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NOVEMBER 5 - 11, 2020
Local incumbents score wins
But race remained tight in Assembly District 21 By RONNy REyES AND ScOTT BRINTON rreyes@liherald.com or sbrinton@liherald.com
Election Day 2020 turned out to be a wild one. As of midnight on Tuesday, tens of thousands of absentee ballots remained to be counted, making projecting winners in any number of races for Congress and the State Legislature tricky, if not impossible. In the 21st District, State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin, a Democrat from Rockville Centre, was losing to Republican challenger Patricia CanzoneriFitzpatrick, who, at press time on Wednesday, had 50 percent of the vote to Griffin’s 49 percent, according to the Nassau County Board of Elections. In 2018, Gif fin defeated incumbent Brian Curran, a Republican from Lynbrook, with 53 percent of the vote. Griffin ran on her record of acquiring funding for local schools, organizations and municipalities, while Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick focused on revamping economic development in the county. The absentee ballots, which could tip the race, were still to be counted as of Wednesday. James Scheuer man, the Board of Elections Democratic commissioner, said there were around 141,000 absentee ballots
Communities rally behind WWII vet district and village to promote programs and activities for Freeport families. As he aged, memThe Rev. Eugene Purvis sat on bers of Freeport Cares took the front porch of his Freeport turns caring for him and his home and told stories about his wife, Sylvia. When the coronaviservice in World War II to a rus pandemic hit, they delivered group of high school students, meals to the Purvises’ home and most of whom hope to serve in discovered that it was in a state the U.S. military. of disrepair. One such story One member of recounts the time Free por t Cares, Purvis was serving Christine Waters, on the Pacific island taught at Barnum of Saipan with the Woods Elementary 20th Ar my Air School, in the East Corps, when he was Meadow School Disthe sole survivor in trict, for 25 years, his unit of an attack until 2017. She is by Japanese bombnow co-president of ers. the East Meadow Purvis, 97, the cApT. MARK Association for former pastor of the DEl ORFANO Retired Teachers. Naomi Temple AME Over the summer, U.S. Civil Air Patrol Zion Church in Patrick Pizzo, the Roosevelt, has a East Meadow School mental scrapbook of similar District’s assistant superintenexperiences that shaped him. He dent for business and finance, shared it with the students, who invited Waters to join a task were among roughly 60 volun- force he was forming called the teers from East Meadow and Economic Opportunity for All Freeport who visited him on Oct. Youth Committee. One of its 24 to help clean his house and do missions is to help young people s o m e l o n g - n e e d e d h o m e find employment, mentorship improvements. and apprenticeship opportuniPurvis is an active member of ties. Waters connected the comFreeport Cares, a community mittee with Purvis, and Pizzo group that works with the school Continued on page 16
By BRIAN STIEGlITZ bstieglitz@liherald.com
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U.S. REp. KAThlEEN Rice was victorious on Election Day. Above, she stumped in front of the Freeport post office in August, speaking about the importance of mail-in ballots in this year’s election. to be counted in Nassau County, a record number. Tallying them could take days. Meanwhile, State Sen. Todd Kaminsky, a Democrat from Long Beach representing the 9th District, was re-elected with 53 percent of the vote to 47 percent for his challenger, Victoria Johnson. Kaminsky said it was “really gratifying” to return to Albany, and noted that a few years ago, none of Long Island’s senators were Democrats.
“Thank you to the voters of the South Shore for overwhelmingly re-electing me to the State Senate,” Kaminsky said. “I look forward to getting to work on behalf of all voters to achieve more prosperous communities, honest government and a cleaner environment.” Democrat John Brooks, representing the 8th District, ran unopposed for his seat and was re-elected. Democratic AssemblywomContinued on page 3
ElEction RESUltS office
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Winner
opponent
4th c.d.
Kathleen Rice (d) – 52%
douglas tuman (R) – 47%
8th S.d.
John Brooks (d) – 100%
uncontested
18th A.d.
taylor darling (d) – 84%
Cherice Vanderall (R) –16%
21st A.d.
patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick (R) – 50% Judy griffin (d) – 49%
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