Voters Guide: NEW YORK STATE SENATOR, DISTRICT 6: Kevin M. Thomas

DEMOCRAT

• Thomas, 38, of Levittown, was elected to the New York State Senate in 2018.
• He is also running on the Working Families Party line. Thomas said that he is the first Indian American in New York history to serve in the State Senate.
• Thomas chairs the Senate Consumer Protection Committee. He is a former Legal Aid attorney and served as an appointed member of the New York State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

• Thomas said that one of his priorities as a state senator is “public safety and making sure that Nassau County remains the safest county in the nation.”
• Thomas said he wrote a bill that passed this year, setting harsher penalties for gun traffickers.
• In response to the mass shooting in May at a Buffalo supermarket, he wrote another bill that passed this year, raising the minimum age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle to 21 from 18.
• Thomas said he voted to eliminate the state gas tax through the end of the year.