Comments on: KATE MURRAY FALLS ON HER SWORDScraps fraudulent plans for stimulus petition

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:30:20 +0000

The Islanders should buy out SMG and move to Queens to be part of the Willets Point project. NEVER should the Islanders try to renew its contract with SMG at NVMC. I would rather see the Islanders taking in revenues from parking, concessions, concerts as well as ticket sales rather than the current situtation where SMG eats up a lot of revenue occuring in NVMC.

By: IslesHostage

IslesHostage — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:59:47 +0000

Doc, I appreciate the fact that the islanders do not make money as it stands….not fogotten. Why? SMG. They need more seats. They have two bad contracts on the books. They can’t sell enough tickets and get no parking or concession revenue and lose a huge sum of box office tickets to SMG.
So why, then, if we have this must-do project to make Wang money, why is Wang looking to renew SMG’s lease?
I believe the whole purchase of the NYI by Wang was for the benefit of SMG (see:D’Amato/Gutkowski/Wang) and this roject would be unnecessary IF Gutkowski had his vision (fire Milbury(fanbase), buy out SMG(revenue) and build a new NVMC on site). Wang needs every ounce of this project to make money? I call BS. He makes money right now if he buys out SMG and fills the arena respectably. Playoff revenue is an added bonus if a Wang operation can succeed. The entire thing stinks of greedy real estate development with the Isles being held hostage for 9 years of bad maagement and foolish ownership (or do we forget Wang dropping the SMG buyout in 2002 already?). If Wang couldn’t make money, perhaps Pauly Shore should’ve owned the team, as even he could make money if he bought out SMG and their grab on parking, concessions and tickets rather than renew their deal like Wang is trying to do.

By: KO21

KO21 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:24:19 +0000

I just spoke to the secretary and told her the petition is bogus and to remove my name from that piece of garbage. She said to send it via email thru the ToH site, which I already did, btw.

At the end as always I sold the secretary on going to the website to see what the possibilities are and she was interested, even thanked me for the info.

When will we organize and form a picket line by Mr. Murrays office?

By: Isles78

Isles78 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:15:59 +0000

The sad part of all this is usually when a politician puts their(her) foot in their mouth instead of correcting things they just keep going on the downward spiral. Murray probably won’t get re-elected if she keeps going in this direction but will without question try and stop the lighthouse project from moving forward until she is gone.

By: Pnut

Pnut — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:03:42 +0000

@#34 JayK
that is a great idea….is there anyway we can see one of these letters online?

&@#44
I am a democrat that lives in Suffolk and i will happily drive, take my time to help Democrats in Hempstead.

viva la Lighthouse!

By: michael

michael — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:52:51 +0000

i didnt say impeach kate murray, i said she should STEP DOWN and relinquish her post immediately. her actions these last couple weeks are an embarrassment to not only herself, but nassau county and the toh as a well!

By: JayK

JayK — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:42:57 +0000

Michael #40 and others calling for her impeachment:

There aren’t going to be any shortcuts here. She isn’t resigning, and she’s done nothing that would even remotely constitute an impeachable offense.

You want her gone? It’s going to take a lot of hard work. As I said in an earlier post, whether you live in the TOH or not, get together a list of everyone you know who does live there, and start planning on making sure that a) they’re registered to vote b) they are aware that the supervisor’s race is this year c)that Kate Murray’s backwardness is going to kill the most vibrant project this area has seen in years and d) that they need to get to the polls on Election Day and pull the lever for whoever the Democrats puts up.

And if others want to volunteer to help the Democrats — even a registered Republican, like me — that would be even better.

The work starts now! We can beat Kate Murray!

By: isles316

isles316 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 09:29:03 +0000

This news makes me smile.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:13:24 +0000

LOL. This women is a freaking nutjob. She has absolutely no idea what she’s doing, I’m convinced. She’s catering to detractors that aren’t there. All she did was incite anger amongst people and instead they were flooded with emails and calls.

Give up Kate, jesus. If you don’t approve this thing, it’ll just happen when your useless ass is out of office in November.

She just wrote her own ticket out of politics.. keep embarrassing yourself. What a mess this lady is.

By: Willis

Willis — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:15:34 +0000

#37 – wow, that’s amazing. I’m guessing there’s some iron clad lock in place that they can’t get out of if they had to cut funding for education in lieu of paying a sports team. Sad.
My state has a lot of messed up things too.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:14:13 +0000

after this i feel like kate murray needs to step down from her post, after blatantly misleading the voting public and practically lying to our faces. not to mention the money she wasted putting these charades into the forefront! RESIGN KATE!!

By: John R.

John R. — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:52:32 +0000

Isleshostage, even with the Islanders in town the TOH loses 2 million dollars a year. The projected revenue for the town , if the lighthouse were approved, is near 4 million dollars. Meaning the town would have a surplus of 2 million a year from the taxes that would be generated from the lighthouse. That SHOULD in turn lower property taxes and school taxes for the residents. I’m having a really hard time seeing why people are opposed to this. Yes Wang will make money, that’s why he’s in business for himself, but if you live in the county you will make money too. This is really a no brainer.