Vecchio to seek record 13th term as Smithtown supervisor
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Smithtown Supervisor Patrick Vecchio listens during a town board meeting. (Feb. 7, 2012)
Before a crowd of fellow Republicans that included several of his political nemeses and a potential primary foe, the longest-serving town supervisor in Long Island history announced Sunday he would seek an unprecedented 13th term in office.
Smithtown's Patrick Vecchio, speaking at a town GOP fundraiser in Lake Ronkonkoma, said he hoped to retain the post he first won in 1977 -- the year the...