In the race for New York State Senate, a young corporate fraud attorney from the North Fork is gearing up to challenge Republican incumbent Kenneth P. LaValle’s 34-year hold on the eastern Long Island seat.
While Suffolk County Democrats will not officially nominate a candidate until May, it appears likely that 43-year-old Regina Calcaterra, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based law firm Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, will face Mr. LaValle on Election Day in November.
Suffolk County Democratic Committee Chairman Richard Schaffer said this week that Ms. Calcaterra, who hails from the hamlet of New Suffolk in the Town of Southold, is the only potential candidate that has emerged from his party so far.
“I expect her to be our nominee,” Mr. Schaffer said.
About 150 supporters converged on the American Legion Hall in Eastport... more
While Suffolk County Democrats will not officially nominate a candidate until May, it appears likely that 43-year-old Regina Calcaterra, an attorney with the Philadelphia-based law firm Barrack, Rodos & Bacine, will face Mr. LaValle on Election Day in November.
Suffolk County Democratic Committee Chairman Richard Schaffer said this week that Ms. Calcaterra, who hails from the hamlet of New Suffolk in the Town of Southold, is the only potential candidate that has emerged from his party so far.
“I expect her to be our nominee,” Mr. Schaffer said.
About 150 supporters converged on the American Legion Hall in Eastport... more
Additionally, the article states that she is an attorney "with [a] Philadelphia-based law firm. . ." Are we to infer that she is the Southold branch of said law firm, (the town from which she "hails")? Does she reside most of the time at her Southold address ...more or is this a tax domicile to protect her from heavier urban taxes?
At times, the initial newspaper reports of nouveau politicians seem to be verbatim transcriptions of their party's p.r. handouts.
Regina spent her youth in and out of the Suffolk County foster care system with her four siblings. When not in foster care, Regina and her siblings experienced evictions, homelessness and homeless shelters. She remained in her final foster home in Centereach until she began college at age seventeen. She graduated from the State University of New York at New Paltz four years later.
As ...more a corporate fraud lawyer, Regina successfully represented the pension funds of police, fire, teachers, correction, sanitation and labor union employees when their pensions suffered drastic losses due to Wall Street's fraud. Rather than asking New York taxpayers to cover the pension losses of those who keep us safe and educate our children, she was part of the team that went after the wrongdoers and won. * Regina was a member of the legal team that successfully litigated such high profile corporate fraud cases against WorldCom and Merrill Lynch and brought billions of dollars back to the pensions of union workers and government employees. * Regina's experience in protecting pensions began in the 1990's when she co-authored and successfully pressed for passage of laws that led to strong investment returns in the state pension funds. * She later counseled the executive management and board of directors of one of the state's biggest pension funds on issues related to state pension law while also serving the interest of retirees and their beneficiaries.
I would appreciate it if you would provide a citation.
Thanks.
I have no contrary evidence of Ms. Calcaterra's character since I never heard of her before today. However, your post was a cut-and-paste from her own campaign website. As such, you should have identified the source.
Thanks for the citation. There was no subtext to the request. I simply wanted to see where you were getting your information. Upon logging onto the site, I realized, as I had suspected when reading your initial post, that you had transposed text from there verbatim. Quoting the text and attributing it to the source is s.o.p. when so doing.
You need help highat.
This year is not going to be good for heavily embedded "insider" incumbents regardless of political and idealogical. The public is tired of the old guard. I beg to differ with Fred Thiele that no one knows Calceterra. I will guarantee you that by the time election day ...more rolls around, everyone in the first state senate district will know who Regina Calceterra is.
Remember, no one knew who Scott Brown was and he trailed by close to 30 points a month leading up to his astonishing victory for a seat held by Democrats forever in a Democratic state. I have met Regina and I can tell all of you that she is not anyone to underestimate. If LaValle does, he will lose.
Even though I wil be supporting Sen LaValle, highhats comments were completly uncalled for.
To be as clear as possible ...more regarding my deleted post and the question that I raised without repeating those words that caused its deletion , nothing that I posted was pejorative to Ms. Calcaterra. (The editor, apparently, saw it differently.)
Ms. Calcaterra seems to be a strong, viable candidate for LaValle's seat. I hope that her candidacy will bring interest and excitement to a contest which, whether you are for or against LaValle, has been a stately progress to reconsecration rather than a race for some years.
Parenthetically, I think that the censoring of my comments reveals that the editors of The Southampton Press are using obsolete criteria for censorship. It's 2010, not 1950. Put me back.
You made allegations of her sexuality, questioned her motives for a court action invovling a private matter, and in general ended up claiming that where there is smoke there is fire.