Looming large in
the race is the Village of Kiryas Joel, which has two large voting
blocs and such high turnout that its citizens returned all five current
board members to office despite heavy opposition elsewhere.
The
larger, establishment bloc will support Weeks and Martin in the
Republican primary, guaranteeing them well over 2,000 votes that Save
Monroe must scramble to counter in areas outside Kiryas Joel.
The
village's Democratic-leaning opposition bloc, commanded by the Kiryas
Joel Alliance, is more likely to support Vaccaro than Purdy, whose
group has made a point of renouncing any Kiryas Joel bloc vote – even
if it would help them defeat the incumbents.
Only the Save Monroe
candidates have introduced into their campaign the heated issues of
Kiryas Joel's proposed water pipeline and potential expansion, both of
which they oppose.
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