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Blay Tarnoff
DemocraticU.S. House · NY · District 4
U.S. House New York District 4
U.S. House · NY · District 4
Brown University—B.A. Mathematics; Pace University School of Law—J.D.
Data last updated 10/27/2026
Blay Tarnoff's career experience includes working as a systems engineer. Patch reported that he had been a computer systems programmer/analyst for 40 years and served as the Libertarian Party county committee chair.
Committee Assignments: No committee assignments available.
Blay Tarnoff’s healthcare platform is libertarian and market-oriented: he supports ending government involvement in civilian healthcare and replacing the current system with free-market competition, transparency, and market pricing. For military and veterans’ care, he says existing promised benefits should be honored and supports private medical insurance usable anywhere.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tarnoff says the United States should end government involvement in health care and allow free-market competition to restore transparency, quality, affordability, and trust.
SourceTarnoff states that eliminating government involvement would restore competition and market pricing, which he argues would improve care and make prices broadly affordable.
SourceTarnoff says he would issue private medical insurance that veterans could use anywhere.
SourceTarnoff says military pay, healthcare, childcare, spouse employment, and moves should be contractual matters, and that benefits reasonably expected at enlistment should be provided until such a system is in place.
SourceThe Libertarian Party of New York candidate profile lists Health Care among Tarnoff’s key issues for his NY-04 congressional campaign.
SourceBlay Tarnoff presents a libertarian economic platform centered on shrinking government, privatizing or eliminating administrative agencies, ending inflation through a gold- or bitcoin-linked dollar, and reducing taxes and regulations. He argues these steps would lower prices, raise real income, and produce stronger prosperity.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tarnoff says he would end inflation by reintroducing the gold standard or pegging the dollar to bitcoin, arguing that government money creation transfers wealth away from poorer Americans.
SourceTarnoff says administrative agencies are unconstitutional, wasteful, and destructive to wealth, and he supports privatizing their critical functions and eliminating the agencies.
SourceTarnoff argues that ending agency regulations, ending inflation, and ending the income tax would raise real income and reduce prices for housing, health care, and other needs.
SourceThe Libertarian Party of New York lists Tarnoff's key issues as including privatization, affordability, and inflation for his NY-04 campaign.
SourceNo specific public position by Blay Tarnoff on Immigration was found in the searched candidate, Ballotpedia, or Libertarian Party of New York materials. His available 2026 materials emphasize broad libertarian themes such as freedom, civil liberty, privatization, and reducing government involvement, but do not state an immigration-specific platform.
Blay Tarnoff frames Climate & Energy through a libertarian, anti-regulatory approach: he says environmental protection should rely less on government agencies and more on private legal remedies, market pricing, and economic growth. He identifies nuclear power as likely the most reliable energy source but says the free market, with pollution costs accounted for, should decide energy choices without government distortion.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tarnoff supports restoring the right of individuals and class actions to sue companies for air and water pollution without allowing regulatory compliance to serve as an immunity defense.
SourceTarnoff says nuclear power is likely the most reliable energy source but argues politicians should not decide and that the free market should determine energy sources if costs such as pollution are fully accounted for.
SourceTarnoff supports privatizing necessary functions of federal administrative agencies and abolishing those agencies, a stance he links broadly to reducing government regulation while still saying he would protect the environment.
SourceThe Libertarian Party of New York candidate profile lists Environment among Tarnoff's key issues for his NY-04 congressional campaign.
SourceBlay Tarnoff’s available education-related statements frame education primarily as a matter of individual choice and freedom from government interference. He supports the right to seek or provide education without government regulation, competition, or interference, and his broader platform calls for privatizing or eliminating federal administrative-agency functions.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tarnoff said people should have the right to seek or provide education of their choice without government regulation, competition, or interference.
SourceTarnoff’s campaign says administrative agencies are unconstitutional and that their critical functions should be privatized, a broader deregulatory stance that would apply to federal involvement in policy areas including education.
SourceBlay Tarnoff frames public safety primarily through a libertarian civil-liberties lens: he supports preserving the right to self-defense and opposes what he views as government overreach in criminal justice and administrative power. He also calls for investigations into alleged efforts to undermine democratic institutions and free speech.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Tarnoff says people have the right to procure and retain the means to defend themselves, their families, their communities, and their country.
SourceTarnoff states that he would end what he calls the criminalization of the right to self-defense.
SourceTarnoff calls for congressional and executive-branch investigations into what he describes as a coordinated illegal movement to undermine democratic institutions and replace them with totalitarian socialism.
SourceTarnoff says he would expand or create legislation parallel to 42 USC 1983 and a civil-rights agency to help citizens challenge policies he views as violating civil rights.
SourceBallotpedia
https://ballotpedia.org/Blay_TarnoffFetched: biography, education, professional background
Patch
https://patch.com/new-york/portwashington/new-york-assembly-district-16-meet-blay-tarnoffFetched: age, location, education, professional background
Federal Election Commission
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6NY04237/?cycle=2026&election_full=trueFetched: committees
FEC API
https://api.open.fec.gov/v1/candidate/H6NY04237/totals/Fetched: totalRaised, totalSpent, cashOnHand
ChamberLight
https://chamberlight.com/representatives/blay-tarnoff-new-york-houseFetched: campaignFinance
FEC
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6NY04237/?cycle=2026&election_full=trueFetched: campaignFinance
Sway
https://www.sway.co/candidate/blay-tarnoff-56a2bbbd-2e6b-4dc8-aa8f-5056ee617dc8Fetched: endorsements
DutyStation Elections
https://elections.dutystation.ai/candidates/blay-tarnoff-new-york-house-04/Fetched: issuePositions
Libertarian Party of New York
https://lpny.org/2026/09/30/blay-tarnoff-launches-campaign-for-congress/Fetched: issuePositions