Even Eve catches the political fever


By Eve Marx

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    For a moment --- and I promise not to take up a lot of your time --- I’m using this week’s column, or at least a few inches of it, as a bully pulpit, taking this taking this opportunity to persuade you to vote for Kevin Quaranta, who seeks to retain his position as a Bedford town justice.

    I could talk about Judge Quaranta’s success serving on the eighth busiest court in the state,  a court I may add annually adds $2 million to state and local coffers.  I could mention how in this year alone he’ handled nearly 5,000 cases and that there have been no appeals in any of his decision.  Not one of his decisions over the past four years have been reversed.  Two decisions were even written up in the New York Law Journal.

    The real reason I am asking people to vote for Judge Quaranta is that I have spent a lot of time watching him in action when working as a reported covering Bedford cases.  In morning and evening court, I’ve watched Judge Quaranta presided over disputed parking tickets, drug cases, environmental offenses, neighbor disputes, DUIs, break-ins, shoplifting, cases of many descriptions involving people form all walks of life.  Judge Quaranta’s handling of every case that passes through his court has been fair , balanced, and most of all, lawful.  He has shown compassion when compassion is called for, and has been ste3rn and severe when harsher measures are the right course.  His courtroom is lively, courteous , and most of all, professional.  I often jest that it’s a lot more interesting to go to court than to spend a coupl of hours watching TV.  Real life is truly more gripping.  I can say this because I grew up with the law.  My stepfather was a circuit judge (he had also been a judge in Nuremburg) and he often brought me along to court.  I say vote for Quaranta.  He’s the right man for the job...



Reprinted with permission from The Bedford Pound Ridge Record-Review, November 2, 2007