Liberal Party of Nassau County Endorses Joy Watson for Nassau County District Attorney

Oct. 18, 2009 - PRLog -- Liberal Party of Nassau County
Jack Olchin, chairman
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   

Liberal Party of Nassau County Endorses Joy Watson
for Nassau County District Attorney

(HEWLETT, N.Y.) October 27, 2009—The Liberal Party of Nassau County has endorsed Joy Watson of Hempstead, N.Y., for the office of Nassau County District Attorney.

“The Liberal Party has always backed the best candidates and this year for Nassau County District Attorney, there is no question the outstanding and most qualified candidate is Joy Watson,” said Jack Olchin, New York State and Nassau County Liberal Party leader. “Due to some complexities in the New York State Election Law, the Liberal Party does not have its own line on the voting machine. This year we are asking our supporters to vote for Joy Watson on the Republican Party line which is Row B.”

“Joy is a veteran Nassau County prosecutor and we believe in her ability run the office with the highest level of integrity and commitment,” he said. “We are supporting her on November 3.”

To date, Watson has also been endorsed by the Nassau County Detectives Association, Inc. (DAI), Hempstead Police Benevolent Association (PBA), Freeport Police Benevolent Association (PBA), Long Beach Police Benevolent Association (PBA), Nassau County Probation Officers Association (POA), Fire Marshal Association of Nassau County, Nassau County Veteran Police Association, Nassau Police Conference, Association of Retired Detectives, and the Adjunct Faculty Association of Nassau Community College.

About the Liberal Party

The Liberal Party of New York State is the longest existing third party in the history of the Untied States. It was founded in 1944, at the request of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as an alternative to a Democratic Party dominated by local party machines rife with corruption. The Liberal Party has a history of nominating candidates on the basis of merit, independence and progressive viewpoints, regardless of party affiliations.

Past Liberal Party nominees have included such distinguished public servants as New York State Governors William Averell Harriman, Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo, United States Senators Robert Wagner, Sr., Herbert Lehman, Jacob Javits, Robert Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and New York City Mayors Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Wagner, Rudolph G. Giuliani, and John Lindsay, who won re-election as mayor solely based on the support he received on the Liberal Party line.

The Liberal Party provided key support in Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1944 victory in New York State. In 1960, the party's 406,000 votes for John F. Kennedy provided his margin of victory in New York State, and the states 43 electoral college votes ultimately provided his national margin of victory.

In the '40's and ''50's, the Liberal Party pioneered rent control and consumer protection legislation for the state. In the 1960's the party initiated the suit in the United States Supreme Court for congressional reapportionment, one immediate result of which was the election of Shirley Chisholm, the nations first African-American congresswoman. Today the Liberal Party remains an influential force in New York politics, and is continuing in its tradition of supporting aspirants for office who are both progressive in their ideas and capable of meeting the challenge of providing good government. The Liberal Party believes that a civilized society respects the rights of all its citizens and guarantees their basic needs.

All Americans, regardless of class, race, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, must be equal under the law and have access to affordable medical, shelter and a safe and healthy environment. We believe the government has a role to play in protecting the environment and improving the quality of life for its people when the private sector is unwilling to or incapable of doing so.

Election Day is November 3. For more information about the liberal party, please visit www.liberalparty.org.