The Brookhaven Town Republican Party

[BillyP]

There will come a time, one day, when the true level of dect, evil, and corrupt acts of the Brookhaven Republican Party are known to all in my town. It's tenticles are widespread and grow with greed. People will find out, one day, that Brookhaven Town is run by a Brookhaven Republican Party that patterns itself after the mafia, and gives real meaning to the term "organized crime". The Brookhaven Republican Party is disgusting, and will stop at nothing to maintain the Town Cash Cow.
I can only pray that I live to see such a day, when justice is served.

[LuvMyHarley]

It is doubtful that few here remember the article entitled, "A Town's Ho - Hum Reaction to Scandal" which appeared in the December 16, 1998 edition of The New York Times. I invite you to review it at www.wenaus.com/BrookhavenScandal.htm as it details the news breaking scandals of the past few decades. Keep in mind that this was the general state of affairs, a legacy Pat Strebel inherited as newly elected Highway Superintendent.

I would also like to refer you to the recent article that appeared in The Suffolk Life, dated June 4, 2003, written by Willmott about our Highway Super's recent political troubles.

And in light of all this, I would like to add that I find it incredibly incongruous that our public officials would publicly state that Pat is of "the highest integrity" and "completely honest" while simultaneously refusing to support her for reelection,or even aid in her defense.

Samuel Smiles,in his well recved book Self Help, published in Victorian England in 1859, remarked that "integrity in word and deed is the backbone of character, and loyal adherence to veracity its most prominent characteristic." I share his opinion, and can personally think of no higher compliment that could possibly be paid an elected official. He is also known to have stated that "character is power." If this is in fact the case then it follows that Pat Strebel is likey one of the most powerful political figureheads of our time.

And as one who has known her for 35 years I can testify to her character. Imagine then the strength of the force that must be mounted against her, if in fact, it is the Republican desire to retake an office they no longer consider thrs to do with as please. And there you have the current state of Brookhaven political affairs, which amounts to little more than an insult to voter intelligence...

I have one other thing I'd like to add,and that is this: As one who travels our highways and byways on a daily basis I must tell you that residents here are keenly aware of the condition of even the roads less traveled.It is obvious to all,that for the first time in many years roads have been repaved, bridges repaired; traffic lights and safety signs and sidewalks have been installed. To suggest that our current Highway Superintendent may have inadvertantly squandered SOME of our tax dollars is to imply that past supers have likely squandered ALL of our tax dollars.

Dana Davis/ Manorville, NY

[BillyP]

And so it would be correct to fire those contractors who did not contribute to Patricia Strebel's campaign? It would be a glorious political act to award town contracts to only those that contributed to Patricia Strebel's campaign? The families of those who did not contribute to her campaign were financially devasted by that decision. The children of the contractors who were denied work because Pat Strebel denied them for not giving her money towards her campaign have suffered. And they are the innocent.
Patricia Strebel is getting a small taste of the evil and conct of the Brookhaven Republican Party she thrived in for so many years. The evil and dect she participated in. The lives she helped destroy have no sympathy for her.
Patricia Strebel is a product of the Brookhaven organized crime family known as the Brookhaven Town Republican Party. Not unlike the mafia, the Brookhaven Republican Party will ruin any and all that come before the people of our town with the ideal of erradicating the lies and dect that governs us.
God help any Democrat who makes any real attempt at running for office in the Town of Brookhaven, especially the democrat who runs for highway superintendent. He or she will be ruined, slandered, and defamed by Brookhaven Republican owned "town newspapers" in an effort to stop the truth from coming out.
And the entire time the Brookhaven Town organized crime family known as the Brookhaven Town Republican Party is coniving, threatening and conspiring to steal the upcoming elections, every slime in that party will say "it wasn't me, it was Tom Neppell".
Evil can only exist when there is an absence of good. I pray for the day when good arrives in force and eliminates the hatred backed, scum controlled, organized crime elements that constitute the Brookhaven Town Republican Party.

[correction]

it's crookhaven not brookhaven
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[Tsoprano]

If this was true youd be whacked.

[Crookhaven]

crookhaven

[goodFellas]

You are now wearing cement Shoes , and have been wacked . LOL

[4nov2003]

November 4, 2003 will mark the demise of the Crookhaven Town Republican Party of Thieves.

The public is disgusted with the disgraceful looting of our resources to benefit the mafia mob of the Crookhaven Town Republican Party of Thieves.

It will be a glorious day in Brookhaven to rid the town of you thieving bastards!

[Pat the Underboss]

The funny thing is, I really CAN picture her with the cigar in her mouth, ordering all the thugs around.

[seen enough]

And if the voters do not "get rid" of the Republicans, will you move out of Brookhaven?

[4nov2003]

Look,

Seen enough, you are obviously part of the Brookhaven Town Republican Party.

If you people want to tear yourselves to pieces internally, that is your right.

It becomes not only a right, but an obligation of the constituency of Brookhaven Town to stand up when the Republican Party in Brookhaven goes outside it's party to "take people out" visavi smear campaigns, vandalizing opposing candidate's homes, threatening opposing candidates, and using thr connections in the courts and local republican funded "newspapers" to perpetuate thr attacks.

It becomes not only a right, but an obligation of the constituency of Brookhaven Town to remove a power structure from power when said power structure is riddled with criminal enterprises-in this case the Brookhaven Town Republican Party.

Just look at the South shore people and how they brazenly fly around town vandalizing anything that remotely resembles a democratic party sign. This is a small example, but to me holds much significance in it's symbolic nature-The patchogue/shirley/mastic members of the Brookhaven Town Republican Party are so brazen and hold such a reckless disregard for the law, that they are willing to openly break them- in a threatening and menacing manner.

When you conduct yourself in the manner that the South Shore Republicans conduct themselves, it leaves us with the understandable reasoning that thr is no limit to thr recklessness. This type of behavior can only inevitably lead to injury to individuals, ther physically or financially, causing irreparable harm.

If you have an ounce of integrity, you will police your own. Inasmuch as the South Shore people continue to behave in a dangerous and reckless manner, we must as a community put an end to such behavior.

The only message the Brookhaven Town Republican Party will understand is via the ballot box. When you are voted out, the cash that fuels the party also gets voted out. I can conclude that only when the cash stops rolling in that you people will take a good hard look at yourselves and realize that you just cannot keep hurting people and expect zero consequences.

I love this town, and have an expressed desire to see the criminal element of the Brookhaven Town Republican Party eradicated. If you are an individual of integrity, you will join me in this effort. As Polonius said to Leartes, "To Thine Own Self Be True". I speak the truth. Look in the mirror and fix the problems that I speak of. Then no one need to fix them at the ballot box.

God Bless.

[Mrham]

I am a member of the Brookhaven Town Republican Committee And I am embarrassed to be a member.. There is no unity everyone is out for themselves. It used to be we.. Now it"s I..

You people should take lessons from formula one racing and nascar racing.. It takes A well oiled team to win.. Thats right A TEAM...... Not a bunch of egotistical maniacs...

When Powell was the chairman our political machine was feared! Now its just steamrolled.. Sad very Sad.
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[seen enough]

Mrham... I don't disagree with you. I am sick and tired of constantly bng referred to as the party of corruption. I am not corrupt and I know many, many Republicans that are not corrupt. And I know many Democrats, Conservatives, and Blanks etc that ARE corrupt. Corruption is not limited to members of a political party. I was simply asking NOV4th guy, who had much to say about how terrible Brookhaven is under Republican rule, if he/she was going to leave Brookhaven if Republicans maintained on election day....Which they obviously did under the dictatorship.....I MEAN LEADERSHIP of John Lavalle. Obviously the voters of Brookhaven have no problem with us "corrupt" Republicans running the town. But alas, though they almost re-elected Pat Strebel, they did not pull in the votes for Ed Romaine. Funny how the two Brookhaven Republican candidates that John Lavalle did not support until the last week before the election, did not get elected.

[Realist]

Get used to "bng referred to as the party of corruption", because it is a fact. The list of indictments, convictions, harassment, scandals, investigations, insider deals, nepotism and dirty campaigns that have occurred under the Crookhaven GOP are the stuff of legend. Campaigns and political leaders around the country cite these events over and over in trying to distance themselves from party machine labels. The Crookhaven GOP IS the modern day Tammany Hall, and your grandchildren will be reading about it in thr history textbooks.

As a Long Islander, I am deeply ashamed of the reputation my home Township has. Every single person in Brookhaven should be as well. If the Brookhaven GOP wants to polish thr rightfully sullied reputation, the GOP committee people need to do the following:

1 - Throw out of the party organization, every single person associated with the current and past leadership.

2 - Refuse all future party positions to any GOP member previously convicted of a felony, or convicted of any crime while in the performance of thr party or government position.

3 - Immediately and publicly revoke organizational membership for anyone found to be performing party duties while at work (Town/County/Local government employees).

4 - Support Township/County/Local Government prohibitions on any person who holds a municipal job, from also holding any party position (Committee Person, Executive Committee position, Campaign manager/Treasurer).

I could go on, but you get the idea. The only way to convince anyone that the GOP is not corrupt is to purge your ranks, and severely punish future offenders. Brookhaven citizens, the Brookhaven GOP and our Town government will all come out better in the long run.

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[Pepsi]

The case against Strebel is proving to be very strong. It appears that she is not going to avoid conviction. Looming in the distance is the pending indictments from the Towle mess. After Strebel's trial concludes, a larger picture of corruption will emerge.....the Brookhaven Town Republican Party will be in crisis.....as well as some others. It is coming soon.

[ticker buyer]

Strong, how about the guy who signed off on the vouchers, brother rat. Thats' right DA Spota. Do the right thing.

[mastic man]

thnakyou tom neppell for the mess our party is in

[Resident]

Mastic Man,
Thank jjLavalle for ripping the party apart. He wants all the power for himself. jj is not about reform.
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[jjs power]

the power the town super will always have now comes from the new councilmatic districts. each of our councilmen must only semi-please small areas within our town instead of all of Brookhaven and this has totally taken away our councilman's influence over the town super, and the town.

[been there]

To All,
you ain't seen nothing yet!
wait till closing remarks on monday and follow your local weekly paper.
Folks it's about to hit the fan!!!
JJ should pull the gate up.and man the fortress
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[Longer]

as long as lavalles supervisor there will be no brookhaven gop.

[FR32]

I am so tired of hearing predictions of things "coming down" and nothing ever happens. I don't know where you people get your information but maybe it would be better to not say anything than predict things that never happen.
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[corruptionisus]

DA’s agents sze documents from Brookhaven Town Hall

BY J. JIONI PALMER
Staff Writer

April 1, 2004, 10:34 PM EST

A raft of Suffolk district attorney investigators swarmed Brookhaven Town Hall in Farmingville Thursday afternoon, executing a search warrant and szing records in connection with an ongoing corruption probe, town officials and prosecutors said.

The raid started shortly after 4 p.m. when detectives from District Attorney Thomas Spota's office walked into the town's building department with the request for documents, said Inez Birbiglia, spokeswoman for Brookhaven Supervisor John Jay LaValle.

"Our intent is to fully cooperate with the Suffolk County district attorney," she said in a statement. "The supervisor has directed all employees to cooperate to the best of thr ability."

She declined to comment further and referred "any details or specific inquires" to Spota's office.

Spota's spokesman Robert Clifford confirmed that a search warrant was served on "Brookhaven Town and other locations" but declined to elaborate except to say it is "part of an ongoing investigation of governmental corruption in Suffolk County."

Sources familiar with Thursday's raid at Town Hall said it is an outgrowth of the corruption investigation triggered last year when former Suffolk Legis. Fred Towle of Shirley pleaded guilty to taking a bribe and using his campaign funds for personal benefit.

After Towle, who is awaiting sentencing and faces 2 to 6 years in prison, admitted guilt he agreed to cooperate with prosecutors, prompting the empaneling of a special grand jury to investigate corruption throughout Suffolk County.

People familiar with the scene at Brookhaven Town Hall Thursday said about a half dozen investigators from Spota's office entered the building department and announced to the employees that they were there to execute a search warrant, and to stop whatever they were doing. A group of workers were asked to assist detectives in collecting files.

Various sources with knowledge of the search warrant, which was issued by State Supreme Court Justice Robert Doyle, were looking for documents related to developers "with applications before the building department."

In all, the sources said, investigators were looking for files in connection with about 18 or 20 different businesses allegedly involved in "bribery, illegal gratuities and grand larceny."

Those familiar with the search warrant said the only town official named in the document was Chief Building Inspector Vincent Dragone, who oversees the building department. He did not respond to requests for comment last evening when approached by a reporter at Town Hall. Dragone was seen poring over papers and conferring with Deputy Town Supervisor Edward Morris and town attorney Karen Wilutis.

The investigators were seen loading boxes into a van parked outside Town Hall late into the evening, as those who work inside the building were leaving for the day, many to attend a Brookhaven Republican fund-raiser at the Meadow Club in Port Jefferson Station.

The atmosphere was jovial at the club, where Brookhaven Republicans toasted thr new designee for the first congressional district, Bill Manger. Many guests had heard of the search warrants bng executed.

"It's always surprising when you hear things like that," said former Supervisor Felix Grucci, "but simply because they are looking doesn't mean there is something wrong ... when all this is said and done and over with life will go on in the Town of Brookhaven."

Staff writer Indrani Sen contributed to this story.
Copyright © 2004, Newsday, Inc.

[getoutgrucci]

Yeah heres a guy we can trust what he says yeah right.Anyone who helps grucci is as guilty as lavalle.This partys over.