Islip's Republican executive committee on Wednesday night screened Legis. Cameron Alden as a potential candidate to run for either town supervisor or town board member.
The 10-year legislative veteran made the appearance even though he has been gearing up for his last run for the county legislature under the county’s term limit law. He said he made the appearance after several members of the GOP executive committee invited him to appear.
Alden said he “owed it to the party” to listen. “They asked me if I was interested, and I said I’d consider it.” Sources however, say that Alden expressed concern that the party must unite and drop its internal feuding if it is to have any chance to survive.
The party has also screened John Cochrane Jr., the former county treasurer, as well as Steve Flotteron, Mideast war veteran and town board member, as potential candidates against new Supervisor Philip Nolan, who in November became the first Democrat in decades to win the post.
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Veteran town board member Pamela Greene has not shown up to screen, and sent an angry letter to GOP officials saying they were being divisive in forcing an incumbent like her to appear.
Greene has not made known whether she wants to run for re-election, make a second run for supervisor after losing last year, or running for state Senate. Rumors have also circulated that she may join the administration of Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy.
Several town sources also said that the name of former GOP lawmaker Thomas Finley has also surfaced for town office. But Finley said, “That’s news to me.”
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JOHN COCHRANE JR., are you sure it's not his son. Cochrane must be on oxygen and in a wheelchair by now. One thing though, his lips are still pursed to suck on the public teat.