Medford’s Joe DeStefano has been recognized as one of only two Long Island assemblymen to earn a perfect score from the State Conservative Party in its newly released 2025 Legislative Session Ratings—an achievement Party leaders say reflects his consistent defense of public safety, property rights, and constitutional freedoms.
The ratings evaluate lawmakers on a wide span of legislation central to Conservative priorities, including crime policy, taxation, parental rights, energy mandates, property rights, and the protection of life. The Party scored 17 two-house bills, along with separate Senate-only and Assembly-only measures.
DeStefano, who represents the 3rd Assembly District, was among just nine Assembly members statewide to receive a perfect 100. Suffolk Senator Alexis Weik was also highlighted as one of seven senators to earn a perfect score.
State Conservative Party Chairman Gerard Kassar said the results again underscore the widening ideological split in Albany.
“Democrats continue pushing New York in an extreme and unsustainable direction—soft-on-crime policies, anti-business regulations, expanded abortion funding, green mandates that raise energy costs, and attacks on parental and property rights,” Kassar said. “Meanwhile, most Republican lawmakers are fighting to restore a sense of law, order, affordability, and constitutional balance in our state.”
The scored legislation included bills the Party opposed—such as medically assisted suicide, expanded abortion access, new green-energy mandates including a gas-hookup ban, budget bills increasing state spending, expanded tenant-rights provisions, judicial-district restructuring, and additional gun-storage restrictions.
Supported measures included extending 9/11 worker protections, expanding Purple Heart recognition, strengthening sexual-assault evidence tracking, criminalizing threats to share intimate images, and permitting crossbow use for hunting.
“These ratings serve a simple but essential purpose: educating taxpayers,” Kassar noted. “New Yorkers deserve to know exactly how their representatives vote on the issues that matter most. We urge every New Yorker to review the ratings and hold their legislators accountable.”
Full Senate and Assembly scores and bill descriptions are available on the Party’s website at www.cpnys.org.