Smithtown GOP Chairman Bill Ellis' dumping of Legis. John Kennedy for re-nomination in favor of Vincent Trimarco gets a post-primary dissection today from Rick Brand. Two key paragraphs:
"It was... hard for Ellis to claim the high ground since Trimarco himself fathered a child out of wedlock and used his daughter's picture in campaign mail. Kennedy never raised the issue publicly, Ellis discounts the impact, but it was no secret. Trimarco has acknowledged he is a single father who supports the child.
"It also did not help, according to critics, that Trimarco's father is a top zoning attorney for local developers and the proposed Water Mill hotel complex. It gave Kennedy, a Nesconset Republican, an army of angry homeowners unhappy about over-development, flooding and the hotel project. "
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Trimarco is nothing but a hack lawyer, who spent the last 30 years drinking his way through politicians. His nose was already brown in the days when the Barbados ran the Yellow Top.