New York State Assembly District 98 candidate surveys, 2022

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This article shows responses from candidates in the 2022 election for New York State Assembly District 98 who completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.

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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

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 47,251
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Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Bruce Levine (D)

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.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

Bruce Levine (D)

I am passionate about all three of my key messages. I am also passionately pro-choice and have been fighting for funding for Planned Parenthood for decades. I am also passionate about gun control. Once when I served as a County Legislator, I was accused by ammeter of the public of being a Nazi. Years later he called to apologize. I believe in government's ability to make a changes in individual lives and for while segments of the population form young to old from our poorest residents to those striving middle class residents trying to achieve economic security and to raise themselves to the ranks of the wealthy. I am also passionate about good government. As a county legislator I fought to provide services cost effectively and carefully limit any necessary tax increases. I fought waste and at the very least, the moral corruption of some of our leaders who have been in it for themselves and not for their constituents. I twice fought to prevent my county government from nearing bankruptcy, once form overestimating revenues and hiding costs. The second time, it was truly caused by the moral corruption of leaders who knew the county was heading into financial trouble and then did nothing hoping it would go away. I once went back to the Legislature for one year and fought wasteful and sometimes low priority spending all year. I was the only one. Democrats and Republicans were primarily interested in getting past the next election cycle. I fought patronage as nurses jobs were cut

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