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Brian Romero
Democratic PartySTH · NY · District 34
New York State Assembly District 34
STH · NY · District 34
New York State Assembly District 34
Data last updated 10/21/2026
Brian Romero is a Queens community organizer, social worker, and legislative staffer running for New York State Assembly District 34. He previously worked in public advocacy for Gay Men's Health Crisis, served as chief of staff to Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas and State Senator Kristen Gonzalez, and has worked on housing, public transit, immigrant rights, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and universal school meals.
Committee Assignments: No committee assignments available.
Brian Romero supports expanding universal healthcare access and raising taxes on the wealthy to fund healthcare and other basic services. He also highlights reproductive healthcare access, including work on a statewide Reproductive Freedom and Equity Fund, and has aligned with home-care/Medicaid advocacy groups.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Romero stated that he wants to fight for universal healthcare access as Assembly Member-elect for New York Assembly District 34.
SourceRomero said New York should raise revenue through taxes on the wealthy and corporations to fund basic services including healthcare, in response to cuts affecting Medicaid and the social safety net.
SourceRomero cited his work as chief of staff to Assembly Member Jessica González-Rojas helping pass legislation to establish a statewide fund to ensure New Yorkers can access abortion care.
SourceBlue Voter Guide identifies Romero, Democratic candidate for New York State Assembly District 34, as a "New York Healthcare Champion."
SourceRomero thanked Caring Majority Rising for its endorsement and said his family has advocated for home-care reform and that he is excited to join legislators who care.
SourceBrian Romero's Economy & Jobs platform emphasizes taxing high earners and corporations to fund public needs, raising wages, strengthening union and worker protections, and helping small businesses manage rising costs. He also supports regulating AI to protect creative workers and industries from copyright infringement and job disruption.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Romero supports increasing the corporate tax, raising taxes on top earners, and passing a stock transfer tax to make the wealthy pay more and fund public services.
SourceRomero supports commercial rent stabilization and a Small Business Inflation Rebate Program to help neighborhood businesses stay open despite rising costs.
SourceRomero supports a living wage adjusted for inflation, including a $30 living wage by 2030, and ending all subminimum wages.
SourceRomero said his affordability agenda includes a living wage and moving toward baselining cost-of-living adjustments so pay keeps up when inflation rises.
SourceRomero said legislation is needed to regulate AI in order to protect the music industry from copyright infringement, an economic protection for creative workers.
SourceBrian Romero supports immigrant-protection policies for New York, including barring local law-enforcement coordination with ICE, guaranteeing counsel for immigrants in removal proceedings, banning masked ICE operations, and ending state/local immigrant-detention contracts. He frames immigration enforcement as a direct threat to Assembly District 34 communities in Queens and says New York should stand with immigrants against federal overreach.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Romero endorsed the full New York for All bill/package to restrict state and local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and said local law enforcement should not assist ICE.
SourceRomero called for securing $175 million for the Access to Representation Act to ensure people facing deportation have an attorney to defend their rights.
SourceRomero said he supports the MELT Act, which would prevent ICE agents conducting operations in New York from masking or concealing their identity.
SourceRomero said he would advocate for the Dignity Not Detention Act, which would prohibit state and local government entities from entering into or renewing contracts with ICE for immigrant detention.
SourceBrian Romero supports a clean-energy agenda centered on public renewable power, utility affordability, and environmental justice for western Queens communities affected by pollution and asthma. He has stated support for NYPA building 15 GW of renewable energy, the New York Heat Act, opposing Con Edison rate hikes, a statewide data center moratorium, and protecting climate-program funding.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Romero says he will push the New York Power Authority to build 15 gigawatts of renewable energy as part of his clean energy platform.
SourceLead Locally reports that Romero wants to fight for a statewide data center moratorium, protect funding for New York climate programs, and address environmental justice issues such as Astoria's "asthma alley."
SourceBranch's candidate profile for Brian Romero in New York Assembly District 34 lists him under Energy & the Environment as supporting construction of 15 gigawatts of renewable energy.
SourceSunrise NYC lists Brian Romero for AD-34 among its 2026 endorsed Assembly candidates, indicating alignment with its climate movement priorities.
SourceBrian Romero emphasizes education-related affordability supports, especially universal school meals and universal child care, and cites his staff role in securing statewide school-meals funding as a major accomplishment. He has also linked public safety and family stability to expanding school-based health clinics and youth supports.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Romero says his work as a legislative staffer helped secure full funding for universal school meals so every New York student could receive free breakfast and lunch in school.
SourceRomero said that, if elected, he would advocate for permanently universal child care as part of an affordability agenda funded by higher taxes on wealthy people and corporations.
SourceRomero supports expanding school-based health clinics as part of a broader approach to community safety, affordability, and access to care.
SourceRomero said he is the candidate best positioned to advance an agenda including universal child care and fighting food insecurity.
SourceBrian Romero frames public safety as inseparable from affordability, housing stability, mental health care, youth programming, and immigrant protections rather than a narrow law-and-order approach. He supports community violence interrupters, afterschool programs, mental health response teams, protections against gender-based and hate violence, and limits on local law-enforcement collaboration with ICE.
Specific Actions & Proposals
Romero's voter-guide profile says he plans to fund community violence interrupters, afterschool programs for youth, and mental health response teams as part of his public safety agenda.
SourceRomero argued that police are often tasked with problems they are not trained to solve and supports expanding mental health services, school-based health clinics, and access to care for undocumented immigrants.
SourceRomero said he supports the New York for All Act, which would bar local law enforcement from collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
SourceRomero touted the MELT Act, saying public servants should do their work transparently and that ICE agents should not be allowed to mask or conceal their identity during operations.
SourceBranch - Brian Romero platform & website
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-state-representative-ny-state-house-34/candidates/brian-romeroFetched: biography
Queens Ledger - Born in the District, Built by the Community: Brian Romero for District 34
https://queensledger.com/2026/01/29/born-in-the-district-built-by-the-community-brian-romero-for-district-34/Fetched: biography
New York State Public Campaign Finance Board
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/04/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-04.15.2026-2.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
New York State Public Campaign Finance Board
https://pcfb.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2026/06/commissioner-report-for-the-approval-to-disburse-public-matching-funds-06.09.2026-002.pdfFetched: campaignFinance
Blue Voter Guide - Brian Romero endorsements
https://bluevoterguide.org/NY/candidate_Brian_Romero/759408Fetched: endorsements
QNS - Make the Road Action endorses Brian Romero
https://qns.com/2026/01/make-the-road-action-endorses-brian-romero/Fetched: endorsements
QNS - Gianaris, major unions endorse Brian Romero
https://qns.com/2026/03/gianaris-romero-endorsement/Fetched: endorsements
QNS - BP Richards endorses Brian Romero
https://qns.com/2026/01/richards-endorses-brian-romero/Fetched: endorsements
City & State New York - Nydia Velázquez endorses Brian Romero
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/01/nydia-velazquez-endorses-brian-romero-queens-assembly-race/410701/Fetched: endorsements
OPEIU Local 153
https://opeiu-local-153.squarespace.com/news/opeiu-local-153-is-proud-to-endorse-brian-romero-for-new-york-state-assembly-district-34Fetched: endorsements
Working Families Party
https://workingfamilies.org/2026/06/memo-winning-our-agenda-nywfps-2026-electoral-strategy/Fetched: endorsements
Blue Voter Guide - New York State Assembly District 34
https://bluevoterguide.org/district/NY/New_York_State_Assembly_District_34/45500/564Fetched: endorsements
NASW-NY Advocacy Committees
https://naswny.socialworkers.org/Advocacy/Advocacy-CommitteesFetched: endorsements
StreetsPAC 2026 New York State Primary Endorsements
https://www.streetspac.org/2026_nys_primary_endorsementsFetched: endorsements
Jews For Racial & Economic Justice voter guide
https://www.jfrej.org/news/2026/06/jfrejs-november-2025-voter-guide-2Fetched: endorsements
City & State New York - Aber Kawas eligibility story with Romero endorsements
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/01/assembly-candidate-aber-kawas-says-she-didnt-move-wrong-district/411058/Fetched: endorsements
Jejune Magazine
https://www.jejunemagazine.com/home/brian-romero-new-york-state-assembly-district-34Fetched: issuePositions
Blue Voter Guide
https://bluevoterguide.org/district/NY/New_York_State_Assembly_District_34/45500/564Fetched: issuePositions
Branch
https://www.branch.vote/races/2026-new-york-general-election-ny-state-state-representative-ny-state-house-34/candidates/brian-romeroFetched: issuePositions
Jejune Magazine
https://jejeune-magazine.squarespace.com/home/brian-romero-new-york-state-assembly-district-34Fetched: issuePositions
NASW Social Work Talks
https://www.socialworkers.org/News/Social-Work-Talks-Podcast/EP-148-The-Movement-to-Build-Social-Work-Political-Power/EP148-Transcript-The-Movement-to-Build-Social-Work-Political-PowerFetched: issuePositions
The FADER
https://www.thefader.com/2026/06/26/6-nyc-politicians-policies-local-music-chi-osse-aber-kawasFetched: issuePositions
Queens Daily Eagle
https://queenseagle.com/all/2026/9/4/romero-is-headed-to-albany-without-dsas-endorsement-but-he-still-plans-to-work-with-the-groupFetched: issuePositions
City & State New York
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2025/10/brian-romero-hopes-succeed-his-former-boss-assembly/408676/Fetched: issuePositions
Lead Locally
https://leadlocally.org/2026/06/we-need-ny-climate-leaders-now-more-than-ever/Fetched: issuePositions
Queens Ledger
https://queensledger.com/2026/01/29/born-in-the-district-built-by-the-community-brian-romero-for-district-34/Fetched: issuePositions
PoliticsNY
https://politicsny.com/2026/05/14/campaign-insiders-a-qa-with-ad-34-candidate-brian-romero/Fetched: issuePositions
Queens Daily Eagle
https://queenseagle.com/all/2025/12/12/progressive-battle-brews-in-34th-assembly-districtFetched: issuePositions
Run For Something
https://directory.runforsomething.net/candidate/b203778959c88c29eeb17dfb4c3bfebd/romero-brian/Fetched: issuePositions