YRs at the Plate: Lee Zeldin & Dan Schorr

Lee Zeldin

Lives In: Shirley, Suffolk County, NY
Occupation: Lawyer & Captain, U.S. Army Reserves
Running for: U.S. House of Representatives, 1st Congressional District
Website: www.Zeldin08.com

New York's First Congressional District promises an exciting and action-packed race this year as an Army paratrooper, federal prosecutor and military magistrate all join the race on the Republican ticket--and as one person: Lee Zeldin.

Lee, a Shirley resident and an Army JAG and Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran with Fort Bragg's 82nd Airborne Division, says he's running for Congress in order to restore "the Suffolk County Dream."

Born in 1980 in East Meadow, New York and raised in Shirley, New York, where he attended William Floyd High School, Lee earned his bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany, majoring in Political Science, and his Juris Doctorate from Albany Law School all in five short years.

His campaign’s priorities include cutting taxes to make raising a family more affordable and to help create jobs, decrease the cost of health care for seniors, support our troops in the field, secure our borders and take care of our military veterans who have served our country admirably.

He recently left his position as Counsel for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, in order to practice law at Raiser & Kenniff, P.C. and devote most of his time to his run for the United States Congress. He previously served as an aide to State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle.
Lee lives with his wife, Diana, and their twin one-year-old daughters, Mikayla and Arianna.

Special thanks to Suffolk County YR President Chris Como for this information.

Dan Schorr

Lives In: White Plains, Westchester, NY
Occupation: Lawyer & Prosecutor
Running For: District Attorney, Westchester County
Website: www.ElectDanSchorr.com

“Serving as District Attorney can help so many people and keep so many safe—there’s no better way to improve people’s lives,” says Dan Schorr, 35, candidate for Westchester County D.A.
Though the race isn’t until 2009, Schorr is looking to get an early head start to take back the D.A.’s office. Until current D.A. Janet DiFiore switched party affiliation from Republican to Democrat in 2007, Republicans had held the seat for the past 100 years.

Dan was born in New York, attended the University of Pennsylvania majoring in English. After graduating from UPenn, he went directly into Harvard Law School to earn his J.D and focus particularly in criminal law.

Once out of law school, his passion to serve the public as a prosecutor was realized. He was first hired as an Assistant District Attorney in the Queens D.A. Office in the Domestic Violence and Homicide Investigations Bureau. In 2001, Dan was hired as an A.D.A. in the Westchester County D.A.’s office in its Domestic Violence and Sex Crimes Bureau.

In 2005, Dan received an offer to teach judicial and legal reform as an Adjunct Professor in Criminal Law and Trail Advocacy in Tsinghua University and Zhongshan University to Chinese judges and lawyers for the better part of a year in Beijing.

Now, he is an Adjunct Professor teaching Criminal Law and Legal Writing in Pace University Law School.

In his free time, he has coached a local youth basketball team, serves on the White Plains Planning Board, and is active in the Westchester YRs.