Another Win in NY! New Supervisor for Town of 450,000

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Tuesday March 31, 2009 · 9:55 PM PDT

2009/03/31 · 21:55

Most of you are probably not aware that there was another significant special election going on in New York State today. Back in November, Democrat and Brookhaven Town Supervisor Brian Foley beat longtime octogenarian State Senator Caesar Trunzo to give New York a Democratic majority in its State Senate.

Today, Brookhaven, located in Suffolk County, on Long Island, had a special election to fill the town supervisor role Foley vacated. To give you some perspective on the significance of this election, Brookhaven is the town of 450,000 people. That's a figure comparable to the smallest states in the union. If you include its submerged lands, it is also the largest town in the state of New York. It is also a longtime Republican stronghold.

Today, Mark Lesko, Democrat and former federal prosecutor, beat Republican longtime town councilman Tim Mazzei (pronounced Maz-zee) to keep the chief executive position of a municipality of nearly half of million people in Democratic hands.

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