Voters Guide: Representative in Congress, District 1: Bridget Fleming 

Democratic candidate Bridget Fleming and Republican candidate Nick LaLota took the stage at Newsday’s Studio 2 to answer questions posed by the public and Newsday’s political team. Watch it here.

BRIDGET FLEMING

DEMOCRAT

BACKGROUND:

• Fleming, 62, of Noyac, has served in the Suffolk County Legislature since 2015.
• She previously served on the Southampton Town Board.
• She was an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
• She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Hunter College and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1991.

ISSUES:

• Fleming supports abortion rights and other reproductive rights and would support making a law of the rights provided under the original Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision.
• She said she will work to restore the federal deduction for property taxes limited in 2017 by the Republican-controlled Congress at the time and then-President Donald Trump.
• She supports a national ban on assault weapons.
• She also supports a campaign financing system based on small donors to reduce the influence of big-money contributors and she supports the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act.