Spin Cycle

Crossing borders, Babylon Supervisor Steve Bellone and town party leader Robert Stricoff helped raise $20,000 for Islip Democrat Philip Nolan in the final days of his winning supervisor campaign.
The money helped Nolan pay for TV and radio spots in the campaign’s final week. Stricoff said $12,000 came from donors that do business with he town and the remaining $8,000 came from individual contributors.
The 7,000-member AME union, which represents county white and blue collar worker, made a last-minute $15,000 donation to help appointed Republican County Clerk Judith Pascale finance a final radio blitz.
Cheryl Felice, union president, said the clerk’s office employs more than 200 of her members and the Riverhead county center from which Pascale operates has more than 450 employees. “We needed to show we could make a difference,” said Felice.
Statewide, Thomas Golisano, the mega-bucks former Independence Party gubernatorial candidate, gave $50,000 to the Senate Republicans in the campaign’s last 11 days, while the Cablevision PAC gave $40,000 to the GOP Senate campaign committee.

Rick Brand