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Kristen Browde
Kristen Browde (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New York State Assembly to represent District 93. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 23, 2020.
Browde completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Kristen Browde was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She obtained a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in June 1972 and a J.D. from Fordham University Law School in May 2000. Browde's professional experience includes working in private practice and working as a reporter and correspondent for a variety of news agencies, including CNN, CBS News, WCBS, WNBC, and others. Browde was a Mideast correspondent in Beirut/Jerusalem in 1983 and a national security correspondent in Washington, D.C. from 1981 to 1983.[1]
Browde became a member of the New York State Commission on Women and Girls in 2018 after being appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D). She was appointed to the Westchester County Women's Advisory Board in 2018 by County Exec. George Latimer. Browde became a district leader for the New Castle Democratic Committee in 2017. As of 2020, she was the president of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, co-chair of the National Trans Bar Association, a trustee with the AFTRA Retirement System, and a member of the Chappaqua Central School District's Financial Advisory Committee. She was previously the secretary for the Town of New Castle, N.Y.'s Board of Ethics and a member of the town's Diversity and Outreach Committee. Her other affiliations include the SAG-AFTRA in Los Angeles, California.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: New York State Assembly elections, 2020
General election
General election for New York State Assembly District 93
Chris Burdick defeated John Nuculovic in the general election for New York State Assembly District 93 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Chris Burdick (D / Working Families Party / Independence Party)  | 65.7 | 43,512 |
| John Nuculovic (R / Conservative Party) | 34.3 | 22,681 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.0 | 18 | ||
| Total votes: 66,211 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 93
Chris Burdick defeated Kristen Browde, Jeremiah Frei-Pearson, Alexander Roithmayr, and Mark Jaffe in the Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 93 on June 23, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Chris Burdick | 33.7 | 4,883 |
 | Kristen Browde | 31.3 | 4,533 | |
| Jeremiah Frei-Pearson | 19.0 | 2,751 | ||
 | Alexander Roithmayr | 8.4 | 1,212 | |
 | Mark Jaffe | 7.4 | 1,078 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.1 | 15 | ||
| Total votes: 14,472 | |||
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. John Nuculovic advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Assembly District 93.
Conservative Party primary election
The Conservative Party primary election was canceled. John Nuculovic advanced from the Conservative Party primary for New York State Assembly District 93.
Independence Party primary election
The Independence Party primary election was canceled. Chris Burdick advanced from the Independence Party primary for New York State Assembly District 93.
Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Chris Burdick advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Assembly District 93.
Endorsements
To view Browde's endorsements in the 2020 election, please click here.
Campaign themes
2020
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Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Kristen Browde completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Browde's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Kristen has always been a protector, standing up for people and seeking to improve their lives. She has a record of legislative achievement, even before running, having steered major legislation through Albany and getting it signed into law in each of the past two sessions.
As a parent, an advocate for equality, a lawyer, a reporter, a union leader, working for pensions and healthcare, Kristen knows what it takes to protect people and deliver results. It is a unifying theme in her life. That's why Kristen is running to be our next Assembly member, to protect Westchester when post-COVID budget adjustments are made, to keep our children safe from gun violence, to reduce our property tax burdens, to protect our environment, and now, most importantly, to offer the experience needed to rebuild after the corona virus.- I will protect New York, when we know Washington won't.
- I am experienced in managing recovery from financial crisis, having done so and protecting benefits as a pension fund trustee .
- Take care of people first, finances second, politics last
Through those financial disasters I was helped manage a multi billion dollar fund that delivered every single dime of promised benefits and then rebuilt the plan's resources to their highest level ever before the current crisis began. At the same time I was tapped by both our Governor and our County Exec to positions advising their administration, starting with serving on the transition team of the County Executive and the New York State Council on Women and Girls. In those positions I've been privileged to work on and help pass legislation vital to the protection of New Yorkers, especially women and members of the LGBTQ community.
We've lost tens of thousands of New Yorkers - a tragedy of horrific proportion.
Our state's finances, and the finances of every county, school district and municipality have been hurt badly.
Businesses and employers are in trouble too - and we're going to have to rebuild at that level.
My then 15 year old son came home from high school one day this past fall, upset after the second mandatory lockdown drill of the year. New York boasts of the toughest gun control laws in the nation - but despite those laws it is still easier to obtain a high powered weapon and ammunition than it is to buy a pack of Sudafed. And that's just wrong.
So I started to run in order work on that issue.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
