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At times.

Since you requested, I will correct you since it seems you dont have the full explanation of the stated plan. :) The refurbishing of NVMC intends to reuse the foundation of the building and little else. It is technically a refurbishing because they would not demolish the buildings foundation. But it is planned to completely rebuild the arena from the existing foundation on out. There is no good reason to demolish the foundation and build another- doing that doesnt help the Islanders but it would be more taxing on the environment- and for no good reason.

When people live together in close quarters, it creates a pretext for governments to tax-and-spend their citizens’ hard earned money and funnel it to things like unions, mass transit, parks, etc. This makes us less free and must be stopped. Society should have as much private property as possible. The more property is used for common purposes, the more Big Government is tempted to take control of private property and turn it into public property.

Lifelong Islanders fan.
Just the move the team already.

I get your point.

So when you say “and some of those more powerful conservatives on LI are very close to them.”, I submit that IF these “conservatives” are the driving force behind a casino project, and everything a project like that represents (i.e. a feathery neon coated tax increase on the middle class and poor), then they are not really conservatives, but progressives in sheep wool.
Here’s the litmus test….does the proposal contain language that guarantees the county a cut of the sin money? I.E. taxes on gambling operations?
Or are the Repubs (conservatives) gonna rely on the increased revenues that will come from higher volume sales taxes on peripheral and ancillary services in and around the area?
If the answer is YES to taxes on gambling operations, then those behind this are NOT Conservative, nor are they “right wing”, at least in my definition of what those words mean. Indeed, I will submit that they are in fact “philosophically bankrupt”. HYPOCRITES. (now that wouldn’t be a stretch for a LI politician, would it?).

In effect BD, don’t insult real “right wingers” by brushing the self-serving progressives (there ARE Republican and Democrats who easily fit the classic definition of a progressive in 2010) who might be pushing this idea of a Casino at NVMC with the moniker of “right winger”. Cuz they might not even know what that really stands for.

Big YES on a casino at Jones Beach (as long as casino loot is untaxed by the government, it’s not the role of government, nor is it proper for government to prey on the weaknesses of the masses).

Just my opinion.

Having stepped out of a LI Republican Roundtable whose agenda was gambling, tourism and sports, and that many of those PACs lift cash into the Republican Committee which is the main donor to Mangano…it befits a question if this is something pushed or part of an ideal. Because it was NEVER ever part of Mangano’s platform.

The gambling fronts here give to both parties but got NOWHERE with the Dems in charge. They put a lot of grease on the right instead, and some of those more powerful conservatives on LI are very close to them.

Furthermore, it is not the casino I personally have issue with, but the placement. Make 10 out on the Gold Coast. Put one at Jones Beach. But not in the middle where kids go to school in an area already cited for traffic issues.

Personally, I’d rather have a casino on Long Island. I wouldn’t meet anyone at the Lighthouse, but I would go to gamble, enjoy an Isles game, and stay overnight in a hotel. Whether or not it happens in Nassau is a different story.

Specifically…
“Are right wing politics and favors being called in by the political party that helped place Mangano?”

Creating casinos all across the American landscape is hardly the providence of the “right wing” in America. Has your own “left wing” perspective conveniently forgotten/temporarily omitted the hardcore belief and misconception among “left-wingers” that all “right-wingers” are religious zealots?
How could a religious zealot be in favor of something so heinous as gambling?

And BD, a little cursory research might have uncovered the simple fact that the growth of casinos in this country is hardly a “right wing” vs. “left wing” confrontation. But more of a “lazy government” vs. a “creative and responsible government” issue.

Indeed BD, do some research around the country before you paintbrush this as another Glenn Beck conspiracy, you might be surprised at what the “political bent” is for those states/locales that have adopted casino gambling.
(Starter Hint.. There’s no casino gambling of any kind in Wasilla, Alaska, but feel free to come visit me in the 505 if you wanna throw some craps, or just head up I-95 to visit your “left wing” friends in CT, or down I-95 to AC, coveniently located in what is now and nevertheless the most heavily taxed state in the country).

And just because Mangano is Republican does not make him “right wing”.
The last 70 years of history in this country is littered with Progressive (left wing) Republicans. (including “W”)

In conclusion BD, generalizations and paintbrushing do not become you.
Be more careful when labelling people. Profiling is politically incorrect and not acceptable these days.
Especially within “left wing” circles.