Even before she declared her bid for state Senate District 7, Kim Keiserman has been a fighter for our Long Island communities.
I first met Kim not as a candidate for state Senate, nor in her role as the president of the Port Washington Democratic Club, nor as a student in one of her classrooms.
I met her as a member of Concerned Citizens of NY-03, a citizen’s group dedicated to the ouster of lying Congressman George Santos (R-NY) from office. My initial impression of her was clear: She was fed up with Santos’s unjust fraud and his enablers in the Nassau County GOP and took up the fight to force him out of our House seat.
As a group member, she was unafraid to call out anyone who sought to protect Santos or delay his expulsion, including in Washington, D.C., for congressional lawmakers to hear.
Since then, Kim has proven time and time again that she is dedicated to the principles of honest governance.
She has opposed forces attempting to make our government less transparent and safer while fighting to ensure that Long Islanders have effective, open and responsive representation.
She will never lose those core beliefs because she believes them in earnest, and she will bring them to a state government in Albany that over the past decade has been mired in scandal.
The word “fighter” has been used by politicians to varying meanings. A bulldog. A party loyalist. A loud mouthpiece. However, a fighter is not someone who holds strong policy positions and is unwilling to come to the negotiating table as it is often portrayed as.
Rather a fighter, in the sincerest form of the word, is someone who is present at the negotiating table and is willing to put in the work to prioritize the needs of their constituents over external forces and special interests. I use the word fighter here to describe Kim in the most sincere way possible: She has repeatedly demonstrated her dedication to Long Island, dedication that comes with actual effort and work.
Now more than ever, Long Island needs someone to fight for our interests in Albany. Someone who is willing to break with the party orthodoxy and choose their votes carefully to protect Long Islanders instead of voting like current state Sen. Jack Martins does – against reproductive freedoms, against funding for our schools, and against our union workers.
Someone who will focus on putting taxpayers and homeowners first, not someone with a history of playing to our worst fears to stoke division.
State Senate District 7 needs a fighter. We need Kim Keiserman.
Aidan Davis
Plainview
