Freeport PBA
Freeport Police Benevolent Association
John P. Lundergan Hall
PO Box 130
Freeport, NY 11520
Contact: Shawn Randall, PBA President
516-623-5527
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Freeport Police Benevolent Association (PBA) Endorses Joy Watson for Nassau County District Attorney Race
(FREEPORT, N.Y.) October 4, 2009—The Village of Freeport Police Benevolent Association has unanimously endorsed Joy Watson of Hempstead, N.Y., for Nassau County District Attorney in the November 2009 election.
“My membership has elected to stand with the Nassau County Detectives, the Hempstead Police Benevolent Association, the Fire Marshal Benevolent Association of Nassau County and the Adjunct Faculty Association of Nassau Community College and endorse Joy Watson,” PBA President Shawn Randall said. “We believe the office of District Attorney needs a change and it is our belief that Joy Watson can bring about that very positive change.”
“We know and respect Joy very much. As a former prosecutor under the prior district attorney, she has served the residents of the Village of Freeport and Nassau County for 20 years. She did a great job protecting the rights of taxpayers when she served as chief of Nassau County’s Sex Offense and Domestic Violence bureau, deputy bureau chief of the county’s Major Offense/Homicide bureau, and chief of the sex crimes and mental health units,” he said. “We believe Joy will bring more experience and higher morale to the District Attorney’s office that has just been lacking for the last four years,” Randall said. “Under Joy, all crimes will get the same type of prosecution, rather than the cherry-picking that occurs now under Kathleen Rice.”
“The Village of Freeport PBA membership has worked with Joy Watson for decades and we strongly believe there is no better person to lead the chief prosecution office for our county,” he said. “We ask all labor unions and all Nassau voters to come out and support Joy Watson on November 3. She is really someone you can believe in.”
To date, Watson has also been endorsed by the Nassau County Detectives Association (DAI), Hempstead Police Benevolent Association (PBA), Nassau County Probation Officers Association, Fire Marshal Benevolent Association of Nassau County and the Adjunct Faculty Association of Nassau Community College.
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