Mr. Warren is popular with environmentalists, for things like fighting the blooms of toxic blue-green algae choking Lake Agawam, but his term has been marked by a large amount of turnover of village staff. The family said Warrens conduct during the race forced their decision. Anyone can read what you share. Warren had said he was running on his record of addressing pollution in Lake Agawam and revitalizing the villages downtown. The Epleys a powerful and wealthy Hamptons clan purchased Warrens rental home in July 2020 from Citibank executive Brandt Portugal, placing a Sword of Damocles over their foe. Long Island voters in eight villages will elect trustees running in contested races and elect mayors who are also facing challengers in Southampton, Sag Harbor and Port Jefferson. GREG WEHNER. "As Mayor, I would like to make the cleanup of Lake Agawam a top priority." Vote jesse warren on june 21. Cleaning up Lake Agawam and other polluted water bodies, Introducing Budgetary and governmental transparency, Pushing for new technology in Village Hall, Strongly supporting law enforcement and public safety, Proposing more affordable housing options for millennials, seniors, families and our workforce, Changing the status quo while preserving our land and the historical integrity of our Village, Paid for by One Community for Southampton. 2021 . Tell us about it! First-term incumbent Southampton Village Mayor Jesse Warren defeated his predecessor, Michael Irving, by a vote of 1,064-604 on Friday in what was likely Long Island's most contentious. We're happy you are enjoying our content. Despite its relatively small area and population compared to other . Then as one of several personnel changes he made shortly after being elected, Mr. Warren replaced Zach Epley on the planning board, a position he had held for about a year. He is just packed in squatting. I have spoken to Mayor Warren to congratulate him on his hard-fought victory and offered to help in any way that I can.". Sag Harbor and Southampton were among seven villages across the Twin Forks to have elections this week. Roy Stevenson and Robin Brown, who had aligned with Warren, both won two-year trustee seats, receiving 996 and 888 votes, respectively. COURTESY JESSE WARREN, Joseph McLoughlin is running for Southampton Village Trustee. According to the 2020 census, its population was 12,658. Warren was one of two East End village mayors up for e-election this week. The face-off turned contentious after Warren was blasted by the PBA for appointing Hulbert Waldroup, a convicted criminal, to the village police reform committee. Credit: Gordon M. Grant. Her current term ends on April 21, 2025. Likely Long Islands most contentious mayoral race this year, Newsday noted. The election marked a shift in village politics, with spending from private outside groups on behalf of the candidates that included mailers from the Long Island Law Enforcement Foundation, the Suffolk Police Benevolent Associations Political Action Committee. He's been trying to reign in overtime and other costs related to the village police department and that has rankled the PBA. It is not surprising you would have the former mayor and his family buying my house through an anonymous L.L.C., then proceeding to make a motion to evict me during a pandemic to force me from elected office, said Mr. Warren, who purchased a new home in Southampton in December and is preparing to move. I think that the village itself is just split down the middle, just like everything else in this country, Mr. King said. Incumbent Rita Di Lucia is running with newcomer John Dileo Jr. Another incumbent, John Popeleski, is running with Vincent Costa, a newcomer as well. MICHAEL HELLER, Newly-re-elected Southampton Village Mayor Jesse Warren gets a long congratulatory hug from his girlfriend Martyna Sokol following the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. Credit: Debbie Egan-Chin. His efforts resulted in less algae pollution in Lake Agawam, something not accomplished in years. It all came to a head when Warren appointed local businessman Hulbert Waldroup to a 20-person panel looking into potential police reforms. To do so requires claiming hardship due to the coronavirus, and it is unclear if he would qualify. COURTESY JOSEPH MCLOUGHLIN, Mark Parash is running for Southampton Village Trustee. Got a hot tip for our calendar? The Epleys denied this. that critics called blatantly racist. Though Mr. Warren suggested in interviews that he was protected by the New Yorks eviction moratorium, he has not petitioned for such protection. It is part of a politically motivated, multimillion-dollar real estate scheme to oust him from office over residency requirements, he says. Warren, 38, says the Epleys are lying and that his rent is up to date. The Epleys and Warren have a long history of bad blood, stemming from Warrens election as mayor in June 2019 when he unseated incumbent Michael Irving a close Epley ally. He followed me and my wife around to the point where we were like, we dont want him on this property, Zach Epley said. (Error Code: 232011) The mayor of Southampton is a squatter, according to his landlord, who also happens to be a bitter political rival. 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He says a political rivalry is the reason he's getting kicked out. The police department openly criticized him. Mr. Warren said a resolution was at hand: he planned to move out this week. ZOE KAVA. UPDATE: June 21, 11:15 p.m. Jesse Warren was elected to the Southampton Village Mayor seat on Friday night after garnering 450 votesincumbent Mayor Michael Irving collected 405 votes. When we took office, we inherited a Village that had deteriorated under the previous administration, with record vacancies and the most polluted lakes in the State of New York. With the Epleys strong objection to his presence, plus a formal request that he vacate, he turns into a squatter, Mr. DeCorpo said. Alina sits down with Jesse Warren, mayor of Southampton Village, who recently won a second term Alina Cho Jul 28, 2022 The great thing about walking around the Hamptons is you never know who you'll run into. Kate Gallego is the Mayor of Phoenix in Arizona. Tuesday, May 16, 2017. GREG WEHNER, Left to Right: Andrew Pilaro, Jesse Warren and Mark Parash, Jesse Warren hugs Southampton Village Deputy Clerk Eileen Musarra after being declared the winner of the mayoral race on Friday. He says a political rivalry is the reason hes getting kicked out. That was the June 18 election for Mayor of Southampton Village. In just two years, weve turned Southampton Village around. That, however, isnt fast enough for Epley, and his father former Southampton Mayor Mark Epley who both showed up unannounced at the two-family home on David Whites Lane and demanded Warren leave in a dramatic caught-on-video confrontation on Jan. 16. MICHAEL HELLER, The vote count from each of the voting machines is tabulated during the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. Jay Schneiderman, the town supervisor, refused to comment on who he thought was in the right, citing a desire to preserve the peace. He owns Tenet, a high-fashion shop he opened about a decade ago that sells things like $495 sneakers. MICHAEL HELLER. Jesse Warren, the mayor of Southampton, packed his. All rights reserved. Paradise Valley is a town in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, and a suburb of Phoenix, the state's largest city.It is Arizona's wealthiest municipality. second term in offices. MICHAEL HELLER, The vote count from each of the voting machines is tabulated during the 2021 Southampton Village Mayoral election at the Southampton Cultural Center on Friday night. Warren has long insisted the Epleys bought his home in order to kick him out and make him a non-resident of the village, which would make him ineligible to run for office there. Zach Epley maintains no check was received. Candidate. Unsurprisingly, the saga has engulfed Southampton, seeping from Village Hall on Main Street to the golf clubhouse at Shinnecock Hills. Jesse Warren, the political neophyte who became Southamptons youngest-ever mayor when he was narrowly elected in 2019 at age 36, acknowledged that he had overstayed his lease, which ended in October, and should not be in the apartment, where he has lived for about five years and resides with his girlfriend, Martyna Sokol. A village employee claims Mayor Jesse Warren created a hostile work environment. But as of Wednesday, he was still in the apartment, his belongings packed into boxes. Mr. Warrens 45-vote squeaker victory unseated the incumbent mayor, Michael Irving, who had succeeded Mr. Epley and who was his favored candidate. The purchase of the building where Mr. Warren lives was not part of a grand plot to oust a rival, but was what Mark Epley described as estate planning a row of future homes for his 11 grandchildren, the oldest of whom is in elementary school. You've read 3 of your 3 free articles this month. There have been ugly Facebook posts, angry phone calls and a video the mayor filmed last month of the Epleys entering the apartment and demanding his exit. Tell us about it! Things escalated after Warren tossed Zach Epley off the village planning board. HIRING 6 BENEFIT REPS-WORK REMOTE W/TRAINING, our Hamptons Insider newsletters delivered direct to you, Band Applications Available! Of the remaining five uncontested East End village races, two feature fresh faces, while the other three are incumbents running uncontested. You've read 3 of your 3 free articles this month. GREG WEHNER, Left to right: Mark Parash, Jesse Warren and Andrew Pilaro GREG WEHNER, Jesse Warren was elected to serve as Southampton Village Mayor on Friday night. Your vote counts for more in Southampton! This time he won in a landslide by nearly 500. The PBA is criticizing Warren for choosing Waldroup to be on the panel. Warren was facing off against former village Mayor Michael Irving. "Likely Long Island's most contentious mayoral race this year," Newsday noted. Get our Hamptons Insider newsletters delivered direct to you. MICHAEL HELLER, The scene at the Southampton Cultural Center Friday as Southampton Village residents vote in the village election. You've read 4 of your 7 free articles this month. Sag Harbor Village Trustee James Larocca unseated Mayor Kathleen Mulcahy by a 22-vote margin on Tuesday. As his lease came to a close in the fall, the Epleys said they initially offered Mr. Warren a yearlong extension. The. They include Quogue village trustees Randy Cardo and Ted Necarsulmer, Westhampton Beach village trustees Rob Rubio and Brian Tymann and West Hampton Dunes village trustees Gary Trimarchi and John J. Efff Jr. Village of Southampton Heliport 87N update to Landing Fees Additional info. The $2,750 in rent Mr. Warren has sent since his lease ended has been returned by the Epleys, the check uncashed. In just two years, weve turned Southampton Village around. Got a hot tip for our calendar? Vera Chinese covers Suffolk County government and politics. Over the summer, Mr. Warren discovered the buyer behind the company was Mark Epley, who served as mayor of Southampton for 12 years before retiring in 2017. Please log in or create an account to continue reading. He was 89. Whether Mr. Warren is technically squatting is a matter of debate. The incumbents, Deputy Mayor Leonard Oppenheimer and trustee Gil Bruh, are running on the Residents Party line against challengers Domenico Calandrella and Afrim Pulatani, of the For a Better Hewlett Harbor Party. He proposed an initiative which became a law, requiring unoccupied stores to have artwork in the windows. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. This entire thing has been an effort to try and remove me from office and intimidate me and harass and simply thats their entire goal, Warren said. Because we live here, Warren shot back. Irving, who had said he ran again because he has strong family ties to the community and that he has a track record of working with all members of government, congratulated his opponent Friday night. Mr. Warren ultimately purchased a home of his own, about a mile away, an approximately $1.3 million house on Potato Field Court. The drama began, by Mr. Warrens telling, in July. While the mayor admitted he overstayed his lease, which ended on Oct. 15, he insisted the landlord has no right to demand his immediate departure, citing the eviction moratorium instituted by Gov. Gallego is affiliated with the Democratic Party. Southampton Village Mayor Jesse Warren, right, chatswith Isabelle Marino of Southamptonon Friday. Copyright 2023 Newsday. Source: NY Post The next, it's Paul McCartney. He created a new park on Moses Lane. Mayor Jesse Warren is seeking re-election. Back in 2005, Waldroup pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor, admitting that he acted as security for an escort service. June 18: Southampton Village Election for Mayor and Two Trustees. Keep up with all the latest from Eastern LI. Zach Epley, 33, says his family served their tenant,. He had been challenged by Michael Irving, his predecessor as mayor who wanted the job back after losing to Warren. Irving, 67, served as mayor from 2017 until 2019 and spent five years as a trustee and previously served on the village planning board. But in its broad strokes, it is easy to hear the echo of a deeply divided national moment in which some seem committed to their own versions of reality, and each side is convinced that the other is acting only out of political self-interest. At Seans Place Deli on Jobs Lane, slinging the egg sandwiches he is known for, the owner, Sean King, said he was sure politics, not real estate, was at the root of the dispute. Warren told The Post his landlords are engaging in a Mafia style shakedown, and said he planned to file a police report. We didnt let the pandemic stop our progress: we produced some of the best COVID-19 testing numbers in the country, issued the first mask mandate in New York State, provided our community members and hospital workers with an ample supply of ventilators, viral testing, and PPE, and ensured that all seniors wanting a vaccine received one. With the pandemic turning the Hamptons rental market into a feeding frenzy, it was difficult for the mayor to immediately find a new place. He created an online way to report environmental damage. 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