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What Has the Hamptons, 4 Airports and a Hankering for Independence?
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Sep 22, 2007 08:41pm |
| Category | Amusing |
| News Date | Sep 22, 2007 08:40pm |
| Description | Last month, a 45-year-old bachelor living in his parents’ house here with plenty of online dreams (and no steady offline employment), posted a news release on his Web site announcing, “A New Country Is Born.”
The bottom of the release listed the source of the information as the “governor of Independent Long Island.”
That would-be governor would be the bachelor himself, Cesidio Tallini, who proposes that geographic Long Island — comprising Brooklyn, Queens and Nassau and Suffolk Counties — should secede from the United States and form the sovereign nation of Independent Long Island.
“Long Island’s ridiculously high home prices and property taxes are driving away all our young people, which is a shame because we have the population and the wealth to be a self-sustaining sovereignty, which would streamline government and lower taxes,” he said.
Anyway, he said, “people have always thought of Long Island as a place unto itself,” he said, adding that residents here “are known for having an independent streak.” |
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