It’s the Suffolk County Legislature or bust for the organizer of a series of raucous river excursions called “Boobs & Tubes.”
Long Island-based marketing honcho Gary Pollakusky — who oversees the summertime tubing and camping events featuring buxom women and booze — is running for the county legislative seat in the Sixth District.
The Republican hopeful is trying to unseat Democratic incumbent Sarah Anker, who has brought up his less-than-staid business in a debate. Pollakusky says she also is working behind the scenes to discredit him over the venture in what he calls a smear campaign.
According to the company’s website, “The origin of Boobs & Tubes is partially obscured by myths, legends and hangovers.”
It says Pollakusky’s friend, founder Scott Ikle, coined the group’s name during a tubing trip in 1998 when he got a “good eyeful of well, the local scenery. He proclaimed to everyone within earshot, ‘Wow — I love boobs AND tubes!’ The name stuck.”
The site features photos of men surrounded by bikini-clad women and people in tubes in the water holding what look like cans of beer.
But law enforcement from New York to Michigan, where the company runs excursions, says the events aren’t all just fun and games.
Authorities say they have included dangerous binge drinking, brawling, people “exposing their private parts’’ and “extremely vulgar language,” according to reports.
A few years ago, National Park Service Rangers in upstate Skinner Falls said they found inebriated “Boobs & Tubes” participants near the Delaware River.
One woman “began to sit up and started to vomit in the tube,” the rangers said in a report.
“One of the other females yelled, ‘Not in front of the officer!’ [She] started to dry-heave again and slid through the hole in the bottom of the raft. [She] was unresponsive to my verbal commands and made no attempt to help herself back into the tube,” a ranger added.
Michigan authorities complained about “Boobs & Tubes” events held in its waterways as far back as 2013.
Newaygo County Sheriff Mike Mercer said at the time that the number of people crowding the river, coupled with the amount of alcohol being consumed, caused a wide range of problems, “whether it be fighting, whether it be exposing their private parts, whether it be extremely vulgar language.”
But Pollakusky argues that his business is well-supervised and that if there are any issues with it, it’s because of outsiders not registered with the event.
He says the company does not sell booze — although registrants can bring their own.
“We create a safe environment for people to enjoy camping and tubing,” Pollakusky told The Post.
Legislator Anker said Monday night, “I’m appalled and disgusted with the Boobs and Tubes event.”