Election 2016

Candidate emerges for State Senate seat

Republican Elaine Phillips will challenge Adam Haber

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Elaine Phillips, mayor of the Village of Flower Hill, was nominated at the Nassau County Republican Convention on May 23 to run for Jack Martins’s vacated 7th District seat in the State Senate.

Martins is not seeking re-election, and is instead running for the seat in the 3rd Congressional District. The 7th Senate District includes a portion of Elmont as well as Franklin Square, and spans most of the North Shore, from Lake Success to Roslyn Harbor.

“I am honored to be nominated,” said Phillips, who has three daughters. “I believe that as a member of the State Senate, I would be in a position to continue my work to reduce property taxes, protect the environment and provide every child with an opportunity to succeed.”

Phillips became mayor of Flower Hill, a small village on the North Shore, in 2012 after spending 25 years on Wall Street. She has also served as president of the Munsey Park School Community Association and was a member of the Manhasset Schools’ Citizens Advisory Committee on Finance. She currently sits on the Development Council for the College of Liberal Arts of Pennsylvania State University.

Running on her record of cutting taxes and fixing her village’s financial woes, Phillips also touts her passion for environmental issues. She initiated an environmental preservation program in Flower Hill that earned the village a national green designation, and has helped promote energy conservation and worked on improving drinking water.

Phillips will face off against former Nassau Interim Finance Authority member Adam Haber in November. Haber, who is a member of the Roslyn Board of Education, lost to Martins in the Senate race in 2014. He also unsuccessfully challenged Tom Suozzi for the democratic nomination for county executive in 2013.

“Nassau voters don’t need a handpicked candidate from the corrupt Skelos machine,” Haber said in a statement. “They want a fresh voice in Albany who will clean up our state government and always put Long Island first.”

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