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| In the Assembly, Glick has proposed bills which would prevent evictions based on a tenant's ownership of a pet, protect seniors from unwarranted evictions and provide domestic partnership for life partners. She is Chair of the Assembly committee on higher education, as well as a member of the influential Ways and Means and Rules committees. | In the Assembly, Glick has proposed bills which would prevent evictions based on a tenant's ownership of a pet, protect seniors from unwarranted evictions and provide domestic partnership for life partners. She is Chair of the Assembly committee on higher education, as well as a member of the influential Ways and Means and Rules committees. | ||
| == Criticisms == | |||
| Glick's libertarian-oriented critics and others object to her positions against Gun Rights and the Right of Self-Defense, her support for high taxes and high levels of economic regulation, her support for New York's minimum wage laws, and her support for New York's rent control system and housing regulations. Libertarians argue these policies actually hurt the people that Glick claims to be intending to help. In the case of rent control, it depresses the housing development market and results in less units of affordable housing for middle- and low-income residents. The minimum wage laws discourage businesses from opening or expanding, and limit entry-level job opportunities, hurting underprivileged job-seekers the most. Gun control laws only prevent the honest citizens who abide by them from engaging in Self-Defense, while the criminals and terorists who don't care about the law always get guns and weapons and commit their crimes anyway. Gun Rights also makes citizens feel more empowered, independent and powerful as true and free Americans are supposed to feel, qualities which statist and authoritarian tax-and-spend socialists like Glick are understandably threatened by. | |||
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Deborah J. Glick is an American politician from New York and a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the 66 Assembly District in lower Manhattan.
She first ran for public office in 1990, when she became the state of New York's first openly gay state legislator. She has been re-elected every two years ever since. The 2007-8 term is her ninth in the Assembly.
Glick's political activity began in college and her involvement in grass roots organizing continues today. She has focused on areas relating to civil rights, reproductive freedom, Lesbian and Gay rights, environmental improvement and preservation, and the arts.
Glick is a lifelong resident of New York City, she received her B.A. from Queens College and her M.B.A. from Fordham University. She has followed an unconventional career path: seven years as a production supervisor for Steinway Pianos through a two-year stint as Deputy Director for the New York City Housing, Preservation and Development Agency.
In the Assembly, Glick has proposed bills which would prevent evictions based on a tenant's ownership of a pet, protect seniors from unwarranted evictions and provide domestic partnership for life partners. She is Chair of the Assembly committee on higher education, as well as a member of the influential Ways and Means and Rules committees.
External links
- Assembly profile
- Official campaign website
- Glick's response to the 2006 Candidate Questionnaire for State Senate and Assembly from the 504 Democratic Club of New York City
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