State and Suffolk Independence Party chairman Frank MacKay will not be here for Election Day this year.
MacKay applied Tuesday at the Suffolk Board of Elections for an absentee ballot because he expects to be traveling the on a multi-state tour organizing his newly-formed Independence Party of America, which held its first national convention in Westchester last month. MacKay said the move is nothing new. He missed the local Election Day in 2000 while on party business in Buffalo -- even though his close ally, Thomas Whelan, was winning his first bid for state Supreme Court judge. This year, Whelan's wife Theresa is on the ballot for family court judge.
Rick Brand


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I cannot beleive that you, Rick Brand, are reinforcing this phoney election he has had to this phoney position. You know more about election law than any other reporter and you believe he was elected by NO elected representatives who were residents of any other state and with one woman there from California trying to get a PR job. In addition he APPOINTED delegates to represent other states who were residents of New York, Does he think he is GOD. Why don't you get off your butt and investigate this fraud and ask for the minutes and attendance sheets. Stop being the personal promoter for this little creep.