Patrick Bobilin

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Patrick Bobilin
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Democratic Party

Elections and appointments
Last election

June 28, 2022

Education

Bachelor's

Hampshire College, 2008

Graduate

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2011

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Birthplace
Gloversville, N.Y.
Profession
Digital marketing
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Patrick Bobilin (Democratic Party) ran for election to the New York State Assembly to represent District 76. He lost in the Democratic primary on June 28, 2022.

Bobilin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.

The First Department of New York's Appellate Division disqualified Bobilin from the general election on September 29, 2020. Because initial ballots had already been printed, Bobilin still appeared on some of the ballots. Bobilin announced on October 24, 2020, that he would no longer be campaigning for the seat.[1][2][3][4][5]

Biography

Patrick Bobilin was born in Gloversville, New York.[6] He earned a B.A. in physics, philosophy, and art from Hampshire College in 2008 and a master's degree in film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011. Bobilin's career experience includes working in digital marketing. He has also worked as a software developer, video editor, factory worker, custodial worker, food service worker, and a public school teacher. Bobilin founded UES4BLM, which describes itself as a "community group amplifying Black voices & #blacklivesmatter demands."[7][8]

Elections

2022

See also: New York State Assembly elections, 2022

General election

General election for New York State Assembly District 76

Incumbent Rebecca Seawright won election in the general election for New York State Assembly District 76 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Rebecca Seawright
Rebecca Seawright (D / Working Families Party)
 
98.8
 
38,043
 Other/Write-in votes
 
1.2
 
461

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 38,504
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 76

Incumbent Rebecca Seawright defeated Patrick Bobilin in the Democratic primary for New York State Assembly District 76 on June 28, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Rebecca Seawright
Rebecca Seawright
 
84.5
 
10,734
Image of Patrick Bobilin
Patrick Bobilin Candidate Connection
 
15.0
 
1,910
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.5
 
58

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 12,702
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Republican primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Working Families Party primary election

The Working Families Party primary election was canceled. Incumbent Rebecca Seawright advanced from the Working Families Party primary for New York State Assembly District 76.

2020

See also: New York State Assembly elections, 2020

General election

General election for New York State Assembly District 76

Incumbent Rebecca Seawright defeated Louis Puliafito in the general election for New York State Assembly District 76 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
✔
Image of Rebecca Seawright
Rebecca Seawright (Rise and Unite Party)
 
57.4
 
28,461
Image of Louis Puliafito
Louis Puliafito (R / Liberal Party)
 
42.1
 
20,860
 Other/Write-in votes
 
0.5
 
227

Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source

Total votes: 49,548
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Democratic primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

The Republican primary election was canceled. Louis Puliafito advanced from the Republican primary for New York State Assembly District 76.

Working Families Party primary election

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

2017

See also: Municipal elections in New York, New York (2017)

Incumbent Ben Kallos defeated Gwen Goodwin and Patrick Bobilin in the Democratic primary election for the District 5 seat on the New York City Council.[9]

New York City Council, District 5 Democratic Primary Election, 2017
Candidate Vote % Votes
Green check mark transparent.png Ben Kallos Incumbent 74.61% 7,847
Gwen Goodwin 15.04% 1,582
Patrick Bobilin 9.93% 1,044
Write-in votes 0.43% 45
Total Votes 10,518
Source: New York City Board of Elections, "2017 Primary: Certified Results," accessed September 28, 2017

Campaign themes

2022

Ballotpedia survey responses

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Candidate Connection

Patrick Bobilin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bobilin'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'm a former public school teacher and East Side organizer who aims to fully fund transit infrastructure, public health, and public education systems so that future generations don't suffer the problems we keep passing on.
  • It's vital that we organize to pass the New York Health Act and ensure all New Yorkers have healthcare regardless of income or employment.
  • New York renters and small businesses are constantly struggling with affording their rent, which is why we need universal rent control.
  • We must put an end to the sub-minimum wage, which allows restaurant staff and people with disabilities to be paid less than the standard minimumm wage.
I'm very interested in infrastructure in all of its forms, whether we're talking about the social infrastructure of public schools and childcare or we're talking about the ability for working people to traverse the city easily and efficiently, regardless of their level of mobility.

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2020

Candidate Connection

Patrick Bobilin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Bobilin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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Patrick Bobilin is a former public school teacher and political organizer running to represent the Upper East Side, Yorkville, and Roosevelt Island. He is the lead organizer of nightly vigils outside of the NYC Mayor's home following the murder of George Floyd. He has taken the Homes Guarantee pledge and plans to organize for universal health care via the NY Health Act.
  • The public health crisis of COVID has proven the need for universal healthcare provided to every single resident and worker in New York. As an organizer, I will make this a top-of-mind-issue for voters in Assembly and Senate districts where we need elected officials to vote for the NY Health Act.
  • COVID has allowed us to see what a free public transit service could like like via NYC's fare-free MTA bus service. Just a year ago, the NYPD started spending more on policing fare-beating than the MTA was losing to fare-beaters. We should use our tax dollars more wisely to fully fund the MTA and make it free for all NYC residents.
  • If we want to save small businesses, we need the political will to stand up to real estate developer and management corporations and cancel rent. Businesses can't maintain their current rent with no foot traffic and partial capacities. I will sponsor and organize around any legislation that cancels rent for both residents and small businesses.
My concerns about universal healthcare are more than just theoretical. They stem from growing up and watching my mother work 60+ hour weeks, only to live without healthcare guaranteed to us. She lived and worked with undiagnosed cancer for years and died at 45, with no pension and nothing promised to the kids she left behind.

No one should have to work that hard to provide their family with basic necessities. Those that do should be guaranteed healthcare and housing as basic rights. We can and we must do better!
I look up to Shirley Chisholm, unbought and unbossed, who pounded the pavement for her district every chance she got. She pounded the pavement against all odds to run for president. She worked tirelessly for programs like WIC, which helped my family stay fed while my mother worked low-wage jobs that provided no benefits.

Like her, like Chelsea Manning, and like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, I vow to remain willing to take risks, to name names, and to hold people accountable whether I'm in office or in the community. I also vow to take responsibility for the work that I do, the choices I make, the actions I do or do not take.
"The People's Republic" by Greg Guma is a great history of Vermont politics during the 1980s. One of the best anecdotes in the book is about Bernie Sanders and the hurdles he faced with a Republican city council after narrowly winning election as Mayor of Burlington, VT. He spent the next two years organizing in each council district, identifying leaders, and helping them to win so that he could get the work done that he needed. It's proof that organizing works and it led to one of the most successful community land trusts in the country. It's also the blueprint for what I hope to do to ensure that we pass the NY Health Act in the next session.
Patience, resilience, and bravery. No changes were made by repeating mistakes of the past or by appeasing the powerful. It's necessary to demand that the powerful and the privileged make space for those who are deprived of what they need. These changes take time, they take failure, and they often require a boldness that can at first seem lonely. But if you stand out there long enough, unwilling to waver on behalf of human rights and social justice, the people who need each other find each other.
I'm a tireless organizer. I've taken risks and organized for unlikely issues in unlikely places, during unlikely times. The best example of this is that following the 2020 protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder, I organized my neighbors to hold a nightly vigil that has featured 100-400 people every single night for almost 100 nights as of this writing.

During the COVID crisis, when people felt angry, frustrated, and alienated from civic life, they came together to demand an end to police violence on the Upper East Side. It's been a powerful community that, at this point, is self-sustaining and self-regulated.
An assembly member needs to have a constant connection to their community. They need to be a megaphone for the marginalized and to always be willing to roll up their sleeves and do the work. Much like being a congressmember, the Assembly is made for organizers. It's a perfect position for people who want to spend half of the year doing the hard work fo helping to build community leadership while you spend the other half of the year implementing necessary changes at the state level.
I would like my story to inspire other people to speak up on behalf of those who can't or those who are afraid to.

When a friend of mine, a local politician, was accused of sexual harassment and stalking of young women in politics, I spoke up at the Manhattan political convention. I risked losing friends, I risked losing my position as Vice President of a Democratic club, I risked my political future. It didn't matter. It was more important that I spoke up.

I took criticism for this move from people in politics but I was thanked privately by people who were afraid to speak up. In speaking to members of my community who aren't in politics, I was also thanked for my bravery. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but I hope that others are willing to listen and to speak up when they're called to.
I remember the Bush and Clinton 1992 election. I was 9 years old. I got dropped off for school early for their breakfast program and when someone brought the election up, I just repeated what my mom had said on the drive over that morning: "They both suck."

I think that might have gotten me my first afternoon in detention.
Working at a record store. I worked there for four years and loved every day there. It allowed me to talk about my passion for art and music and taught me the value of creativity and collaboration.
"The Sixth Extinction" by Elizabeth Kolbert is one of my favorite books because it gives a first-person perspective on what climate change looks like to both an everyday person and to climate change experts. Some of the stories of animals and plants adapting to man-made climate change are so easy to visualize that they're more haunting than even Stephen King.
Dana Scully from the X-Files is one of the best fictional characters and one I would like to be because even though she brings a scientific analysis and a healthy dose of skepticism to the conspiracies she encounters, she exhausts every possible solution before admitting to Fox Mulder's flights of fancy.
Kate Bush "Deeper Understanding", a very emotional and suprisingly not-dated song about digital intimacy written in the 80s.
While I'm still relatively young, I've been an activist and organizer for over 20 years. Sometimes, I struggle with believing that that change we want is possible. The Trump administration has brought us to dark times. What's worse, in a way, is the number of people who now feel compelled to speak up on political issues for the first time who are narrowly focused on "just getting Trump out".

Our view must be longer, our scope must be broader, and our goal must be bigger. Much of the inequity and injustice that plagues us today was around long before Donald Trump was. It risks being around long after he's gone.

What I struggle with is explaining to others that this is their fight too. But I hope to lead by example and by being out in the streets with my community, I hope that others see the value of a longer-term march for justice, even if they're seeing it for the first time.
The biggest difference between our two chambers is how the voices of constituents echo differently in each one. The state Senate spent years blocking important progressive legislation despite massive popularity for legislation like comprehensive universal healthcare and bail reform. It takes a great deal more organizing to get the Senate to vote as progressively as the Assembly does, but with a willingness to put in the work, Assembly members can make powerful legislative changes even with obstacles put down by Senators.
I think it can be beneficial for a state legislator to have experience in government and politics if our goal is to repeat the mistakes of the past. I think it's far more beneficial for working-class people to engage in politics and take leadership positions in order to create legislation that provides for people who are most deprived of having a voice in the halls of power.
- An economic downturn

- A housing crisis
- A healthcare and senior care crisis
- Environmental crises

The economic downturn and environmental crisis can be addressed by the job creation provided by a Green New Deal.
The housing crisis can be fixed by providing a homes guarantee for all and creating a connection between minimum wage, area median income, and housing prices.

The senior care and healthcare crises over the next ten years can be solved by passing the NY Health Act. It has the added benefit of saving the state more than $10 billion a year.
The governor should not be able to set budget priorities, thereby making legislative priorities by proxy. Budgeting must originate with the legislature. When the governor steers the budget, he tells us what we have money for. When the legislature sets the budget, the people have more power in telling the governor what we need.

Building relationships with other legislators is essential to providing for both your own community and for all New Yorkers. As an Assembly member, I plan to spend the days when I'm not in Albany, working with organizers across the state to help ensure that there's support for our most important legislative priorities. This includes ending solitary confinement, passing the NY Health Act, and implementing a billionaire's tax. No legislator can do this alone. It needs to be done with the help of your colleagues.
I think we need a process that takes elected officials out of the equation. There's too much gerrymandering that favors the re-election and electoral entrenchment of incumbents. No governor or party officials should have a say.

We need an independent commission with no political appointments and no agenda.
Education

Economic development
Housing
Real property taxation

Small business
I'd like to be a part of the steering committee in our leadership. We need to be ensuring that we're reflecting the voices in our community and building out new leadership from both within the chambers and outside of it.
In the past, I respect Samuel DeWitt, a socialist who was expelled from the legislature by conservatives. He was a friend of Upton Sinclair, another advocate for workers.

In the present, I respect Zellnor Myrie. He's a tireless advocate for his community, has been pepper-sprayed during a non-violent protest while identifying himself as an elected official, and took it all in stride. He turned around, not in malice, but with the power of the office afforded to him by his community and introduced legislation to hold police accountable.
I'm not sure that I have higher aspirations for political office. At a certain level, you lose your ability to organize for your community. Once you start representing more than a few hundred thousand people, you can't be a voice for everyone.
I volunteer at a few local soup kitchens, serving lunch and dinner services. I find a connection with people from right in our neighborhood who are food insecure. In one of the wealthiest parts of the country, in one of the wealthiest parts of the city, we live shoulder to shoulder with people who don't have enough to eat. As long as this is the case, I plan to organize to support the people in my community who are most deprived of their basic necessities.

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2017

See also: Ballotpedia's municipal government candidate survey

Bobilin participated in Ballotpedia's 2017 survey of municipal government candidates.[10] The following sections display his responses to the survey questions. When asked what his top priority would be if elected, the candidate made the following statement:

“ We need environmental protections: to get the lead out of our school's water supplies and find alternatives to the 91st St Transfer station.[11] ”
—Patrick Bobilin (August 4, 2017)[12]
Ranking the issues

The candidate was asked to rank the following issues by importance in the city, with 1 being the most important and 12 being the least important: city services (trash, utilities, etc.), civil rights, crime reduction/prevention, environment, government transparency, homelessness, housing, K-12 education, public pensions/retirement funds, recreational opportunities, transportation, and unemployment. This table displays this candidate's rankings from most to least important.

Issue importance ranking
Candidate's
ranking		 Issue Candidate's
ranking		 Issue
1
Housing
7
Government transparency
2
City services
8
Homelessness
3
Environment
9
Unemployment
4
Civil rights
10
Public pensions/retirement funds
5
K-12 education
11
Crime reduction/prevention
6
Transportation
12
Recreational opportunities
Nationwide municipal issues

The candidate was asked to answer questions from Ballotpedia regarding issues facing cities across America. The questions are in the left column and the candidate's responses are in the right column. Some questions provided multiple choices, which are noted after those questions.

Question Response
Is it important for the city’s budget to be balanced?
Answer options: Not important; Not important, but required by state law; A little important; A little important, but required by state law; Important; Very important		 Important
Which level of government do you feel should set a minimum wage?
Answer options: None, Local, State, Federal		 Local
What do you think is the best way to improve a city’s public safety?
Candidates could write their own answer or choose from the following options: Increased economic opportunities, Increased police presence/activity, Harsher penalties for offenders, Public outreach/education programs		 Public safety is connected to economic stability, entailing a 3 pronged approach: a minimum wage to reflect housing costs, medicare for all and free public tuition that includes childcare and housing vouchers.
How do you think your city should emphasize economic development?
Candidates could write their own answer or choose from the following options: Changing zoning restrictions, Create a more competitive business climate, Focusing on small business development, Instituting a citywide minimum wage, Recruiting new businesses to your city, Regulatory and licensing reforms, and tax reform		 We need to protect the vibrant culture of small business that New Yorkers love and depend on through a progressive tax system, rent control and a public defender system for small businesses.
What is the one thing you’re most proud of about your city?
 We are an avowed sanctuary city. Next, we need a set of legislative measures to define and protect that meaning.
What is the one thing you’d most like to change about your city?
 We need a minimum wage permanently linked to housing costs so that no one who works 40 hours a week should end up homeless.


Bobilin provided the following additional comments with his survey responses:

“

We need bold and creative leaders to take on the task of rebuilding the public's trust in democracy. By fighting for human rights and social justice without concessions, we will build the New York that we want to see in the future.[12][11]

”
—Patrick Bobilin (2017)

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    Footnotes

    1. ↑ New York State Board of Elections, "AMENDED Certification for the November 3, 2020 General Election," accessed October 6, 2020
    2. ↑ Our Town, "UES Assembly Race Is Being Waged in the Courtroom," October 2, 2020
    3. ↑ Justia, "Matter of Patch v Bobilin," accessed October 6, 2020
    4. ↑ Patch, "Challenger Drops Out Of UES Assembly Race With Voting Underway," October 27, 2020
    5. ↑ Twitter, "Patrick Bobilin, NYS Assembly 76th District🌹 on October 24, 2020," accessed October 30, 2020
    6. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on June 19, 2022
    7. ↑ Instagram, "UES4BLM," accessed September 2, 2020
    8. ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on August 25, 2020
    9. ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "Email correspondence with the New York City Board of Elections," July 14, 2017
    10. ↑ Note: The candidate's answers have been reproduced here verbatim without edits or corrections by Ballotpedia.
    11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
    12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Ballotpedia's municipal government candidate survey, 2017, "Patrick Bobilin's Responses," August 4, 2017


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