Fire Starter & The GOP Manifesto - why the GOP won't los

[A Real Journalist 1]

WHAT SUOZZI HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN HIS FIRST TERM
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Poof - now you see it
now you don't.

Nassau County that is.

Look at all the man they call the Suozziola of Glen Cove has done.

First, fill all the patronage jobs with NYC rejects

Then, change the dress code - fashion model vogue he called it

Next - invent a verticle management system for the purpose of creating even more high level, senior jobs with supervisory duties so these people don't have to actually do anything, but can get paid alot of money

Fill them all with NYC rejects, and drag a fewl Suffolk residents across the border, then fill the remaining couple jobs with Nassau County Democrats because the new Corporate Counsel East wing of the Corporate Counsel's office advised him that he had to do that to comply with "affirmative action laws" - you know, give minorities like Nassau County residents - some jobs to fill quotas.

Look around - fire a few low paid civil servants for failing to abide by the Berdorff Goodman designer dress code.

Fire his own Appointee and hire back Karl Kampe - a republican traitor and civil service ignoramous

Then fill all the civil service jobs with "appointees" and personal service contractors - call them fancy names so the stupid people of Nassau County won't catch on.

Pass around the contribution pot and threaten those that don't contribute that "you will never work in this county again".

Fire a few people.
Hire them back again with promotions and raises.
Give them confidentiality agreements.
Fire them again.

Raise taxes.
Raise fees.
Invent new taxes.
Invent new fees.
Raise invented new fees.
Reasses property again with creatively high market rates.
Raise taxes again.
Lose alot of scar hearings because county can't explain inventive market rates.
Don't pay any judgments.
Float bonds.

Think about fixing a few things around the county.
Look at pocket.
Find them empty.

Blame the towns and tell them it's their responsiblity to do everything.
Cut services.
Ignore maintaintence.
Go after the cops.
Ignore illegal immigration.

Remember illegal immigration, reclassify property, raise taxes

Break Nassau County up into villages, towns and cities - ignore county charter

Pretend you don't know anything
Realize you don't know anything
Get cosmetic surgery to boost spirits

Pick on Albany
Raise money for losing presidential campaigner
Get beat up by Albany
Albany now hates Nassau County
Washington now hates Nassau County

Run over to Levy with tail between legs and offer what's left of Nassau County to Levy
Tell him Nassau County will pay half for whatever Suffolk County needs

Give PR statement to Newsday telling them you balanced the budget and the bonds you'll have to float in the future will now have good ratings

Newsday publishes articles

Move to million dollar home, get free loan, buy Grumman property, run to republicans to bail you out of mistakes

Hide from federal investigators in Glen Cove

Start working out 'cos you know you're too pretty - even for a federal penitary

[A Real Journalist 2]

Since you enjoyed "POOF- The vanishing County" so much, I've decided to bring you now my version of "The County That Was" for your reading entertainment

MORE OF THE SUOZZIOLA'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS -Oh How I should have handled things better Morning Glory!
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Complain about county finances under Gulotta

Hire Deputy County Executive in charge of county finances - put him in charge of the most important financial agencies and multi-million dollar budgets

Complain that Gulotta almost brought the county into bankruptcy

Find out the DCE you just put in charge of county finances, filed for personal bankruptcy

Buy $7,000 TV to take your mind off it

Listen to how NYC rejects complain about high cost of gas and cry about their 6 figure salary

Invent evaluations - a brilliant management tool

Decide who gets raises, who doesn't, who should get fired, who should get promoted

Then give the appropriate evaluation, supporting pre-determined result

NYC management rejects get raises, everyone else is miserable

Bust up unions by buying sell-out presidents
Pretend government, non-profit agencies are private for-profit business enterprises - ignore civil service laws

Lawsuits start coming

County attorney herself goes unprepared to state court where judges all laugh at her. Then she sends another lawyer and winds up giving her an award for being "best lawyer in the county attorney's office". Watch judges fall off their chairs and roll on ground with laughter at this. Watch the office lose all credibility.

County attorney starts drafting confidentiality agreements, takes her third stab at car forfeiture law, gives more wine and cheese parties

Judgments start coming in against the county, county appeals

County attorney starts hosting parties in her "nassau county" home.

County loses all appeals.

County starts to settle all cases for fear of litigation because they always lose

Bring in outside counsel. Get free advice from outside lawyers.

Have more wine and cheese parties but now serve Jack Daniels and skip the cheese

Start going to firefighter funerals

Get thrown out head first - too little too late

Pick some more on cops - talk about privatizing, cut out funding for special unit that goes after gangs, cut off funds for special unit that goes after child abusers

Watch gangs multiply, take heat from district attorneys office, PBA

Change mind - put back funding for cops - hold press conference

Cops have to start all over again, wasting time and money because of Suozzi setbacks

Withdraw funding from Domestic Violence Task Force at Coalition for Child Abuse and Neglect - don't have press conference

Look at problems in social services, traffic and parking violations, workers compensation, jail, parks, civil service commission, personnel department, information technology -- ignore everything

Hire outside consultants to ponder problems for you and give them lucrative contracts through IDA after they make generous contributions to the Suzziola club.

Realize the only county run facility for poor elderly people is on valuable real estate - see dollar signs

Offer free flu vaccinations to all Nassau County residents who want them

Change mind

Hire new executive in charge of computers

Get new computers, download all information, lose old information, use outside contractors

Get rid of new computers, replace with newer computers, download information again, lose new information, use outside contractors

Get new email system, transfer all data, use outside contractors again

Scrap email system, get another new email system - employees change email addresses again, upgrade operating system, migrate data over, find out printers aren't compatible, use outside contractors again

Get new printers.

Send all county employees, including computer people, to private training school in carle place to learn how to use new system

Scrap new, new system - replace with another email system after everyone is trained and all data is, for the third time, transferred (more or less - it never really transfers over right).

Computer executive quits job, admitting he knows nothing of computers, unlike most Suozzi appointees who are in charge of things they have no knowledge or experience in, but who insist they know everything anyway.

Hire new executive from private sector who quits before starting, then hire another one.

Buy more new computers. Employees start drinking. Send all employees to employee assistance program.

Start picking on A Holly Patterson - hire more outside consultants and convene another task force. Make sure they come from NYC. Pay them alot of money.

Use North Shore EMT's - Daddy Suzziola is a Trustee at North Shore University Hospital, just like he's a shareholder at Newsday. Get EMT's from Queens. Have Medivac Helicopters flying in from Suffolk. Complain about Medicaid.

Pick fight in Albany to satisfy personal vendetta. Blame Medicaid. Raise property taxes. Blame Medicaid. Raise money for John Kerry because you didn't get invited to the DNC convention. Go to convention - don't wear jacket and tie. Violate your own dress code. John Kerry loses election. Blame Medicaid.

Raise level of bacteria count considered "dangerous" at all beaches and risk health of Nassau County residents to keep beach fees coming in.

Give a few more flu vaccines out. Hold press conference. Listen to people complain lines were so long that they didn't get their rations. Think about USSR before the break up. Get idea to blame Towns, Villages and Cities (except Glen Cove, where you keep "re-vitalizing" it) for all the problems in the County and hold them responsible. Think about breaking up the County into districts. Tell Kim Devlin to start publicity campaign blaming schools for high taxes. And Albany too. And Medicaid. Kim Devlin calls Newsday.

Believe all Nassau County Taxpayers are stupid. And SMILE.

Take family portrait for christmas cards - send to everyone in tri state region and upstate New York.

Give HUD money to landlords renting to illegal immigrants. Tell them it's ok to rent to illegal immigrants, in overcrowded residences and tax the communities resources - schools and medicaid - but explain they'll have to have give you a kickback money and you'll ignore the zoning issues, by pretend ing they commercial properties that have to pay higher property taxes.

Enter Dennis Dillon - there's only so much even he can take. See photo opportunity. Take it. Use this to show how you're tuff on immigration, while recruiting same to carry petitions.

Have a long lunch.

Threaten to cut-out routes for public transportation because MTA buses cost to much money.

Change mind after taking much heat

Support Legislator Abrahams in his bid for election as Nassau County Legislator. Approve his press conference condemning abandoned properties and chastising landlords for allowing such deplorable conditions. Watch as poor, hard working homeowners come home from working 10 hour days at $6/hour jobs and hit Abrams over the head with pocketbooks. BLAME EVERYBODY ! Go home to million dollar house and complain about poor people.

Get an idea though. Start putting into place County Foreclosure policies and hire Bankruptcy experts so County doesn't waste any time foreclosing on homes after taking tax liens when people can't keep up with the 300% tax increases you plan on implementing through 2007 - when you leave Nassau County to move to Albany like your mother keeps telling you will happen. Your mother never lies.

Get another idea. Build huge apartment complexes of luxury rental units on North Shore and use County powers of condemnation to bulldoze through any properties in your way. Threaten community that it could be low income housing you're putting in there, but assure them - you'll save that for the south shore. Then build 8 units and float multi-million bond so rich people on North Shore can have their lawns mowed.

Fire somebody.

They start to whistle

Curse whistleblower law.

Hire them back.


Listen to old people complaining how they can't pay their taxes - have "hire an old guy" week in September - pay them little or nothing, use their knowlege and experience, take advantage of the financial situation you put them in. Get names and addresses so you can go after them for medicaid reimbursements.

Check on labor camps set-up on Glen Cove waterfront. Make sure they are out of sight. Think about putting up really big billboards with pictures of beach in front of day laborers hut.

Realize your entire management team, from low level supervisors all the way up - are bungling idiots.

Tell your workers to work harder, do the job of 4 people, teach their supervisors what their job is, do it for them, cover-up for them when they make mistakes, cover-up for them when they lie on their timesheets, isolate them from the outside world, hire new people at twice their salary, take away a few benefits, freeze their salary, force bad contracts down their throat, threaten them, create hostile work environment and when workers complain - give them bad evaluations and send them to anger management class.

Judges, still laughing, permit late filings of notice of claims. More lawsuits come in.

Start hiring Republicans back.

Check on Glen Cove waterfront property and make sure illegal immigrants are happy

Make sure drug addicts get their needles and their methodone shots through medicaid for free.

Go after community spouses of nursing home attendants and bankrupt them for repayment of medicaid money

Realize A Holly Patterson is connected to NUMC, which the county has no control over

Start crying about having no control over NUMC - start crying about throwing all the old people out to sell the land

Tell Newsday to print series of bad stories about NUMC and A Holly Patterson

Newsday does

Force management of NUMC to fire many workers at NUMC, when workers complain, blame management

Then make sure that management gets fired and you get control back of hospital finances, lay off workers who complain about working conditions and unfair treatment.

Go after parents of special needs children who get medicaid supported tutoring, look stupid because you don't know about the law requiring government to provide education, and then realize your plan will cost the county MORE money. Get chastised by federal court. Try and seal all records so nobody knows how stupid you look.

Federal court judges still laughing.

Grap a handful of deadbeat dads - give press conference - ignore the other 6000 not caught.

Use made-up figures from county attorney's office for federal reimbursements on child support cases.

Call relative in Glen Cove - check on things there. Pay Peter Sylver's legal fees. Hire former US Attorney General Driscoll and let him hang out until you run him for District Attorney. Pay very high salary. See if you can get information on multiple federal investigations going on in County.

Hear something about Payroll Fraud. Ignore it.

Remember campaign promises, get headache, tell police driver to drive you home now. Use luxury SUV.

Stop off at Garden City Hotel - whisper something to doorman.

Polish roof of old courthouse again, think about renovating, look in disgust at other falling apart, disease causing, asbestos filled, poorly ventilated county buildings - think about what fire traps they are - do nothing.

Remember Gulotta plan to sell county property, create Nassau County Hub, join transportation lines together, repair properties, move DSS and family court - send out multiple press releases which Newsday publishes pretending the idea came from you.

Do nothing.

Take over control of parking and traffic violations bureau. Make it worse. Give up.

Read NY TIMES article about IDA contractors. Yell alot. Try and get someone to write retailiatory letter to the editor defending you. Can't find somebody. Write your own.

Send Bill Cunningham in to take over Suffolk County. Lose. Punch Something.

Lose two more elections you support to "takeover" Albany. Kick something.

Send yourself to anger management class.

Read Newsday. Smile. Buy new home.

Listen to complaints about how people ages 18 - 34 are moving out of Nassau County at rapid fire pace over the past 3 years. Call Newsday again.

Newsday does an article about how the reason is that nobody wants to have babies anymore. Yeah, that's it.

Have another fundraiser.

Stick head in county attorney's office. Find nobody there. See new carpeting and painting by famous artist. Mention this at next Jack Daniels party.

Stick head in county attorney's office again. Find closed doors with deadbolts and pep holes.

Drive to Eisenhower Park looking for Parks Director Klein. Find many new employees hanging around. Ask them will Klein is.

You leave.

You come back with a Spanish Interpreter, but trip over pothole. Unfortunately, on the way to the hospital, the police driven SUV gets in accident with some drunken Deputy County Executive who says he's the Police Commissioner. While sorting this out, you try and flag down lady talking on her cell phone who is approaching the scene of the accident. She ignores you, cuts across the grass, still on the cell phone, yelling out the window she has to get back to Manhattan to pick up the kids from private school but don't worry, she's only on her lunch break and when it's over - 3 hours from now, she'll report back to the County where she was hired to run some department and take you to the hospital.

Instead, you impound the car from your drunken DCE who thinks he's the police commissioner, but you impound the car anyway under the new, new, new county vehicle forfeiture law, drive yourself to NUMC, where you find the wait is 4 days because nobody works there anymore except the NYC managers who are busy having a meeting with the NYC supervisors about what the employees who no longer work there should be doing, but it doesn't matter what they should be doing, because whatever it is, they are all going to get bad evaluations so there's more money to pay the NYC workers for the time and trouble it takes them commuting across all those bridges.

It's ok though. The Jack Daniels is kicking in and you hitch a ride on a helicopter heading toward a 4 car pile-up emergency wreck in Riverhead.

You think - oh - how I could have handled things differently

Then you read Newsday on the way to Riverhead.

You smile.

Put more whipped cream on rice pudding, morning glory!

[A Real Journalist 3]

Did you see the Newsday article on Jan. 25 about how Suozzi has visions of, but no specifics plans for, building a zoo and an aquarium and a preserve -- A PRESERVE?

Anyway - I dissed enough about that already on other threads.

Besides, I'm feeling kinda bad now about dissing Suozzi's record. Newsday says - it's not fair - we shouldn't be dredging up what Suozzi hasn't done as County Executive or talk about his administration or anything during this election.

So if you'll indulge me for a moment, I'd like to act as Peterson's campaign manager and suggest to him that instead of - you know - shooting Suozzi's idea down - you just

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PLAY BY NEWSDAY'S RULES
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So here's my advice to you - call up Newsday with your own delusions - I mean - visions.

You should pose for some pictures at Splish Splash in Riverhead and then give your own press conference.

Call Newsday and say "I have visions of putting in an adventureland - complete with a big ole roller coaster, and supersized water slide and there will be cotton candy and clowns and

and yeah and a Rodeo too! Uh huh yup - I have visions of cowboys, and horses and old fashioned pie eating contests and booths where they sell hand made quilts

and um - yeah uh huh - it's coming to me now - yup I can certainly see it - yes yes - in the Nassau Hub -- the one that I envision --

besides having an adventureland and a rodeo I think we can also squeeze in a wildlife refuge where volunteers can come and learn how to help care for the sick and injured wildlife we rescue and help to nurse the animals back to health

But umn - I have no details, I mean no plan or anything. But it'll come. Just tell them all to vote for me ok?"

Anyway, that's my recommendation. It'll be a good, clean fight then - just like Newsday wants.

The voters can vote for the hallucinatory zoo, aquarium and nature preserve or the hallucinatory adventureland, rodeo and wildlife refuge. Whichever hallucination they prefer to have.

May the man with biggest imagination win.

Did you see the Newsday article on Jan. 25 about how Suozzi has visions of, but no specifics plans for, building a zoo and an aquarium and a preserve -- A PRESERVE?

Anyway - I dissed enough about that already on other threads.

Besides, I'm feeling kinda bad now about dissing Suozzi's record. Newsday says - it's not fair - we shouldn't be dredging up what Suozzi hasn't done as County Executive or talk about his administration or anything during this election.

So if you'll indulge me for a moment, I'd like to act as Peterson's campaign manager and suggest to him that instead of - you know - shooting Suozzi's idea down - you just

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PLAY BY NEWSDAY'S RULES
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So here's my advice to you - call up Newsday with your own delusions - I mean - visions.

You should pose for some pictures at Splish Splash in Riverhead and then give your own press conference.

Call Newsday and say "I have visions of putting in an adventureland - complete with a big ole roller coaster, and supersized water slide and there will be cotton candy and clowns and

and yeah and a Rodeo too! Uh huh yup - I have visions of cowboys, and horses and old fashioned pie eating contests and booths where they sell hand made quilts

and um - yeah uh huh - it's coming to me now - yup I can certainly see it - yes yes - in the Nassau Hub -- the one that I envision --

besides having an adventureland and a rodeo I think we can also squeeze in a wildlife refuge where volunteers can come and learn how to help care for the sick and injured wildlife we rescue and help to nurse the animals back to health

But umn - I have no details, I mean no plan or anything. But it'll come. Just tell them all to vote for me ok?"

Anyway, that's my recommendation. It'll be a good, clean fight then - just like Newsday wants.

The voters can vote for the hallucinatory zoo, aquarium and nature preserve or the hallucinatory adventureland, rodeo and wildlife refuge. Whichever hallucination they prefer to have.

May the man with biggest imagination win.

Nassau County has one zoo already, and it a 1 west street, we don't need another

[A Real Journalist 4]

And So It Starts
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County Executive Peterson

Born Brooklyn, New York, December 22, 1944, admitted to bar, 1971, New York.

Education: Muhlenberg College (B.A. 1966); St. John's University, School of Law (J.D. 1970).

AN ATTORNEY IN PRIVATE PRACTICE

PARTNER, © 1999 BERKMAN, HENOCH, PETERSON & PEDDY, P.C.
One of the largest, most successful law firms on Long Island, ranked ahead of Meyer Suozzi, English & Klein by Long Island Business News with over 150 Long Island Employees

BHPP specializes in Banking Law, Corporate Law, Creditor's Rights, Finance and Real Estate
-----------------------Just what this County needs! -----------------

Tuff on crime - Pro-Police, Anti-Gang - will clean-up illegal immigration and not tolerate fraud or corruption in his administration

Former Assistant District Attorney, Nassau County, 1970-72 with memberships in the Nassau County Criminal Justice Coordinating Council; New York Bar Association, Real Estate, Criminal and General Practice Committees; Nassau County Bar Association; Nassau Lawyers Association; East Meadow Kiwanis; East Meadow Chamber of Commerce; Former Assistant District Attorneys Association

Although having no experience with Nassau County Government, has solid management and administrative experience managing the Town of Hempstead, prior to leaving government service to practice law and run a very successful business.

Chairman and CEO of Nassau Downs OTB; Presiding Supervisor, Town of Hempstead (1993 to 1998); Supervisor, Town of Hempstead (1987 to 1993); Former Councilman, Town of Hempstead, elected: 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984; First Vice Chairman, Nassau County Republican and Town of Hempstead Republican Committees.

Gregory Peterson

THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB !!!!

[A REAL JOURNALIST 5]

NASSAU COUNTY EXECUTIVE GREG PETERSON

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS

For more than 6 years he has been successfully practising law as a member of one of the largest Long Island Law Firms in Nassau and Suffolk County, he has extensive business experience and strong knowledge of banking, finance, corporate, real estate and creditor's rights laws - all areas necessary to running Nassau County in a fiscally responsible way, giving him both the skill and the practical experience necessary to realize the visionary Nassau County Hub

He has experience as a former district attorney with a Tough on crime - Pro-Police, Anti-Gang - stand. Peterson will clean-up illegal immigration and will not tolerate fraud or corruption in his administration.

Although having no prior municipal experience working for Nassau County Government, he still has solid management and administrative experience and a strong knowledge of municipal affairs acquired from managing the Town of Hempstead, prior to leaving government service to practice law.

GREGORY PETERSON - THE MAN NASSAU COUNTY NEEDS

[The GOP can't lose]

The GOP won't lose because we are united behind our leader and will work as one machine to move forward and trample over the brethren of the other parties. There's alot more excitement at my last club meeting than there has been for awhile and we are anxious to get this show on the road and trample the opposition in November.

To what end? The GOP in Nassau are a bunch of Socialist RINO's.

[A Real Journalist 6]

I got a real laugh today out of Levy's little column in Newsday. I can't believe Knight fires Lowe and let's trash like Levy remain. Levy claims Suozzi is popular. With whom is Suozzi popular? With Newsday? He attempts to prejudice the minds of the Nassau County voters by saying Peterson is coming out of retirement - trying to "subtly" insinuate the man is old. The truth, if Levy had any interest in publishing, was that Peterson changed careers like so many adults with choices do. He focused 100% on the private practice of law and did it successfully for more than 6 years in one of Long Island's top 10 largest law firms. He just can't sit on the sidelines any longer and watch Suozzi destroy the County he loves. Levy also tried to wage war by pretending that Peterson is just an extension of Gulotta's administration, knowing full well Peterson never worked in Gulotta's administratiion. Peterson ran the Town of Hempstead, which ran a surplus every year Peterson was in charge and never raised taxes to do it. Levy than claims that "imagination" is important. Funny, did he steal that from the joke going around this website about Suozzi's baseless "plan" with no plan? The taxpayers don't need imagination. They need realism. They need the details. Moreover, the stupid ideas that Levy threatens Peterson to adopt are none other than Suozzi's ideas which we have repeatedly bashed. The County doesn't need or want an income tax. People who can't now afford homes can't handle the additional burdens of an income tax, and most of those people aren't the people with children in the public school systems either. Income tax is not the way to attract and keep young folks in this County and the GOP knows better.

[A real journalist 7]

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.

[A Blueprint to success]

The postings on this website are the GOP's blueprint to success. If they can't figure out how to coordinate them into one articulate portfolio and distribute it among the masses then they deserve to lose in 2005 and be blown into oblivion. The groundwork has been laid out right in this website and the arguments against Suozzi are ripe for the pickings. Take them, print them, bind them, distribute them. Spend the money. The GOP must take the CE race in 2005 especially since Murray will be very vulnerable in TOH.

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[A Real Journalist 9]

Time for Greg Peterson to start writing his own column
=====================================Were you laughing so hard you cried when you put Newsday in the bird cage and came across Suozzi's own article? Who wrote it for him? That's not his writing style. But were you laughing? The guy has spunk though - let's see - if I complain about high taxes too then all the folks not living in million dollar homes will believe I'm one of them and forget all about the fact that they have such high taxes because of me !

Please - then he's trying to put all the blame on the educational system. He neglects to say the reason school taxes are so high is because they have to pay the same taxes every other building in Nassau has to pay - and thanks to Tom Suozzi - that all rose dramatically. That the teachers and administrators who get a salary live here too. That Tom Suozzi's policy to welcome illegal immigrants into the community are a big reason the school's resources are being depleted and the decrease in aid the schools have gotten from the county, as well as the fact that the schools have had to pick up the slack lost from Tom Suozzi's decrease in money funding youth organizations and activities and day care are requiring them to pick up the slack. The fact that Nassau County places every pins kid and JD that comes before the family court now, which placement gets paid for by the school district even when these kids are illegal resident aliens and that Suozzi's own county attorney attacked families of special needs kids getting medicaid which required school districts to foot the entire bill to educate them - all apparently slipped the wacko's analysis. The facts that schools must provide bi-lingual instruction and home tutoring for crazy cultural and religious fanatics who won't or can't get their kids to go to school and/or to learn English as well as the fact that public schools are being over-crowded because people have to take their children out of parachial's schools which they can no longer afford because Tom Suozzi raised the property taxes so high they can no longer afford catholic/hebrew school tuitions.

It's all Tom Suozzi's fault and he's not even man enough to admit it. Instead - he's trying to put the blame on everyone else. First he blamed Gulotta and now he's blaming the schools - trying to pit the families in Nassau against the very administrators and teachers who teach their kids - the same way he broke-up the civil service workers and the union workers and pushed Albany and Washington away from us. He wants to pit the cities, towns and villages against the county too. Basically, the man won't stop until there's no peace left, until all the resident's are fighting everyone else and each other and then the sociopath will sell us off to Suffolk. I bet he's making a deal right now to give Levy half our money so Levy can build himself a new jail. They'll call in the Suffolk-Nassau Jail System and all the stupid people will applaud.

Mismanagement. OH yeah. But not from the schools - with rare exception -- from Tom Suozzi.

He is a liar. Out and out liar. His appointees and contractors and consultants and seasonal helpers and non-union, non-civil service, non Nassau County residents have all been hired by him at engourged salaries. There has been NO decrease in Government under him. He is a liar. Government has tripled under him. And those of us who watched as 3 times the amount of employees were hired, yet none of them do any work - will gladly get specific.

Suozzi screwed up big time and he's scared to death of failing. That's why he's become a columnist at Newsday. And I can't wait to read Greg Peterson's rebuttals in the days to come. ==

[The day is coming]

The signs and bumper stickers are just arriving. The literature is being compiled and we're already starting to disseminate it in my club - every month we go out there. We're getting off on the smell of blood and looking forward to the battle ahead. We're up for it and in shape for it too!

[A Real Journalist 11]

What I want
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What's the matter with surburban sprawl? I like all the scattered malls - each has it's own personality. I like visiting the different areas that shops are located in, the thrill of finding a new place and stopping off on a hundred errands along the way, or popping in to say hello to friends living from shore to shore. That's what is great about Nassau County. I don't want everything located in a congested HUB. And I like having easy and convenient access to parking.

IF I want to live on bus streets where kids can't play and loud buses rumble down the streets all over - if I wanted the inconvenience of being stuck with public transportation, having to cart my purchases on railcars or drive around the block a hundred times looking for parking while contending with double parkers and buses - I'd live in Queens or Brooklyn. I chose Nassau County. I like that the towns and villages are different and unique in their own identities. I embrace my neighborhood exactly because it's different than the surrounding areas and that's why I choose to live in the place I live. I certainly don't want to get rid of the choice and fill in this place with one, big, bland blob where industrial parks are located in a ghetto area which discourages business and economic development. Employees don't want to drive far from their homes to get to work in these ghetto's that would be Suozzi's vision.

I can live without handball and I have no desire to be greatly inconvenienced by having strangers from all over invade my neighborhoods and my County to play in the olympics - just to assuage a politician's vision of dollars in his budget for a one shot revenue surplus he can spend by hiring overpriced friends for do nothing jobs.

I don't mind paying for my services that I get for living in my town. I know what the town costs are, and if I can't afford it - I can move to a lower cost area. Some areas are affluent and some aren't. I don't feel like living in a one price one service area. Spreading it over the whole county is exactly the stupid thinking that got us in the mess we got in with the re-assessments, and then on top of that, was Suozzi's rate increases. I don't belive in Marxism or Socialism. That sounds closest to Levinson and Suozzi's visions - and I don't like them either. I don't want to consolidate all my services and what I pay for with services from and for neighboring villages county-wide. I see the services I get from my town for sanitation, and snow plowing and water and fire services. I pay my town and I get those services. I pay Tom Suozzi too. Alot more money then I pay the town and Tom's been asking for more and more and more. What does he provide to me except for visions?

Bigger is not better. I like having a village hall I can discuss things with and call up when things need to be done and I'll pay for that. That's why I live where I live. If I want regional planning and bus streets on every other block then I'll move into Queens or Brooklyn or Manhattan. I don't want huge apartment buildings everywhere with all the congestion and problems that brings. I don't want growth and development. I want enforcement and preservation of what already exists. I want the illegal aliens sent home or forced on the books to contribute and to learn how to adapt to the rules of law of this culture and MY COUNTRY.

What I want - is Greg Peterson for County Executive.

[Peterson will doit better]

Greg Peterson can do it better.
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Suozzi is an idiot. We all see, hear and smell clearly. We know what's going on with Suozzi's audits on special districts. Why do you think DEMOCRATS are bailing and converting to republican?Because THEY SEE CLEARLY. Suozzi is killing us and ruining Nassau County.Weitzman and Levinson and Suozzi are all full of crap. There so called audit on special districts is a useless witch hunt that will only lead to higher county taxes for all of us and less services. Suozzi wants us to pay the money to the county that we are paying now to our own individual districts. He's not trying to save us money. Then he can take that money and give it away to more high salaried, do nothing, know nothing, administrators and leave us poor, dirty and thirsty. He'll have our money and we'll have no services. I rather pay my local district - at least I know I'm getting the services I'm paying for and I can see where my money is going.
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Suozzi thinks Government is like running a business. Some way to run a business. Suozzi is paying dozens of non-nassau county residents and unqualified department heads 6 figure salary's and creating verticle managment levels and imposing dress codes on lower level workers? His patronage jobs cost the county $16.1 million a year, up $3 million in the past 2 years. The average salary for the 422 patronage jobs in his administration is over $70,000. Yeah, things cost money. Patronage jobs cost money. He retroactively adjusted their start dates too so they get the same benefit package that senior civil service workers were entitled to because of their longevity and dedication to working for low salarys over the years. He's cut services. He's wiped out whole organizations that serve the general public. He raised taxes 19.4% in 2002 and he's been raising them ever since and claims he'll need to have 2 more increases before he's done. He's decreased the police staff by 522 jobs while the gang presence on long island is rapidly gaining, and while he denied salary raises to low level civil service workers, he gave 5% increases for the 3rd year in a row to his patronage workers, whose average salary is over $70,000 for a no show job. Because of the cuts in police overtime was $28 million last year and expected to be over $35 million this year while the overtime at the jail is over $25 million. This is what tom suozzi and his democratic majority legislature has accomplished in their first term in office. God help us if there's a second term. There damn well better not be.
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Gulotta's last two years in office he made his appointed workers all take pay cuts - that's where the give backs were coming from. He went after the patronage workers instead of raising taxes first. Suozzi raised taxes and then gave raises to his patronage workers with them. Suozzi is anything but special. Our kids are going to have nowhere to play and they are going to get run out of school by gang violence. Greg Peterson is the one Tom Suozzi is up against. He is a Gulotta friend OF COURSE. They were both active Republicans. So what? Greg Peterson spent the last 6 years outside of the government limelight running a very successful law firm and practising law. In fact, his law firm where he was a founding partner is one of the top 5 largest law firms in Nassau County. He knows how to work hard and he knows how to make a profitable business work. Before that he ran the town of hempstead for 5 years without raising taxes or decreasing services and he didn't have the luck suozzi had in reaping a sales tax windfall from explosive gas prices, which suozzi also surcharged incidentally - and now is threatening to add an energy tax too as well. Peterson also managed to merge 4 town departments and completely eliminated 2 others in order to keep essential services running smoothly without raising taxes. Suozzi sees tax increases as dividends owed to him, not as a last resort like Peterson. Go ahead wise guy - vote for Suozzi again. You'll be raising your family on the coast of Georgia soon because Suozzi is chasing the middle class out of nassau county.
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Good night Irene - Good night Tom Suozzi. AND GOOD RIDDANCE.

[How Much will get out]

How much of the Republican manifesto will make it into the voter's hands? It doesn't do any good unless it gets there. According to Newsday, Suozzi is the god who rescued us from evil. That's what the votes will be thinking when they come to the polls in November.

[IREAD]

How much of the Republican manifesto will make it into the voter's hands? It doesn't do any good unless it gets there. According to Newsday, Suozzi is the god who rescued us from evil. That's what the votes will be thinking when they come to the polls in November.

Yes, the voters will be voting for Suozzi this Nov, BUT It's not because of Newsday.
Suozzi will win and thats that but Newsday will NOT be accountable.
Didn't anyone read Newsday on Tuesday? It had 3 articles that had suozzi looking pretty bad. The one where Dean Skelos ripped him a new one, the one where everyone is pissed about the colliseu, and the one about his "almost debate" with the Dem who's running for AG.
So, my point is...
Republican won't read Newdsay because they THINK it's a liberal paper. Yea they print good stuff about Suozzi but thats only because he IS well liked, by his constituents. BUT they also print the bad stuff when it happens. (like they did yesterday)
They're printing the NEWS- Thats it!
So maybe you should actually READ Newsday before you call it a liberal Newspaper because You're wrong- It's not! And I happen to be a Rep who was very happy with Newsday yesterday.

[Read again]

Suozzi is the one who looked good in the Skelos article. Skelos looked like an idiot who, as Suozzi, said is rooting for the status quo and against Suozzi's fight against Medicaid, which if you've been reading Newsday for the last year or so, is the fight of a lifetime that Newsday always has Suozzi coming out rather godlike. No harm done in the second article and the Celeste/Monte article - what a team! I was surprised they got that article passed the editors. But Newsday won't keep after it and somehow it'll eventually give it the positive spin they give all Suozzi stories. In any event, whatever readers did the see the article will forget about it by November under the blizzard of Pro-Suozzi rhetoric Newsday will hit them with between now and then. Newsday will get Suozzi re-elected and Suozzi didn't even have to fix one pothole to do it.

[Disgruntled Taxpayer I]

Suozzi is the one who looked good in the Skelos article. Skelos looked like an idiot who, as Suozzi, said is rooting for the status quo and against Suozzi's fight against Medicaid, which if you've been reading Newsday for the last year or so, is the fight of a lifetime that Newsday always has Suozzi coming out rather godlike. No harm done in the second article and the Celeste/Monte article - what a team! I was surprised they got that article passed the editors. But Newsday won't keep after it and somehow it'll eventually give it the positive spin they give all Suozzi stories. In any event, whatever readers did the see the article will forget about it by November under the blizzard of Pro-Suozzi rhetoric Newsday will hit them with between now and then. Newsday will get Suozzi re-elected and Suozzi didn't even have to fix one pothole to do it.

Don't count on it. Nobody can predict the future. If anything, Suozzi appeared in the article to be ill prepared, and does not really have a clear idea as to what he actually wants to do with Medicaid, except to get the expense off of his ledgers. Skelos pointed out that having a complete state take-over of Medicaid would result in higher income taxation in Nassau, and that this income taxation would be proportionally greater than under the current system. Skelos cleaned Suozzi's clock in this debate. There is no question. The Skelos pasting of Tom Suozzi in a one on one encounter clearly demonstrates that Suozzi is not prepared to go one on one against the better political minds in New York.

Suozzi supports candidates and positions which widely vary. He cannot simply blame "fraud" on the problems of the system. And if he does, he will have one hell of a fight with the Nassau County and New York State Medical Societies if he thinks that he is going to demonize and shake down local officials through Qi Tam actions initiated by the County's Affirmative Litigation Department.

Suozzi never commits to rolling back some of the more excessive entitlements. You never hear him criticize Family Plus. He lets the Consersative Party doe this for him, and watches those complaints fall on deaf ears in Albany. Suozzi even supported FixAlbany.Com State Senate Candidate Chad Brisbane who staunchly supported Medicaid funding for abortions.

The Medicaid debate, which is Suozzi's signature policy issue, is perhaps the most clear demonstration of his fuzziness on policy detail for the express purpose of political organization. He wants the support of the conservatives and liberals of the world. At some point, Suozzi will have to pick a side and a position and stick with it.

[A real journalist 12]

Suozzi keeps chanting about how he "only" increased the county portion of the property taxes 20% and then held the line but what he doesn't tell you is that he stopped spending the money that the county normally spends on things like road and park repairs and renovations and clean-up. He tried to tell the towns and villages it was their responsibility to do all that county business, and then he forced their hand by withholding money from them for services the town does provide which is with money allocated from the county that the county gets for this reason from the state and feds. It's exactly the same thing he did to the schools by withholding their money and cutting out youth groups and social services, educational and work programs and some police activity league functions - throwing the burden on everyone else. This is what he is complaining about with medicaid. Suozzi is the biggest phony and scam artist going. He complains he has to increase property taxes because the state is withholding reimbursement money for medicaid and yet he is withholding all funding that used to go to the schools, towns and special districts. Then when they are forced to raise their taxes, Suozzi swoops in and blames them for high taxes. In the meantime, thanks to Newsdays complete lack of reporting, nobody has question what Suozzi is doing with the county money because he sure as hell hasn't been spending it on any services beneficial to the county taxpayers. We do know he has a patronage staff of $16 million that get retroactive county benefits including free, lifetime medical benefits for people 55 and over and longevity pay even though they haven't worked in the county very long and don't even live in the county. We do know he is floating a bond in excess of $50 on the pretext of land preservation, but that he wants to build high rise apartment buildings on that land instead. We do know he wants to close down our only public medical center but is floating a bond for almost $2 million dolllars to build a life science center on the Queens border on private property where LIJ-North Shore Hospital is building an outpatient facility and we know Suozzi's father is a trustee in that hospital. We know that millions of dollars in personal service contracts have been given out through IDA and that, thanks to the NY Times reporting, we learned each and every one of those contracts corresponds precisely and exactly to political contributions. We know that you can't even sell ice cream at our parks, which haven't been touched since Suozzi took office, unless you have one of those contracts and the concessionaire who did get that contract is a Democratic Party Leader. We know that while Peter Sylver stole $1 million dollars of federal money (after sexually abusing a subordinate which the Suozzi administration tried to cover up with a confidentiality agreement) that was earmarked for low income housing for poor people, the Department of Social Services housed poor people in motels and then arrested them for using their money earmarked for housing toward basics like FOOD, while Peter Sylver got off with a slap on the wrist. We know the County Attorney forced the politically connected outside counsel to kickback 10% of the fees they were owed or threatened them that they would have to wait until hell froze over before they'd get paid, and that Suozzi has now implemented a scam with his politically hand choosen independent contractors where they get paid immediately, by computer, IN ADVANCE of doing any work at all. We know that Suozzi built "employment" sites in Glen Cove for illegal alien day laborers and that they wanted to ignore the problem of illegal alien's and illegal housing by condoning the activity and simply re-classifying these slums as commercial properties to raise their property taxes which will only lead to more illegals cramming into to further sub-divided sleeping areas to pay the higher rents these slumlords will undoubtedly start charging. We know that while Suozzi has hired 422 appointees, at least 1/2 half having been reported by the NY Times as living outside Nassau County, he has reduced the police force by 522 officers and decimated the special victims unit which handles the gang activity on long island as well handles the sex crimes and the juvenile aid bureau, and we can all see that despite Dennis Dillon's denials, the gang population with all its inherent crimes, has sprung up in almost every town in Nassau County and is so bad in many areas that people are afraid to walk around alone and night and women are afraid to go to the local 7-11 alone by day for fear of being sexually harassed by drunken illegal alien day laborers. This is the quality of life that has been forced upon us while Tom Suozzi has been in office, and he has only been in office for a single term. These are the indisputable things that we know and I'm only just beginning to put it all together. I can only hope others do too before it's too late.

[So much truth]

No newspapers to print it in.

[On top of that]

Is it true that in the summer of 2006 there comes due a tax assessement refund bill to the tune of $320,000 which must be paid by cash only?

[Yup but more]

That's an old figure. It hasn't been paid and it's just been building

[So where's the money?]

And the question of the day -- then what's he doing with my money?

[Nassau News]

WHy do they keep circulating the same dried out Nassau News clipping? I mean, wouldn't it be more beneficial to print different flyers every month? It's not like there's nothing to say.

[What flyers?]

What's the Nassau News?

[Just as I expected]

What flyers?

Uh huh. That's the point and therein lies the problem.

Is it true that in the summer of 2006 there comes due a tax assessement refund bill to the tune of $320,000 which must be paid by cash only?

the old numbers $ were in ( millions) $ not in (thousands) that figure as of last year was by the Nassau Intrun Finance Authority estimated at $400 million, but that number changed, by the county's reckoning and changing methodology, from $400 million, to $325 million to $365 million back up to $387 million, See today's Newsday Editorial page.

Is it true that in the summer of 2006 there comes due a tax assessement refund bill to the tune of $320,000 which must be paid by cash only?

the old numbers $ were in ( millions) $ not in (thousands) that figure as of last year was by the Nassau Intrun Finance Authority estimated at $400 million, but that number changed, by the county's reckoning and changing methodology, from $400 million, to $325 million to $365 million back up to $387 million, See today's Newsday Editorial page and this money must be paid in 2006 after the elections.

[Fed up Nassau Res]

Suozziwatch.blogspot.com. A very interesting site. Spread the word. Print info and distribute. WAKE UP GOP!!!

[I commend you fed up]

But dont spend too much time on the website. The GOP is sound asleep in most communities and even with the slots picked, nobody bothers with meetings or anything else even still. I haven't heard a peep about Peterson, about him, from him, from the Committee for Peterson - hell - maybe there isn't even one. Maybe it's just whoever shows up at Mondello's house for bingo Wednesday nights. Nice to see somebody's got some fire though. Maybe you oughta run for something yourself though.

[Fed up Nassau Res.]

go to this site, people! The one that everyone is so nervous about. Check out the letters to editor in the Long Island Press to get the info.

[Too bad for Peterson]

Did you see the Newsday article on Jan. 25 about how Suozzi has visions of, but no specifics plans for, building a zoo and an aquarium and a preserve -- A PRESERVE?

Anyway - I dissed enough about that already on other threads.

Besides, I'm feeling kinda bad now about dissing Suozzi's record. Newsday says - it's not fair - we shouldn't be dredging up what Suozzi hasn't done as County Executive or talk about his administration or anything during this election.

So if you'll indulge me for a moment, I'd like to act as Peterson's campaign manager and suggest to him that instead of - you know - shooting Suozzi's idea down - you just

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PLAY BY NEWSDAY'S RULES
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So here's my advice to you - call up Newsday with your own delusions - I mean - visions.

You should pose for some pictures at Splish Splash in Riverhead and then give your own press conference.

Call Newsday and say "I have visions of putting in an adventureland - complete with a big ole roller coaster, and supersized water slide and there will be cotton candy and clowns and

and yeah and a Rodeo too! Uh huh yup - I have visions of cowboys, and horses and old fashioned pie eating contests and booths where they sell hand made quilts

and um - yeah uh huh - it's coming to me now - yup I can certainly see it - yes yes - in the Nassau Hub -- the one that I envision --

besides having an adventureland and a rodeo I think we can also squeeze in a wildlife refuge where volunteers can come and learn how to help care for the sick and injured wildlife we rescue and help to nurse the animals back to health

But umn - I have no details, I mean no plan or anything. But it'll come. Just tell them all to vote for me ok?"

Anyway, that's my recommendation. It'll be a good, clean fight then - just like Newsday wants.

The voters can vote for the hallucinatory zoo, aquarium and nature preserve or the hallucinatory adventureland, rodeo and wildlife refuge. Whichever hallucination they prefer to have.

May the man with biggest imagination win.


Too bad Peterson didn't jump all over this when he had the chance. He should have claimed this one for his own 'cos guess what? Lo and behold the RODEO IS COMING to Nassau Colliseum ! Can you believe it? Bull riding ! It's a reality folks - still no Zoo in site though but Tom Suozzi makes $1.50 surcharge on every ticket sold anyway!

[Fire Out]

Let's put the fire out together

[What fire is that?]

ANd what fire would that be?

[Fire Stop]

No more fires please

[Water 12]

:D

[Fireless]

No more fires.

[Fire Marshall]

When this is fixed...watch out.

[GOP Time]

GOP will be back.

[FireTruck]

All is well.

[Z Team]

A horse of a different color.

[Sal1]

The fire is out.

[SuozziGOP]

Changing his tune.

[Lilly21]

It all works out in the end.

[Nassau News Brochures]

Good idea but they need to be alot stronger than they are and there needs to be a way to get them out en bulk faster than delivering a dozen a month so they can be changed and updated with the issues as they appear in the public eye. Maybe the publishers of the attorney of nassau county and other papers might be interested in doing a supplement for the campaign if mondello could pull together a committee of writers who will promise to have enough monthly articles to make a supplement worthwhile. Email them to start a dialogue at info@longislandernews.com

[GOPwriter]

not to many out there.

[you'd be surprised]

there's plenty of damned good if not sarcastic postings right on this board. if they had a real forum to publish in - you might be surprised what you get. and it won't be a name you'd ever recognize either - it's the outsiders and the newcomers that will be carrying this election - then we'll worry about getting rid of the old guard when we've taken back the county.

Ride the wave.

[WaterandSand]

It's over.

[They are talking]

There is talk that other brochures are in the making - if each club is responsible for one and shares with the others and the foot walkers bust tail to get them out - it can be done. There's also talk that higher level Gopers are having with other news media outlets about putting out a supplement for the election and doing a mass distribution. I know that they were talking to one paper that everyone picks up here and there, but it doesn't yet have a home delivery base and they talking about doing that for the few months before November, and funding for it through advertisers, like advertisers you get to take out spots in the year end fundraising journals. By July plans will be set and the papers will be churning. It'll take money and talent but the pay off will be big. Now that the candidancy is made official - Peterson's people are really surging. The energy is really there and the Suozzi Hatred really rocks them. Especially since Suozzi doesn't really even want the job anymore - he made it clear. He wants to be Governor not County Executive and if he loses the race for Governor he's going to try his hand in the private sector and slink away from politics altogether. He doesn't want to work for Nassau County - and we don't want him working here either. Greg Peterson 2005 ---- and not a ZOO in site!

[The Suoz is Naked]

By the time we finish striping all the lies away, peeling back the layers of pomp and circumstance, and exposing the raw data of exactly what Suozzi did and did not do during his one term in office - he'll be running for cover under a horse's blanket because the people will be laughing and pointing at the Naked Emperor who is wearing no clothes. We will educate the masses. And we will put Newsday out of business if we have to. The executive leaders only need say the word - and Newsday is cancelled.

[hedgehog II]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Tax Lien Foreclosures Nex]

Why does Suozzi keep saying the Republicans are the ones trying to build a 6th borough?

I'm starting to think that he doesn't understand what that means. He seems to just like the sound of it.

He is wanting to build skyscrapers and shopping centers and low income rentals everywhere - and he just gave the Town of North Hempstead $3 million under the pretext that they're now "managing" 9 County parks so they could use those County funds to build a 6th borough in "central nassau" - exactly what he publically accused the Republicans of wanting to do!

Democrat TONH Mayor Kaiman (who just did a smiling Newsday press release with Suozzi walking around North New Hyde Park) is heeding Suozzi's economic development plan, (which is suspiciously similar to the economic development plan first proffered by Nickerson and later regurgitated by the County Attorney's $120K Office Manager, Peter Reinharz, which economic development plan even the Rockaways rejected).

They want to start out by stealing property from an old woman in New Cassel who lives there and runs a 100 member church on it - and then Suozzi turns around and says - the GOPERS are doing it? Doesn't Suozzi think Peterson's people will help the public put it together and see the lies? Does he think by saying it - thats all he needs to do for the people to believe it and that his actions mean nothing? Nobody will notice or find out about it?

Then Suozzi argues that patronage in the GOP is alive and well - while he just gave his appointees, who he started at record high salarys, another salary raise for the 4th year in a row, 200 of which don't even live in Nassau County, and who's salary alone is at least $16 million dollars?

Has Suozzi regressed to the likes of a 9 year old? His campaigning rhetoric is starting to sound like that of a school yard bully - "I know you are but what am I"? Ever play the shadow game? That seems to be what he's doing. The Republicans started the 6th Borough talk when he resurrected Nickerson's disasterous plans - so now he turns around and says - they're doing it not me - all the while having in his back pocket Wang's 60 story apartment building and his 2001 economic development plan where low-income rental skyscrapers are written into it !!!

Man oh Man - The Public must see through this guy - he's so completely transparent.



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[BeBack]

Will be back. Just a bump in the road.

[A Bump is harmless]

The guy is a gosh darned 6 foot pothole. The sooner we get rid of him, the better off we'll all be.

[Falling in a pothole]

I saw all Tom and Helen's hispanics friends fallling in a huge pothole on Stewart Avenue today not far from the Clinton Avenue intersection. I guess they all want wanted interest free, collateral free home loans too.

[1998DemsRuined Nassau]

Spiraling housing costs started in 1998 because of a class action lawsuit brought by the democrats, led by Hempstead lawyer Fred Brewington using plaintiffs from Roosevelt. The democrats claimed inequality in tax assessment. That's what the court finally agreed to while the republican led county fought like hell against it. Thanks to those democrats - everyone's tax assessments went up and will continue to go up as long as the market keeps going up every year - means higher taxes every year. Then the stupid voters blame the republicans and vote in the democrats who caused the problem and what happens? Suozzi raises taxes 20% to pay off the tax assessment refunds which nearly bankrupted the county - and guess what? He hasn't paid them off yet.

Bring back sanity - vote for Greg Peterson. It's the only hope.

Spiraling housing costs started in 1998 because of a class action lawsuit brought by the democrats, led by Hempstead lawyer Fred Brewington using plaintiffs from Roosevelt. The democrats claimed inequality in tax assessment. That's what the court finally agreed to while the republican led county fought like hell against it. Thanks to those democrats - everyone's tax assessments went up and will continue to go up as long as the market keeps going up every year - means higher taxes every year. Then the stupid voters blame the republicans and vote in the democrats who caused the problem and what happens? Suozzi raises taxes 20% to pay off the tax assessment refunds which nearly bankrupted the county - and guess what? He hasn't paid them off yet.

Bring back sanity - vote for Greg Peterson. It's the only hope.

Lies. lies and more lies. Anyone who believes this crap must be off their meds.

Due to a 60-year old arcane formula, the minority communities paid too much and the rich communities too little. Now balance is being struck, but not there yet.

Utilities are suing to modify the assessment system. They believe it's unfair, too.

Businesses and condos/apartments pay hefty property taxes which subsidize the homeowners. Is that fair?

Only GOP cranks can find fault with fairness. It just goes to show they only want what they can get regardless of the damage they do to our communities.

[Yes it is fair]

Spiraling housing costs started in 1998 because of a class action lawsuit brought by the democrats, led by Hempstead lawyer Fred Brewington using plaintiffs from Roosevelt. The democrats claimed inequality in tax assessment. That's what the court finally agreed to while the republican led county fought like hell against it. Thanks to those democrats - everyone's tax assessments went up and will continue to go up as long as the market keeps going up every year - means higher taxes every year. Then the stupid voters blame the republicans and vote in the democrats who caused the problem and what happens? Suozzi raises taxes 20% to pay off the tax assessment refunds which nearly bankrupted the county - and guess what? He hasn't paid them off yet.

Bring back sanity - vote for Greg Peterson. It's the only hope.

Lies. lies and more lies. Anyone who believes this crap must be off their meds.

Due to a 60-year old arcane formula, the minority communities paid too much and the rich communities too little. Now balance is being struck, but not there yet.

Utilities are suing to modify the assessment system. They believe it's unfair, too.

Businesses and condos/apartments pay hefty property taxes which subsidize the homeowners. Is that fair?

Only GOP cranks can find fault with fairness. It just goes to show they only want what they can get regardless of the damage they do to our communities.


of course it's fair. the businesses are subsidized by the taxpayers too - we support their businesses and they make their profits. condo assessments are a big problem though - for the square footage - condo owners pay far higher property tax than a homeowner with 3 or 4 times the square footage and land - also many condo owners don't have kids in the school system and get stuck paying full school taxes too. minority villages destroyed their own property values - they deserve what they get - also the rest of the county subsidizes them in the way of welfare and section 8 - can't help that they take care of their property so they don't disintegrate and become worthless. years ago hempstead was beautiful - population changed - now it's disgusting. it's their fault for letting it run down - why should they get the benefit of lower taxes for destroying a neighborhood. Is that fair?

[Who was the Judge?]

What Judge decided the 1998 tax assessment case?
When is his re-election coming up?

[judge jackson]

Thank the former administration for this one. Here is some info describing what happened:

BEYOND THE COLEMAN STIPULATION: ASSESSING COMES OF AGE IN NASSAU COUNTY

Nassau County recently committed over $30 million to complete the mass appraisal and reassessment of each and every residential and commercial tax parcel within its borders for the 2003/04 tax year.
The decision to reassess was a result of Coleman v. County of Nassau, a discrimination suit brought against the County by seven homeowners. All previous judicial challenges to the legality of the tax roll were defended, in part, by the County's argument that the roll was fair and equitable because homeowners were afforded an opportunity to reduce their assessment through litigation, which could cure any purported inequity. This type of "rough" equality, however, failed to deal with homes that were underassessed and remained so year by year as values increased, perpetuating the extent of underassessment and inequality. The flaw in the County's legal argument was that assessing some homes at market value did not create a fair system of taxation. In Coleman, the Attorney General of the State of New York and the Office of the United States Attorney joined the seven residential plaintiffs against Nassau County seeking to require that the Board of Assessors reassess residential property pursuant to the 1964 and 1968 Civil Rights Acts, and the Federal Fair Housing Act (42 U.S.C. §3601). The case was successful in forcing the County to enter a Stipulation agreeing to adopt an assessment roll ". . . that is fair, nondiscriminating, scientific, and equitable." The Stipulation required that the reassessment of all Class 1 properties (one-to-three family homes) be completed by Jan. 1, 2003. The Stipulation provided, inter alia, that all residential property be assessed at market value, endorsing the continuation of fractional assessments at the same percentage of market value – which first requires that every home be appraised at an accurate current market value.

The Coleman Stipulation is the foundation of the Nassau County revaluation project. It sets forth valuation standards and criteria to monitor if the assessment roll is equitable and mandates quarterly progress reports to the Court. The Court retains continuing jurisdiction over the County's compliance with the terms of the Stipulation. The Stipulation provides little tolerance for inequality on future tax rolls and specifies that the County must in "diligent good faith implement a revaluation of every home that . . . results in a zero percent variation in the ratio of assessed value to market value among school districts."

[The flaw in the decision]

The flaw in the Judge's decision is that he failed to take into consideration the reason for the flunctuations in market value and the disincentive to otherwise maintain your property. The Judge thinks like a Communist instead of a Market Economist. If you turn your home into a rooming house, and one neighbor is running a crack house while the other neighbor became the gathering place for all the unemployed men in the town - and your kids are driving by shooting each other - then yeah - your're house isn't worth as much as the guy who comes home from work and mows the lawn, and the paints the exterior and gardens on the weekends and takes pride in his home, his family and his neighborhood. A Communist would say, take out an equity loan and share it with the poor man living in the burnt out shack because his home isn't worth anything. That's pretty much what annual tax assessments do. Once again, the harder you work to own and maintain nice things - the more people you have to subsidize because of it.

And why didn't the Legislature appeal? By this time - it was a Democratic majority - that's why. At least the Republicans TRIED to fight against it - they lost because the Judge was wrong. And we all suffer because the Democrats brought the lawsuit then refused to keep appealing.

Even the A-hole Democrates and Mr. Coleman lost because they thought their taxes would go down - ha ha - they went up up up too!

Where's the beef?

[It's all coming out.]

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