Comments on: EXCLUSIVE: Town Of Hempstead Reaction To Casino

By: Darin Lippold

Darin Lippold — Wed, 26 May 2010 00:26:09 +0000

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By: battery jackson

battery jackson — Thu, 06 May 2010 02:06:56 +0000

personally i’d rather see charles wang get his wish, that area actually have something nice in it, and that political machine being broken apart and dismantled piece by piece. but we don’t all get what we want now, do we?

By: FantasyIsles

FantasyIsles — Thu, 06 May 2010 00:34:10 +0000

All one need do is Google “Charles Wang” and his former company “Computer Associates” and read what the Official Court Appointed Investigators had to say about his conduct – ah, I’ll save you the time: he’s a crook through and through.

And to those no-nothing apologists who continue to espouse the idea that naive little Charlie was hoodwinked by those big bad politicos? Well, Fonzie (Al D’Amato)sat on Wang’s CA Board of Directors long before Charlie even bought the Islanders.

So, in the end, it’s really just a story about a disingenuous, duplicitous billionaire trying to strong-arm an entrenched self-serving local political machine (aren’t they all?) to get his financial bonanza.

No, Virginia, there isn’t honor amongst thieves.

By: isles99

isles99 — Sun, 02 May 2010 18:14:55 +0000

who cares?….this is the same garbage thats been thrown around for years…he said, she said, etc. bottom line is the republcians, democrats, and wang are ALL crooks.(glad, i won’t get my post deleted for saying that) its the truth. bottom line is that i only care about the islanders, which all sides are using as a tool to get what they want. we’ll have a definitive answer by 2015. until then, i could care less what happens.

By: BDGallof

BDGallof — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:16:37 +0000

SMG? No.

TOH Environmental process: More of a Nick question. He’s our resident expert, but ToH has paid FP Clark (Wang stopped paying them in Nov) to finish the environmental review. Results from Clark are expected around Memorial Day.

By: RobJC

RobJC — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:08:42 +0000

agreed

By: RobJC

RobJC — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:06:42 +0000

Why does the ToH want to fight against Wang making money???He’s been dumping money into this and seeing nothing but astronomical losses and now that hes finally getting something out of it the crooks want to stop it???What happened to the GOP being for small govt???This really blows because I was glad to see Wanger get out from under that stranglehold of a lease of SMG. I thought this was a good sign that the Islanders owner could actually benifit somehow by being the owner. I guess the ToH mob want their take…

By: RobJC

RobJC — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:54:51 +0000

How does it make you feel about your constituents playing with the peoples heads out of revenge…What is this baby games???This is why I’m not longer a registered republican but instead as an independent. I cant be part of this corruption and political games because the only people that suffer are the people they are supposed to be representing. I wonder how you feel about this

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:21:28 +0000

Hi BD thanks for the info. Would SMG be involved in the lease that you mentioned? Also has the environmental process been done by TOH yet? Or would that actually happen after the zoning is done by TOH?

By: BDGallof

BDGallof — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:05:20 +0000

It refers to the Lighthouse Project lease that Suozzi gave Wang and Rechler last year.

http://www.liherald.com/detail/819.html?content_source=&category_id=&search_filter=Lighthouse&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=&sub_type=&town_id=

By: Isle27

Isle27 — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:55:34 +0000

Just to educate you a little. The big problem on LI is school taxes. This problem can be taken care of if some steps are taken. First you need consolidation of all these school districts. Does every little school district on LI need a Superintendent making almost 250G’s a year and their assistant making 160G’s a year. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians in the school system on LI. Let’s cut out some of these high salary fat cats. They always look to raise our school tax every year well how about they start chopping their bloated school budgets and they can start with these fat cats.

By: Isle27

Isle27 — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:23:06 +0000

Nassau was run by a Democrat the last 8 YEARS looks like you’re the ill informed moron. Do you even live in Nassau?

By: TPJM22

TPJM22 — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:30:38 +0000

$300 – 400 million debt in 1 of the highest taxed counties? Nassau republicans are morons.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:55:10 +0000

What lease deal is being discussed in the article? What I know is that the latest sublease where the Isles pay SMG around 17 million whether or not the Isles stay in NVMC until 2015 plus raking in all revenues from NVMC has ticked off the Republicans greatly. Hopefully Wang is negotiating with either Brooklyn or Queens to get out of the circus in Nassau County.

By: BDGallof

BDGallof — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:13:15 +0000

no it doesn’t bode well at all. The lease deal has been brought up several times now by ToH, and clearly an issue.

By: mrlbem

mrlbem — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:49:32 +0000

So Nassau intends to change the lease deal? Even if the TOH and Wang reach an agreement? That doesn’t bode well, now, does it.

By: Brian from Massapequa

Brian from Massapequa — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:34:44 +0000

This is about what I would have expected to hear, but thanks for taking the time to get a response. Great artwork as always!!!

By: Isle27

Isle27 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 21:39:36 +0000

More politics. The Republicans of Nassau County are screwing with Wang now because of his support of the Dems during the last election. No way will they put a casino there like I said 5 minutes after this story came out a casino would cause more traffic headaches then Wang’s mini city. A scaled down LH will eventually be offered to Wang then the ball will be in his court to either accept or reject.

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By: Isles Fanatic

Isles Fanatic — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:32:46 +0000

As the song goes….”You spin me right round baby, right round”….