NY Assembly · Assembly District 23

Supports giving judges authority to weigh whether a defendant is dangerous, including criminal history and repeated arrests, when deciding bail, and lowering the state's felony retail-theft threshold with tougher penalties for repeat offenders and organized theft rings. Wants full NYPD funding and staffing.

Wants to restore qualified immunity for police officers and add 1,800 officers to the district's police force, saying fewer police means more crime and that qualified immunity keeps false accusations from costing officers their jobs and pensions. Blames no cash bail and the end of qualified immunity for harm to communities.

Wants insurers to fully justify rate increases and supports a prior-approval rule so they cannot raise rates without state sign-off, plus a crackdown on no-fault insurance fraud. Supports expanding the Empire State Child Tax Credit and childcare tax credits, raising income limits for middle-class tax relief, and opposes new taxes that he says make it harder to live and work in New York.

Wants to eliminate income tax for single filers earning up to $50,000 and joint filers earning up to $100,000, as one way to make life more affordable for working families.

Supports developing renewable energy affordably and expanding nuclear power. Opposes the state climate law's mandates, which he calls aggressive and says impose unnecessary costs on ratepayers, and opposes gas stove bans and carbon taxes.

Wants stronger Public Service Commission oversight of utility rate increases and more transparency before they are approved, utility relief programs for middle-class families, and an end to unnecessary fees and mandates that raise energy costs.

Wants stronger flood protections, faster resiliency projects, better emergency planning and a fair share of funding for coastal communities, saying resiliency means government responding quickly and standing with families until the job is done.

Supports maintaining indigenous grasses and coastal barriers and protecting vulnerable coastal communities such as his own.

Supports developing QueensLink and adding ferry routes, and opposes congestion pricing. Wants speed and red-light cameras distributed equitably across the city rather than concentrated in some neighborhoods.

Lists building QueensLink among the climate policies he supports, along with expanding green spaces.

Wants to bring a Level I trauma center back to the Rockaway Peninsula as part of improving access to quality health care.

Says a trauma center would be one of his first funding requests in the state budget and that he would commit part of his capital budget to it.