Candidate for county Legislature says he was threatened by a fellow Republican days after announcing primary bid

suffolktimes.timesreview.com ^ | April 11, 2023 | Steve Wick

[lowbridge]

On March 14, Mattituck businessman Greg Williams announced he would run as a Republican for the Suffolk County Legislature. Three days later, at 8:42 a.m., Mr. Williams received a text message from William Mann, an employee of the Suffolk County Board of Elections.

While largely incomprehensible, the text contained what Mr. Williams saw as a direct threat. He provided the text to The Suffolk Times. It read: “We need to talk you [expletive] on me as a problem and there’s a problem I’m going to challenge every [expletive] petition signature you get I didn’t want to do this on a text I’m coming to you we’re going to have this face-to face and don’t worry your pistols not big enough you and me at work through too much [expletive] together for you to do this.”

The “this” Mr. Mann is referring to is Mr. Williams’s announcement that he would run a primary against the GOP’s anointed candidate for the Legislature, Catherine Stark.

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Mr. Mann, a Republican, is listed as a “general employee” of the Suffolk County Board of Elections, making $115,000 a year. Exactly what he does there is not spelled out in state online records. In December 2018, he was arrested and charged with forging signatures on nominating petitions in what the district attorney’s office said was a “brazen scheme” ahead of the 2018 election.

Mr. Mann faced a top charge of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a felony, the DA announced. Mr. Mann was accused of misrepresenting himself to Green Party voters in July 2018 while collecting petitions for countywide judge positions.

The Suffolk Times reported in October 2019 that the charges against Mr. Mann were dropped to disorderly conduct by a Suffolk District Court judge.

[Dr. Sivana]

I had to hunt, but this takes place in Long Island.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Mann should have been sentenced for making threats and given a choice of jail or mandatory psychiatric evaluation/treatment.

[one guy in new jersey]

Suffolk County, east end of the island. Some wealthy peeps out there.

[Mr. K]

The entrenched GOP bureaucracy is the biggest threat to the GOP party.

That is why Trump should create his own party.

There are only 30 million registered GOP. Trump had 81 million ACTUAL votes. How many would join him?

The old ‘3rd party guarantees a democrat win’ argument does not apply since Trump would have millions more members than either the democrat or the gop party.

I would bet Trump would get at least half the current GOP members, at least half the independents, and a good portion of democrat who are disillusioned about there openly gay and pro illegals party.

that’s 45 million. MAGA party would be the biggest party, not a third party.

AND DO NOT ALLOW ANY CURRENT GOP party bureaucrats to join. Being a GOP party bureaucrat was never supposed to be a full-time permanent job.

This guy makes $115,000 a year???

[whitney69]

“Mann should have been sentenced for making threats and given a choice of jail or mandatory psychiatric evaluation/treatment.”

Mann made no threat that can be considered a violent action toward Williams. He voiced his opinion, although not very well gramaticly, and failed to get his point across. Poorly handled it may have been, but criminal it wasn’t. He has enough of this in his back ground already.

William Mann, 61, of Cutchogue was originally charged with one count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a felony, one count of first-degree offering a false instrument for filing and two counts of official misconduct, all misdemeanors. He settled out of court for a $275 fine for disorderly conduct in 2018. All the alleged signatures were for local judicial candidates.

So this guy has a history, just not this time.

wy69

[Paul R.]

Even odds (given the lousy grammar) that “your pistols not big enough” is actually “your pistol is not big enough”, referring to William’s, er, “manhood”.

[Robert DeLong]

Janitors make more than that, from what I have heard.

[Dr. Sivana]

There are only 30 million registered GOP. Trump had 81 million ACTUAL votes.

Many states don't have formal party registration.

[moovova]

"Three days later, at 8:42 a.m., Mr. Williams received a text message from William Mann..."

Absolute proof that breakfast should not consist of vodka martinis.

[Mr. K]

Not sure how that affects my conclusions.

[Dr. Sivana]

Not sure how that affects my conclusions.

Well, if I were living in Connecticut, I would be a formally registered Republican. I am also registered as Republican here in Arizona. But in Wisconsin, Illinois and Georgia I don't show up as anything, even though I am still the same kind of voter. There may be many people who regard themselves as Republicans, and are even officers of the party as I was in Georgia, who don't show up as registered Republicans, so the numbers are incomplete.

Of course, even though I am a registered Republican, I vote 3rd Party when the Republicans throw a Romney at me.