Edward C. "Ed" Braunstein (born April 21, 1981) is an American

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 politician from Bayside, Queens

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. He is a Democratic

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 member of the New York State Assembly

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 representing the 26th Assembly District in Queens, New York.

Braunstein received a Bachelor of Science

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 degree in finance from the State University of New York at Albany. After college he worked as a Legislative Assistant in the New York City office of Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver

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, while also attending evening classes at New York Law School

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. He passed the bar exam in February 2009.

He has served on Queens Community Board 11

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 and was a member of its Parks Committee and Education Committee.

Braunstein won a September 2010 Democratic primary election

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 to replace retiring Assembly member Ann-Margaret Carrozza

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. In the November 2010 general election

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 he defeated the Conservative-Republican candidate by a vote of 15,264 to 11,043.

External links

• Official biography at the New York State Assembly website