Presidential race is X-factor in Brookhaven
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | L-R: Mark Lesko, Town of Brookhaven supervisor; Scott Russell, Town of Southold Supervisor; Anna Throne-Holst, Town of Southampton Supervisor and Sean Walter, Town of RIverhead supervisor on a panel at the Suffolk County Planning Summit held at SUNY Stony Brook's Wang Center. (Feb. 8, 2012)
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Town of Brookhaven
With Mark Lesko's impending exit, Brookhaven's top elected job is up for grabs, but the last-minute supervisor race will include a huge wild card -- a presidential voter turnout, more than twice what town elections normally draw.
When Lesko ran last year for town supervisor, the turnout townwide was 24 percent, or 70,293 of the town's 280,000 eligible voters. In the last presidential contest...
