toward paying down our debt by using budget surpluses and implementing a "pay-as-you-go" policy for future capital projects.2. Legislative districts have been determined on a partisan basis. Would you support establishing an independent commission as a more open and ethical way to create the districts? Please explain.*
I strongly support an independent, bi-partisan commission to re-evaluate the process of legislative redistricting. For too long, in Albany, the goal of incumbents has been to protect their districts to ensure re-election as opposed to the intended goal of creating a fair and balanced election process for all political parties and especially for the voters.
Responses to questions asked of each candidate are reproduced as submitted to the League.
- Original answers for a published Voters Guide were limited are presented as submitted. Candidates have since been invited to supply answers of any length for the Web.
Read the answers from all candidates (who have responded).
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