Village of Saddle RockincumbentsMayor Dan Levy, Village Justice Julia Gavriel, and trustees Dan Chadow and Alex Kishinevsky have been disqualified from running in the Wednesday, March 18, election after opposing slates challenged their petitions.
The Nassau County Board of Elections found that six of the slate’s eight pages of petition signatures lacked a witness signature, as required by state election law.
Attempts to reach the disqualified incumbents have been unavailing.
Current Trustee Robert Kraus, often a lone dissenting voice on the board and the only incumbent who was not disqualified, is running for a four-year term as mayor under the Together for a Better Saddle Rock slate.
Martine Alter and Vivian Kollenscher are running to serve four-year terms as trustees under the Concerned Residents of Saddle Rock slate, and Sigalit Sanilevich is running to complete the final two years of a four-year trustee term under the Tree Keeper banner.
Kraus, Alter, Kollenscher, and Sanilevich, who challenged the incumbents’ petitions, are campaigning together despite running on separate slates with their main campaign issue being what they call a lack of process and transparency in the village government.
Under the banner of the Friendly Neighbors Party, Kambiz Akhavan is running for mayor, and Joshua Rabanipour and Kousha Askari are running for trustee.
No one will appear on the ballot for the village justice position, so a write-in campaign is expected.
“It’s been a very, very long month,” said Village Clerk Carmela Speciale.
Attempts to speak with members of the Friendly Neighbors Party have been unavailing, but Askari provided campaign flyers and candidate statements.
Source: LI Press
