Clara Datre, the Republican running to unseat Democratic Islip Supervisor Phil Nolan, got her figures wrong in a campaign ad she took out in Newsday on Oct. 15. "Under Phil Nolan, in one year, MacArthur has lost $1.2 million," she says, referring to Long Island MacArthur Airport. "If the airport continues to lose money… your taxes will go up!"
Actually, town records show that the airport turned a $331,000 profit last year -- not that Nolan had much to do with it. He took office in mid-November.
Datre’s spokesman, John Zaher, said the $1.2 million figure came from an Islip task force report issued in September. The report said that profits at the airport had dropped....
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from $1.5 million per year several years ago to a projected $300,000 this year, an 80 percent dip. (In fact, the fall is even steeper: an 83 percent decline from $1.8 million in 1999.) Town officials attribute the drop to rising employee costs, some of these associated with homeland security-related upgrades.
Comments (3)
Nice to see John Zaher is still working these days.
Clueless Clara at work again
i can think of other "c" words for clara, but I am a better person than she....