Bruce Levine
Bruce Levine (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New York State Assembly to represent District 98. He lost in the general election on November 8, 2022. He was disqualified from the Working Families Party primary scheduled on June 28, 2022.
Levine completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2022
See also: New York State Assembly elections, 2022
General election
General election for New York State Assembly District 98
Incumbent Karl Brabenec defeated Bruce Levine in the general election for New York State Assembly District 98 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Karl Brabenec (R / Conservative Party) | 63.9 | 30,178 |
 | Bruce Levine (D)  | 36.0 | 17,013 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 60 | ||
| Total votes: 47,251 | |||
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Democratic primary election
The Democratic primary election was canceled. Bruce Levine advanced from the Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 98.
Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Incumbent Karl Brabenec advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Assembly District 98.
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Karl Brabenec advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York State Assembly District 98.
Working Families Party primary election
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Bruce Levine (Working Families Party)
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Bruce Levine completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Levine's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am pro-choice. I am in favor of gun control. My opponent is the opposite. He also voted against NY’s Climate Law. I would have voted yes and will focus on climate change in a variety of ways, if elected.
I served as a County Legislator in Rockland for 11 years all together and worked as an attorney and/or policy maker in the County of Rockland, the Town of Ramapo and the Village of Spring Valley. My greatest achievement was the creation of a means-tested youth employment program that has given over 3,000 young people their first job so far. I also ran against the corrupt Supervisor of my town.
As a lawyer, I have filed or worked on pro bono cases against overdevelopment. I also represented children as a Law Guardian in New York’s Family Court’s for over twenty years and serve on the Board of Child Care Center that serves only poor children has a huge wait list.
To me the point of government, is to improve the lives of local, state and national residents. My approach is to acknowledge that time is the enemy and focus on achieving meaningful and practical results from right sized government programs. I will also be an advocate against large corporations who are now trying to buy up large numbers of single family homes or condominiums to rent them out. In my years in government I fought against a corrupt town Supervisor even running against him once.
- Child care: I will increase the availablility of child care all over the state, including using economic development programs to build more day care capacity and add more slots for families of every income level. This is important for our children and vital to enable parents and other caregivers to fully participate in our state and national economies. It is important for kids so they will be better prepared for their education from elementary schools to college and graduate school programs.
- I will focus on housing of all kinds, from rebuilding the old and decaying 1960’s public housing units, to requiring some true affordable units in every new multi-family building, to passing laws preventing corporations from buying up single family homes so they can rent them. This prevents individuals and especially young families from buying homes because there are so few or because the ones for sale will go for higher prices to beat the price that corporations are willing to pay.
- I will focus on Public Utility reform. The state’s regulation of the utilities is very weak, leading to ever higher rates. I proposed having O&R put in 3 or 4 electric car charging units in every public parking lot form town halls to public parks over a period of years at the rate of about 100 such lots per year. O&R can even charge for the electricity but they opposed and the PSC sided with the company. The worst decision I have ever seen was regarding Suez now Veolia. The PSC accepted water conservation measures that were designed to fail (basically increasing prices on high users) instead of adopting even parts of my own plan to specifically retrofit older apartment buildings, schools and businesses with water saving fixtures.
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See also
2022 Elections
External links
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