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Long‘lslanderNews.com Please mention The Long Islander Newspapers when doing business with.our advertisers. A2 « THE LONG ISLANDER « JUNE 1, 2017 By Andrew Wroblewski awroblewski@Tongislandergroup.com The Huntington Town Demo- cratic Committee designated Hunt- ington Councilwoman Tracey Ed- wards as - its - , May 25. Edwards: sald in a Facebook post .. Friday morning, \In a three way race, I aim so honored and humbled that I received 11,321 (83 percent) votes out of 12,764 total. Job well done to all the candidates in the race. \I am so grateful to be the des1g- ‘ nated candidate for town supervi- sor. I will work very hard to con- tinue to earn your support. Edwards went up agamst Demo- cratic candidates Brian Muellers, a former Nassau legislator, and Dar- ryl St. George, a teacher at North- port High School. Muellers, in a statement emailed 'Saturday, said he is. lookmg forward | to a primary election in September. Muellets also called the caucus vote \merely symbolic.\ \It's a process that heavily favors town hall's preferred candidate, so it was no surprise that Tracey Ed- Traceyidvtérl'is‘ candidate for; supervisor \durmg a caucus held ° _ wards won,\ he said. \I'm encour-. aged by the votes I did receive in spite of the lopsided process and;. even more encouraged by theresi- © dents I speak with every day who . are ready for a fresh start with the expenence to 1mp1ement new ideas.\ deslgnauon expected in a phone call: Wednesay. He also said he's hopeful that his fellow opponents won't interfere with the primary process. The. committee also demgnated - candidates in two other upcoming . elections, town board and- highway superintendent. Huntington Board of Education Trustee Emily Rogan and incumbent Councilman -Mark Cuthbertson got the . nodsfor town board; and longtime construction company owner Kevin Orelli has been chosen as the can- didate for highway superintendent. Candidates can start gathering petition signatures June 6. The deadline for filing the required ~1,000 signatures is July 13. A pri- - mary election would be held Sept. - 12. With additional reporting by Jano Tantongco filmlarly, St. George called the} TOWN OF HUNTINGTON Lupinacci Gets GOP Backing For Supervisor ' Chad upina - By Andrew Wroblewski awroblewski@longislandergroup.com ties and neighborhoods for the future. For too long our residents have wit- ,. nessed a decline in the quality of life, Huntington Republican Committee 3 g constantly increasing taxes, and gang Chair Toni Tepe said Tuesday that she *.violence so rampant that it has made will back State Assemblyman Chad £5 national news. Lupinacei for the seat. The news came with some surprise as Huntington Councilman Eugene Cook, a member of the Independence Party, announced his candidacy last month and seemed poised to notch both the Republican and Conservative lines, as he did in 2013 when he ran for supervisor and was narrowly defeated by 843 votes. Cook, however, with- drew from the race this week. \It is with a heavy heart that I have withdrawn myself from this race,\ Cook said in a statement emailed Wednesday. \All donations from the recent fundraiser in support of my candidacy are being returned to the contributors with my sincere thanks.\ With Cook out of the race, Tepe said in a statement, \I am thrilled that Chad expressed an interest in running. I will be recommending Chad Lupinacci to our executive committee.\ . Lupinacci said in a phone call Tues- day he made his decision over \the past 24 hours\ between meetings with his campaign and phone calls to Tepe. The town \is in need af a new di- rection to best prepare our communi- Lup1nacc1 38, of £; Huntington, was elected in 2012 to ' the state's 10th Assembly District, which spans most of the western and southern pomons of. the township,\ from Lloyd Harbor on the north shore to Melville and Dix Hills to the south. He's a graduate of both Walt Whit- man High School and Hofstra Univer- sity, and currently works as an attorney and an adjunct assistant professor of political science at Hofstra. - Also getting the Republican nods are East Northport-based attorney Jim Leonick and Huntington-based attor- ney Ed Smyth for town board, and John Clark for highway superintendent. Those candidates will also likely be backed by the Conservative Party, ac- cording to Frank Tinari, Suffolk Con- servative chairman. \Certainly we'd like to have the support of the Consérvative Party Lupinacci said Tuesday evening, adding that he also plans to screen for the Independence Party. Candidates can start gathering the required 1,000 signatures on June 6. The deadline for filing is July 13. A pri- mary election would be held Sept. 12. jtantc