Canditate election Brian Ahrens

Brian Ahrens

Robert Astrorino

Robert Astrorino  was elected in November 2009, as a county Executive for Westchester.  He has previously served on  Mount Pleasant Board of Education, the Mount Pleasant Town Board and the Westchester County Board of Legislators.  He  has a  Spanish Immersion Diploma from the Enforex School of International Studies from Barcelona Spain.  This shows he is fluent is Spanish and can build relationships with the Latino Community. As a result in his county he received a majority of Latino vote in and he has built strong relationships not just with Latinos but with African Americans too.  A republican is building strong relationships with minority groups, where most republicans are not like this.  For education, he has a  Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications at Fordham University, where he also minored in Spanish and Political Science

Howie Hawkins

Howie Hawkins is a environmentalist since 1967 and has been a leader in  the anti-apartheid divestment movement  to end U.S involvement  investing racist labor in South Africa.  He is also educated and helped to organize in the environment.  He has in recent years  has raised awareness of the green party in 2010 and since he got 60,000 votes, he gave this party  a ballot line from then to now. He came in third out of the seven parties in the 2010 election.  

Both canditiates are well educated and hardworking but Astrorino is more qualified than Hawkins.  Although Hawkins has some accomplishments such as getting the green party heard , end racist labor, and to care about the environment, Astrorino  is more of a people's man.  He has developed relationships according to his bio on speaking Spanish and having Latino's majority of the vote in his county, shows he's a man of the people and will listen to minority groups too.  He has been in office before being an executive in a very large county and Astrorino can be capable as being governor of a whole state.  Hawkins hasn't had any major  role in any governmental position. Astrorino  is more experienced  for  being an executive of a large county and building relations with his people especially  minority groups where there voice i'sent heard and  Astrorino can make their voices heard in government.