Family Values: Politics in Port Jefferson

Politics in Port Jefferson has become a family affair recently.

The current mayor, Margot Garant, has been in the office for a little under a year. Her mother, Jeanne Garant, is a former mayor who served 1999-2005.

Margot was thrown into the position when her friends had suggested that she run in the 2009 campaign. “It was really weird,” she says, “the timing felt right for change.”