Voters Guide To Miller Place-Rocky Point 2013 General Election

Here is all of the information you need to know when heading to the polls in Port Jefferson for the Nov. 5 general election.

Primary Candidates: 

Town of Brookhaven Supervisor

• Vivian Viloria-Fisher (D)
• Ed Romaine (R)

In November 2012, Romaine won the office of supervisor in  special election after Mark Lesko left office for a job leading  Accelerate Long Island.

He was elected to the Suffolk County Legislature in 1985 and 2005 and served as county clerk in 1989. Prior to this, Romaine taught social studies in the Hauppauge school district for ten years. He is married and has two sons and a stepdaughter.

Romaine has been an outspoken leader on the crackdown of illegal housing and has worked to create tougher codes to address the issues.  He has supported the Carmans River project. His 2014 town budget freezes taxes, had no layoffs and allocates $10 million to open space purchases.

Vivian M. Viloria-Fisher- Viloria-Fisher, 65, of Setauket is running on the Democratic and Working Family lines. Viloria-Fisher, a former teacher from Setauket, served the Three Village and Port Jefferson areas as county legislator from 1999 through 2011.

 She has a bachelor’s degree in English from Hunter College and a master’s in liberal arts from Stony Brook University. She is married and has five children.

• Cathy Schatzger (D)
• Donna Lent (R)

Lent, 61, of Medford is running on the Independence and Republican lines. She is the chief deputy for outgoing Town Clerk Patricia Eddington.

• Lori Baldassare (D)
• Dan Losquadro (R)

Incumbent Daniel Losquadro, R-Shoreham, is being challenged by Lori Baldassare, D-Mount Sinai, for the Brookhaven Superintendent of Highways seat.

Losquadro said to Newsday that he has improved the highway department since taking office by the elimination of no-bid contracts and purchasing new communications equipment. Losquadro also lists on his accomplishments bringing the department into compliance with state labor laws by obtaining certfied payrolls from contractors as well as making sure vendors pay current wages.

Baldassare is a government liaison officer for the Suffolk County Department of Public Works, and previously served as chief deputy Brookhaven highway superintendent and other town positions for nine years, according to Newsday. Baldassare is criticizing how the town responded in last February’s blizzard, stating that “mismanagement” of the plowing efforts lost millions of dollars in federal reimbursements. She states that she has been involved in successful plowing efforts when she was in the highway department, and that it should use computer software to track road repairs and schedule maintenance.

• Tom Spota (D)

• Angie Carpenter (R)

• Vincent Demarco (D)

• Wayne Fellrath (D)
• Jane Bonner (R)

• Sarah Anker (D)
• Jennifer Juengst (R)