Carrying Levy’s water?
Long Island Advance April
24, 2008
I
sadly witnessed the latest game played on the people of
Yaphank regarding the reopening of the Trap & Skeet
Range in Yaphank at the last Pine Barrens Commission
meeting on April 16. This Commission is comprised of
Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, Brookhaven Town
Supervisor Brian X. Foley, Riverhead Town Supervisor
Phil Cardinale, Southampton Town Supervisor Linda Kabot,
and DEC Director Peter Scully.
Foley
has publicly promised the residents here on three
separate occasions dating back to September 2006 to take
this issue up for review at the Central Pine Barrens
Joint Planning and Policy Commission and to date has
not. On April 16, our town representative, Connie
Kepert, had the courage to go in front of the Commission
to request a motion to assert jurisdiction over the land
on which the range exists. Lo and behold, John Turner,
Foley’s representative to the Commission, left the room
just as this request was made and returned after Kepert
was finished speaking.
We know
the majority of the other commissioners are simply
waiting for
Foley
to make the motion, yet no such motion was made. Outside
the meeting
room
last April 16, we were told that we need to get to Foley
to take action, and that Foley is the one who won’t
act—this in direct opposition to a newspaper article
Turner wrote in 2006 claiming that it wasn’t Foley
holding things up, but rather it was other members of
the Commission. It was also pointed out to us that
“Brian is carrying Levy’s water on this issue.” So this
game is an old one called “Water Boy.”
Karen
Maloney
Yaphank
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