Nassau County Legislator - 6th District
Democratic, Working Families
Laura J. Burns
Background:
DEMOCRATIC
Burns, 50, is running on the Democratic and Working Families party lines. Burns is seeking her first term on the Nassau County Legislature.
Policies:
- Burns said she would work to keep Nassau County’s assessments accurate — a key approach to solving the county’s fiscal issues — and work to educate residents about how the system works.
- Burns said she would enact ethics reform regulations and said county vendors and assessment grievance firms should be barred from contributing to the campaigns of candidates for county office.
- Burns said public financing of campaigns could help solve the problem of money in politics, but said any approach cannot be imposed on overburdened taxpayers.
Republican, Independent, Conservative
C. William Gaylor (Incumbent)
Background:
REPUBLICAN
Gaylor, 56, is running on the Republican, Conservative, and Independence party lines. He is seeking his third two-year term as a Nassau County legislator.
Policies:
- Gaylor said he has taken a hard stance against “cashless bail,” a new state policy that would allow people arrested for many lower-level crimes to be released without bail.
- Gaylor said he has fought to restore “transparency” to the county’s reassessment system, through introduction of an “Assessment Bill of Rights” that would require the Assessment Department to staff phones with live operators, and other measures. County Executive Laura Curran has vetoed the measures.
- Gaylor said he has approved funds for the U.S. Geological Survey to collect data and monitor samples on Nassau’s ground and surface water resources and has urged the state to give local water districts enough time and money to remove chemicals from the water supply.