Spin Cycle

I thought Ira Bernstein was running against Kathy Walsh

I am backing Joe Fritz and Alonso Jacobs for the Islip Town Council race. I am a Democratic town executive board member and will be fighting Morgo and Bodkin . Nolan has doen nothing for the Democratic Town executive committee.

I am backing Joe Fritz and Alonso Jacobs for the Islip Town Council race. I am a Democratic town executive board member and will be fighting Morgo and Bodkin . Nolan has doen nothing for the Democratic Town executive committee.

Any mention of Independence "Party" should include quotes around the word "Party" as this is neither a party nor anything more than a fraud perpetuated on the public by Fat Frank MacKay.

Thank goodness for Trish Bergin bringing a smart, savy and insightful
prospective and Steve Flotteron who walked the walk of reform starting the downfall of the McGowan "machine" being our 2009 Candidates!
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Islip needs two independent and conservative Board Members free of the omni-present strings of Phil Nolan.
He wants it all and is running an ex-republican who flipped over to his party for protection, a consumate backroom wheeler-dealer inspite of the wishes of the bedrock of his party's support in Brentwood/CI and
then, yes then, muscles out the hard workibg candidate and "installs" his own son.

It seems to me that it is time to acknowledge the new GOP has once agagin made it's case for a complete break with the past and has earned the opportunity to see to it that at least Islip residents get a choice of a strong 2 party government, lord knows we know what we get from
the Democrats having control in Washington, Albany & Hauppauge. In fact who but the GOP would know all about the dangers of a Supervisor out of control and ravaging his own party?

ISLIP VOTER has an odd PERSPECTIVE concerning these races.......the new gop wheeled and dealed with a change of enrollment in the works for Bergin and she dealt back by agreeing. She is no independent . The same goes for Bodkin.

ISLIP VOTER has an odd PERSPECTIVE concerning these races.......the new gop wheeled and dealed with a change of enrollment in the works for Bergin and she dealt back by agreeing. She is no independent . The same goes for Bodkin.

let's chip in for eyeglasses for Islip Voter, the new gop is the same as the old gop

The leaders of the "new republicans" are the same ole same ole leaders of the old. As a matter of fact, the spokesman is none other than John Schettino. Other retreads are Al Graf, Bill Garbarinio and Frank Tantone. Didn't PETE MCGOWAN appoint all these so called reformers to lucrative board positions???
Trish Bergin? You had a better chance with Clara Datre. Steve Flotteron? You have got to be kidding me. Didn;t he vote against all the "reform" initiatives that Nolan presented?
Same ole same ole

The same spin from the democrats and phil nolan's hacks...

I have been involved in the movement to re-build the Islip Republican Party for several years. Many of us have been Republican Committeemembers for years...others have recently joined the party...and many former Republican Committeemembers have re-joined the party since our group took over several months ago.

We have two good young intelligent, hardworking candidates for Islip Town Council in Steve Flotteron and Trish Bergin...On the flip side the democrats have two aging lifetime political hacks that have jumped from one political patronage job to another...

Flotteron has been the voice of reason on the Islip Town Board and has voted his conscience...sometimes with Nolan...sometimes against Nolan...

And as a side note...I was hired on the Islip Town Planning Board in February 2007...McGowan was long gone...and I had been told by the old McGowan and 3rd Avenue Gang that my career was over for going against them...

Thanks for the mention though...

The same spin from the democrats and phil nolan's hacks...

I have been involved in the movement to re-build the Islip Republican Party for several years. Many of us have been Republican Committeemembers for years...others have recently joined the party...and many former Republican Committeemembers have re-joined the party since our group took over several months ago.

We have two good young intelligent, hardworking candidates for Islip Town Council in Steve Flotteron and Trish Bergin...On the flip side the democrats have two aging lifetime political hacks that have jumped from one political patronage job to another...

Flotteron has been the voice of reason on the Islip Town Board and has voted his conscience...sometimes with Nolan...sometimes against Nolan...

And as a side note...I was hired on the Islip Town Planning Board in February 2007...McGowan was long gone...and I had been told by the old McGowan and 3rd Avenue Gang that my career was over for going against them...

Thanks for the mention though...

I guess the new Islip GOP is getting somewhere and is a real threat to the Democrats if these attacks are any indication. Although I am not involved in Islip, I can't see how the new crew can be called "the same old bunch" when it took so long to dethrone Trunzo/Messina/McGowan and at a cost of losing the town board and losing the state Senate. I am cautiously optimistic, even with the changing registration numbers. I think the Islip GOP is moving in the right direction and being run into the ground by Trunzo.

Former Islip Republican spoke the absolute truth, the so called New Republicans of the 21st Century are the very same hacks that kept McGowan and Trunzo in power for years. They would not know the meaning of the word REFORM. Flotteron blocked every true reform initiative on the Town Board and Bergin adds a pretty face but no gravitas to the race. I look forward to the four way primary for the IP line and I feel certain that there will be an all Democratic Town Board come election day as the public in Islip reward the Nolan Team for their TRUE REFORM agenda!

I note that some 7000 Islip Democratic Party members signed Town Council petitions compared to some 3800 Republican and that for the first time in history registered Democratic Party voters outnumber Republicans. You cannot fool the people with falsehoods about true reform or Schettino, you call this reform attack dog politics. I predict a huge victory for the Islip Democratic council candidates this year!

The 7000 signature spin is good, but you miss what is happening. These signatures show a real rift in the Democrat-liberal party in Islip. Which sections of town did all those signatures come from? Fritz and Jacobs from the north and Bodkin-Morgo from south of Montauk and east of Hecksher State parkway?

With all the infighting the Democrats have going on, along with 3 complete political hacks (2 old tired retreads-Chris "No term limits for me" Bodkin & Jim "can I get another pension" Morgo) , shady deals going on for Nolan's son (Patrick "Daddy, pleeeeeeassee I need job" Nolan), and a Phil "I love watching while playing with myself" Nolan TV show; That's TRUE REFORM you can believe in!

All at taxpayer expense.

Someone should take a fresh look at Nolan's tenure as a department director in Huntington.

It is amazing that the tired 3rd avenue republicans are attempting to compare Phil Nolans management style to Pete McGowan. The Nolan administration has done more for the Town in the past 2 years than the republicans did in two decades!
As for the "new 21st century republicans", why were these so called reformers so quiet for those two decades while the town was falling apart? John Schettino nothing but a political hack who is trying to hang on to his political part time job.

There are lessons here for all the players..............Bergin, the newest has succeded in making an enemy of her party chairman a feat easily avoided by any neophyte
Tantone, the new political genius, has aided her and fallen into the same trap. Morgo, the wiggle candidate who is to sneak i n , attempt to control Nolan will fail. No member of the gop will forget that Bodkin is a traitor....

Lifelong Republican.......but will be voting against Ken and Barbie. (Flooteron and Trish)
Could Tantone and his advisors find a qualified Republican somewhere in Islip? Perhaps they should have asked ole reliable Al Graf to run? Maybe Howdy Doody would have been a better choice?

Why can no one see the political horror that is Phil Nolan?
He belongs in jail with his underlings from Huntington.
It is time for someone not from Nolan and his useless board or from Mcgowans old regime.
Islip needs Steve Flotteron and Trish Bergin.
Aren't you tired if the same old corruption?
I'm sure the liberal zombies will respond with some useless
propaganda that Phil is the greatest thing since moldy bread.
Islip does not need a TV station.
Islip needs lower taxes. Eliminate the waste.

I am tired of the whole do nothing Nolan team. What a mistake that was. Please vote out the puppets Bodkin & Morgo. Let's do something good for Islip.

I am tired of the whole do nothing Nolan team. What a mistake that was. Please vote out the puppets Bodkin & Morgo. Let's do something good for Islip.