Peterson's governmental and buddy contracts

[Peterson Connection]

If you know if any, please let us know so we can compare his crap to that of Suozzi's so that a fair race can be run for CE. Both sides probably smell.

[Don't be an imbecile]

You are an idiot. Newsday can try and dredge up 8 year old news but who the hell cares? The past is dead. It's Suozzi's record on trial here not some dusty historical record archived in a history book somewhere. It's what Peterson accomplished while he was AWAY from government and politics - what he's recently has been doing and what he proposes on doing against Suozzi's current miserable track record. Suozzi is the incumbent here, not Peterson. People are sick and tired of the Democrats and their whinning cry baby crap about the "old administration and the old guard" . THEY ARE THE OLD ADMINISTRATION. Wake up and smell defeat.

[THEPOLLSTER]

Greg Peterson announced his first campaign swing yesterday, amazingly he will kick it off with a whirlwind tour of the Grand Old Machines Political Clubs. First stop East Meadow, where his very own club failed to reach a quorum at its last Committeemens meeting and had to be adjourned until one could be formed.....that was two years ago.

Oh well, on to neighboring N. Bellmore, where the once mightly Califano Machine vowed to roll out a warm welcome mat for the former PS of the great TOH. Unfortunately, the red carpet was sold a year ago to pay the back due rent on club's meeting hall. That spent, the club hasn't met since.

Don't be disappointed, ahead of schedule, further south into Bellmore ably led by a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bellmore Chamber of Commerce under the mayoralty of Gary Hudes - who doesn't even live here. Greg's triumphant entry into the Masonic Hall was quickly diminished by the fact that only 10 committeemen were on hand to greet him - six wanted new jobs, three wanted their old jobs back and one wanted a job for his son. Luckily, its illegal for a politician to promise jobs for votes, so Greg reluctantly moved on.

Levittown, yes Levittown....there we will find solid GOP support. Met at the tarmac by Dennis Dunne who personified both party loyalty and courage by announcing his intention to challenge Sen. Hemp Kannon and then not showing up his own press conference he called forth on his front lawn (following a leaning on session with Mr. Bright Future Santino and party hack Richie the Rat in lieu of the Boss In Absence) - who sold his home once, then twice - went north shore, got a handsome property tax assessment reduction, promptly lost his Law Firm Job when he couldnt' promise Surrogate business any more and hooked up with oh my gosh....the Greg Peterson himself in order to put the massive quantities of food on his table necessary to energize his rapidly expanding Chairmanship! Only to find, when Joe went North Shore, his club went south.

Follow Greg Peterson on his travels through former GOP Machine Land, where his fantasy campagn runs head staight into reality world.

Good luck finding a club that's still in business. It's not 1996 anymore! You've been gone a long time.

Bye Bye

The Party's Over!

[What's your point?]

Go back to Darrin Johnson's website and take your stupid polls. You are an idiot. Who cares about any of that. WHO FU**ING CARES? You are desperate, scared and just plain stupid if you think anybody give a damn about where the man campaigns. He's got FRIENDS baby - you damn well better know that now. Yeah - so freaking what? His friends are, were and always will be politically active and LOYAL to the NASSAU COUNTY Republican machine. So WHAT? If you have a point - make it. Suozzi has no friends. His friends, like he is, are all fair weather friends - too busy stabbing each other in the back and running to the District Attorney on each other and driving back and forth to their NYC and Suffolk County homes to be involved in any political or civic community meetings. So Peterson's friends are community involved, civic activists with political connections to each other? So What? THANK GOD. I'll say it again -- THANK GOD his friends are loyal republicans, loyal to each other, loyal to Nassau County and loyal to all the people who will support them all the way to job of County Executive. And guess what else you stupid jerk - EVERYONE who is, was or will ever be anything in Nassau County politics was or will be a republican. Of course his friends ran Nassau County under Gulotta - the Republicans rand Nassau County for 30 years - in 30 years time you get to know people. AND unless you are Suozzi - who can't even understand the word honesty, integrity, loyalty and friendship - you KEEP those friends because they respect you, like you, admire you and know you are someone who cares, who will keep his promises and who knows Nassau County inside out and upside down. You are a damned fool if you think this campaign can be brought down by negativity of stupid rabbits like you. Suozzi's record of accomplishing nothing is on trial here - and honey - he can go 6 to 1 for ANY OLD PAST HISTORY you want to dredge up. What do you work for Newsday? AND for your information, when Greg Peterson was involved in politics, he ran the Town of Hempstead and Deary - the Town of Hempstead for every that Peterson was in charge - ran at a SURPLUS OF MONEY and he did that WITHOUT RAISING TAXES. So sweetcheecks - why don't you go study your IDA contractors, the MANHATTAN Planning Consultant Suozzi just hired to look at the Hub plan his democratic counterpart Nickerson came up - which even though Suozzi didn't even have to come up with the IDEA - in 3 years he made no progress in realizing that. BRING IT ON POLLSTER - but do it on your own stupid website unless you've been run off there with your stupid polls nobody takes.

[Take an english class]

Hey pollster - is that an attempt at humor? First of all, take an English class. You are too wordy and make no sense. Second of all, get off the medications. Your lackluster attempt at humor comes off being nothing more than a pitiful waste of space and energy. You are not funny, you are not entertaining, you are not wise, you are a terrible writer and you are nothing more than a bore. Yawn.

[It's not 2001 anymore]

Damn right he's been gone a long time. Been practising law succeesfully and hanging out on the sidelines watching Tom Suozzi screw up the County. Well, it's not 2001 anymore and the Republican Machine is back and moving forward. 1996 is HISTORY - you are right about that. I didn't actually read your whole post though - couldn't swallow the first paragraph and just skipped to the end. With that I couldn't agree more. It's not 1996 and it's a whole new game today. The clubs are re-organizing, drawing in fresh blood - the sons and daughters and nieces and nephews and their friends and neighbors of all the old timers are coming in and getting involved. It's the new, the improved Nassau County Republican Machine and you damn well better believe that after we take back the County and it's time to dole out jobs to the Nassau County faithful - the Nassau County faithful will certainly have the first opportunity to fill them. We won't drop them and hand them over to useless, unqualified outsiders. It's all about Nassau County brother. And by the way - the GOP pockets are twice that of the DEMS - which I actually hear are almost bankrupt thanks to Suozzi's fixAlbany and takeoverSuffolk campaigns - losing campaigns that is. AND oh yeah - Peterson just formally announced he's a candidate this afternoon. Go back to bed Pollster. Wake up in 2006 - in the reign of the GOP baby!

[Gp's got friends baby]

Greg Peterson's got friends baby
oh yeah
they are close buds that go back 40 years baby oh yeah
tight, loyal and involved oh yeah
and more coming on board every day now baby
oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
old and new uniting baby oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
cos Greg doesn't back stab - he's an actual nice guy
oh yeah - Greg makes friends & keeps em
oh yeah and all the friends will vote for him
oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah
He got friends man.

I love to read the morons on this board from both sides. Do any of you have real lives?

Face it, Suozzi will win. Peterson will run a credible race and force Suozzi to spend beaucoup bucks. Bye bye governor's or AG's race.

People still remember the Gulotta fiasco and will tie Peterson to Gulotta and BPA (whether fair or not). Suozzi and the Dems still have one election cycle's worth of play from the "GOP screwed the county" workbook and they'll use it to maximum effect.

That's the reality and it bites.

[Ban Newsday]

Get rid of Newsday. Call the new circulation business director - Philip Ramacca - and tell him you are cancelling your Newsday subscription because you want a newspaper, not Klurfeld's GOP bashing party political rag and until the paper gets rid of their editorial staff, you have no intention of buying Newsday. In fact, the clubs should circulate a petition that cancels it's club member's subscriptions, and each member should be required to get 2 more people to sign the petition to cancel the paper until there is a new editorial board. Enough already.

[THENEWPOLLSTER]

People still remember the Gulotta fiasco and will tie Peterson to Gulotta and BPA (whether fair or not).



And if people don't, I've got just the huggy wuggy photo collection to remind them. Heck, the Great GP even nominated the TG for County Exec... Now that's SWEET!

[as i see it]

As I see it George Bush is a better candidate than Greg P

Tom S is a better candidate than John Kerry

Kerry won in Nassau so looks simple to me

Ding dong the Which is dead! and Joe killed it!

[Banned]

Being in the Bellmore Masonic Hall must have brought back memories for Greg P. He tried to join the Masons, but they rejected him as not meeting their qualifications for membership and for being too opportunistic. Man, if you can't be a Mason, how you gonna lead.

[Newsday went too far]

Guest






The editorial in today's newsday is a disgrace. I have never read with such disgust anything in that rag before today, and they have printed some pretty repulsive things. But for the editorial board to come and say that the people of Nassau County should lose $7.5 million dollars for the sake of Newsday's boss - Tom Suozzi goes beyond the bounds of normalcy. The truth is, if Newsday cares to publish a real article, that Suozzi's budget is not balanced. It was never balanced. Suozzi got an influx of money from the state and he relied on that money as additional revenue where none actually existed by any policy or decision he undertook. The republican administration was not actually anywhere near bankruptcy. It never would have happened. And for all the rhetoric about the finances of Nassau County that the Newspaper printed, it has never published a supplement including the budgets and the financial condition of the County. It has never done an investigative report. It has never printed any substantive economic discussion of the budget or the county finances. All the paper has done is keep repeating unsupported conclusions to poison the minds of the nassau county taxpayers. I am sickened by today's editorial. A true economic analysis would show that anybody who got the grants the state gave to Suozzi, anybody that benefited from the high price of gasoline and increased sales tax revenue and who raised and invented fees and taxes would have brought up the bond rating. That does not mean Nassau is in better financial shape. It isn't. It's in worse shape. The judgments remain unpaid. Suozzi is playing a dangerous game and thinks he can leverage money long enough to escape to state office before his house of cards falls. Newsday is doing such an incredible disservice to the taxpayers of Nassau County that we should file a class action lawsuit. How day Newsday tell me I'll have to pay even more taxes to make up for the $7.5 million dollars Newsday thinks Tom Suozzi should turn his back on and pretend that's a political statement? How dare it? The state grants money only to counties within NYS that need help. No matter who is in charge of the county, no matter what their political party they have to have a deficit to warrant financial aid from the state. Just like student aid. A student doesn't get financial aid from the government unless they warrant need. And the part that Newsday overlooks in its zest to prejudice the minds of it's few remaining readers is that without the state aid - the County will be worse off, the debts will not be covered and Suozzi and this county does in fact, NEED state aid.

[You people are morons]

Obviously, Joe didn't get you jobs and now you are so blinded by your own bitterness you can't see the trees for the forest. Why don't you big mouths step up and offer to run for county executive? Huh - why don't you? Because you are cowards, probably unemployed, bitter, friendless and ugly. Greg Peterson did a great job running the Town of Hempstead, the TOH never ran a deficit and was always in great financial condition and the fact that even while he was away from politics and government for 8 years, he managed to keep strong ties to the friends he met through his hard work and dedication to Nassau County. The fact that he can keep the same friends for 40 years while making new friends and having a new career says alot for the man's character, integrity and loyalty. These are all qualities Tom Suozzi lacks. From your posts on this thread - so do you all. Keep talking. Keep posting. will trace you and then we'll see how brave you are when we know exactly who you are.

So what's your name, Braveheart?

[TheAnthonator]

Greg Peterson eliminated himself from Relevance when he did his little Hofstra end-around. But, thanks for playing.

[Please explain]

End around Hofstra? I'm not getting that.

Guest - of all people - you have the nerve to tell others to get a life? You are on this website from first thing in the morning, all day, to the middle of the night - posting mostly stupid comments and nonsense. You got the name of your own town LY##rook banned because of your stupid tyrade against it, you rant about Mondello although you claim to be a republican, you hate suozzi and you purport to be a volunteer firefighter. You think people on here don't know who you are? Think again.

Please - BPA is archived and since that's the only scandal to hit the GOP in 40 years of GOP reign I think that's a damn good record. People remember the titanic too but they still take cruises because it's archived. Suozzi had at least 4 scandals in 3 years in office that I can remember without thinking about it and there are many more brewing - expected to come out within the year. Believe me, if the fight gets dirty - which it looks like it will - not because of Suozzi or Peterson who I think both of them would prefer to keep it clean - but because Newsday won't let it focus on the issues - Suozzi has much more in the closet and much more to lose.

[Suozzi has more to lose]

Suozzi is the incumbent
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I tell you what - how about - you take a look at Suozzi's record running the county - or rather - running the county into the ground since he's the incumbent and it's his record that's on trial during this election, although you'd never know it by the unfair, prejudiced and lying rag of a paper inappropriately named "news" day. And if you want to take a look at Peterson's record - go right ahead. You will find that the Town of Hempstead had a surplus of funds every year that Greg Peterson was in charge, that services were never negatively affected, and that he managed the budget and the Town's services without raising taxes or fees even once while he was in office. Suozzi is making no bones about it - he has no interest in Nassau County and he never did, he never will. His whole time in office has been a joke - a way for him to manipulate his visibility to launce a state career. The only reason he wants to win in 2005 is to leave. The guy is a total joke. Almost a bigger joke than Newsday has become

[DR. Know]

Lets talk pure politics for a moment and leave the rancor outside. Peterson was a superb choice. He will bring in the Town of Hempstead base vote and that will help the Town of Hempstead Republican candidates--which is REALLY all Mondello cares about. Venditto and his slate will run their usually strong race in "the OB" and once again be taken for granted by Fat Joe. North Hempstead has become the place where republicans go to die and will be written off. With Dillon on the ticket, with the GOP vetting 2 businesswomen for Comptroller and probably Oyster Bay Clerk Steve Labriola running for County Clerk, this has the makings of a solid County Republican ticket for 2005. RAISING THE MILLIONS OF $$$$$ IS ANOTHER PROBLEM! But at least this ticket won't embarass the Party. I'll bet Peterson holds Suozzi under 60%; (56-41 sounds about right, with Bogstead running a Conservative to keep his job with " the Suozz, " and getting 3%). This time around, Deniese Ford will lose her seat as LB votes strongly for Suozzi, and the Demos get an 11-8 County Leg. But keep an eye on Tony Santino's re-election as Hempstead councilman. Last time out ( 2001) Santino spent over $350,000 to get re-elected. An amazing amount of money for a council seat! OK, to be fair, Mondello spent the money. But it cost him the County Comptroller's race as Parola only lost reelection, swimming against a Suozzi landslide, by 5,000 votes against Weitzman. What better way to humiliate Mondello and the Nassau GOP than to take out Mondello's assistant and put a second Dem on the Town Board. OK folks, what do you think?

[What I think]

I think if the republicans start to get out newsletters and flood the county with the kind of media attention, anti-suozzi, pro-peterson postings that I have been posting on this board, even if they have to print it out in booklets themselves and send every club member they have door to door on foot to distribute them - I think if they can correct the lies and misdirections newsday has been, is now, and will continue to print to poison the minds of the average voter with - I think then Peterson can actually pull off a strong enough race to win at a 60% margin because there are so many Suozzi haters among the forces. And I think if Bogsted tries to put up a candidate instead of backing Peterson 100%, their will be a coo like there was in the Independence Party and he will be removed from leadership. Furthermore, I think if the republicans can't overcome the lies and deceit printed in newsday, and suozzi does win office, I think not only will Bogsted lose his leadership position, but he will be in for a rude awakening and lose his job too because Suozzi can not be trusted. Suozzi will be positioning himself for a statewide run in 2006 and I can almost guarantee you that every single appointment in Nassau County will be taken away from Nassau residents and given to people outside the county that could move suozzi's recognition throughout the state. If Bogsted doesn't see that happening, he's dumber than I figured him to be.

[Polling Guy]

Suozzi may win lets say 56-44. Nice win but no mandate.

[Whatever Dude]

If that's what you think then I suggest you start pulling harder for Peterson. This website has never predicted a winner. They predicted McCarthy, Ford and King to lose by landslides remember?

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[Suozzi & IDA]

You want to talk about Suozzi and his governmental contracts? What about the NY Times article about the IDA contractors showing that not one of those businesses that got a contract refused to kickback money to Suozzi's campaign - or maybe they had to pay before they got the contract. Whatever. What about Campanelli being threatened to pay - and not only pay - he was willing to fork off $500 of his earned fee to them - but that wasn't enough - they wanted $10,000 from him. It's easy to accumulate $3 million like that. Even easier when you tell all the outside lawyers you'll refuse to pay their fee at all - or threaten them that they'll have to wait a long time before they get paid unless they give back 10%. Can you say Max Goldwebber?

[Parks Contracts]

The people that got their contracts through IDA are one place to look. Check out DSS too. All the referrals have changed. Nassau County now uses North Shore - LIJ child guidance for forensics instead of the place they used to use, and although 70% of the families or better that are referred there are only spanish speaking, the facility has no spanish language therapists. The old place did. Think the fact that Daddy Suozzi is a Trustee there has anything to do with the switch? They stopped funding rehab places like Topic house but use referrals at Cornerstone which had a terrible, non-cooperative relationship with most of the county's social workers. Then take a look at who they use for outside counsel now - they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on Manhattan firms - one of them - Moses & Singer - billed at hundreds of dollars an hour to read and interpret the HIPAA regulations when they first came out. Noone in the county attorney's office had that capability? The funniest part was they were specifically asked about obtaining records and testimony from NUMC - which the law firm got all wrong anyway, and were otherwise vague about - because they had no idea about how the government operations were inter-related and couldn't understand the various relationships. The computer contracts were probably the biggest waste of money - and who do you think got those? Friends of the Dems and contributors no doubt. They skirted they bidding process for the most part too.

[Dont even try it]

the republicans ran the county for 40 consequetive years and have 1 freaking scandal and you imbeciles can't grow out of it. please. that's the best you got? people served time and you might remember the county didn't create the fraudulent circumstances or steal the money - it was a private contractor that did it and the county didn't catch the numbers in making the deal. alot less blameworthy than tom suozzi and peter sylver directly stealing federal money and misappropriating over a million dollars that was suppose to be directed to the poor people, the taxpayers - not just a benefit program for the county employees. and the writing was all over. the guy filed for bankruptcy and then suozzi puts him in charge of economic development. duh? hud is now still investigating glen cove and word has it they got tipped off to dss too because they got reimbursed for collecting child support on cases the county attorney never handled and the supervisor in charge of doing the numbers didn't know how and made them up when she passed them on to dss. Then there's the ny times article about every IDA business who got a county contract having first made a nice fat contribution to suozzi and suozzi saying he's saw nothing wrong with that. the county attorney threatened to breach an employment contract and not pay campanella unless he gave suozzi 10,000 and then threatened the other contractors it would be a long day in hell before they saw their money unless they gave her 10% back - a 10% discount and you know where that want. the computer department used all outside contractors with political ties and they screwed up two systems already and most agencies are already on their third computers and their third email systems. jesus - you want to bring beat the dead horse BPA when suozzi has scandal after scandal after scandal in ONLY 3 YEARS ! you are a dumb shit. lets see - I'm only getting started. HORSES - sound familar - thousands of dollars for stupid horses with the county buildings falling apart. He promised to renovate the old court house what'd he do? he painted the gold dome white. It looks like primer. Real regal. Real improvement. What about Tom Williams - he's got stories about civil service violations coming out his ears and then there's what's happened over in the board of the elections and the payroll fraud in the parks department and wait until they start auditing the timesheets of the county attorneys office especially those dss related ones. And this is all from the top of my head what i can fast type in the 2 minutes I have. don't start dredging up an old gulotta scandal from the past baby. first of all gulotta ran the county for a long time blemish free before that happened and he isn't running peterson is and peterson ran and is still running one of the top five largest law firms in nassau county quite efficiently and productively for 6 years and he ran the town of hempstead also blemish free and had nothing to do with bpa. suozzi is full of scandal and they aren't done cropping up yet. but we will be very happy to bring them all up and list them fine and print them out and stick them in mailboxes over the county if you insist.

[Just wondering now]

When is the campaign starting? Haven't seen anything yet.

[A tale of two cities]

He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and that's the crowd he hangs with. He has an obvious disdain for what he considers the working class and he is obviously feeling he is above the county executive job with his comments that - he doesn't get paid enough, while there are people working 3 jobs to keep a roof over their head and they still don't have the income and assets Suozzi has. The wedge is being driven by his adminstration and the further apart "his kind" can keep away from the rest of us, the better off he'll like it. We can all live in his high rise apartment style ghettos, as long as he and "his kind" can stay in their $1.5 million dollar North Shore homes. Isn't that what he paid with an interest free, collaterol free, $650,000 loan from one of his contractor/developer friends? Is it any wonder he wants to give them all contracts to buy great, big skyscrapers on long island. Let's give the terrorists another big red X to hit shall we?

[60 Story Cities]

Tale of 60 story buildings you mean?

Suozzi may win lets say 56-44. Nice win but no mandate.

It's a much larger and more believable mandate than the one Bush claims.

[Say What?]

What?

Finally...a rational person. I had almost given up.

You are an idiot. Newsday can try and dredge up 8 year old news but who the hell cares? The past is dead. It's Suozzi's record on trial here not some dusty historical record archived in a history book somewhere. It's what Peterson accomplished while he was AWAY from government and politics - what he's recently has been doing and what he proposes on doing against Suozzi's current miserable track record. Suozzi is the incumbent here, not Peterson. People are sick and tired of the Democrats and their whinning cry baby crap about the "old administration and the old guard" . THEY ARE THE OLD ADMINISTRATION. Wake up and smell defeat.

[Remember Nickerson?]

How about bringing up Nickerson huh? He only got 4 years and Suozzi's using his same old plan - hire outsiders from the city of new york, hire plannners and consultants from the city of new york, sell or give away all the nassau county parklands, bring in high rise low income rental units and then run away after you've ruined surburbia. 4 years Suozzi. And if we could figure out how to impeach you to get you the hell out of nassau county before then - to keep you from further destroying our lifestlyle before the GOP can put it back and undo the damage you've done - we would. 4 years - enough. Good bye. Bye Bye.

[Nickerson Plus One]

Suozzi has two things going for him. He wants to turn Nassau into the 6th borough despite his Newsday denials and he's going after the taxpayers to collect his money with both guns blazing. He just wants the revenue - it's so clear. Instead of garnishing wages he's taking cars, houses and bank accounts. What a coward. It's clear his DWI program had nothing to do with DWI. He wanted the revenue from the cars. He'll foreclose on your house if you fall behind in your taxes too - don't think that's not next. He says whatever he thinks the people want to hear him say but all he cares about is the almighty buck and bringing it in to build a budget record that will get him to Albany at the expense of the residents living in Nassau and at the loss of Nassau itself. But since Peterson is completely silent on all of this - I predict Suozzi will be successful. Damn - I guess I'll be moving on to Georgia or somewhere warmer.

[Peterson's Committeemen]

I got nothing from anybody working on his committee - not even a request to join the committee or work on the campaign. Usually I would have gotten a letterhead with all the hand picked members on it with a card to pledge my allegiance and tell them what I aim to do. But nothing so far. Did anybody get anything or hear about what's going on or is this a Bent thing again?

[PeteyP]

Strong candidate.

[A Strong Candidate]

So strong that he doesn't need help working on his campaign?

[Strange thing]

the thread about suozzi's governmental friends and no bid contracts seems to be gone.

[Contractual]

No contracts here

[That's Suozzi's Game]

If I burn it - it didn't happen and to make sure it didn't happen - I make you sign a confidential agreement and I tell Newsday something completely different happened.

[Game over]

Checkmate. Peterson Game.