Former politicians really never stop serving their constituents.
Ex-State Senator Serf Maltese wants to be of service again. This time around he is running not for just one seat in city or state government, but to run all the elections in the city as executive director of the Board of Elections (BOE).
In a letter to George Gonzalez, deputy executive director of the Board of Elections in the City of New York, Maltese said that he had the confidence and backing of his Queens County Republican Chair, the Honorable Phil Ragusa, and the Queens County Republican Commissioner, the Honorable Judith Stupp, as well as Senator Marty Golden.
Along with the above letter, Maltese sent his biography – the details of which are well known to his constituents and most voters in Queens.
Born in Corona on December 7, 1932, he graduated from Stuyvesant High School. After a stint in the military during the Korean War, he went to Manhattan College on a Regents Scholarship and the G.I. Bill, where he earned a B.A. He attended Fordham University Law School on a War Service Scholarship and received his L.L.B. and J.D. degrees. He was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1963.
Maltese served as a Queens Assistant District Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Homicide Bureau. He was first elected to the New York State Senate in November of 1988, representing the 320,000 people of the 15th Senatorial District.
Maltese was re-elected for 10 terms in the New York Senate on the Republican, Conservative and Independence Party lines. He and his wife Constance were in fact co-founders of the New York State Conservative Party in 1962.
He and his wife have been married for 53 years and they reside in Middle Village and have two married daughters and three grandchildren.
Maltese has won awards and recognitions — almost too numerous to mention — and is an expert in election law and a former chair of the Senate Standing Committee on Elections.
We don’t think there is a more qualified candidate for executive director of the Board of Elections than Serphin R. Maltese. He has our vote!
