Robert Ehrlich walked into Sea Cliff Village Hall like he owned the place, falsely declaring himself mayor and trying to fire ...

Resident and Pirate’s Booty founder Robert Ehrlich is not letting a little thing like an election get in his way of running the Village of Sea Cliff. Ehrlich and three other men arrived at ...

Villafane, the only mayoral candidate on the Sea Cliff ballot Tuesday, received 1,064 votes to win a new two-year term. Write-in candidate Robert Ehrlich, founder of the popular snack food brand ...

Running unopposed, Sea Cliff Mayor Elena Villafane and Trustees ... tensions in the village grew last week when resident Robert Ehrlich declared himself mayor on March 10. The village said ...

It all started last Monday, when Robert Ehrlich, the founder of Pirate’s Booty Snacks, marched into the Village Hall in Sea Cliff (pop. 5,000) and announced that he was now the mayor.

Robert Ehrlich, 66, founder of the popular Pirate’s Booty snack, declared himself the winner of Sea Cliff’s mayoral election on Tuesday — just 30 minutes after the polls opened. James ...

SEA CLIFF, New York (WABC) -- An unexpected and peculiar fight is playing out in this one-square-mile village on Long Island as the fight for the mayor's seat in the village of Sea Cliff comes to ...

Robert Ehrlich attempted to seize control of his coastal Long Island village on March 10, citing an obscure New York law as grounds for his takeover Inc Village of Sea Cliff/Facebook The founder ...

On March 10, officials say Ehrlich and three supporters stormed into Sea Cliff Village Hall in Nassau County, declared himself mayor and attempted to fire all village staff, citing an obscure ...

Ehrlich countered that he no longer tries to do things “the right way,” claiming the village doesn’t play by the rules. The small-town showdown appears to have inspired many Sea Cliff ...