Bruce A. Blakeman R

BACKGROUND

• Blakeman, 70, of Atlantic Beach, is a registered Republican. He is seeking reelection on the Republican and Conservative party lines in the general election. He was elected Nassau County executive in 2021.
• He was born in Oceanside and raised in Valley Stream. Blakeman was a Hempstead Town councilman from 2015 to 2021. He also served as a commissioner for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 2001 to 2009, and presiding officer of the Nassau Legislature from 1996 to 1999.
• Blakeman has a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and a law degree from California Western School of Law.

ISSUES

• Blakeman said he would keep Nassau the safest county in America by hiring new police officers to “stop the chaos of New York City” from entering Long Island.
• He said he would not raise property taxes, and would work to attract new companies that bolster the county’s economy.
• He said he would protect Nassau’s suburban quality of life from “extremist politicians” who want to “flood our community with migrants and low-income, high-density apartment buildings.”