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Incumbent Ed Wehrheim to face Suffolk legislator, who is running as a write-in

The Smithtown Democrats are officially supporting a write-in campaign for voluble Republican Rob Trotta as town supervisor, The Point has learned.

The Democrats’ previous candidate for supervisor, Rosemary Griffin, withdrew for personal reasons, town Democratic committee chairwoman Phyllis Hart told The Point Tuesday. That withdrawal, however, came too late to take Griffin’s name off the ballot. But the town Democrats’ executive board met and agreed to support Trotta, a Suffolk legislator from Fort Salonga, who lost to Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim in a nasty Republican primary in June, on a write-in basis in November. Trotta has fought with his own party’s leadership in the legislature and bee

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