Voters Guide: NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY, District 20: Eric Ari Brown
Eric "Ari" Brown, Republican incumbent candidate for New York State Assembly District 20, poses for a portrait at Nassau County GOP headquarters in Westbury on Wednesday, June 8, 2022. -- slVOTE -- Credit: James Escher
ERIC ARI BROWN
REPUBLICAN
BACKGROUND:
- Brown, 54, of Cedarhurst, seeks his first full term after winning a special election in April and has the backing of the Conservative Party.
- He is deputy mayor of Cedarhurst Village and president of a design/building firm. His bachelor’s degree in economics is from Queens College.
- He considers himself a fiscal conservative whose work with the village business improvement district reduced the downtown vacancy rate.
ISSUES:
- On public safety, he would repeal or fix bail reform, fight hate crimes and antisemitism and give more support to law enforcement, noting he has delivered $50,000 for two police booths in Oceanside.
- He would eliminate New York City’s congestion pricing, saying it amounts to a commuter tax on Long Islanders.
- To alleviate traffic jams in the Five Towns area and provide a convenient evacuation route, he would reexamine a 1940s plan for Nassau Expressway to link southwest Nassau to New York City, but notes this would now cost billions of dollars.
- He vows to distribute aid equitably, saying he split a $25,000 grant between the five libraries in his district.
Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
Out East with Doug Geed: Wine harvests, a fish market, baked treats and poinsettias NewsdayTV's Doug Geed visits two wineries and a fish market, and then it's time for holiday cheer, with a visit to a bakery and poinsettia greenhouses.
