No foolin! Join DL21C'ers on April 1 as we kick off our 2010 Candidate Series!
We are thrilled to welcome so many candidates running for statewide and other offices in NY and around the country in 2010....!
We're kicking off with Nassau County DA Kathleen Rice, who is seeking to become New York's first female Attorney General. Kathleen will discuss her work in Nassau County and the legal and legislative issues currently affecting our state.
Doors open at 7pm; program begins 7:30pm sharp
Happy hour drink specials ($4 beers, $5 well drinks/cocktails/Big Apple martinis) from 7-9pm
Free for members; $7/nonmembers
Check out our new improved website www.dl21c.org to become an Annual member ($50 gets you into all DL21C events for a full year, and allows you to skip the line!), and check out photostreams and video from our recent events!
Email contact-dl21c@dl21c.org for more info.
See you on the 1st!
About DA Rice:
Kathleen shocked the political establishment in 2005 with her upset defeat of a 31-year Republican incumbent. Immediately after being sworn-in as the first woman DA in Long Island's history, Kathleen wasted no time in tackling entrenched crime and launching bold, tough and progressive initiatives.
Kathleen's nationally-recognized effort to combat drunk-driving has led to statewide changes in DWI law and Long Island’s first two DWI-related murder convictions. In 2008, CBS's *60 Minutes* profiled Kathleen's work to reduce drunk-driving, sparking a renewed national debate on local law enforcement's role in DWI prevention, prosecution and education.
In 2007, Kathleen launched an innovative, community-oriented strategy to eliminate one of Long Island's most prolific drug markets. Her efforts resulted in a 70% reduction in crime and a dramatic decrease in neighborhood violence. The strategy was profiled nationally on ABC's *PrimeTime* and has since been adopted by the United State's Department of Justice, where it has been utilized by communities throughout the country.
Kathleen’s public corruption investigations have led to government reform
and caused a Long Island newspaper to dub Kathleen, New York's "Eliot Ness." Since taking office, Kathleen has eliminated the decades-old 30% pay-gap between men and women prosecutors in the office, half the office’s bureaus are managed by women prosecutors and in 2006, she appointed the first two women to executive assistant district attorney posts in the office’s 112-year history.
Fueled largely by a young progressive voting bloc, Kathleen won re-election overwhelmingly in 2009, despite Democratic defeats across Long Island. Kathleen’s a tough Democrat who has proven that she can win general elections in a divided electorate.
Kathleen’s a resident of Garden City. Prior to her 2005 election, Kathleen
served as a Brooklyn homicide prosecutor and as an award-winning federal
prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice.