John Avlon
John Avlon is running for U.S. Congress - 1st District
BACKGROUND
- Avlon, 51, of Sag Harbor, is running on the Democratic Party line in the general election. He is a journalist, author and former political commentator at CNN.
- He has served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast, a senior fellow at the nonprofit Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and has written books about American presidents.
- Avlon received a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Yale University in 1996 and an MBA from Columbia University in 2006.
ISSUES
- Avlon said he stands against extremism and for protection of democracy.
- He said that if elected he would focus on addressing the high cost of living, and said he backs full restoration of the state and local tax (SALT) deduction.
- Avlon said he backs protection of reproductive rights. “It’s outrageous that a young woman in America today has fewer rights than her mother did,” he said.