Clay — Facing no opposition once again, town of Clay Supervisor Damian Ulatowski and board members Joseph Bick, David Hess and Eugene Young held onto their offices on Election Night.
Ulatowski received 5,738 votes, while Bick, Hess and Young garnered 5,570, 5,540 and 5,445 votes, respectively.
Also running unopposed was Town Clerk Jill Hageman-Clark, who received 5,772 votes.
All five are Republicans.
Ulatowski has been supervisor since the resignation of James Rowley in 2008 when Rowley left to take a position with Onondaga County. (Rowley has since returned to the board as a board member.) Bick joined the board that year to fill the seat vacated by Ulatowski. Young was appointed to the board in 2011, replacing the retiring Bruce Johnson. Hess was appointed to the board this past June, replacing Robert Edick when he resigned and moved out of state.
Town justices Brian Lauri and Jeffrey Gosch, also unopposed, received 5,758 and 5,510 votes, respectively.
At the county level, Second District Legislator John Dougherty, also an unopposed Republican, garnered 2,701 votes. Dougherty was first elected to the seat in 2009. The Second District includes the eastern portion of the town of Clay.
The Clay Democrats rarely put up a slate of candidates to oppose the incumbent Republicans. The last time they did so was in 2007.
In fact, the only opposed race in the town of Clay was in the 14th Legislative District, where incumbent Republican Casey Jordan beat out political newcomer Kevin Tees, a Democrat, by a margin of 1,977 to 1,242. Jordan was originally appointed to the legislature in 2006. The 14th District encompasses the western portion of the town of Clay.
