Bruce Blakeman is a lifelong New Yorker, husband, father, and grandfather whose career has been defined by a refusal to let New York drift into ungovernable decline. As Nassau County Executive, he won re-election in 2025 by 12 points in a county where Democrats hold a roughly 110,000-voter enrollment advantage over Republicans. It was a victory built not on rhetoric but on results.
Blakeman inherited a county facing $150 million in scheduled property tax hikes left by his predecessor and eliminated every dollar of them, holding property and sales tax rates flat throughout his first term. He hired more than 600 new police and law enforcement officers, launched Operation Overwatch, a roving patrol unit designed to deter crime and ensure rapid response, and broke ground on the nation’s first county-run police training village. Under his watch, Nassau was named the safest county in America by U.S. News & World Report, even as crime surged in neighboring New York City.
When Albany imposed pandemic mandates on schoolchildren, Blakeman signed New York State’s first executive order restoring the rights of parents to send their children to school without masks. When activists pushed to allow biological males into girls’ sports, he signed the nation’s first executive order to protect women’s sports. He has refused to let Nassau become a sanctuary county, ordered the Nassau County Police Department to cooperate with ICE, and stood publicly against antisemitism, organizing the region’s largest rally in support of Israel and bringing over 6,000 people together to stand against terrorism.
A former Commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, he worked to enhance security at airports, bridges, tunnels, and other critical infrastructure. He is an attorney admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. With a lifetime of public service as former Presiding Officer of the Nassau County Legislature, Hempstead Town Councilman, and currently a practicing attorney, Bruce has made a career standing up for the rule of law, fiscal discipline, and the conservative values New Yorkers have been waiting for in a Governor.