A small, local Republican primary for a township’s supervisor position is normally not worth national coverage.
A GOP primary in Smithtown, a town on Long Island, New York, bucked that conventional wisdom with one of the more bizarre lead-ups to a primary imaginable.
On Tuesday, voters in Smithtown voted to keep incumbent supervisor Edward Wehrheim in his position, per News 12 Long Island.
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Wehrheim beat challenger John Trotta in the primary, winning 55 percent of the votes to his opponent’s 45 (the incumbent won by about 700 votes).
That victory, however, came in the wake of allegations that a man dating Wehrheim’s adult daughter stalked Trotta and tried to intimidate him in the lead-up to Tuesday’s primary.
According to a New York Post exclusive, 47-year-old
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