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Down The Stretch They Come

By Rick Murphy and Emily Toy

In horse racing parlance, the finish line is in sight and some of the key contenders are neck and neck as they approach the wire.

All of the players have agreed to appear for debates at The Independent offices during the next two weeks. The Independent has already conducted and printed interviews with each of the major candidates. We will make our endorsements in our November

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There are marquis match-ups for town supervisor in three towns, and the biggest surprise of all is Southampton. That’s because a few weeks ago the incumbent, Anna Throne-Holst, was running unopposed as the Independence Party and Democratic Party standard bearer.

But just when you think it’s safe to go in to the water . . . here comes former town supervisor Linda Kabot,

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Cornelius Kelly (third from left) who’s running for county legislature against incumbent Jay Schneiderman, was feted in Montauk at the home of Pat and Jack Flynn. Supervisor Bill Wilkinson (fifth from left) was among those in attendance.

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“OCCUPY WALL STREET” EXPLAINED

When I was 15 I got working papers and I got my first job as a messenger for the Mercur y Messenger service in New York City.

I have worked at one job or another every day since.

My first job was an adventure and I walked all over the city because if you walked, you got to keep the train fare money they gave you on pickups and deliveries.

One place I used to love to walk through was Union Square Park on 14th Street. There, pockets of men and woman stood around and listened and cheered as men on soapboxes made speeches condemning capitalism and extolling the virtues of communism.

“The Rockefellers, the Vanderbilts, the Carnegies, the Astors made their money off of the broken backs of the working man. When the revolution comes we will strip every penny

away from them and give it to the people,” shouted one wild-haired, wild-eyed agitator.

“The banks have their hands in the pockets of the poor. They control Eisenhower,” shouted another.

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But now we have something similar going on in downtown New York’s Zuccotti Park with the group called Occupy Wall Street.

It started with a few hundred people and thanks to a lot of media attention and an endorsement from President Barack (The Wealthy Are Only Good For Campaign Contributions) Obama, the group is growing.

They have a way to go to get close to the Communist Party who, in their heyday, had over 80,000 members in the USA. The Occupy Wall Street group is not as clear about their agenda as the communists of my youth were in Union Square Park in the 50s.

As best as I can figure, they want to destroy the banks and put anyone from Wall Street who had anything to do with the recession in jail or, as one of their more freewheeling followers, comedienne Roseanne Barr (who is currently between nervous breakdowns) recently advocated, “Bring back the guillotine.” Nutty Roseanne, who gained fame by once singing the National Anthem at a public event and then ending her performance by spitting and grabbing her crotch.

But fat Roseanne is not the only great American who is enamored of the “Take Back Wall Street” group.

We also have fat Al Sharpton and fat Michael Moore, and lest you think that the group only attracts overweight lefties, I offer actress Susan Sarandon, who is a beautiful, slim leftie.

While Barr, Sharpton, Moore and Sarandon earn hundreds of thousands of dollars, maybe millions of dollars a year, it is not recorded if they have offered to give their fortunes to the Occupy Wall Street group.

A number of unions have decided to back the Occupy Wall Street group, which is amusing when you realize that almost every union pension fund in this country has built up a fortune over the last 50 years from their Wall Street investments.

From what I hear from the Occupy Wall Street sound bites, they want to end capitalism and they want to take money from the rich and spread it around.

One protester, when finally given her big chance to explain the group’s intentions, simply whined, “Why can’t we all have the same amount of money? That would be fair and nobody would be richer than anybody else and we can have health care and . . . and . . . ” then her voice trailed off as though thinking was too taxing for her brain.

A man in a more ominous voice said, “The Jews are only two percent of the population, but they have 40 percent of the money, and you know that their money is going to Israel.”

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Although the majority of the group is jobless, there is no shortage of cell phones, iPods, iPads, cameras and computers.

And this, of course, is causing a problem. Hold the presses: There is stealing going on among the protesters. Nan Terrie, a kitchen and legal-team volunteer from Fort Lauderdale, reported her Mac was stolen. “That was like $5,500” she said.

It’s sad that Ms. Terrie doesn’t understand that to the thief who stole her computer, she was rich.

She had a computer, he didn’t, so he stole hers. It sort of makes sense given the thinking in Zuccotti Park, doesn’t it?

Twenty five hundred in donated dollars was also stolen from the kitchen staff, who had fallen asleep after a long hard day whipping up meals for the hungry protesters.

What’s wrong with that? Some people work hard and have money; others, who don’t work hard, want that money. It’s all for the common good. It’s sort of like a tax levied on the “haves” by the “have-nots.”

My favorite sound bite came from the young man I heard on radio the other day: “I went to Columbia and graduated and now I can’t get a job.”

Now, being out of work is a terrible thing, and I think we should do everything we can to put people to work. I’m in favor of extending unemployment insurance and coming up with job programs for the unemployed. Whatever it takes.

But in response to the Columbia graduate who can’t get a job, I can only think about a night a few weeks ago when the skies opened up and I called out for a food delivery. The Chinese kid who brought my food was soaked. I told him to come in to the house while I paid him. It was clear he could not speak a word of English. Who knows how long he has been in this country? But he was here and he was working. Making minimum wage but working.

I thought of some of the horrible jobs I had to take when I was broke.

I tipped the Chinese kid well and he said thank you and went out into the rain. I’m thinking now of the Latino kids who are bus boys.

The Russian kid who drove the cab I was in the other day, who goes to college and drives a cab. These kids have jobs.

The economy will come back.

There will be jobs again. There will be prosperity again. But no matter what happens, the Columbia graduate who says he can’t find work (that suits his education), along with the rest of the pack called Occupy Wall Street, will always be losers.

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Fire Destroys Scoville Hall

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By Kitty Merrill

On vacation in Connecticut, Reverend Steve Howarth, who’s also a volunteer firefighter, heard the call come over the fire department pager at 3:30 Saturday morning.

“I heard Main Street and Meeting House Lane,” the pastor of The First Presbyterian Church of Amagansett related that afternoon. Standing in front of the gutted Scoville Hall, he added, “I thought it was the church or the house. I’m glad it wasn’t.”

Relieved “the little church with the big heart” was spared, Howarth nonetheless spent Saturday afternoon comforting community members who came by to see the wreckage of the 86-year-old hall, destroyed by fire in an early morning blaze.

Mark Bennett, chief of the Amagansett Fire Department reported a passersby called in the fire and AFD trucks arrived within minutes. “When we got there, fire was coming out the front door and side windows.” Bennett called for aerial and hose trucks from East Hampton. The Springs Fire Department sent an engine and the Rapid Intervention Team from Sag Harbor was deployed to the scene.

Another engine from Montauk provided coverage at the firehouse.

In all, Bennett estimated about 100 firefighters fought the blaze.

“We had it under control in 20 to 30 minutes,” he related.

It wasn’t easy.

“The wind picked up after we got there. That helped the fire blow down the middle of the building,” Bennett said.

With town fire marshals unable to determine the conflagration’s cause, locals contacted the Suffolk County arson squad. As of Monday morning, Bennett said officials CONTINUED ON PAGE 34.

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Throne-Holst v. Kabot Starts To Simmer

By Kitty Merrill

Former Southampton Town Super visor Linda Kabot isn’t pussyfooting around. This week the write-in candidate accused her opponent, incumbent Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst of violating

campaign finance law in her reelection run. Within days, the Democrat and Independence Party candidate admitted the error and said the money would be returned to contributors.

Urging the supervisor to “cure”

campaign finance violations, Kabot said Throne-Holst’s campaign fund appears to be in violation of state “over-the-limit contributions” to the tune of $10,118.95 for the 2011 and 2009 election cycles. She handdelivered a letter to that effect to

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Southampton Preserves 150 Acres Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy, the county legislature and Southampton town officials announced the passing of legislation last week to preserve nearly 150 acres of environmentally sensitive land in East Quogue.

The land sits on the South Fork known as the Links at the East Quogue Watershed. The nearly $10 million preservation effort of the Links property will be achieved through a 50/50 partnership between the county and Southampton Town.

Two resolutions were passed: the first acquires 140 acres for approximately $9.8 million while the second acquires approximately 9.79 acres for about $171,000.

“I am pleased to see this important acquisition moving forward,” said Legislator Jay Schneiderman, who sponsored resolutions and the planning steps for the property back in 2009.

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“There is a little irony in the fact that at a committee meeting the night before the Meet and Greet, we were talking about the committee’s “sign” policy, and Trace Duryea sent out a press release about it the morning of the event.

It’s even more ironic that, after the event, someone put our candidate signs out alongside [Democratic town board candidate] Sylvia Overby’s on the triangle in front of the Hall, and the only one standing the next day was

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Theft of candidate signs has probably been a part of local campaigns since cavemen first chiseled “Vote For Ugg on the Neanderthal Line” into stones.

(Though taking those signs probably required a bit more upper body strength than is called for nowadays.)

This week Trace Duryea, chair of the East Hampton Republican Committee issued a statement expressing “deep disappointment” over the pilfering and defacement of her candidates’ signs. Not long after her strongly-worded statement was released, dozens more signs were stolen.

GOP Committeewoman Tina Piette reported that in advance of a campaign “meet and greet” at Ashawagh Hall in Springs last Thursday night, volunteers gathered 40 signs to place on the lawn outside the community center. The first shift of volunteers set signs out at about 2 PM. When Piette arrived two hours later, she wondered why no one had placed the placards yet. They had; the signs were stolen.

Exasperated, she said Monday, “I had signs up on my own, private property in 2007 and 2009, as well as this year. I put them up as a way of showing support for the candidates I was going to vote for.

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School District Issues Bogus Denial

By Rick Murphy

The saga of the $90,000 kindergarten teacher took another turn Friday when the East Hampton

School District denied an appeal by this newspaper for a document relating to the hire.

Last month, during a school

Citarella Staying In East Hampton The upscale food market Citarella is apparently staying in East Hampton.

Earlier this year, the landlord of the Main Street building, Ben Krupinski, said the lease expired at the end of this year and the two sides were at an impasse regarding an extension or new lease.

Joe Gurrera and other Citarella officials have steadfastly refused to comment about the store’s situation.

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board meeting, two school board members questioned the hiring of Luz Rojas Kardaras, when the district could have opted for a new teacher at half the salary. But administrators and other school board members supported the hiring. In public session, several references were made that Kardaris had submitted a letter of recommendation from Pedro Noguera, an NYU professor specializing in urban education.

School board president Dr. Laura Anker-Grossman gushed about Noguera and said his recommendation carried a lot of weight.

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We appealed.

F r i d a y, I n t e r i m S c h o o l Superintendent Rich Burns denied this newspaper’s appeal “as determined by advisory opinions of the Executive Director of the Committee on Open Government.”

However, the executive director, Robert Freeman, said Friday, neither Mr. Burns nor the district talked to him or called for an opinion.

In fact, he said, the Noguera recommendation is most assuredly a public document the school district must by law make available.

“The law does specify a letter of recommendation need not be disclosed,” he said. “However, as soon as it was discussed in open session the district waived the ability to deny access – the cat was

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County Clinic Becomes County Bill

By Kitty Merrill

Suffolk County will pay the rent.

By an overwhelming majority, last week the Suffolk County Legislature voted to override County Executive Steve Levy’s veto of a bill designed to transfer the responsibility of paying the rent on the Accabonac clinic in East Hampton from the town to the county.

S p o n s o r e d b y S o u t h Fo r k Legislator Jay Schneiderman, the measure authorizes the executive to execute a two year lease, with three

one year options, between Suffolk and the East Hampton Housing Authority, which owns the land and clinic building.

There were tense times for clinic clients earlier this summer, when it appeared the Housing Authority was poised to evict the clinic for non payment of rent. It was unclear who was supposed to come up with the annual $32,500 rent payment.

Town officials were under the impression the county was picking up the cost, while some county

officials felt East Hampton was the entity on the hook for the bill.

At the center of the confusion was an agreement inked over a decade ago when the clinic was established.

The town built the facility with the understanding that Suffolk would open a clinic. For a decade, East Hampton paid $1 a year rent, and when the agreement expired, someone had to come up with the rent.

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for other clinics across the county.

Several weeks ago, Schneiderman sponsored a bill turning that cost over to the county.

“Because of the actions of the Suffolk Legislature, the clinic in East Hampton will continue to operate.”

- Jay Schneiderman At the end of September, Levy vetoed the measure, writing, “ . . . during these economic times it is inconceivable that we would enter into an arrangement that would force us to now pay for this space we have been receiving for free from the Town, especially since these services can be provided at our nearby Southampton clinic.

The East Hampton adjunct was opened only on the condition that the Town would provide the space.”

“Because of the actions of the Suffolk Legislature, the clinic in East Hampton will continue to operate. For years this clinic has provided needed primary care to many community members who might not otherwise be able to afford basic health services,” Schneiderman said after the vote. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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heard it – ‘your breast must come Dee Dee Ricks had it all – off immediately.’” breathtaking good looks, a Ricks thought first of her successful business, two handsome children. “I was frantic my kids young boys and a house in the wouldn’t remember Hamptons when me.” She called a her world was friend in the film shattered by business and devastating, life decided to film the threatening news. process of not only The year was the mastectomy – 2 0 0 7, a n d s h e “it’s such a brutal was flying high image” – but also despite a divorce the reconstruction that left her with and the journey custody of her towards recovery. two boys, then Her journey three and five. has been captured She had her own

by HBO – The business advising Education Of Dee Dee investment Ricks premiers on bankers. “I was October 27. East 38. My house in Enders, though, the Hamptons can see a sneak flooded . . . I was preview Saturday rushing around evening at Guild and I didn’t have Hall in East a bra on. I felt Hampton. something in my John and Jordan with Dee Ricks in The story is left breast,” she Wainscott. more than a story related. about a woman’s An exam confirmed, “My worst fight with cancer. As it turned out, nightmare, especially the way I her diagnosis led to a story not

only about the will to survive, but a resolve to help others fight the good fight. One of the most poignant moments in the film is Ricks’ meeting with Dr. Harold Freeman, whose mission is to make diagnosis and treatments more accessible to all. Freeman founded the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in New York.

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the cause – she responded by raising $1.2 million in a matter of months.

Ricks underwent a successful operation at Memorial Sloan Kettering and continued to film her recovery. She was put in touch with the filmmaker Perri Peltz, whom Ricks calls, “my Robin Hood.” Peltz’s film brilliantly captures Ricks’ treatment and transformation, her heartache and eventual triumph.

But a far greater transformation CONTINUED ON PAGE 29.

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RICK’S SPACE Growing Up Absurd Growing up in Brooklyn really isn’t much different than growing up in any small town, but you couldn’t tell that to my friends in Sag Harbor, or my friends in Brooklyn, either.

Being 13 or so unifies all boys, no matter where they live. Girls are just entering the picture, we are too young to drive, and we are about to enter high school, where we’ll be the lowest on the pecking order.

By the time we were 13 in Brooklyn we were already fluent in all sorts of gambling -- poker, flipping coins, playing pool, bowling, the numbers, and even the ponies. We cursed openly and freely, chain-smoked, beat up weaker kids, and were even adroit at breaking into places and hot wiring cars.

We were the good kids.

The bad kids were called juvenile delinquents for a reason. The more wild and violent among them were literally issued JD cards, which basically was a prelude to being taken away to a youth home aka Sean Penn

in Bad Boys.

The bad kids robbed and stole, carried and occasionally used knives, and beat up their grandmothers and stuff like that. They wore pointed black shoes or boots and black pants and leather coats.

This outfit proved a detriment in the schoolyard, where the bullies would come and annoy us. Eventually, we’d challenge them to a game – it’s not a very daunting task to score a basket against some guy with pointed shoes and a leather coat, especially since they invariably would have a cigarette dangling from their mouths while they played, though an interesting defensive strategy to be sure.

We would skip out on school every once in a while and go to Yankee Stadium. The JDs quit school for good by the time they were 13.

I was a bad kid in Sag Harbor, the kind parents warned their kids about.

That’s because I smoked and cursed a lot. That’s about as bad as it got.

The good kids did their homework

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every night, called their dad “sir” and said “Yes Ma’am” to my mother (which she hated).

Being I was from Brooklyn, I felt it was my responsibility to teach the Sag Harbor kids how to gamble and steal. Pretty soon I was running with a good group of future JDs. Most kids in Sag Harbor envied city kids no end. They figured the city was like Times Square with peep shops and prostitutes and action of all kinds. The truth is, every little neighborhood in the city was more or less a self-contained small town.

Finally the day would come when my Sag Harbor friends would muster up the nerve to go into the city, that is, Times Square. It was like a right of passage. The natives would see them coming. They would buy Rolex watches, pay good money for sex that never materialized. They would go to the Statue of Liberty and the Empire State Building but say to us, “I guess you guys see that stuff every day,” and we’d say, “yeah” with a yawn.

The truth is I’ve never been to either landmark. Hey, I’m from Brooklyn.

The highlight of our lives was interaction with girls. It didn’t matter where you lived. On Friday you’d find yourself in some dismal basement, be it a church or a synagogue or a Knights of Columbus. There would be a very bad band playing songs like “Wipe Out” and “Just Like Me” by Paul Revere and the Raiders. None of the

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boys danced. Instead, the boys stood altogether and the girls danced with each other. Finally a slow song was played and we’d pick one of the girls we were ogling and do the grind. That was it. On the way home we’d brag about our conquests. No one said “did you see me cha- cha?” or “did you see me do the monkey”? That would be girlie (BTW, what are the chances Helen Gurley Brown’s middle name would be “Gurly?”)

In Sag Harbor, the bad kids drank.

In Brooklyn the good kids drank and the bad kids quickly became drug addicts. Lots of them were heroin addicts, and started taking to robbing the local stores. The Chinese laundry on Avenue S got robbed every two weeks for over a year. A friend of ours we called Nubby was finally arrested.

I don’t want to say the cops are dumb but Nubby lived two doors down from the laundry and our mothers used to comment how he always had nice clean starched shirts.

Kids grow up. A lot married girls from the neighborhood. Others became plumbers, mechanics, and the like. The good kids went off to college, a built in excuse to act immature for four more years. The bad kids grew up and either went to jail or straightened out.

A lot of us went to war and that was the end of our blissful youths.

I never thought that would still be happening today.

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About Poxabogue It’s election time, so it seems every move a municipal board makes is subject to criticism and second-guessing. This is particularly true in East Hampton, when even mundane decisions are assailed as if lives depended on them.

The latest is the re-sale of the town’s stake of Poxabogue Golf Course to Southampton Town, which co-owns it. We questioned the original sale to begin with – the property lies solely in Southampton Town, and thus East Hampton had to come up with real cash rather than take the money from the Community Preservation Fund as Southampton did. What everyone seems to forget now is that East Hampton, then being guided by the rogue, disgraced former supervisor Bill McGintee, ceded all management decisions to its western neighbor. That’s how the debacle involving the beloved Fairway Restaurant closure came about – Southampton put the operation out to bid and ended up with nothing but headaches. The sole benefit to East Hampton was a promise of reduced green fees for locals.

Cut to 2011 – Southampton has graciously agreed to buy East Hampton’s stake for $2.25 million, about a million less than East Hampton put up initially. If East Hampton residents continue to get discounts, there is absolutely no down side to this deal. It’s a gift.

The money will come from the CPF fund, which assures the parcel will never be developed. Those opposed to the sale voiced the opinion that Southampton could use the parcel in a manner that will harm East Hampton residents sometime in the future. They don’t get it.

Southampton is making a shrewd move – it’s protecting the parcel from East Hampton, worried about what it might decide to do with its half, which is not restricted by CPF regulations.

Southampton gets ownership of the whole parcel at a discounted rate; East Hampton, which already has no say in how the operation is run, salvages money from what was really a bad deal to begin with – a town should never spend taxpayers’ money to preserve a parcel outside its borders. Blame the administration that made the deal, not the current town board

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– in retrospect it was a well-meaning but dumb idea. It’s far better to salvage some of the cash than it is to waste more.

Taking A Drive On The Beach Speaking of politicizing an issue, its laughable to see the political ads – for example, the East Hampton Conservators’ about “beach access.” Certain politicians know that a group of beach-drivers have taken access to their favorite Amagansett beach for decades, and they know it’s a popular cause to rally around come election time.

Politics aside, the truth is local Democrats have historically been in favor of limiting truck traffic on our beaches, and have over the years nominated dozens of town trustees candidates to advance that cause. The Republicans and the Republicancontrolled Board of Trustees have always been the ones front and center in the fight to keep the beaches open to vehicles.

It’s sad to see the good folks from CfAR (Citizens For Access Rights) foolishly become unknowing tools and fall into the trap so carefully set for them. CfAR claims it doesn’t want to politicize the issue, but it has taken the rather cheeky action of drawing up legislation and placing on ultimatum on the town board to embrace it – with a deadline a scant six weeks before the election. Since when does a special interest group issue decrees and draft legislation? The resolution is non-binding and thus meaningless. More to the point it obligates the town to a legal strategy best left to its law team.

CfAR is like any other group: there are individuals connected to it pushing their own agendas – members should take care to make sure public statements attributed to the group take their concerns into account.

Certain politicians will tell CfAR what it wants to hear. Just remember it’s about beach DRIVING, not beach access. Some of the politicians cow-towing to CfAR members for their votes don’t even want pedestrians on the beaches near them.

Note to CFAR: Be careful what you wish for, or you’ll be sitting in the parking lot instead of in your truck and on the beach come next summer.

pulled the financial rug out from under the residents and taxpayers of the Town of East Hampton. Remember, McGintee and his all Democrat Town Board left us with an almost $30 million deficit.

In November 2009, Bill Wilkinson was elected supervisor to do the job no one

had been doing throughout the prior McGintee years – restore our Town to economic stability. Clearly, Wilkinson was elected overwhelmingly by Democrats, Republicans, Independents and Blanks to be our financial disciplinarian-in-chief. I urge the voters of East Hampton not to

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throw out their chosen messenger because they have found the message hard in its implementation. No one thought it would be easy to bring the Town back from the brink of collapse. The burden was on us all to do more with less – a bitter but necessary pill to swallow.

Supervisor Wilkinson took office and did his job well. In 22 months, working with his fellow town board members, he has managed to turn our dire fiscal situation around. Does everyone love what he did?

No. Does everyone love how he did it? No. Is there a part of the voting public that would not like what he did, or how he did it, no matter what? Yes. Now take a step back and look at the order he brought to Town finances from the economic chaos he was met with on January 1, 2010. In my view, when I am sick, I don’t have to necessarily love the doctor or the medicine, as long as I get better.

Let’s face it; this Town was on life-support when the Wilkinson administration arrived in Town Hall. Today, it is up and flourishing – thanks to Supervisor Wilkinson and what he has brought to his Town Board and the residents and taxpayers of East Hampton.

The last thing we all need is another spend and tax Democrat administration in East Hampton. Bill Wilkinson has earned – and deserves – the opportunity to finish the job for us. That takes your vote for Team Wilkinson 2011 on November 8th.

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Bribery Has No Place Dear Mr. Murphy, Those cutesy little Democrat ads and expensive mailings advising voters that if they vote against the Wilkinson Team, the Democrats will “restore leaf pick-up,” I believe are violations of New York State Election Law. § 17-142 of New York State Election Law prohibits (and I am paraphrasing here) offering a thing of value in exchange for a vote. I urge all voters and especially members of the press to read this section of the NYS Election Law. We know leaf pick-up costs all East Hampton taxpayers a minimum of $500,000. I believe that is a pretty big bribe, or inducement, for a vote.

Haven’t we had enough of scandal, corruption and illegal activities in this Town?

Devoid of any real ideas and fielding a weak and inexperienced slate of candidates, Democrats are once again showing their true colors by trying to bribe our citizens for their vote.

Elections are sacred. Soldiers have fought and died to preserve our way of life and our right to vote. As such, bribery has no place in our election process, as § 17-142

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from Hollywood. There he was one of many Disney VPs in the Human Resources Department, where a big part of his job was firing people. Since Mr. Wilkinson has been supervisor he has relied on his own personal Budget Officer, Mr. Bernard, to advise him - shades of McGintee. I guess in the area of firing employees, Mr. Wilkinson has done an outstanding job. On the other hand, Zach Cohen has a Masters in Business Administration, knows the Town’s budget inside and out, and has willingly volunteered his talents in business administration to help East Hampton. This was months before Wilkinson took office in January 2010.

Mr. Wilkinson has boasted of his corporate experience. East Hampton is not a corporation, it’s a small town whose employees are our neighbors and friends.

What this Town really needs is a Supervisor who understands and can evaluate issues, respects the opinions of citizens and town employees, listens to others carefully and makes educated decisions. Zach Cohen is that man! On November 8th vote for Zach Cohen for Supervisor.

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Anita Nedley I hope it keeps on going but without violence.

The whole point of this is not just to make a ruckus. There’s a real reason they’re there. Wall Street needs to open up their eyes. When the Wall Street guys are standing on soup kitchen lines, maybe they’ll begin to hear.

Brian Risbrook After a while people get tired of being jerked around. It has a lot to do with the bailout money that just seemed to disappear. Often you’ll just get your bank statement and you won’t even understand what all the charges are. Banks definitely need more regulation.

Don Ferriss It’s absurd. These people are uninformed and disorganized, and incapable of forming an agenda. These people are unemployed or have lost their jobs. And it’s always someone else’s fault. It’s a victim mentality. That’s suitable in a third world country. But not here.

Ruth Endleman They should go to Washington to make their voices heard there. It’s great that they are being heard but they aren’t being heard where they can effect change. This may only bring negative attention. They need focus and leadership, which they don’t have yet. of NYS Election Law clearly contemplates.

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Solid As A Rock To The Editor, It’s Saturday morning and I’m reading the Southampton Press as I am having my second cup of coffee. As a Conservative, I always enjoy reading Mr. Phil Keith’s column Past, Present and the Future.

He spoke of Nancy Graboski’s retirement and he considered her “as solid as a rock and has always had the best interests of all citizens of the town as her first priority. She has never failed to do what she thought was right. Nancy represents the sort of solid citizen, service driven, community minded passion that has fallen into disfavor with many politicians these days.” At this point I stopped reading!

There is someone else who has these qualities and it is Bill Hughes! He is running for Southampton Town Council on the Republican and Conservative lines.

I’ve known Bill Hughes many years as a friend, and member of St. Rosalie’s Church. If you read his resume, you would know him as a committed family man and an outstanding community member – as solid as a rock. I would take me two pages to write about Bill and his life.

He and his wife raised two great kids. He

is an Eagle Scout Life Member, Knights of Columbus member who sponsors parties twice a year for adults with disabilities, Life Member American Legion, Suffolk Police Veterans Association, Pararescue Association, Hampton Bays Coaching 1994 – 2002, and Southampton Town Police, 1981 – 2010.

His education involves FBI, U.S. Air Force, as a Pararescueman, N.Y. Air National Guard, and Department of Homeland Security, and the list goes on.

So you can see why I thought of Bill Hughes as I was reading about Nancy Graboski “and you know,” Mr. Keith, “of course, that I am mostly right.”

Please vote for Bill Hughes as Councilman on November 8th.

P.S. Mr. Keith. Nancy Graboski is all the things you wrote about - a true patriot.

Thank you, Nancy.

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Big Government Dear Rick, What is happening to the America we once knew? Check it out, folks. Reality is now coming into question by the present federal administration.

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are under scrutiny and attack by the U.S. Department of Justice.

President Barack Obama’s administration has brought under attack the Defense of Marriage Act – and the religious freedom and moral integrity of those who support it, threatening to cause a national conflict between church and state – to the detriment of both institutions.

The administration, to further its antiChristian agenda, is to require all federal employees to undergo sexual orientation sensitivity training – regardless of the employee’s religious beliefs. Is this America?

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Officials Support Transportation Authority Assemblyman Fred Thiele and Babylon Town Supervisor and Democratic Suffolk County Executive candidate Steve Bellone announced their support for Peconic Bay Regional Transportation Authority during a press conference Monday at the Southampton LIRR station. Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst and Councilwoman Bridget Fleming also attended the event.

Bellone said improved transportation is vital to the East End’s economy and that he will make this initiative one of his top priorities in his work with Suffolk County’s state delegation.

Many of the ideas for the Peconic Bay Regional Transportation Authority were explored in a 2009 report from the Volpe National Transportation Systems Center, which was conducted with the support of the five East End towns. The report outlined a strategy to create the Authority as a coordinated shuttle train and bus network.

The study also estimated that the East End pays $40 million to $60 million for services received from the MTA annually. This means that significant funding would be available without raising taxes with the new Authority.

“This is where East End tax dollars for transportation should go, not to subsidize urban transit,” Thiele said. “Having a county executive that understands East End needs would be a major step towards bringing this concept to fruition,” he added.

The successful establishment of Sunday bus service backed by legislators Jay Schneiderman and Ed Romaine also demonstrated the high demand on the East End for additional transit options.

“The success of the East End Sunday bus program this summer shows that public transportation is needed seven days a week,” Schneiderman ENDORSED BY THE said. “We need to move toward an integrated system of rail, bus and bike lanes so that the East End can be a model area for public transportation.”

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Southampton’s budget process is moving along . . . slowly but surely.

Southampton Town Board voted and passed unanimously the switch of Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst’s tentative budget into a preliminary spending plan for next year.

An additional public hearing was also scheduled, even after lengthy debate among board members.

Originally, only one public hearing was scheduled for November 9, the day after Election Day, much to the chagrin of some. According to state law, the budget must be adopted by November 18 and all public hearings must be closed by November 15.

Councilwoman Nancy Graboski

said she felt only one public hearing was inadequate, thus beginning her process to turn the tentative budget into a preliminary one. (Town law doesn’t allow public hearings on tentative budgets, only preliminary

“Are you telling me this has no substance? . . . You’ve got to be kidding me.”

- Nancy Graboski budgets.) After some debate and changes of heart, (originally, Throne-Holst and Councilwoman Bridget Fleming opposed walking

on Graboski’s measures) the town council came to an agreement.

Throne-Holst expressed some worry over the conversion of her tentative budget into a preliminary spending plan.

“The public will be commenting on a plan that wouldn’t represent substantive, inevitable amendments to the budget,” she said, stressing the preliminary budget would essentially be a copy of the tentative budget.

Graboski seemed a bit taken aback by the comment.

“Are you telling me this has no substance?” she said, commenting on the binder containing the hundreds of pages of the 2012 Continued on page 33.

How did the Montauk club scene get so

out of controL? Wilkinson and Quigley turned their backs on Montauk.

With Wilkinson and Quigley at the helm, Montauk has become a ‘party’ destination. Creating traffic problems, parking problems, noise problems, and health and safety concerns. When confronted by the Montauk CAC that the Town Board has ignored code violations in the hamlet Republican councilwoman Quigley quipped, “I think you guys are being unfair, and I’m not running for office so I don’t give a crap.” Whether refusing to enforce our laws, or trying to sell the Montauk Docks and Fort Pond House, Wilkinson and Quigley continue to turn their backs on Montauk.

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Agriculture Forum For Suffolk County Senator Ken LaValle and the Senate Agriculture Committee are hosting an “Agriculture Business Forum” at Riverhead Town Hall tomorrow at 1 PM. The purpose of the forum is to gain insight and ideas to help strengthen New York’s farm economy and to create jobs.

“New York’s agricultural economy is strong, and poised for even more growth,” Senator Patty Ritchie said. The chair of the committee also added the forum is helping find solutions that will help farmers and small business leaders take advantage of new ideas, markets and opportunities. Bringing together owners of large and small farms, farm product suppliers, manufacturers, academics and leading agricultural experts from the region and across the state, the forum may be used to draft legislation to provide incentives to help farmers and farm businesses grow.

“Suffolk County is the largest agricultural county in our state,” said LaValle. “I look forward to hearing from our East End farmers about how we can help farm families carry on their farming tradition while protecting the future of the East End’s agricultural economy.”

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Speaking of his support for Behan and Mott this week he said, “pure and simple . . . they are the two best candidates in the race. They will both bring to Town Hall the type of common sense and balance that is needed. They best know the community and will be good listeners. They will check the excesses of the two major parties that have infected East Hampton politics in recent years.”

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Southold Historical Society Gains Artifact The Southold Historical Society announced Monday that they acquired a rare journal that was originally kept by the men in charge of Ditch Plains Life Saving Station Number 4 in Montauk. An important part of the journal contained a look into the day-to-day operations of the Life Saving Station.

“The acquisition of this rare item is a very special achievement for us,” said Director of the Society Geoffrey K. Fleming.

The journal, which covers the period of December 1, 1873 to February 9, 1878, contains hand-written entries documenting weather conditions, surf, winds, passing vessels, patrols listed by name, wrecks and rescues performed, bodies found on the beach and equipment received.

The journal is completely intact and most entries are readable.

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Thiele Encourages Breast Cancer Awareness Assemblyman Fred Thiele joined the Adelphi New York Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program in their annual Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Friday to urge women to get mammograms.

The hotline has been around for 31 years and is a project of the Adelphi University School of Social Work on Long Island.

“October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a significant time to remind women to get mammograms,” Thiele said.

“I hope that women will take the time to make an appointment for a mammogram,” he said, adding, “Early detection is still the best tool we have in fighting breast cancer.”

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Fouling Out I wish I could tell you to play “NBA 2K12” to make up for the fact there’s no basketball to watch on TV, due to the NBA lockout.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4. be worried, of course – or should she?

Insiders say the real action will take place in a year or two, with Throne-Holst possibly looking to take her career to another level, and Kabot looming as a replacement or challenger then as now. First things first, though – with the new voting ballot, it is easier to find and pull the trigger for a write-in.

In East Hampton, Zach Cohen, a newcomer, is challenging the incumbent Bill Wilkinson, who is running on the Republican, Conservative, and Independence Party lines. Cohen is an independent running on the Democratic Party line; he initially was given the Independence Party nod locally but was removed from the ballot in favor of Wilkinson by state party chairman

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Frank MacKay. Wilkinson is running on his record; he received state approval to fund a nearly $30 million deficit racked up by the prior administration, and he streamlined town government to produce a record-breaking tax decrease of nearly 20 percent.

Wilkinson has garnered endorsements from Assemblyman Fred Thiele and the town’s PBA, among others. Cohen received the town’s CSEA endorsement. No one is owning up to authorizing a poll, but there are polls out there according to insiders. Wilkinson was said to be ahead in one with Cohen within striking distance; another has the two neck-in-neck.

The Democrats are pushing mail-in ballots to attract second homeowners.

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at least one insider with knowledge of these things predicted. Bridget Fleming, a Democrat incumbent who was bumped from the Independence line

by MacKay, is also polling well. That leaves Brad Bender (D) and Bill Hughes (R) coming from the rear.

East Hampton has six candidates vying for two town board seats. For the first time the Independence Party has its own slate, Bill Mott and Marilyn Behan, Thiele endorsed both of them.

The Republicans countered with Steven Gaines and Richard Haeg.

The Democrats have put forth two planning board veterans, Sylvia Overby and Peter Von Scoyoc.

The latest poll we heard about has the two Dems were leading the pack and the Republicans were trailing the field. Gaines, though, said he was told he’s moved up to third in a recent poll.

Pollsters were working the phones over the weekend, by the way.

In Riverhead, like Southampton, two supes are facing off: Sean Walter (Rep) and the man he beat, Phil Cardinale (D).

One wag said it’s neck and neck.

Most of the candidates are working their districts, although Mott had a prior vacation scheduled for this week.

Throne-Holst, along with Fleming and Bender , hosted a launch party at 230 Elm Street in Southampton last night. The party was slated to feature Throne-Holst presenting a documentary to showcase Southamptonproject.com.

The project’s slogan, “What do you love about this place?” served as an effort

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for the supervisor and her running mates to show what they love about Southampton. The film will be available online tomorrow at noon.

To m o r r o w m o r n i n g t h e Southampton Inn hosts a “Meet the Candidates” breakfast from 8:30 to 10:30 AM. The event is sponsored by the Southampton Business Alliance. The cost is $20 for alliance members and $25 for non-members. Call 631-283-6500 for more information. On November 1, the Noyac Civic Council hosts a debate between the two supervisor candidates, Throne-Holst and Kabot, at 7 PM at the Old Noyac Schoolhouse.

Join the East Hampton Democrats for a house party with Ann Maegli at 151 Second House Road in Montauk from 5:30 to 7:30 PM tomorrow night.

917-887-6713 for more info. There’s also a house party on Saturday with Claire Pasternack at 81 Hog Creek Road in East Hampton from 11 AM to 1 PM. Call 631-324-6789 for more info.

All are welcome to meet and greet Wilkinson at Hewitt’s Shagwong Restaurant in Montauk on Friday from 5 to 7 PM. Enjoy food and mingling for $20 per person.

For East Hampton candidates, there will be forums and debates will be held at 1 PM on Sunday at the firehouse in Montauk, hosted by the Concerned Citizens. On Monday at 7 PM, an additional forum will be at Ashawagh Hall in Springs and will be hosted by the Springs Citizens Advisory Committee. 631-604-6000.

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A hand similar to this one was played recently at the East Hampton Duplicate Bridge Club. This club has been in existence for 10 years under the direction of Rose Deleonardis.

Rose is retiring from her position as owner and director and I will be taking her place. Rose and Duke Morrell, the director of the Montauk Bridge Club, deserve a great deal of credit for keeping duplicate bridge alive and thriving on the East End. When this hand was played, one East played the ace and king of spades. He then saw an opportunity for his partner to get a ruff by leading the jack of spades. He thought that West certainly would have a higher trump than dummy. In this situation, West, in fact, did have a higher trump and won with the seven. However, that was the last trick for the defense.

When West next led a diamond, declarer won the ace, played three rounds of trumps, followed by the ace and king of clubs. Next he led the heart five to dummy’s six to play the queen and jack of clubs on which he discarded his two losing diamonds, making his contract.

The defense won only the first three tricks.

If West does not ruff the third spade and declarer trumps in dummy, declarer cannot reach dummy to play the queen and jack of clubs and will go down one trick. A sharp declarer could choose not to ruff and still make his contract by using the six of hearts to get to dummy but one West failed to tempt declarer into making a mistake.

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Holst v. Kabot

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 10. limit index compiled by the Suffolk County Board of Elections. Kabot said the index clearly shows that the maximum an individual or corporation can donate in the aggregate for an individual candidate committee is $1,880.05 for the 2011 General Election Cycle.

The 2009 Contribution Limit was $1896.90. Corporations are further limited to a total of $5000 in the aggregate annually for all political

“I urge you to immediately take corrective action so as to comply with the law.”

- Linda Kabot donations to candidates and parties cumulatively.

“I urge you to immediately take corrective action so as to comply with the law,” wrote Kabot. “I strongly feel it is dishonest to retain this overage in your campaign fund and expend such unlawful monies to further your re-election.”

Ka b o t c o n t i n u e d : “ I h a v e mentioned this concern to a Deputy Commissioner at the Suffolk County Board of Elections, and he advised me that a formal complaint should be made to the New York State Board of Elections and copied to the Commissioners of the County Board of Elections.”

Kabot opted to correspond directly with Throne-Holst (and the press) “in hopes that you will remedy the matter without having

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to endure enforcement action proceedings from the State of New York’s Campaign Finance Investigations Unit.”

New York State Election Law Section 14-126 specifies that “Any person who knowingly and willfully contributes, accepts or aids or participates in the acceptance of a contribution in an amount exceeding an applicable maximum specified in this article shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,” the writein candidate reported.

Reached for comment Monday, Throne-Holst said “early on” she sought opinions from the Democratic committee regarding contribution limits. She forwarded emails seeking the opinions dated last June to The Independent.

After receiving Kabot’s missive she sought another opinion, this time from state election officials.

“Mistakes happen,” she said, pointing out that contribution limits can change from year to year. While she wants to check Kabot’s math – “I’m not so sure she’s correct‘ – Throne-Holst said she’s in the process of returning the difference between allowable limits and what she received to contributors. In general, however, the exercise could end up a wash for her ticket, since donors could make out new checks to the Democratic Committee. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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Sylvia’s. I could go on and on and talk about first amendment rights and trespassing and it’s all a part of the ‘game” but really - it’s more than childish, it’s actually kind of creepy.” “ T h e E a s t H a m p t o n To w n Republican Committee deplores the defacement and unauthorized removal of candidates’ signs, no matter what political party. We do not sanction and will not tolerate any such behavior by our supporters.

The Republican committee believes in the electoral process and the first amendment rights of every citizen to express their views in the up coming election. The first amendment rights of our neighbors must never be compromised by illegal and thuggish behavior,” Duryea wrote.

Defacing or removing political signs from public and private property is a crime, she noted.

“Political signs are expensive and replacing hundreds of removed or defaced signs can run into thousands of dollars for campaigns,” she said.

Asked to comment on the heinous heists, Jeanne Frankl, chair of the Democratic Committee said, “The East Hampton Democrats are in full agreement with Ms. Duryea.

Destroying and defacing signs is a childish repudiation of our commitment to free speech the free interplay of ideas.”

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out of the bag.”

Attached to Burns’ denial was a 10-year old opinion signed by Freeman concerning an individual applying for a license as a mortgage broker. Burns, or someone in the district, apparently found it on the Internet. “A banker is completely different” than a position in a school district – which operates on public money and is thus subject to a much higher level of transparency, said Freeman.

The Independent has notified the district we do not accept the denial.

The reply reads in part: “As we clearly pointed out in our FOIL the recommendation was discussed in open session of the school board and apparently quoted from. It became a public record at the moment if it wasn’t already.

The district is obligated to provide the requested document.

At that time should the district still choose not to comply we will ask the courts to intervene.”

It should be noted the district will be responsible for legal fees accrued by both parties should The Independent prevail in court.

Kardaras was hired in part, administrators said, because she was fluent in Spanish. But the district, when advertising for the position, did not list bilingual skills as a requirement for the job or it might well have attracted

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According to her resume Kardaris worked five-and-a-half years in Cutchogue Elementary School as a third grade teacher before leaving in February of 2007. She previously worked at P.S. 112 in Long Island City.

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During his address to the town board, Pearce said he wanted an additional public hearing.

Eventually, after the special meeting, lengthy discussions and hearing the public’s comments, town board members voted in favor of Graboski’s efforts.

In an attempt to move forward with the resolutions and show the pressing issue of the new conversion, Throne-Holst said she chose to lead by example, thus voting favorably for the proposal.

Fleming followed suit.

“Something’s different this year,” Fleming said. “I’m thrilled to see a budget process that’s more communicative than last year.”

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So tantalizingly close. First place, that is.

Fo r We s t h a m p t o n a n d Riverhead, the opportunity was there to seize the day, but both locals came up a little short.

The Hurricanes had the tough task of traveling to Islip Friday with a chance to move into a first place tie in Suffolk’s Division III. The two teams went toe to toe for three quarters, playing to a 13-13 tie.

In the end though, the locals couldn’t contain the two-headed rushing monster, Joe Sabbatino and Dan Gomez. The pair combined for 264 yards and three TDs, and it was Sabbatino who drove the dagger through the heart of the locals with a one-yard plunge with only a minute left on the clock.

The undefeated Riverhead Blue Waves, 5-0 going in, knew they had a tough match-up in West Babylon, another undefeated rival vying for Division II supremacy.

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The finale was 41-6, with Bitzer’s 44-yard TD pass accounting for all the local’s scoring. Copaigue comes to Riverhead Saturday for a critical 2 PM game.

Hampton Bays improved to 3-3 by besting Mattituck, Greenport et al 25-13; Juan Ramirez and Andrew Morris combined for 130 rushing yards and two scores.

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Let’s Go Over It Again Remember how in grade school the week before final exams the teacher would review all that was learned during the semester.

Let’s do that today.

What does Fred Jackson, Cedric Benson, Tom Brady, Wes Welker, Eli Manning, Hakeem Nicks, and Michael Vick all have in common?

They will all be on a couch this Sunday watching football games just like us. The reason is because they will be enjoying their “Bye” weeks, which we wrote about in this space a few weeks’ ago.

If you haven’t prepared, you’ll have to do some hustling this week.

We’ll get to that in a minute.

Remember when we wrote about how trades affect teams? The NFL: trading deadline is this week, and already one huge trade had occurred – Brandon Lloyd, last season’s top receiver, went from Denver to St. Louis. We’ll tell you why this may affect you even of you didn’t have him on your team.

Finally, we devoted a column to injuries, and how to be prepared.

This week a few key players went down, including Oakland’s starting QB Jason Campbell and the Brown’s top running back, Peyton Hillis. We devoted a column to “Handcuffs”

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earlier in the season. A Handcuff is a star player’s backup. In Hillis’s case, that’s Montario Hardesty. If Hillis misses time, Hardesty is your guy.

If you don’t have him, try and pick him up off the waiver list.

Oakland is a contender, so don’t expect the Raiders to play a pat hand with Jackson down. As we went to press the rumor mill had it that Oakland was making a move to

get Carson Palmer, the disgruntled Cincinnati quarterback who is sitting out the season. He’d make an interesting pickup if you need a quarterback.

Every week players who aren’t on many fantasy teams become viable performers because of injuries or simply because they are playing so well that are getting more playing time. In Dallas Demarco Murray and Tashard Choice figure to split time now that Felix Jones is out. Murray, a rookie, is an intriguing pick.

Who does the Lloyd trade affect most? Mike Sims-Walker, that’s who. The Rams cut him yesterday.

Take all of the Rams receivers down a notch in your fantasy ratings, as Lloyd figures to see a lot of passes come his way. That group includes Brandon Gibson, Danario Alexander and rookies Greg Salas and Austin Pettis.

Conversely, move up the Denver receivers. One sleeper we like is Eric Decker.

Now let’s get back to the bye weeks. It’s any port in the storm, because the team you are playing is also probably decimated. So work the waiver wire and free agent list and pick up some players who figure to score some points. Here’s few of the better ones: Jackie Battle, Chiefs running back; Darius Heywood-Bey, Raiders wide receiver; Greg Little, Browns, WR; Want to impress your fellow league members and pick up some points? Give Demaryius Thomas a try. The Denver rookie WR has been injured but he has a ton of talent and who knows, he may click with new quarterback Tim Tebow.

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NBA Lockout Has Yet To Hit Home Doesn’t it feel like we were just debating and dissecting lockout issues? Oh wait, we were, but it’s a different league this time.

The NBA is now over two months into their lockout. At this point, the first two weeks of the season have been cancelled. Late last week Commissioner David Stern admitted his “gut” told him there may be no Christmas day games.

The difference between the NBA lockout and the NFL lockout is that while the NFL was mostly about rich guys arguing with richer guys over how to split the pie, the NBA insists a revamping of the league’s finances is necessary to stem significant losses by a number of teams.

One would think the NBA would generate more fan sympathy since there are supposed critical business decisions which need to be made to strengthen the league. But that hasn’t been the case. Fans have gone tone deaf to Commissioner Stern, president of the player’s union Derek Fisher, and union executive director Billy Hunter. Why? First, who among us has complained that the NBA season is too short? There’s currently 82 regular season games plus playoffs stretching from mid-fall until late spring. Is it really possible to be interested in a sport lasting almost nine months in which many of the players half-heartedly perform much of the time?

The season starts in October, when MLB is at the height of its excitement and college football and the NFL dominate the airwaves. It ends in June when fans are thinking who they want to vote onto the MLB all-star teams. All but the most diehard fans would probably be happy if the NBA season started in November and finished up as MLB was breaking spring training.

Second, while the NBA may

be one of the most popular team sports, many fans feel little personal connection with the players.

Many NBA players grow up poorer than most fans can imagine, yet end up wealthier than almost any fan can dream of. While we often can’t relate to the hardship of their childhoods, we also struggle to find a parallel with the lifestyle some choose to live once they are NBA stars. Partying with rappers and their entourages may be limited to a few big names, but it is often these sights and situations that we read about.

Many NFL players come from similar backgrounds. But the NFL is a league driven by team-first, while the NBA is a star-first league. While NFL quarterbacks may grab lots of attention, they can’t accomplish their heroics alone. The smaller number of players on a basketball court coupled with the ability of a superior player to singlehandedly dominate a game have made individual stars the main ticket for the league. Who thinks of

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Peyton vs. the Ravens defense before Kobe vs. LeBron? Joe Willie vs. the Colts defense or Larry vs. Magic? The point is the NBA is the province of the individual rather than the team.

The other reason fans struggle to relate with NBA players is the guaranteed contract. Center Erick Dampier made $13 million last season from a contract signed back in 2004 by the Dallas Mavericks He has averaged 10 points per game in his career twice, and 10 rebounds per game once. Despite averaging 26 games per season since 2004 and 8 points per game last season, guard Gilbert Arenas made $17 million from a deal signed in 2008.

I could certainly ramble on over the details of NBA contracts which reward mediocrity. Many fans who work in the private sector may not be familiar with a compensation system which continues to reward dwindling performance. This privilege is largely confined to professional athletes, and some members of other labor unions.

Tom Brady can be cut by the Patriots tomorrow. The Giants can cut Brandon Jacobs whenever they please. Most of us relate to that daily grind, knowing there are no guarantees in the workplace.

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