The incumbent is running unopposed in the 18th district of the Suffolk County Legislature:
JON COOPER, DEMOCRAT
BACKGROUND: Cooper, 52, of Lloyd Harbor is also running on the Independence and Working Families lines, seeking his sixth term in the legislature, where he currently serves as majority leader. He is president of Spectronics Inc., a Westbury firm that makes ultraviolet equipment, and is a 1977 graduate of Duke University.
ISSUES: Cooper has successfully pressed for a referendum on the November ballot to extend the current quarter-cent sales tax from 2013 to 2030 to allow the county over the next four years to borrow $322 million to buy open space and farmland and fund another $122 million in environmental projects, including the prevention of storm-water runoff. He also said he has used his business experience to rein in taxes and favors efforts to increase affordable housing for the young and seniors.