Newsday Covers LIBOR's Success Winning Huntington Primaries

"After incumbents Ed Smyth in Huntington and Ed Wehrheim in Smithtown each won their GOP primaries Tuesday night, housing advocates declared victory, saying the wins represented a path forward for development and the creation of the housing Long Island needs," reported Newsday. 

LIBOR VP of Government and Political Affairs Marlo Paventi, who worked on a $150,000-plus campaign through the New York State Association of Realtors Fund, emphasized that Smyth’s win spotlighted an "effective" decision-making strategy on new housing construction. "This outcome highlights the importance of local leadership in advancing thoughtful, bipartisan solutions to Long Island’s housing challenges," Paventi said.

"It validates the work they’ve done to date," LIBI Chief Executive Mike Florio told Newsday's Randi Marshall: "From what we had heard, this is a referendum on the future of Long Island that was being put in front of voters here, and defeat of either of these two candidates really would have set us back a long ways."