Rockville Centre 9/10 Letters to the Editor

My husband’s a millionaire?

To the Editor:

I sure have learned a lot of things I didn’t know about my husband from Joe Scannell’s campaign mailings these past few weeks. Who knew he made “millions of dollars,” as Mr. Scannell’s mailer claims? I guess it’s time to sell our Cape Cod home and move into a mansion. I can quit my job as a teacher for sure so I can stay home with our son full-time, and we can even trade in Christian’s Honda Civic for a fancier model.

The mailing also says that my husband was “brought here from Manhattan two years ago.” That’s some trick, since Christian and I were in the first grade together at Hewitt Elementary in Rockville Centre almost 30 years ago. It’s true that my husband did move out of his parents’ house after college (outrageous!) and lived in Manhattan for a time -- while he worked for Mayor Giuliani and served in the best prosecutor’s office in the country, the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

Joe Scannell’s desperate, misleading personal attacks on my husband should make me angry — but these mailings are so silly, we just laugh at them. I know that voters will decide the race for the county Legislature on the issues, not on Joe Scannell’s sad, personal and untrue attacks on Christian’s character.

Lauren Ann (Schaefer) Browne

Rockville Centre

Browne’s husband, Christian, is the 5th District Republican candidate for the county

Legislature .

Likes health care

as is

To the Editor:

Three caveats missing from the expanded arrogation of Arthur Gianelli's opinion piece ("The case for health care reform," Aug. 20-26) are the effects that influence the medical cost: illegal immigrants, malpractice insurance and longevity. There are more octogenarians, nonagenarians and centenarians living today than ever before. That’s a double whammy —- medical care and Social Security. The Spartans solved the problem by pushing all males over 35 years of age "over the hill." I'm sure that statisticians can factor these parameters into the cost of delivery.