Primary Importance- September 13th

Along with the beginning of school and in our town a re-vote of transportation issues another important date to remember is the date to vote in Primaries this year, September 13th. Primaries are usually considered as American as apple pie, and a reaffirmation of our rights as citizens to pick candidates of our choosing. Most times qualified candidates run in the primaries and we as voters get to choose from a group of individuals who are serious candidates eager to make a difference. Not this time. This primary is very different here in Smithtown on both the Republican and Conservatives lines. Two individuals who have absolutely no interest in this community have opted to waste tax payer money and time to wreak havoc on what should have been a very quiet election season. Anyone who has ever read a local paper will have seen the incessant rantings of one Lawrence Gray who deems himself the moral arbitor of all things political, but is blantantly the most bigoted individual who has ever run for political office here in Smithtown. Gray has used derogatory comments to describe, Italian Americans, Irish Americans and does so without apology.Gray has attacked every elected official and was instrumental in the removal of his own wife from the Town Board with all his antics. Now he seeks the Republican line as a challenger against Ed Wehrheim and Bob Creighton our endorsed candidates. On the Conservative ballot the choices again are just as easy. A known failure both in political circles and someone with a proven horrendous record in public service is vying for the Conservative line also as a challenger against Ed Wehrheim, Bob Creighton our endoresed candidates, and the slate of judicial delegates we the Conservatives have put on our line. Dan Donnelly's name is political poison in this town. His one term election as Highway Superintendant was so disasterous not one elected official would back him for re-election. Donnelly has tried to play his political games in every election in this town over the last 10 years. Usually he is swatted away like some annoying insect, but this year he has managed to weedle himself into a primary on the Conservative line for a job he has absolutely no interest in pursuing. Donnelly is NOT the endorsed Conservative candidate and in fact has no backing by the County or the Town Conservative Parties. Donnelly has game played his way out of the party and holds on to the Conservative banner by a mere thread. Not only doesn't he truly believe in the party platform he will jump from party to party in order to fulfill his own agenda...as evidenced by his attempt some years ago to take over the Smithtown Democratic party. Donnelly is a danger to the community and the political system, because he knows how to manipulate the system and like a chameleon will adapt his rhetoric to whomever he is in conversation with in order to win over an unsuspecting citizen. Just ask poor Mrs. Kalabaza.(the woman whose name he put in as running for town council who didn't even know she was running!) Judicial Delegates What are judicial delegates? Why are they important? and Why do you have to worry about voting for them? Judicial delegates are Conservative Party representatives chosen by the County leader to represent the Conservative community to vote for particular judicial candidates who will then come before the voting public as endorsed Conservative candidates. Judicial Delegates are usually the town leaders and members of the executive board of a particular town. Most times you will not see judicial candidates on a ballot since they are very rarely challenged. This year there is a challenge because Donnelly has chosen to try to destroy our party from within, Therefore you must be aware of whom the endorsed candidates are and who the challengers are with full knowledge that they are not real challengers but Donnelly shills put forth to do his bidding. The endorsed judicial delegates and alternates are all on the top line of the ballot and the names are as follows: Janine Barbera-Dalli, Vincent Puleo, and Frank Morro. The alternates are: Steven Garguilo, Ronald Schule and Bartolo F. Dalli. To reiterate: Stay away from anything with the Gray or Donnelly name and only choose the endorsed candidates of the Republicans and Conservatives: Standing together we will be victorious in sending these interlopers back to their caves. Below is the slate I ask you to support. Please tell your family and friends and get out there and vote!! September 13th! Endorsed Candidates: Robert Creighton- Town Council Edward Wehrheim- Town Council Judicial Delegates:(Conservative Primary Only) Janine A. Barbera- Dalli, Vincent Puleo, Frank Morro. Alternate Judicial Delegates- Steven Garguilo, Ronald Schule, and Bartolo F. Dalli