Steven C. Englebright
Steven C. Englebright is running for Suffolk County Legislator, 5th District
BACKGROUND
- Englebright, 79, of Setauket, a registered Democrat, is running on the Democratic and Working Families lines.
- He previously served in the Suffolk County Legislature starting in 1983, before serving 31 years as a state Assemblyman, where he chaired the Environmental Conservation committee.
- He teaches part-time at Stony Brook University, where he earned a master’s degree in paleontology and sedimentology.
 
ISSUES
- He said holding down costs and "being responsive to the economic needs of the district" are primary objectives.
- As the "only elected scientist" on Long Island, he said he's primarily concerned with "protecting our ground and surface waters."
- He would like to see the county's vast park system become "an institution of optimism" not just a recreational or "passive place to store property."
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