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Old 11-06-2011, 08:32 AM
 
Location: Islip,NY
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Santa Job Slayed By Cash-Strapped County on Long Island | NBC New York
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Old 11-06-2011, 10:11 AM
 
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Oh well.

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Old 11-06-2011, 10:24 AM
 
Location: under the beautiful Carolina blue
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I'm still confused why the county pays for a Santa to sit at a privately owned store. Or did Suffolk buy the General Store?

The nice retired detective wouldn't do it for free, BTW.
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Old 11-06-2011, 10:33 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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I'm still confused why the county pays for a Santa to sit at a privately owned store. Or did Suffolk buy the General Store?
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If you read it again, at the bottom of the report it states:

Built in 1857, the St. James General Store is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was operated privately for decades until Suffolk took it over in 1990.
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Old 11-06-2011, 11:27 AM
 
Location: under the beautiful Carolina blue
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Thanks...my attention span is waning as I get older, especially for Newsday articles (where I originally read this).
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Old 11-06-2011, 11:34 AM
 
Location: Long Island
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Thanks...my attention span is waning as I get older, especially for Newsday articles (where I originally read this).
Snoozeday? ;-)
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Old 11-06-2011, 12:03 PM
 
Location: Inis Fada
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Never fear -- a candidate for County Exec paid for it out of his own pocket.

He claims it wasn't politically motivated.
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Old 11-06-2011, 12:17 PM
 
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I personally know that Santa and he is a registered Conservative. He is taking a big time ribbing being bought out by a democrat. He is not like many think living on a big SCPD pension,lives in a very modest home and drives a 12 year old car. Good guy.
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Old 11-06-2011, 12:36 PM
 
Location: Former LI'er Now Rehoboth Beach, DE
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Call me Pollyanna but I miss the days when someone could do something nice and not have it have second guessed. Regardless of who did it, it was a nice GESTURE, I think. I live in Nassau lest anyone think I have a pony in this circus.
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Old 11-06-2011, 12:52 PM
 
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I'm still confused why the county pays for a Santa to sit at a privately owned store. Or did Suffolk buy the General Store?
Even if Suffolk County now owns and operates the store, I'm equally confused as to why a gov't entity was using tax funds to pay for a Christian Santa Claus?
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