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ELECTION 2019

TOWN OF OYSTER BAY BOARD

Erin Guida Challenger

Party: Unaffiliated Age: 39 Professional experience: Design field Lives in: Hicksville Family: Married, two children On the issues: Guida wants to concentrate on tackling the town’s infrastructure and environmental issues. For residents of the North Shore Water District, she wants to establish a publicly owned water authority, as many of

the district’s residents are frustrated with the high costs and lack of confidence they have in New York American Water. Additionally, Guida is seeking to work on a longterm plan for road re-pavement including drainage improvements, as well as reducing environmental impacts on the Sound by eliminating cesspools with a sewage system. Guida believes the Town Board needs more dialogue with residents at its meetings, frustrated with the current administration’s tendency not to converse with its constituents. With her years of experience managing multidisciplinary teams in the corporate and non-profit worlds, she is prepared to bring people together to find comprehensive, fiscally responsible solutions.

Melissa McCardle Challenger

Party: Democratic Age: 45 Professional experience: Social worker, college professor Lives in: Massapequa Park Family: Married, one child On the issues: McCardle believes water is a significant issue in the North Shore Water District, because its residents pay the highest rates on Long Island due to New York American Water’s presence

Lives in: Massapequa Park Family: Married, two children

Steve Labriola Incumbent

Party: Republican, Conservative, Independenced Age: 57 Professional experience: O.B. Town Councilman since Feb. 26, 2019; State Assemblyman 12th Assembly District (1997-2003); O.B. Town Clerk (20042013); Nassau County Chief Deputy Comptroller (2013-2015); Nassau County Chief Compliance Officer (2016-2017); and Nassau County Deputy County Clerk (2018-2019)

On the issues: Labriola prioritizes holding the line on taxes and repaving roads. In the hamlet of Oyster Bay, he would like to bring in a traffic engineer to present ideas on how to maximize parking and create more efficient traffic flow. With New York American Water, he plans to continue to urge state representatives to take full control over the company and transform it from a profit-driven operation to a municipal water district. He’s wants dozens of new electric-vehicle charging stations and the installation of solar panels. He said his years in local and state governments give him a perspective that many others do not have. His bi-partisan approach and experience as a taxpayer watchdog makes him qualified to represent the Town of O.B.

Laura Maier

Challenger Party: Republican and endorsed by the Conservative and Independent Parties Age: 40 Professional experience: Regional Director for a Healthcare Consulting firm, restaurant franchisee Lives in: Massapequa Family: Married, three children On the issues: Maier believes that high taxes and roadway mainte-

in the area. She also finds the poor sewage system in the region to be a concern, which she said has contributed to back-ups, flooding and the potential for contamination in North Shore communities. When it comes to potholes and crumbling roads in the area, McCardle is disappointed by the fact that residents may wait months or years to receive responses to their requests. She also believes that more transparency is needed in government because some residents do not trust their elected officials, leading to voter apathy and a feeling of not having a voice in the community. McCardle said her experience as a social work professor has helped her learn how to help others engage in their community. She feels she can collaborate successfully with others to come up with solutions most beneficial to the entire town.

nance are the biggest issues impacting North Shore residents. If elected, she said she would make smart investments for repaving streets and cutting wasteful spending, the latter of which she has learned to do over her years as a small businesswoman. She also plans to work with Supervisor Saladino and the Town Attorney to keep legal and political pressure on the state to takeover New York American Water so it becomes a municipal water district.

Ned Newhouse Challenger

Party: Democrat and Working Families Age: 60 Professional experience: Advertising sales and management industry Lives in: Woodbury Family: Married, two children

ment is not in touch with its communities because most of the town leaders live in Massapequa. As a North Shore resident, he is ready to tackle the issues which reside in his own backyard, one of the biggest being road repair. More public participation in town government is a focus for Newhouse. Not only does he want to see more board meetings at night so they are easier for residents to attend, but also an app in which residents can log issues to be sent to the town. Newhouse believes the town would benefit greatly from a bipartisan board, as he feels the current Republican-majority of the town board enables Supervisor Saladino to run the board “with an iron fist.”

On the issues: Newhouse finds the residents of the North Shore to be underserved, and that the town govern-

Vicki Walsh Challenger

Party: Registered Independent, endorsed by the Conservative, Republican and Independence Parties Age: 52 Professional experience: Real estate Lives in: East Norwich Family: Married, three children On the issues: Walsh thinks the most important issue in the town as a whole is taxes, as the

cost of living has grown too high for many people to stay. She also wants to address illegal housing on the North Shore as it pertains to the problems she thinks it can present to schools and resident safety. On water quality and roads, she wants to evaluate ways to keep waterways safe and to invest in infrastructure. “I believe we need to join people together,” said Walsh, as each community should have monthly meetings with representatives from the chamber, civics group, schools and the town. She said this would enable each community to relay their unique issues to the town and others around them. As a resident of East Norwich, an active PTA mother, a local real estate agent and community leader, Walsh believes she has the experience and the knowledge of the North Shore that makes her qualified to tackle its issues.

ELECTION 2019

DISTRICT ATTORNEY Madeline Singas Democrat Age: 53 Professional Experience: Nassau County district attorney Education: Fordham University School of Law On the issues: Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas believes it is her job to keep communities safe. She thinks her 30 years of prosecutorial experience qualifies for the position. Singas points to the 25 percent reduction in crime in Nassau, the 20 percent decline of opioid overdoses and her office securing the convictions of several MS-13 members as evidence of her qualifications. She noted her

partnering with multiple law enforcement agencies and her recruitment of “the best and the brightest” prosecutors to get that work done. Using asset forfeiture money, the DA’s office funded the expansion of Maryhaven’s New Hope Center — New York’s first 24/7 drug crisis center — that bridges the treatment gap between release from the emergency room to placement in longterm treatment. For those who need help, it shields them from facing complexities of the healthcare

bureaucracy and offers them care until a plan for treatment is established. Since the partnership, more than 2,600 people have received lifesaving treatment. Aiming to attack the root of crime, Singas highlighted programs that educate children in an effort to keep gangs out of schools. She said she will continue to prosecute high-level drug offenders and corrupt public officials, no matter the political party affiliation, while helping people get treatment to further reduce crime. When I first ran for office in 2015, I ran on my experience as a career prosecutor, not a politician. As district attorney, I’ve put my nearly 30 years of experience to work to keep our communities safe, protect victims, and to safeguard the rights of the accused,” she said.

Francis McQuade Republican Age: 65 Professional Experience: Lawyer, police officer, priest Education: St. John’s University School of Law On the issues: Francis McQuade, a lawyer, said that he district attorney is responsible for the safeguarding of civil liberties in the justice system and protection from unjustified prosecution, and believes that justice is not served when the handcuffs are put on. He pointed to his previous jobs as police officer, a post- sentencing counseling for the State of Connecticut Department of Corrections and manager of field opera-

tions for a 1,500 personnel company as experience to run the DA’s office. The single most pressing issue facing is the new legislation being handed down by New York state, McQuade said. He thinks the new judicial processes are borderline unconstitutional and dangerous to people’s safety. With cashless bail, there is an opportunity for criminals to walk away less than 24 hours after committing a crime, which can vary from petty to extreme, he said. The laws were designed to

protect those in the system from being treated unfairly, but we don’t need laws, which dismantle how we go about prosecuting criminals, McQuade said. To further reduce crime, McQuade aims to focus on the areas that have climbing rates still, expanding the use of alternative courts to help treat the root causes of crime as well administer justice. He believes in community policing. “The single most pressing issue facing our community is the new legislation being handed down by New York state,” he said. “These new judicial processes are borderline unconstitutional and dangerous to our safety. With cashless bail, there will be an opportunity for criminals to walk away less than 24 hours after committing a crime.”

ELECTION 2019

OYSTER BAY SUPERVISOR Joseph Saladino Incumbent

Party: Republican, Independence, Conservative, Tax Revolt Age: 57 Lives in: Massapequa Family: Single On the issues: In the wake of corruption under former supervisor John Venditto, Joseph Saladino has worked to help create a more transparent town government in Oyster Bay, he said. Reclaim New York, a nonprofit organization that works to promote open government, had once sued Oyster Bay for their lack of transparency. Now Reclaim New York has named the town a leader in online

transparency and accessibility. The livestream of the Town Board meetings, which residents had previously complained had cuts in it, also received improvements and is now unedited. Saladino has kept the town’s property tax levy flat after residents received an 11 percent hike in 2017, and he has also cut back on the town’s short-term borrowing. If re-elected, Saladino would keep property taxes frozen, he said, work to restore the town’s credit rating, improve road infrastruc-

ture and continue his plan to reduce the town’s $623 million debt by $160 million by 2020. “The prior administration accumulated a deficit that hit $44 million just three years ago,” Saladino said. “The recent release of the town’s 2018 independent audit proves that the deficit has been fully eliminated by my administration, and one year ahead of schedule. The town now has an $8 million surplus — the first surplus in seven years. “I made a pledge to cut taxes and kept my promise in 2018 by delivering the first town tax cut in decades,” he continued. “This year we froze taxes, and my 2020 budget continues to freeze property taxes.”

James Altadonna Jr. Challenger

Party: Democrat, Working Families Age: 59 Lives in: Massapequa Park Family: Divorced, three children On the issues: James Altadonna, the Oyster Bay town clerk, is a life-long Republican running on the Democratic ticket. He was the former mayor of Massapequa Park, where he revitalized the downtown area and brought the village’s credit rating to the highest rating allowed for a village. Altadonna wants to bring more transparency to the Town of Oyster Bay by allowing more of the town’s

business to be done in the public eye rather than just presenting resolutions at Town Board meetings. Altadonna also said that he wants to cut back on non-mandatory raises in Town Hall and legal fees, the latter of which was set at $2.6 million in the town’s proposed 2020 budget. While property taxes have remained flat, he said fees have gone up throughout the town, so he plans to improve the town’s bond rating and restructure its debt in order to help lower the fees. He

also wants to increase spending on the town’s roadwork project, which is set to increase from $19.1 million to $20 million in 2020. If elected, one of his first actions would be to try to get rid of New York American Water’s operations in the town. “As the people of the town know, fees have become the new taxes,” Altadonna said. “To combat the need for these fees, we need to improve our bond rating and restructure our debt. This will bring down our bond expenditure and will enhance our operating budget, giving us many years of positive returns. This will allow us to hold the line on taxes.”

SAMPLE ELECTION BALLOT OFFICIAL BALLOT FOR GENERAL ELECTION NOVEMBER 5, 2019 NASSAU COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS

ELEC Justice of the Supreme Court (Vote for any Six)

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Juez de la Corte Suprema (Vote por cualquier Seis)

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Angela G. lANNACCI

David J. GUGERTY

Christopher G. QUINN

David P. SULLIVAN

Thomas RADEM

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Christopher G. QUINN

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Thomas RADEM

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Angela G. lANNACCI

David J. GUGERTY

Christopher G. QUINN

David P. SULLIVAN

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Annette TOTTEN

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Thomas RADEMAKER

Madeline SINGAS

Meryl J. BERKOWITZ

Rhonda Erin FISCHER

James ALTADONNA, Jr.

Melissa Ann McCARDLE

Erin M. GUIDA

Ned NEWHOUSE

Rachel KLEIN

George H. HIGNELL

Joshua Alexander LAFAZAN

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Thomas RADEMAKER

Francis X. McQUADE

Meryl J. BERKOWITZ

Rhonda Erin FISCHER

Joseph S. SALADINO

Steven L. LABRIOLA

Laura L. MAIER

Vicki A. WALSH

Richard L. LaMARCA

Jeffrey P. PRAVATO

Timothy JENKS

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Madeline SINGAS

Meryl J. BERKOWITZ

Rhonda Erin FISCHER

Joseph S. SALADINO

Steven L. LABRIOLA

Laura L. MAIER

Vicki A. WALSH

Richard L. LaMARCA

Jeffrey P. PRAVATO

Joshua Alexander LAFAZAN

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James ALTADONNA, Jr.

Melissa Ann McCARDLE

Erin M. GUIDA

Ned NEWHOUSE

Rachel KLEIN

George H. HIGNELL

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Rhonda Erin FISCHER

Joseph S. SALADINO

Steven L. LABRIOLA

Laura L. MAIER

Vicki A. WALSH

Richard L. LaMARCA

Jeffrey P. PRAVATO

Joshua Alexander LAFAZAN

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ELECTION 2019

2019 JUDICIAL CANDIDATES Judges of the Supreme Court Vote for any three

Angela Iannacci

Christopher G. Quinn

Chris Garvey

Democrat

Running on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election

Libertarian

Age: 59 Lives in: Manhasset Education: ■ Pace University School Of Law, J.D., 1986 ■ George Washington University, B.A., 1983 Legal career: ■ Associate justice of the Appellate Division, Second Department, designated May 2017. ■ Acting presiding justice of the Appellate Term, 9th & 10th Judicial Districts, 2013-2014. ■ Associate justice of the Appellate Term, 9th & 10th Judicial Districts 2009 to 2017. ■ Justice of the Supreme Court, State of New York, 10th Judicial District 2006. ■ Acting justice of the New York State Supreme Court, 20042005. ■ Judge of the Family Court, elected to Family Court 2004-2006. ■ Principal law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Allan L. Winick 2002-2003. ■ Angela G. Iannacci, P.C., Great Neck, 1996-2001. ■ Rossano, Mose, Hirschhorn & Corleto, P.C., Garden City 19901996.

Age: 64

Lives in: Amityville

Lives in: Wantagh Education: Bachelor of Arts from C.W. Post College of Long Island University, 1977; law degree, from Albany Law School of Union University in 1980 Legal career: After earning his law degree, Quinn was admitted into the New York State bar in 1981. He became a law clerk in Nassau County Court in 1985 until 1995. Quinn then became a New York District Court judge from 1998-2007. Quinn has been a County Court judge and acting New York State Supreme Court judge since 2008. In 2012, Quinn ran for a seat on the 10th District Supreme Court on the Republican and Conservative party tickets.. He was appointed as supervising judge of the Nassau County Court in 2013. In 2017, he wrote a letter to New York’s Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, informing her that he would be stepping down from his role to focus on his role in criminal court. Also in 2017’s general elections for New York’s local judicial offices on Nov. 7, the incumbent Quinn and Tammy S. Robbins defeated Joseph Conway and incumbent Jerald S. Carter for the Nassau County Court Reform primary for two open seats. Quinn received 27.89 percent of the votes, or 333 votes in total.

■ Rossano, Mose, Hirschhorn & Corleto, P.C., Garden City, 19871990. ■ American International Group, New York, N.Y. 1986-1987.

Stephen Lynch Democratic, Republican, Conservative Age: 68

David Gugerty

Lives in: Speonk

Legal career: Lynch is an Independence Party member running on the Democratic, Republican and Conservative lines in the 2019 general election. He currently serves as a New York Court of Claims judge in Hauppauge, having been appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2012. Lynch was principal law clerk to State Supreme Court Justice William B. Rebolini from 2008 to 2012. Before that, he was principal law clerk to Justice Robert A. Lifson from 1995 to 2007. Lynch practiced with the law firms of Colleran, O’Hara, Kennedy, Lilly and Dunne from 1978 to 1981; Robinson and Lynch, as a partner, from 1981 to 1991, and Marino Bernstein and LaMarca from 1991 to 1995. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1979, the Federal Bar, Eastern District and Southern District of New York in 1980 and the Florida Bar in 1990. He is a member of the Suffolk County Bar Association and the Suffolk County Women’s Bar Association, where he serves as a director. Lynch is a former member of the Nassau Bar Association and former member and director of the New York State Association of School Attorneys.

Education: Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University, law degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Legal career: Garvey has worked for Roslyn-based Collard & Roe, P.C., since 1982. In that position, he has prosecuted patent and trademark applications in federal and state courts. In 1998, Garvey ran for governor on the Libertarian line. In 2006 and 2018, Garvey also ran for attorney general on the Libertarian line, and in 2017, he ran for Suffolk County district attorney.

David Sullivan Republican Age: 56 Lives in: New Hyde Park Education: Bachelor of Arts in economics and math from Fordham College, 1985; law degree from Fordham University School of Law, 1988

■ Gordon & Silber, P.C., New York, N.Y. 1990.

Education: Bachelor’s degree, Fordham University, 1973; law degree, St. John’s University School of Law, 1978

Age: 69

Legal career: Sullivan started his legal career as the assistant district attorney for Nassau County from 1988 to 1995. In 1997, he served as associate village justice of New Hyde Park, then was the village justice of New Hyde Park from June 1998 to December 2002. In the following years until 2012, Sullivan was an acting Nassau County Court judge and justice of the New York State Supreme Court. He remained as a Nassau County Court judge before becoming an acting justice of the New York Supreme Court, where he serves today.

Democratic Age: 57

Thomas Rademaker

Lives in: Bayville Education: Law degree, University at Buffalo School of Law, 1987 Legal career: Gugerty was the Democratic commissioner for the Nassau County Board of Elections from 2015 to 2019. He stepped down from the position in August 2019. He worked in various positions for the county from 2005 to 2019, including two stints as the majority counsel from 2005 to 2006 and 2008 to 2009, public administrator in 2007, minority counsel from 2010-2011 and chief of staff for the Minority Legislative Caucus from 2012 to 2014. He worked in private law practice as a partner for the Forest Hills-based Davis & Gugerty Attorneys at Law from 1993 to 2005 on cases involving negligence, civil rights, landlord tenant and family law. He als worked as a criminal defense attorney in Queens from 1987 to 1993, and he served as a village trustee in Bayville from 1994-2002.

Conservative Age: 48 Lives in: Sea Cliff Education: Bachelor of Arts, SUNY Oneonta, 1993; law degree, Touro Law School, 1996 Legal career: ■ Judge, Nassau County Family Court, 2015 ■ Principal law clerk, Hon. Philip Grella, 2003-2014 ■ Attorney, Thomas A. Rademaker, P.C., 2000-2003 ■ Of counsel, Peace, Agresta, Lemke & Blum, Esqs.,1998-2000 ■ Associate, David K. Lieb, P.C. 1997-1998

ELECTION 2019

2019 JUDICIAL CANDIDATES Judge of the County Court

Judges of the Second District Court

Vote for one

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

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.

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: 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.

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.

ELECTION 2019

LEGISLATURE DISTRICT 18 Josh Lafazan Incumbent

Party: Unaffiliated, endorsed by Democratic, Reform, Working Families, Women’s Equality parties Age: 25 Professional experience: Nassau County Legislator, former Syosset School District Board of Education trustee; Board of Directors, Long Island Council on Alcoholism & Drug Dependence and Nassau County Youth Board; volunteer firefighter Family: Single On the issues: Josh Lafazan, known for being the youngest member of the Nassau County Legislature, has taken on a number of issues during his first two years in office. He championed Timothy’s Law to establish a 24-hour hotline for substance abuse in the county, and helped intro-

duce and pass legislation to require all restaurants to receive food allergen training and have it renewed every five years. Lafazan also pushed the county to make sure that the repairs of the Bayville Bridge would not interrupt the village’s summer tourist season. Although he is running on the Democratic ticket, Lafazan is not a member of any political party and hopes that his status as an independent helps him continue to reach across the aisle to get legislation passed. If re-elected, Lafazan plans to keep working on the county’s opioid-abuse prevention pro-

grams and pass legislation that would ease the reassessment process in the county. “Protecting our aquifers should be at top of every elected official’s priority list,” he said. “There is no Plan B for our drinking water. That is why I was proud to oppose Governor Cuomo’s proposed cross-sound tunnel. Its construction would potentially contaminate our aquifers. We need to continue to be vocal in our opposition to projects that have the potential to harm our aquifers, even if it is politically unpopular to do so.”

Timothy Jenks

legislator, I hope to propose bills that would bring transparency to the taxpayers and keep residents from leaving Nassau County.”

Challenger

Party: Republican Age: 30 Professional experience: Attorney Family: Single On the issues: Timothy Jenks, a first-time candidate, said he hopes to increase transparency in the Nassau County Legislature in order to keep the public informed about the county’s work. He believes that County Executive Laura Curran’s veto of the proposed assessment bill of rights, as well as the veto of a bill proposing that county tax assessor be an elected position hinder such transparency. Although Jenks believes it would be difficult to work across the aisle to gain bipartisan support for a bill, he is committed to doing just that, he said. Jenks said he would ensure

that proper filters are in place for local water-filtration systems and were consistently tested in both the American Water and Jericho districts to ensure that drinking water is safe. “As a young person currently looking for a home in Nassau County, I can certainly see the increase in the cost of living and how it has affected multiple generations,” he said. “I believe that Laura Curran’s veto of the proposed assessment bill of rights, as well as her veto of the bill proposing an elected county tax assessor, has only hindered the transparency that taxpayers in Nassau County deserve. As a

The 18th Legislative District encompasses parts of Bayville, Upper and Old Brookville, Glen Head, Locust Valley and Oyster Bay.