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Friday, November 11, 2016

Vol. 65, No. 46

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Suozzi wins Congress race Dem defeats GOPer Martins 48-44 despite Trump victory; Rice gets 2nd term ure out what’s going on in this country and figure out how to bring people North Shore voters chose Demo- back together again to work together crat Tom Suozzi over Republican Jack to actually address the problems that Martins on Tuesday to represent the we face in this country.” Voters also re-elected Democratic 3rd Congressional District, keeping retiring Rep. Steve Israel’s seat in Rep. Kathleen Rice over Republican David Gurfein, a retired U.S. Marine Democratic hands. Suozzi, a former Nassau County Corps officer and businessman from Manhasset, in the 4th executive, won 48.45 Congressional District. percent of the vote Rice, a former to state Sen. Martins’ Party activists Nassau County district 44.02 percent, a tighter margin than polls react to Trump win attorney from Garden City, won a second had predicted. PAGE 24 term with 54.26 perThe win is Suozzi’s cent of the vote to Gurfirst in 11 years and brings him some political redemption fein’s 37.1 percent. The 3rd District race tightened in after losing his last three elections. But the victory was tempered by the week leading up to the election — Republican Donald Trump taking the Suozzi’s lead shrunk to 7 percentage White House and his party maintain- points from 16 in early October in a ing control in both houses of Con- Nov. 3 Siena College poll. Martins, a former Mineola mayor gress. “We need to really do some who now lives in Old Westbury, proved soul-searching,” Suozzi told a crowd a popular candidate but continually of about 200 supporters at the Mil- struggled with name recognition. Continued on Page 22 leridge Inn in Jericho. “We have to fig-

BY N O A H M A N S K A R

PHOTO BY NOAH MANSKAR

Democrat Tom Suozzi declares victory Tuesday night in his 3rd Congressional District race against Republican state Sen. Jack Martins.

Phillips wins as GOP holds state Senate BY J OE N I K I C , STEPHEN ROMANO AND MAX ZAHN

In two hotly contested state Legislature races, Republican Elaine Phillips defeated Democrat Adam Haber in the 7th Senate district, while Democrat Anthony

D’Urso defeated Republican Matt Varvaro on Tuesday night. In two other state races, Democrat Charles Lavine comfortably retained his seat in the 13th Assembly district against Republican Jeffrey Vitale, while Republican Ed Ra decisively defeated Democrat Gary Port to retain his seat in the 19th Assembly district.

In a tight race to replace outgoing state Sen. Jack Martins in the 7th Senate district, Phillips defeated her opponent, Democrat Adam Haber, by 4,161 votes, out of 127,308 cast. Haber, an East Hills businessman, received 59,169 votes on the Democratic line to his opponent’s 58,455 Republican votes, but 5,490 Conservative Party votes

pushed Phillips over the top in the race for a 52 percent to 48 percent victory. “When I began this campaign six months ago, I asked the voters of this district to look at my record of cutting taxes, working to enact strong ethics and protect the environment,” she said. “Voters agreed that we need a Senator Continued on Page 23

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