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Maria Danzilo
Maria Danzilo (Parent Party, Democratic Party) ran for election to the New York State Senate to represent District 47. Danzilo (Parent Party) lost in the general election on November 8, 2022. She lost in the Democratic primary on August 23, 2022.
Danzilo completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Maria Danzilo was born in New York, New York. She earned a bachelor's degree from City University of New York, Brooklyn College in 1978, a law degree from Brooklyn Law School in 1981, and a graduate degree from New York University in 1982. Her career experience includes working as a lawyer and conflicts of interest policy manager. She has served with the Copyright Society of the USA as trustee and OneCity Rising as founder and executive director.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: New York State Senate elections, 2022
General election
General election for New York State Senate District 47
Incumbent Brad Hoylman-Sigal defeated Maria Danzilo and Robert Bobrick in the general election for New York State Senate District 47 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D / Working Families Party) | 93.0 | 90,711 |
 | Maria Danzilo (Parent Party)  | 5.1 | 4,937 | |
 | Robert Bobrick (Medical Freedom Party) | 1.6 | 1,536 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.4 | 349 | ||
| Total votes: 97,533 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 47
Incumbent Brad Hoylman-Sigal defeated Maria Danzilo in the Democratic primary for New York State Senate District 47 on August 23, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Hoylman-Sigal | 72.8 | 30,158 |
| Maria Danzilo | 26.8 | 11,089 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 201 | ||
| Total votes: 41,448 | |||
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Working Families Party primary election
The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Brad Hoylman-Sigal advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Senate District 47.
2021
See also: City elections in New York, New York (2021)
General election
General election for New York City Council District 6
Gale Brewer defeated Nancy Sliwa in the general election for New York City Council District 6 on November 2, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Gale Brewer (D) | 86.9 | 35,792 | |
| Nancy Sliwa (R) | 12.6 | 5,194 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.5 | 191 | ||
| Total votes: 41,177 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic Primary for New York City Council District 6
The following candidates advanced in the ranked-choice voting election: Gale Brewer in round 1 .
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Total votes: 39,399 |
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Republican primary election
The Republican primary election was canceled. Nancy Sliwa advanced from the Republican primary for New York City Council District 6.
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Maria Danzilo completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Danzilo'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 grew up in Midwood, Brooklyn, in a family of small business owners. During Covid I helped businesses as a volunteer to access funds to help them survive. I am a moderate, pragmatic pro-choice Democrat, and form decades of real world experience I understand the challenges of our current environment. I am deeply committed to restoring NYC by addressing head on the issues of greatest concern to New Yorkers: public safety, cutting taxes and fixing our economy, combating the mental health, homelessness, and education crises, and supporting government reforms like open primaries that will franchise hundreds of thousands of voters.
- I am a pragmatic, moderate Democrat who will work to restore public safety and promote justice by tightening bail laws, targeting hate crimes, addressing shoplifting and strengthening gun laws. I will push for more sanitation funding.
- I will work to combat the mental illness and homelessness crises by demanding Albany properly fund treatment for mental illness and drug addiction and expand Kendra's law. We will decrease homelessness by demanding transparency from service providers and holding them accountable for how they spend taxpayer funds.
- At a time of spiraling inflation, we need to help hardworking New Yorkers make ends meet by lowering taxes. A competitive tax structure will help us grow our economy and stop the exodus to lower tax states.
We must improve education outcomes. Less than 14% of our most vulnerable children in NYC can read, write or do math at grade level when they finish 8th Grade. This is a massive crisis that requires urgent action. Albany must support school choice and lift the cap on charter schools because these schools have much higher achievement rates and parents urgently need options. We must take these immediate steps or an entire generation of young people will be ireevocably hurt. We need to expand our Gifted programs and improve diagnosis and treatment of learning differences so that every child can reach their full potential.
I would like to follow the example of my three adult children who are hard- working, humble, kind and upbeat about the future.
Because the State legislature writes the laws for the State, it is important to have people in that role who have a deep understanding of the law. After 40 years of law practice, I believe i have the background to make a significant contribution.
Spiraling crime and education failures are hurting New Yorkers across the City and we must take decisive action. More people are leaving New York and we have lost more revenues than any other State in the country.
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2021
Maria Danzilo did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on July 14, 2022
