Rye City Councilman (R) 2004 -2007 dropped by the Republican Party in 2008, in it’s controversial “fusion ticket” election bargain with the Rye Democratic Party. While Mr. Fahey left office prior to the Council taking a formal position on the Hen Island issues, he offered his perspective in a public access interview in 2011.

In 2009, Mr. Fahey served as the campaign manager for Douglas French’s “Change For Rye” election slate. In that election, Mr. French represented himself as being in support of a Hen Island cleanup, making promises in front of supporters in the living rooms of both Mr. Schubert and Mr. Tartaglione. Post election Mr. French and Mr. Fahey repudiated those promises which had added the votes needed for “Change For Rye” to sweep the incumbent slate headlined by Steve Otis.

Mr. Fahey’s political career lay dormant for a few years, before his defeat in 2013 for a District Leader seat in the Rye Republican Party that denied his City Council candidacy five years earlier. Mr. Fahey works professionally as a financial industry executive.