NYS Assembly

Tommy John Schiavoni is a husband, father, retired teacher of 32 years and member of the Southampton Town Board.
For three generations Tommy John's family operated a local plumbing and heating business in Sag Harbor where he began working at the age of twelve. Growing up on construction sites with master tradesmen, Tommy John gained the knowledge and experience that to this day fuels his desire to find pragmatic solutions to problems, mechanical and otherwise.

Alfred (Fred) Ianacci is and has been a professional and highly skilled Project Manager in the Architectural Millwork and Construction Industry in New York for over four decades. He believes that good leadership, and improving our communities is only attainable through listening to the constituents. Fred will be your advocate in Albany and work tirelessly for Long Island’s Working Families.

Award-winning journalist Spencer Rumsey is making his first bid for public office because he believes that voters in his district want a real choice for a change—especially in this historic election when Americans can elect our first woman president.
Currently the senior editor at the Long Island Press, he’s worked at Newsday, the New York Post and Long Island Jewish World. He’s written and edited stories about public education, the environment, economic development and the future of health care on Long Island. He’s been endorsed by the Long Island Environmental Voters Forum. At Newsday, where he spent 21 years starting with the New York City edition, he was a steward in Teamsters Local 406 of the Graphic Communications Conference/IBT.

“My platform is straightforward yet challenging and focused on public safety, economic development, protection of our environment, and holding down taxes.” – Ed Perez

Nicholas Gambini grew up and currently resides in Holbrook. He is a graduate of Kutztown University. As a proponent of equity, he wants to ensure that New York voters are not disenfranchised. He believes in the coalescence of primaries in an effort to save twenty-five million in tax payer dollars while simultaneously encouraging a higher voter turnout. He intends to impose term limits on State Senators and Assembly members in an effort to end lifetime incumbency and guaranteed reelection.

Michael Conroy is a 57 year old resident of Manorville who is running for the New York State Assembly to support Governor Cuomo’s vision of making New York State a good place to work, prosper, enjoy and take pride in.

As the son of two public schoolteachers, Brendan’s primary focus as an elected official is the education of our children--ensuring that the educational experience of New York students is not only effective, but superior. With the termination of the Gap Elimination Adjustment, he strongly believes that Long Island school districts should receive every dollar of funding that they are entitled to. He maintains that the State cannot continue to pass along its revenue shortfalls to local school districts, where budget cuts directly affect our schoolchildren. In addition, he opposes the one-size-fits-all Common Core curriculum and does not think that teacher evaluations should be tied to test scores, a policy which takes critical classroom time away from our educators in order to “teach the test.”