• Mayor of Village of Mamaroneck - 4 years
• State Senator - 22 years

• Mayor, Village of Larchmont - 2.5 years

• Graduate degree in business, Columbia University, New York

• Undergraduate degree in politics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

• Runs traditional campaigns.
• Does not employ expensive campaign consultants.
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• Features attacks and dirty tricks - for example, voters received a false post card appearing to come from Senator Oppenheimer. Click here for more.
• Hired Swift Boat attack ad campaign consultant. Click here for more.
• Feld literature contains gross distortions of facts. Click here for more.

• Saved Westchester $250 million on sewage treatment plant upgrades.
• Secured state money for flood relief.
• Endorsed by New York League of Conservation Voters and Sierra Club Lower Hudson Group.
• Sponsored global warming legislation long before global warming became well-known.
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• Built a rubber crumb artificial turf field in an environmentally sensitive area.
• Clear-cut 100 mature trees in Flint Park.
• Caught violating Department of Environmental Conservation Regulations. Read the DEC letter...
• Failed to implement storm-water grant-funded runoff measures.
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• A leading NY State senator, particularly on the Education Committee.
• If the Senate majority becomes Democratic, she will chair the Education Committee.
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• Leading defender of open government laws in the Senate.

• Reversed open government reforms
• Secretly planned rejection of elected volunteer fire chief with $152,000 paid chief, revealing the plan only after an election.
• Concealed a stop-work order from the State Conservation Department.
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• Advocates reduction of mandatory local school costs.
• Advocates state funding of teacher pension costs.
• If Senate majority become Democratic, she becomes Chair of Senate Education Committee with the clout to implement her reforms.
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• Advocates a 4% tax cap, while offering no plan to reduce mandatory local school costs. Click here for more.
• Says she's for spending $800,000 on a property tax revaluation program in the Town of Mamaroneck before impacts are assessed (particularly on seniors0) and before details are worked out.
• Meanwhile, she imposed 4.5% and 5% increases in Larchmont Village taxes during her term as mayor, and voted for 6.5%, 7.7% and 8.5% increases as a village trustee.

Campaign Contributions and Expenditures

(Based on July and October state campaign disclosure reports for 2008)

• Gets campaign support mostly from individuals.
• 115 $200-or-less contributions.
• $37,147 from political, committees, unions and corporations
• Spent $59,716
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• Gets support mostly from the Senate Republic Committee, political action committees, and corporations.
• 44 $200-or-less contributions
• $376,060 from political, committees, unions and corporations
• $291,000 from the Republican Senate Committee
• $9,500 from former Senate President Joe Bruno
• Spent $481,189
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• Enacted sound budgets as Mayor in Mamaroneck Village.
• Saved Westchester $250 million on sewage treatment plant upgrades.
• Worked with Republicans and Democrats to trim $427 million from the current state budget.
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• As Mayor, two of her three budgets exceeded the 4% cap she advocates for school districts.
• Rejected the elected volunteer fire chief, appointing a paid chief now costing $175,000 annually.
• Now Larchmont spends $400,000 more on firefighter salaries than the nearby Town of Mamaroneck Fire District which covers 70% more people and property and almost five times as many square miles.
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• Chairs the Senate Democratic Task Force on Women’s Issues.
• Held hearings around the state on the issue of women in the work force, violent crime against women on college campuses, domestic violence as a health care issue and teen pregnancy prevention.
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• Claims credit for helping to launch a gun-control group in 1999.

• Co-sponsored “Kieran’s Law,” which provides for background checks for children’s caregivers.
• Member of the boards of directors of numerous children’s aid agencies, including Child Care Action Campaign, West Corp., the Mental Health Association of Westchester, and St. Bernard’s Center for Learning.
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• As of September 2008, her campaign website agenda does not include the words "child" or "children." Click here to see for yourself...

• In the Legislative session last year Senator Oppenheimer sponsored almost 100 bills, including issues of local concern, state-wide tax credit programs and open government reforms.
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• In her 2006 campaign, Feld made six promises.
• Today none have been accomplished. Click here to see for yourself...
• Her campaign literature claims accomplishments that didn't happen. Click here to see the inaccurate claims...