Anna Throne-Holst

Throne-Holst said the �dysfunctional� Congress has failed to pass legislation on critical issues that include climate change, gun control and comprehensive immigration reform. Failure to reform the tax code �puts the onus on the middle class.� She supports gun control legislation that bars those on �no fly� terrorism watch lists from purchasing firearms. She also favors fixing the Affordable Care Act rather than repealing it. She said Congress needs to fix the country�s visa program, particularly for farmers on Eastern Long Island who need workers.

Throne-Holst, 56, of Sag Harbor, a former Southampton Town supervisor, is on the Democratic, Working Families and Women�s Equality lines. Born in Oslo, Norway and raised in Stockholm, Sweden, she received a bachelor�s degree from a Boston-area high school in 1979 and American University in 1982. She moved to Southampton in 1988, where she co-founded the Hayground School, a Bridgehampton alternative early childhood education center, and then ran the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreation Center. In 2006, she worked on Congolese elections for the United Nations� Department of Peacekeeping. Also that year she received her master�s degree in public administration from Columbia University. She became a Southampton Town councilwoman in 2008. In 2009, she won her first of three terms as supervisor. Throne-Holst, who is single, has three sons and a foster child.