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Majority Rules TJH Speaks with Assembly Candidate David Lobl By SuSan ScHwamm David, you are running for Missy Miller’s seat in the NYS Assembly. Tell us why you feel that you’re the perfect person to fill this position. I’ve spent the last 10, maybe more, years of my professional life in and around government, with the bulk of it working with the Jewish community. I was always the go-between, if you will, between the people and the principals. I understand how government works. I worked in the highest levels of government in New York. I have the relationships that I could leverage to benefit our community and the greater district at-large. And when this opportunity presented itself, it just felt like a natural progression of how I could do more and how I could be more effective in helping our community.
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What were those positions that you had? You said you worked with the highest levels of government. I was Andrew Cuomo’s chief Jewish adviser. What issues were you involved in to help the community? I actually started working for the governor in October of 2012, so the first big one was Hurricane Sandy. Talk about hitting the ground running early on. So early on – I think it was within the first week or first couple of weeks – I brought Jerry, Hauer, the commissioner of Homeland Security, to the community. We had a big meeting in the White Shul. Within, I think, 48 hours, we secured light poles that we placed throughout Far Rockaway, the 878, Lawrence, Cedarhurst, and Woodmere. And then I helped combat antisemitic legislation when they tried to eliminate the Village of Kiryas Joel. I secured the governor’s veto on that. When yeshivas needed funding, I was the point person for organizations like the OU, the Agudah. We secured one of the first in the nation type of funding for STEM teachers. We initiated the grant that provides funding for yeshivas’ security. I spearheaded and executed the governor’s execu-
