Tenafly Election Results

The Record
November 6, 2007
By Karen Sudol

Independent Mayor Peter S. Rustin was elected to a second term Tuesday. Rustin received 2,146 votes, Democratic Councilman Michael Lattif picked up 665 votes and Republican candidate William S. Saunders got 382.

Also elected to council seats were Democrats Patrick J. Rouse and Joseph McDermott, who ran unopposed for the three-year terms.

When the council is sworn in, all of its members will be Democrats.

Rouse, a retired math teacher and longtime council member, picked up 1,840 votes while McDermott, senior director of information technology services at NYU Medical Center, received 1,883 votes.

Of the borough's 8,336 registered voters, 3,254, or about 39 percent, cast ballots.

Rustin is a retired retailer who is also a Planning Board member. Lattif, a council member for five years, is a retired business owner and manager. Saunders, a semiretired independent contractor in medical marketing and sales promotion, is a former council member of 12 years.

Much debate among the mayoral candidates focused on overbuilding, specifically construction of McMansions; controlling costs through shared services; and making Tenafly greener.