Paul J. Tonna

A Jocular Legislator Makes Peace, Points

When Suffolk County Legis. Paul Tonna wants to pump up the excitement in finance committee debates, he tells speakers they’re contestants in a steel-case wrestling match or his favorite fictional TV game show, “Can You Top This?”

After recently voting to approve a trans-Atlantic communications cable from Smith Point County Park, the balding West Hills Republican explained his vote by noting that the closely shorn county official who described the proposal had “great hair.”

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