News from the Campaign
A Year End Tax Update
Friends, I'm writing to give you some additional information that may help you with your taxes. As you probably know, New Yorkers and others living in high-tax states were targeted in the Trump federal tax bill that was just passed. Some of you may be able to prepay...
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Two Way Traffic Ahead
I am very excited to be the Legislator-elect, soon to represent Westchester County’s 10th District, covering Eastchester, Tuckahoe, and a large portion of New Rochelle. Although I can’t vote on the 2018 County budget proposed by outgoing County Executive Rob Astorino,...
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I am very excited to share great news with you! I was elected the new County Legislator for District 10, to represent Eastchester, Tuckahoe and New Rochelle by a margin of 53% to 47%. I am happy to win one of three legislative seats that flipped to Democrats and...
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My Closing Argument
Last weekend, my opponent sent out the above mailer to my home. While I’m sure she intended for the mailer to make me look bad, I’m actually happy that she took the opportunity put together a concise summary of some of our biggest philosophical differences. So in...
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Women’s Choice
What the story of my birth taught me about women’s health Every year on birthday my father would tell me the story of my birth in 1956. He told me of rushing my mother to St. Joseph’s in Yonkers in the middle of a January snowstorm, and then being told to go outside...
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Courage, Resilience & Kindness
Mark Bonistall is a grade-school friend of mine from St. Anthony’s in the Silver Lake section of West Harrison. At St. Anthony’s, if you were caught giggling or whispering to a “neighbor” at the back of the classroom, the nuns would ask you to go up to the front of...
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Framing the Issues, Moving the Dial
In the past, my opponent Sheila Marcotte’s strategy has been to run purely as a fiscal conservative, someone who will save you money. I’ve already written about how when you sit down and do the math, that really isn’t the case. So I was glad to see that when we...
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Happy New Year!
One of the best things about being part of an interfaith family is getting to celebrate twice as many holidays as most folks. Tonight that means I’ll be having apples and honey to ring in the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. But in the Jewish religion, Rosh Hashanah is...
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A Working Class Hero
Reflections on my Great Aunt Bea, a real-life “Rosie the Riveter.”
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Talking the Walk: Campaign Updates
My Westchester Kin My family is interfaith, intercultural, and interracial. In the aftermath of Charlottesville last week, it was important to me to show my solidarity with the victims of the attack, and against people who feel that my family should not exist....
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