Long Island Wire; Steve Levy Gets GOP Support

Democratic Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy will be officially endorsed today by Patrick Vecchio, the dean of the county's town supervisors. Vecchio, the Republican supervisor of Smithtown since 1978 has never endorsed a county executive candidate, and ran a short-lived GOP primary race to run against Democrat Robert Gaffney in 1991.

It's the not the first time Vecchio, the leader of the island's major Republican stronghold, has endorsed a Democrat in Suffolk County. Last year he endorsed Congressman Tim Bishop, who represents the First District of New York, which stretches from Smithtown to Montauk, for reelection. Bishop won in a landslide.

Levy is expected to do the same.