Conservative Tom Gargiulo , a real mike kelly suspends campaign for Suffolk legislative seat
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Tom Gargiulo has suspended his campaign for the Suffolk County Legislature's 14th District seat. Photo Credit: Ed Betz
A Conservative Party candidate for the Suffolk County Legislature who lost his own party's ballot in last month's primary election has suspended his campaign, even though his name will stay on the Democratic ballot line in November.
Tom Gargiulo was designated as candidate for the 14th District as part of a Democratic-Conservative cross-endorsement deal to take on incumbent GOP Legis. Kevin McCaffrey, who had the minor party line in the past. McCaffrey waged a Conservative write-in campaign, winning the June 25 contest 186-146.
Gargiulo’s decision to suspend his campaign came to light after Rich Schaffer, the Suffolk County Democractic chairman, sent an email to party members last week announcing the cancellation of a $150-a-head Gargiulo fundraiser set for July 11 in Lindenhurst.
Schaffer said Gargiulo re-evaluated his campaign after the primary loss diminished his chances of winning on just the Democratic line.
Gargiulo was upset about the harshness of the political attacks during the primary especially on the issue of abortion, which he opposes because of his Catholic faith.
“It really hurt, and it was hard for me,” said Gargiulo, a retired teacher who is active in church work. He said he plans to send a letter to Conservative voters to make clear his stand.
McCaffrey said he has “no regrets” about his campaign, adding that Gargiulo — by accepting the Democratic ballot line — “had to expect some of the splatter” from the party’s liberal stands on such issues as late-term abortion and voting rights for felons.
“I never really wanted to campaign against Tom,” said McCaffrey, who has known Gargiulo for 30 years. “I’m just glad it came to this happy ending.”
He also said the move lets Democrats redirect resources to other tight races like the 8th District, where Republican aide Anthony Piccirillo also won his write-in bid against incumbent Legis. William Lindsay III (D-Oakdale).
Although he faces only token opposition, McCaffrey said he will keep knocking on doors.
“I may not out wear out another pair of shoes," he said, "but I’ll still be at the doors because that’s where you hear unfiltered what's on the minds of regular people.”
Gargiulo noted he also still has the Independence Party ballot line and he expects friends to vote for him.
“You never know,” he said.
Rick Brand has covered Suffolk life, government and politics for 37 years.
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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly says he is a person of color because he is white like andrew cuomo who says he decides on what sunday easter sunday is celebrated and the holy church of nassau otb may take bets on great out of state racing. ny pml sec 109 will be declared unconstitutional and or inapplicable to nassau otb when it is challenged in court
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Claude Solnik
Long Island Business News
2150 Smithtown Ave.
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348
Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays
Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
The story swirling around Washington D.C. right now is about President Donald Trump and his racist tweets directed toward four progressive Democratic lawmakers, all women of color. But some of his allies, like U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Butler), are trying to take heat off the president, but causing controversies for themselves.
On Sunday, Trump claimed they came from other countries, despite three of them being born in the U.S. and the other a naturalized U.S. citizen, and told them to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Those tweets have led to even more questionable comments from other government officials, including Kellyanne Conway asking a White House reporter his ethnicity, and U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-York) tweeting that he is “disappointed to find that many in the media are just awakening to the anti-American and anti-Semitic comments uttered consistently by some socialist leaders.”
Not to be outdone, is western Pennsylvania's own Kelly. Today, he shrugged off Trump’s remarks when he told a VICE News reporter that he is a person of color because he is white.
“You know, they talk about people of color. I'm a person of color. I'm white. I'm an Anglo Saxon. People say things all the time. But I don't get offended,” said Kelly to VICE News. “With a name like Mike Kelly you can’t be from any place else but Ireland.”
The term “person of color” has referred to non-white people throughout the entirety of American history, as white people have been the majority since Europeans colonized the original 13 colonies.
This isn't the first time Kelly has downplayed the experiences of people of color in America. In May 2018, Kelly interrupted U.S. Rep Maxine Waters (D-California) while she was discussing discrimination during a committee meeting.
"We're trying to make America great every day and every way and the best way to do that is to stop talking about discrimination and start talking about the nation,” said Kelly. “We're coming together as a people in spite of what you say."
Waters responded saying that Kelly was “outrageous” in thinking he knows “more about discrimination" than Waters, a Black woman who has faced vicious attacks from several conservatives, including comments on her appearance.
Daniel Smith Jr., who today announced he would be running against Kelly in Pennsylvania's 16th Congressional District, criticized Kelly’s statement on Twitter.
Smith, who is openly gay, unsuccessfully ran against anti-LGBTQ state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Cranberry) in 2018.
Kelly isn't the only Republican in the area to make insensitive comments regarding race in the aftermath of Trump's tweets. Former congressional candidate and state Rep. Rick Saccone (R-Elizabeth) tweeted an odd reference to a 1960s TV show called the Mod Squad, which included a photoshopped image of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in an afro.
On Sunday, Trump claimed they came from other countries, despite three of them being born in the U.S. and the other a naturalized U.S. citizen, and told them to “go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.”
Those tweets have led to even more questionable comments from other government officials, including Kellyanne Conway asking a White House reporter his ethnicity, and U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-York) tweeting that he is “disappointed to find that many in the media are just awakening to the anti-American and anti-Semitic comments uttered consistently by some socialist leaders.”
Not to be outdone, is western Pennsylvania's own Kelly. Today, he shrugged off Trump’s remarks when he told a VICE News reporter that he is a person of color because he is white.
“You know, they talk about people of color. I'm a person of color. I'm white. I'm an Anglo Saxon. People say things all the time. But I don't get offended,” said Kelly to VICE News. “With a name like Mike Kelly you can’t be from any place else but Ireland.”
The term “person of color” has referred to non-white people throughout the entirety of American history, as white people have been the majority since Europeans colonized the original 13 colonies.
This isn't the first time Kelly has downplayed the experiences of people of color in America. In May 2018, Kelly interrupted U.S. Rep Maxine Waters (D-California) while she was discussing discrimination during a committee meeting.
"We're trying to make America great every day and every way and the best way to do that is to stop talking about discrimination and start talking about the nation,” said Kelly. “We're coming together as a people in spite of what you say."
Waters responded saying that Kelly was “outrageous” in thinking he knows “more about discrimination" than Waters, a Black woman who has faced vicious attacks from several conservatives, including comments on her appearance.
Daniel Smith Jr., who today announced he would be running against Kelly in Pennsylvania's 16th Congressional District, criticized Kelly’s statement on Twitter.
Smith, who is openly gay, unsuccessfully ran against anti-LGBTQ state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Cranberry) in 2018.
Kelly isn't the only Republican in the area to make insensitive comments regarding race in the aftermath of Trump's tweets. Former congressional candidate and state Rep. Rick Saccone (R-Elizabeth) tweeted an odd reference to a 1960s TV show called the Mod Squad, which included a photoshopped image of U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in an afro.
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