Support Growing for Zeldin’s Congressional Candidacy

SHIRLEY, NY (02/29/2008)(readMedia)-- Numerous Suffolk County Republican Party leaders and elected officials today showed their support for their candidate for New York’s First Congressional District at the Radisson MacArthur Hotel.

Suffolk County Republican Chairman Harry Withers along with Brookhaven Town Republican Chairman Jesse Garcia, County Legislator Daniel Losquadro and other party officials were in attendance to publicly endorse Lee Zeldin’s Congressional campaign.

“Strong competition is good for our political system and Lee Zeldin will provide that. Having a young military veteran seeking our congressional seat is not only beneficial to our party and our community, but it helps strengthen our nation as well,” said Suffolk County Legislator Ed Romaine.

Suffolk County Clerk Judy Pascale said, "Lee Zeldin is a bright and energetic candidate who I know will campaign tirelessly in this race. As a veteran of the Iraq conflict, Lee has the unique ability to speak on national security from a firsthand perspective."

Zeldin, who received the unanimous endorsement of the Suffolk County Republican Party and all seven town Republican Party leaders earlier this month, was pleased with the campaign’s progress this early in the season.

“I’m honored to help lead Suffolk’s GOP into the future,” said Zeldin. “We’re poised to change the status quo in government, while I am most specifically concerned with reducing Long Island’s unreasonably high cost of living, strengthening our national security, securing our borders and enforcing our rule of law, and better assisting our senior citizens and military veterans.”

Zeldin supports extending the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, the elimination of which would increase the cost of living on every Long Islander.

“I am also in favor of a moratorium on earmarks until Congress can find a solution to its out of control pandering with projects like peanut storage houses in Georgia, catfish research in Alabama, and bridges to nowhere in Alaska, and the like,” said Zeldin.

In order to bring more accountability and transparency to government Zeldin also supports the creation of an online system under federal oversight detailing earmarks, government contracts, and related campaign contributions.

Zeldin served as an aide to State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle. The Shirley resident studied at the University at Albany, graduated from Albany Law School, and earned his commission through Army ROTC. He was a paratrooper, prosecutor and magistrate with the 82nd Airborne Division and XVIII Airborne Corps. In the summer of 2006, he was a JAG attorney deployed to Iraq. He is currently an attorney at Raiser & Kenniff on Long Island.

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