Voters Guide: NEW YORK STATE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: Alison Esposito
BALDWIN, NEW YORK - JUNE 28: New York Lt. Gov candidate Alison Esposito speaks during NY GOP Candidate for Governor Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) election night party at the Coral House on June 28, 2022 in Baldwin, New York. Front runner Rep. Lee Zeldin won the GOP Primary for NY Governor over his three primary challengers. Zeldin is one of 139 House Republicans to object to the certification of the 2020 presidential election results after the insurrection at the Capitol Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Credit: Getty Images
ALISON ESPOSITO
REPUBLICAN
BACKGROUND:
- Esposito, 46, spent nearly 25 years in the New York City Police Department, beginning in 1997, and retired as a deputy inspector and commanding officer of the 70th Precinct in Brooklyn.
- She grew up in Orange County’s Highland Mills and attended the State University of New York at Delhi and John Jay College of Criminal Justice as well as the FBI’s National Academy.
- Esposito is the first openly gay GOP nominee for statewide office in New York.
ISSUES:
- Esposito focuses on the need to reduce crime and provide police with the resources to combat, while fighting the “defund the police” movement.
- She blames the law that eliminates bail for most nonviolent felonies for releasing dangerous criminals and said the measure adopted by the Democrat-led Legislature needs to be repealed.
- She also said state government must do more to reduce inflation and overall reduce the cost of living in New York State that has some of the highest property taxes in the nation.
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