Meet Beth

Rockland County Legislator Beth Davidson is a community leader and bipartisan problem-solver who knows firsthand that business-as-usual politics in Washington and Albany have left us with higher taxes, higher costs, and anxiety about the Hudson Valley’s future. She is running for Congress to put the 17th Congressional District first, by bringing down the cost of living, protecting the environment, and finding bipartisan solutions to keep our schools and neighborhoods safe.

Beth’s parents taught her from a young age that “95% of life is showing up.” Her father, grandfather, and uncles, all Navy veterans, and her mother, a public school teacher, taught her the importance of hand work and service to others.

Beth has lived those values as a longtime community leader and elected official in Rockland County. Serving on the board of her synagogue taught Beth important leadership skills and inspired her to run for the Nyack Board of Education. After two terms on the School Board, including a year as Vice President and two as Secretary, Beth was elected to the  Rockland County Legislature, where she chairs the Environment Committee and Task Force on Water Resources Management, and serves as Vice Chair of the Housing and Economic Development Committee. Beth served on the boards of Leadership Rockland, the Soar Mentorship program, and the Children’s Shakespeare Theatre. She has volunteered for numerous organizations, including the YMCA, the JCC, Keep Rockland Beautiful, Nyack Center, and more.

On the school board, Beth delivered critical improvements to Nyack public schools.  Beth led the school board to fund critical safety and security measures to keep schools safe, upgrade libraries and school technology, and quickly and safely reopen schools during COVID—all while passing much-needed property tax relief for seniors, veterans, and volunteer first responders hard-hit by rising costs. In the county legislature, Beth has worked across the aisle, sponsoring a household gun safety law and partnering with Republicans to cut property taxes, hire additional patrol officers to keep families safe, crack down on the flow of fentanyl into Rockland, and tackle the county’s housing crisis while preserving hundreds of acres of open space.

In Congress, Beth will work with anyone who has a good idea to make life in the Hudson Valley better, safer and more secure. In addition to working across the aisle to bring down costs – including by finally restoring the SALT Deduction – Beth will partner with her colleagues to safeguard our drinking water, pass common sense gun safety reforms, reduce the cost of prescription drugs, and protect New Yorkers’ access to health care, including reproductive health care and abortion rights. This last issue is personal for Beth, both as a two-time cancer survivor who fought her insurance company to get her treatment covered and as a mom who experienced infertility and had to pay out-of-pocket for IVF.

Beth lives in Nyack with her husband, Jeff, and their two children, both of whom attend Nyack Public Schools.