Kristen Browde

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Kristen Browde
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Elections and appointments
Last election

June 23, 2020

Education

Bachelor's

Cornell University, 1972

Law

Fordham University Law School, 2000

Personal
Birthplace
Fort Wayne, Ind.
Profession
Attorney
Contact

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
Image of Chris Burdick
Chris Burdick (D / Working Families Party / Independence Party) Candidate Connection
 
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
Image of Chris Burdick
Chris Burdick Candidate Connection
 
33.7
 
4,883
Image of Kristen Browde
Kristen Browde Candidate Connection
 
31.3
 
4,533
Jeremiah Frei-Pearson
 
19.0
 
2,751
Image of Alexander Roithmayr
Alexander Roithmayr Candidate Connection
 
8.4
 
1,212
Image of Mark Jaffe
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

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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 Browde is a parent, an attorney, and a civic leader with along record of service. Kristen is a member of the Steering Committee of the NY Council on Women and Girls, the Westchester Women's Advisory Board, a director of Equality NY and a Trustee on the AFTRA Pension Fund. She is the President of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York and co-chair of the National Trans Bar Association.

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
The challenge of recovery from the pandemic is going to be the defining issue of the next legislative session. At every level of government budgets will be under stress, and devising a path through the financial carnage without cutting vital benefits and services to those who need help must be the singular focus of every progressive legislator. I'm uniquely qualified to carry on that work, having been elected as a Trustee of a nationwide union pension plan to help with the recovery from the 2001 Dotcom downturn, and walking in just at the beginning of the 2007-2009 Great Recession.

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.


I'm also directly involved with the effort to protect our environment - and this is one of the ways we'll be able to emerge from the current financial mess, by passing a $3 billion bond issue to finance construction of renewable power facilities and new jobs.
Barack Obama - he showed that the most important thing anyone in government service can offer is integrity, backed by a complete commitment to analyzing data and acting in a careful, considered manner to resolve issues revealed by that data.
Representing the people of the district and limiting the problems that make their lives more difficult.
I'd hope that people remember that I always tried to do the most good for the most people, and that if and when I made mistakes I worked hard to correct them.
Defying Gravity, the version sung in the old TV show Glee.
There has been a historical friction between the State Senate and the State Assembly in New York - and I'm uniquely qualified to bridge that divide. I've worked closely with the leaders of the Senate and understand well their concerns. And as a member of the Assembly I'll be in terrific position to help smooth any friction and get appropriate legislation passed and signed into law.
It depends upon the individual. Some legislators gain and grow through experience. Others grow lazy and corrupt in office.
Today, it has to be recovery from the devastation of the pandemic, in every aspect.

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.

And then there's everything else, from protecting the environment - something made much harder by the financial problems...
Respectful and working together to protect New York. And I have an excellent relationship with Governor Cuomo - we've worked together to get laws passed and signed into law - and we've done it, repeatedly.
Yes, and I've been doing that for years - and that's why two State Senators, Alessandra Biaggi and Brad Hoylman, have endorsed me.
I think it would be remarkably presumptuous for a first year legislator to declare competence and interest in a leadership position, but I'm happy to serve in whatever role my fellow legislators believe is most helpful.
I got into this race back before the pandemic because of a story that stems from my own family.

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.

Then along came the pandemic.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 23, 2020


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