Spin Cycle

Babylon Conservative officials have named Robert McGrath, a long time party vice chairman, to succeed the late Pasquale Curcio as the town’s party leader, Newsday's Rick Brand reports.
McGrath, 51, a Copiague fire commissioner and a party vice chairman, was elected on a 5-4 vote of the party’s executive committee Thursday night. He defeated party executive vice chairman defeated Nick Macris, the party’s executive vice chairman.
McGrath, a customer service representive with the Suffolk Water Authority, is a long time ally of Curcio and a backer of new county Conservative chairman Edward Walsh. Both men will have to to run for re-election at party conventions in September.