indecent proposal

As the hockey season on Long Island wraps up, the Lighthouse drama continues. The petition that was mailed out is just the first in an attempt by Town of Hempstead supervisor Kate Murray. An online version of the petition is now up on Islanders fan first.com, put up by the town recently. The almost comical online version of the petition trys to pull at strings of Islanders fans to help save their team. Using the phrase "We're all Islanders" to start the message uses an array of smoke screen tactics and pointing fingers. In a message practically blaming Islanders ownership, the Town makes several frivolous attempts to convey its message to try for stimulus money for an outdated arena. Accusing the Lighthouse group of trying to "shortcut" the environmental review process was one of the deliberately placed sentences to confuse and obscure the true facts. The Lighthouse group is looking for the town government to quicken their pace in the review to help move along this crucial project. Kate Murray has finally shown her true feelings about the project and has launched a campaign to pretty much kill it by appealing to the fans fear of losing their beloved team. This tactic will hopefully fail in the face of smart fans who are well informed about the project and the greater benefits it offers as opposed to an arena renovation alone. The idea of the federals giving money to an arena renovation is more dream than the lighthouse itself. It is a serious waste of time and completely irresponsible for the supervisor to even fathom this idea. Like it says on her site, the town and county government should be working together. Instead the town supervisor Murray has decided to try and kill a project so important to the future of the Islanders and more importantly, Long Island.