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D’Esposito claims victory over Gillen in congressional race By KYlE CHIN kchin@liherald.com
Anthony D’Esposito says he’s going to Washington. But as the clock struck midnight, turning Election Day into Wednesday, his Democratic opponent, Laura Gillen, wasn’t quite ready to concede the 4th Congressional District race. “We’re going to wait until every vote is counted,” Gillen told supporters in Freeport late Tuesday night. “It’s an extremely close race. There’s still a lot of ballots out there.” As Gillen spoke, however, unofficial election returns from Nassau County showed D’Esposito leading her by 8,000 votes, with 87 percent of precincts reporting. A half-hour later, the county Board of Elections completed the counting, increasing D’Esposito’s lead to 10,000 votes. It was 51.9 percent for D’Eposito out of the more than 266,000 votes counted, compared with Gillen’s 48.1 percent. D’Esposito, a former New York City police detective from
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absolutely not be tolerated in Lynbrook,” Beach said in a Facebook post. “I will be speaking Lynbrook community mem- with Lynbrook PD today and bers expressed concern over a monitoring any developments.” recent antisemitic and racist Other community members incident behind South Lynbrook said they felt sickened by the Middle School. incident. Denise According to a Weiner, a member of news release from the Lynbrook Comthe Nassau County munity and BusiPolice Department, ness Facebook the Fourth Squad group, posted, “We was investigating a can’t tolerate this bias incident at the hate in our town.” U n i o n Av e n u e Weiner said she school in which at planned to enroll her least four swastikas, daughter, whom she along with racial is raising Jewish, in slurs, were carved the middle school. In into a tree. The incithe same post, she dent took place on asked, “How am I Nov. 3, at 12:30 p.m. supposed to explain T he swastikas this to a kid who is measured about four AlAN BEACH just learning what it inches square. Lynbrook Mayor means to be Jewish No arrests had herself ?” been made as the Weiner said she Herald went to press on Tuesday. believes now is the time to impleLynbrook Mayor Alan Beach ment an anti-racism curriculum said he was saddened to hear districtwide. “The town needs to about the incident, and added band together to show that this that he was working with the isn’t what Lynbrook stands for,” Lynbrook Police Department to she said. find the person responsible for Other residents, like Alura the carvings. Alvarez, said they agreed that “Hate has no place in our incidents like these are awful, community and hateful acts will Continued on page 4
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TowN oF HEMpsTEAD Councilman Anthony D’Esposito was leading Laura Gillen in the race to succeed Congresswoman Kathleen Rice. Island Park, appeared to have eked out a victory, and in the process flipped a seat from Democratic to Republican control. “I want to thank each and every one of you in this room,” he told supporters in Baldwin. “You’ve worked hard and you’ve
knocked on doors. You’ve made the phone calls. You’ve dug into your pockets to get us across this finish line. We took a seat that’s been in Democratic hands for 25 years.” D’Esposito will succeed KathContinued on page 7
Winner
opponent
Governor
Kathy Hochul (D)............... 54% Lee Zeldin (R).................... 46%
Comptroller
Thomas DiNapoli (D)........ 57% Paul Rodriguez (R)............ 40%
Attorney General
Letitia James (D)............... 56% Michael Henry (R)............. 42%
U.S. Senator
Charles Schumer (D)......... 58% Joe Pinton (R).................... 39%
Congressional District 4
Anthony D’Esposito (R).... 52%
Laura Gillen (D)................ 42%
Senate District 9
Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick (R)... 56%
Kenneth Moore (D).......... 44%
Assembly District 20
Ari Brown (R)..................... 62%
Michael Delury (D).......... 38%
Assembly District 21
Brian Curran (R)................. 50% Judy Griffin (D).................. 49% unofficial results as of midnight eSt tuesday
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ate has no place in our community and hateful acts will absolutely not be tolerated in Lynbrook.