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The questions were prepared by the League of Women Voters of Nassau County and asked of all candidates for this office.
Read the answers from all candidates (who have responded).Questions & Answers
1. Public education is financed through property taxes and state funds. What other means of raising revenue would you support?*
I would favor an independent commission to be formed to investigate the use of an income tax to fund education. However, my first efforts will be to provide more state aid to our Long Island schools, in that the present formula, by taking real property values too much into account, unfairly shortchanges us and thereby causes our school taxes to spiral out of control.2. Legislative districts have been determined on a partisan basis. Would you support establishing an independent commission as a more open and ethical way to create the districts? Please explain.*
Yes. It is clear that the legislative districts as presently constructed favor the incumbent. Therefore, there has been a very low turnover of their seats. A commission should be set up that eventually will have a bi-partisan group, without legislative intervention, to determine fair and equitable districts.
Responses to questions asked of each candidate are reproduced as submitted to the League.
- Original answers for a published Voters Guide were limited are presented as submitted. Candidates have since been invited to supply answers of any length for the Web.
Read the answers from all candidates (who have responded).
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