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KILLIAN: SIENA POLL SHOWS VOTERS ARE DEMANDING

CORRUPTION CRACKDOWN

Term Limits Must be Top Priority

Rye, NY--June 1, 2016... Rye City Councilwoman and state senate candidate Julie Killian, a longtime Westchester community advocate and a mother of five touted the results of yesterday's Siena poll as an overwhelming demand from voters to crackdown on corruption, calling for term limits and stripping convicted politicians of their pensions as top priorities.

The poll showed 81% of voters called passing new ethics legislation "very important" to get done before the end of this year's session in June. Ms. Killian has made enacting term limits a cornerstone of her senate campaign, arguing such limits are the only way to truly break up Albany's systemic corruption and the old-boys network of power and deal-making.

"Albany politicians need to wake up," said Ms. Killian. "Voters are demanding action and the best way to fix the system is to prevent people from staying in it too long. We need fresh leaders who are just as mad as the taxpayers and willing to shake up the status quo. It's why I'm running."

Read the full poll here.

Ms. Killian, who is running in the 37th state senate district which encompasses much of Westchester county, said that a term limit bill will be the first legislation she will introduce in the Senate.

Ms. Killian has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business.  She is a former member of the Westchester County Charter Revision Commission (2011-2014); a member of Rye Town Park Commission, and she is the co-founder of RyeACT (Rye Action for Children and Teens), a coalition that educates and empowers local teenegars to stay off drugs.

Ms. Killian is also on the Board of the Kroc Institute for Peace at the University of Notre Dame, an active former Board member of Part of the Solution (POTS) a soup kitchen and social services agency in the Bronx, and a long-time volunteer for local library, arts, historical, and school organizations.

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