Below are details I shared with the Public as I ran for political office for the first time in 2015.
On November 3rd, 2015, I was blessed to be overwhelmingly elected (with 1572 votes), with my fellow candidate George J. KyDon (and his impressive 1498 votes), to the Blooming Grove Town Council for the January 1st 2016 - December 31st 2019 Term of Office, against our two Democrat opponents who totaled 1098 and 1093 votes each.
I want to thank all those who supported me and voted for me in 2015. I am honored by your votes and very personal support, and I will fight any attempts by long-time partisan activists to steal your 2015 votes that elected me to serve a full 4 YEAR term to represent the entire Town of Blooming Grove!
On November 3rd, 2015, I was blessed to be overwhelmingly elected (with 1572 votes), with my fellow candidate George J. KyDon (and his impressive 1498 votes), to the Blooming Grove Town Council for the January 1st 2016 - December 31st 2019 Term of Office, against our two Democrat opponents who totaled 1098 and 1093 votes each.
I want to thank all those who supported me and voted for me in 2015. I am honored by your votes and very personal support, and I will fight any attempts by long-time partisan activists to steal your 2015 votes that elected me to serve a full 4 YEAR term to represent the entire Town of Blooming Grove!
Personal and Professional Details about Mark J Levy:
- 40+ year resident of the Town Of Blooming Grove. Moved from New Windsor to Lark Street in Washingtonville in May 1975 with my parents.
- Dean's List student at Columbia College (NYC) from Autumn 1977 to Spring 1979.
- Dean's List student at Johns Hopkins University (Autumn 1979).
- Dean's List student and graduated with honors from New York University in June 1983 with a BA in Politics.
- Bought my first house at 1 Patriot Lane in Washingtonville in 1984.
- Married to Barbara Levy at the First Presbyterian Church Of Washingtonville in 1988.
- Barbara and I bought our second (current) house on Station Road in Salisbury Mills in 2001.
- Father to four adult children: Jackleen Levy, James Levy, Joseph Levy, and Jason Levy; our children are graduates of the Washingtonville Central School District. Three of them already have college degrees; Jason is still "in progress".
- Former IT Manager from 1992 - 2007 at Sony Electronics. Developed budgets, implemented US projects, managed employees and contractors, and negotiated contracts with vendor companies. Check my LinkedIn page to get more details about my entire IT career.
- Currently working as a mainframe specialist at UPS. Started as a Subject Matter Expert consultant for UPS in late 2007; hired as an employee in 2013. As a SME on mainframe processing, this particular job is more technical and less managerial by nature.
- Washingtonville Little League Manager or Coach for many teams during the 1990s and 2000s.
- St. Mary's CYO Basketball Director and Coach (intramural/travel) from 1995 to 2004. One of the most important mentors in my life, after my father, mother, some of my uncles and aunts, was Washingtonville's John Spear (RIP), who ran that program for decades. I am so grateful to have served as one of his Directors during those years.
- During our years as members of the First Presbyterian Church of Washingtonville, I served for 6 years on the Finance and Stewardship committees as a Board of Session Elder, and my wife served as a Deacon, ministering to the needs of the congregation in various church functions.
- In May and June 1998, I was active speaking out against an attempt by Rieger Homes, in partnership with an out-of-state entity known as CED Construction, to transform Washingtonville with a proposal to build a massive low-income apartment complex. I wrote an editorial "My View" in the Times-Herald Record to refute Mike Levine's unfounded charges against our village's citizens in 1998, which demolished the proposal, and the backing it received from the Times-Herald Record. I am very proud to say that the citizens of Washingtonville won that fight against Rieger, CED, and illogical liberal beliefs that low-income housing was what our community needed; that proposal would have devastated Washingtonville's housing values, property tax base, water usage, and School District financing, had it been approved and implemented.
- Although I graduated with a major in Politics at NYU, I spent most of my career, from the start of my college days through the present, working in my NYU minor field of Computer Science. I did not start getting involved in local politics until 2010, except for the 1998 proposal for Washingtonville I mentioned above.
- In 2011, I sent Governor Cuomo and the New York State Legislature a proposal on how the U.S. 2010 census figures should be used to give Orange County and the rest of the state fair and sensible Congressional districts that did not needlessly split up Orange County and other counties. Although my Congressional proposal was not chosen for the legislature's final redistricting approach, my specific proposal item for keeping all of Orange County in a single Congressional district did occur for this decade. I believe that gives Orange County more influence in our Congressional representation.
- In 2012 I briefly ran as a write-in candidate for the vacant 99th NYS Assembly seat that represents Blooming Grove.
- In 2013 I developed an "alternative" proposal on the Orange County Legislature re-districting that became well publicized in the media.
- Later in 2013 I joined the Blooming Grove Republican Committee. Now in 2015 I am seeking my first elected office as an endorsed candidate of four of New York State's political parties: The Republican Party, The Conservative Party, The Independence Party, and The Reform Party.
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