Trish Kopp

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Kopp, of Oakdale, is a registered Democrat and is running on the Democratic and Working Families party lines in the general election. This is her first bid for public office.
She retired in 2025 after 20 years as an art teacher in the Half Hollow Hills and Brentwood school districts.
Kopp is a Suffolk County Democratic Committee member.

Kopp said affordability and the cost of living are top issues, and that if elected she would work to implement universal childcare to help relieve the strain on family budgets.
She said she supports changes to Tier 5 and Tier 6 state pension benefits to pay union members prevailing wages and would “work to bring good-paying union jobs to projects so people can afford to stay on Long Island.”
Kopp said she would work to protect the environment, particularly Long Island’s sole source aquifer. As a result of that concern, she said she opposes a proposed Amazon warehouse in Holbrook. “We have to be careful about the stresses we allow on the aquifer,” Kopp said.

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