While The Island Now and Blank Slate Media are entitled to their own opinions, they’re not entitled to their own facts.
Your paper quotes Hempstead Town Supervisor Laura Gillen saying “in past administrations, there’s been consistent bond downgrades. I got elected to office and there was a bond upgrade,” in an article, before Ms. Gillen began to state her meager accomplishments and launches personal attacks against her predecessor.
These are lies and mistruths.
The Hempstead Town bond rating was never downgraded during Anthony Santino’s tenure as supervisor.
The recent Hempstead Town bond upgrade as Newsday, other media outlets and town officials have reported reflect Supervisor Santino’s tenure in 2016.
Audited financials of the town prove what he claimed during his campaign of a multimillion-dollar budget surplus.
The town also earned two successive bond outlook upgrades under the Santino Administration from Wall Street.
Ms. Gillen is up to her old tricks.
No wonder her former supporters have now begun to call her “Lying Laura” every chance they get.
Matt Coleman
Atlantic Beach
Note: The writer has served as spokesman for Supervisor Anthony Santino.
