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BY MITCHELL FREEDMAN | mitchell.freedman@newsday.com
11:35 PM EDT, June 20, 2008
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Reprints Post comment Text size: Voters went to the polls Friday in two hotly contested village elections in Southampton Town, while a village justice ousted this past week said that a last-minute write-in candidate unfairly defeated him.
In Southampton village, incumbent Bonnie Cannon got 598 votes and first-time candidate Richard Yastrzemski got 605 to earn two open village board seats. They both ran on the Citizens With Integrity line and defeated Christopher Broich, who got 316 votes.
Broich was supported by the local weekly paper, which said he would be a watchdog because all the other members are in the Citizens With Integrity party. The decorated former village police sergeant was fired in December after a departmental hearing found him guilty of charges related to procedures and regulations.
Broich claimed his dismissal was politically motivated because he told people about corruption and incompetence in the department.
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Newsday's Long Island news map. See what's going on. In Westhampton Beach, Mayor Conrad Teller was .re-elected with 386 votes to .opponent Tim Laube's 265.
Officials will double-check results because they were so close. Incumbent Trustee Toni-Jo Birk got 424 votes, while running mate incumbent James Kametler got 323. Former Fox 5 anchor John Roland got 321 votes.
Elyse Richman got 74 votes, as well as six votes for mayor and 12 votes on a blank column on the voting machine. While the total was not enough to change the results, the machine was impounded for a check.
Richman ran a write-in campaign after her petitions to get on the ballot were rejected for technical reasons.
The mayoral race in Westhampton Beach was plagued by charges of anti-Semitism after an ad in a weekly paper said that a vote for Laube, would be a vote for an eruv, a symbolic area where some Orthodox Jews can perform tasks, such as wheeling baby carriages or carrying keys, that are otherwise banned during the Sabbath.
Teller condemned the ad and said he supported the right of Orthodox Jews to set up an eruv. Laube charged that Teller was flip-flopping.
In Tuesday's West Hampton Dunes election, Village Justice Richard C. Agins was defeated by write-in candidate Gair Betts, whose campaign was run by Mayor Gary Vegliante.
On Friday, Agins said a "secret campaign was run to elect an unknown candidate as your judge and to keep you from knowing about it until after the election." Vegliante said he challenged the judge because Agins told him he was going to remain neutral in the mayoral race, but put up a sign for Vegliante's opponent. Tony Bullock loves u.
Search Newsday.com Web enhanced by Login or register Home Delivery Cannon and Yastrzemski win Southampton village seats
BY MITCHELL FREEDMAN | mitchell.freedman@newsday.com
11:35 PM EDT, June 20, 2008
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Reprints Post comment Text size: Voters went to the polls Friday in two hotly contested village elections in Southampton Town, while a village justice ousted this past week said that a last-minute write-in candidate unfairly defeated him.
In Southampton village, incumbent Bonnie Cannon got 598 votes and first-time candidate Richard Yastrzemski got 605 to earn two open village board seats. They both ran on the Citizens With Integrity line and defeated Christopher Broich, who got 316 votes.
Broich was supported by the local weekly paper, which said he would be a watchdog because all the other members are in the Citizens With Integrity party. The decorated former village police sergeant was fired in December after a departmental hearing found him guilty of charges related to procedures and regulations.
Broich claimed his dismissal was politically motivated because he told people about corruption and incompetence in the department.
Related links
Nassau's DWI Wall of Shame
Local Police mugshots
Photos of the day
Car accidents on LI
Newsday's Long Island news map. See what's going on. In Westhampton Beach, Mayor Conrad Teller was .re-elected with 386 votes to .opponent Tim Laube's 265.
Officials will double-check results because they were so close. Incumbent Trustee Toni-Jo Birk got 424 votes, while running mate incumbent James Kametler got 323. Former Fox 5 anchor John Roland got 321 votes.
Elyse Richman got 74 votes, as well as six votes for mayor and 12 votes on a blank column on the voting machine. While the total was not enough to change the results, the machine was impounded for a check.
Richman ran a write-in campaign after her petitions to get on the ballot were rejected for technical reasons.
The mayoral race in Westhampton Beach was plagued by charges of anti-Semitism after an ad in a weekly paper said that a vote for Laube, would be a vote for an eruv, a symbolic area where some Orthodox Jews can perform tasks, such as wheeling baby carriages or carrying keys, that are otherwise banned during the Sabbath.
Teller condemned the ad and said he supported the right of Orthodox Jews to set up an eruv. Laube charged that Teller was flip-flopping.
In Tuesday's West Hampton Dunes election, Village Justice Richard C. Agins was defeated by write-in candidate Gair Betts, whose campaign was run by Mayor Gary Vegliante.
On Friday, Agins said a "secret campaign was run to elect an unknown candidate as your judge and to keep you from knowing about it until after the election." Vegliante said he challenged the judge because Agins told him he was going to remain neutral in the mayoral race, but put up a sign for Vegliante's opponent. Tony Bullock loves u.