A guide to Newsday's endorsements (Part 1)
Voting booths at the Bellport Middle School on May 15, 2012. Credit: Newsday / J. Conrad Williams Jr.
Stop waiting on the world to change. On Tuesday, New Yorkers can start making a difference. Voters will choose the state’s top three officials: governor, attorney general and comptroller and the State Legislature. There is little doubt that Democrats will continue to hold a sizable majority in the State Assembly, but a brutal battle for control of the State Senate is going down to the wire.
This year there is an intense fight over two statewide initiatives: bonding for school construction and technology, and the drawing of election districts.
Long Islanders will choose four members of Congress. Suffolk voters will pick a county comptroller and decide whether to eliminate the office of treasurer and reaffirm the principle that only voters should determine how money in a water protection fund is used.
In the last six weeks, Newsday’s editorial board interviewed 74 candidates. Here is a summary of our recommendations published in the past few weeks.
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