Uncontested Incumbents Paulin and Buchwald Run for State Assembly
Assemblywoman Amy Paulin, has served the 88th New York State Assembly District (Scarsdale, Eastchester, Tuckahoe, Bronxville, Pelham, Pelham Manor, and parts of New Rochelle and White Plains) since 2001. She is running uncontested in the 2014 election on the Democratic and Working Families party lines.
Paulin chairs the Assembly Committee on Energy, and serves on the Committees on Education, Higher Education, and Health.
A full-time legislator, Paulin says she loves her job. Her diverse legislative agenda includes state government reform, children and families, domestic violence, sex trafficking, education, health care, animal welfare and gun control. As Chair of the Assembly Committee on Energy, Assemblywoman Paulin has worked to encourage renewable energy and ensure the electricity grid is reliable.
To date 152 of her bills have been signed into law. One of her most important legislative accomplishments was writing and sponsoring the bill that eliminated the statute of limitations for rape. She currently is heavily vested in getting the entire 10 points of the Women’s Equality Act passed through the State legislature.
Assemblyman David Buchwald, is also running uncontested for re-election to NYS Assembly District 93, including North Salem, Lewisboro, Bedford, Pound Ridge, City of Mount Kisco, New Castle, North Castle, Harrison, and part of City of White Plains. He is running on the Democratic and Working Families party lines.
Buchwald was elected to the Assembly in November 2012. Prior to that, he was a member of the White Plains Common Council.
Buchwald grew up in Larchmont and attended the Mamaroneck public schools. He has lived in White Plains for 12 years. David married his wife, Lara, on March 1, 2014.
In the Assembly he has worked as an advocate for small businesses in the Westchester community and to increase education funding in his district. He was also involved in getting a $1 million grant for White Plains to investigate development of the Metro North train station.
Buchwald serves on the Assembly’s election law committee to set higher standards and election reform, including efforts to provide better privacy in polling places, and online registration. He sees structural problems related to campaign finance and is working to reduce limits on campaign donations. He is also a proponent of redistricting reform. “We need a system that allows people to chose their reps and not the other way round,” he said.
Buchwald sees further hurdles to overcome to heal government in Albany. He wrote legislation to strip the pensions of government officials who have been convicted of a felony and has confidence the legislation will pass. “The bill has over 90 co-sponsors,” he said.
