Supervisor, Town of Brookhaven: Lillian Clayman
Lillian Clayman, Democratic candidate for Brookhaven Town supervisor, at the party's townwide campaign headquarters in Farmingville on Aug. 2. She also is running on the Working Families Party line. Credit: James Escher
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LILLIAN CLAYMAN
Democratic
BACKGROUND:
- Clayman, 70, of Port Jefferson, is a labor history educator and served as mayor of Hamden, Connecticut, from 1991 to 1997.
- She was an adjunct industrial and labor relations professor last spring at SUNY Old Westbury.
- She received a bachelor’s in political science and American history from Rutgers University in 1975, a master’s in American history from SUNY Binghamton in 1976 and a PhD in American history from Rutgers in 2019.
ISSUES:
- Clayman said she would preserve waterways and the drinking water supply, adding it was “disheartening and embarrassing” that the Suffolk County Legislature this year voted against a sewer referendum.
- She said she would encourage waste reduction programs and “look to the scientists” to determine when to close the town landfill, currently slated to shut down within three years.
- She said she is concerned about blight, such as empty storefronts and boarded-up houses, adding she wants to cut residents’ use of unlicensed expediters to help obtain waivers and permits.
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