ElEction 2019
2019 judicial candidatEs Judge of the County Court
Judges of the Second District Court
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Meryl Berkowitz
Gary Carlton
Joy Watson
Democrat, Conservative, Independent, Republican
Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Independent
Republican and Conservative
Age: 64
Age: 60
Lives in: Five Towns
Age: 65
Education: Barnard College, Mount Holyoke, Benjamin Cardozo Law School
Lives in: Valley Stream
Lives in: Hempstead Education: Bachelor’s degree, State University of New York at Albany, 1982; law degree, Pepperdine Law School, 1985
Education: Bachelor’s degree, speech communications/broadcasting and political science, George Washington University, 1976; law degree, Albany Law School, 1979
Legal career: Berkowitz worked for Nassau County Legal Aid for 16 years. Then, she opened her own private practice in Hewlett, working on criminal defense cases. In January 1999, she was elected as judge. She is now the most senior judge at Nassau County Court, where she works on criminal felony trials. Other: She is member of Nassau County Bar Association and Hadassah Women’s Zionist Organization of America -- an American Jewish volunteer women’s organization.
Legal career: Carlton was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1980 and is also a member of the Nassau County Bar Association. He worked as a personal injury lawyer in the Manhattan firm Goldberg & Carlton. He served as deputy attorney for the Village of Valley Stream, providing defense in tort accident cases for the last nine years. He was a Valley Stream Democratic zone leader since 2001. Carlton is a past co-president of the North Woodmere Civic Association and founder of the North Woodmere Park Foundation.
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Legal career: Watson has worked for Nassau County for over 30 years. She started her career in 1986 as an assistant district attorney for the county and held the position for 19 years. During her tenure, she served as chief of the Sex Offense and Domestic Violence Bureau and was deputy chief of the Major Offense and Homicide Bureau. In 2006, Watson became principal law clerk to New York State’s Supreme Court Justice Karen V. Murphy, where she spent more than four years. In 2010, she was appointed deputy comptroller in charge of Audits and Special Projects, for Nassau County and served for close to three years. Since being elected in 2013, Watson has served as a judge on the Nassau County District Court.
Tom McKevitt
Legislator 13th Legislative District
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19th Legislative District Fighting For Nassau Taxpayers! Re-Elect
Steve Rhoads Nassau County Legislator
Fighting for Taxpayers • Never voted for a tax increase. • Demanding fairness and transparency in the County Executive’s Reassessment, which has created a back-door tax hike for hundreds of thousands of taxpayers. • Stopped the County Executive’s plan to tax our Little Leaguers and seniors for the use of County playing fields. • Sponsored the Assessment Bill of Rights for taxpayers and legislation to allow residents to decide whether they would like to return to an ELECTED County Assessor. • Opposed the Governor and State Legislators on the new $1 billion commuter tax. • Forced the Nassau Assessor to come clean and provide notices to homeowners that disclose the impact of the County Executive’s Reassessment on your taxes. • Fought for over $15 million in County road infrastructure projects, impacting every community in the 19th Legislative District. • Passed historic ethics reforms to combat corruption, including the creation of an independent Inspector General; an overhaul of the County’s contracting process and a ban on convicted felons from holding County office.
Vote Tuesday, November 5th • Held the line on County property taxes. • Fighting for transparency in Reassessment • Addressing the opioid crisis Paid for by McKevitt for Legislator
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Protecting Our Families • Stopped County Executive’s plan to remove ICE agents from Nassau County Jail...ICE prevents the release of gang members into our communities. • Wrote legislation expanding the NCPD “panic button” technology to now include houses of worship, schools and public venues. • Voted to create 24/7 hotline for victims of opioid addiction. • Passed free college tuition for Nassau’s Gold Star families and the families of fallen First Responders. • Obtained nearly $2 million in grants for first responders and schools, including an emergency access road, fire and rescue equipment and dozens of A.E.D’s. Steve himself is a first responder for 25 years. • Has condemned Albany’s radical agenda including cashless bail for violent criminals allowing felons to vote and serve on Juries and allowing cop killers to walk free.