Dennis Dillon loses GOP support

[Really angry GOPER]

Dennis Dillon is quoted in Andrew Harris's NYLJ article Tuesday, February 8 railing against the Republican Machine and Thomas Gulotta - sanctioning the rhetoric Newsday espouses about how the county was allegedly almost brought into bankruptcy. He knows full well the GOP budget was nowhere near bankruptcy, that no services were cut or suffered during the GOP reign, that their was adequate police protection to address the increasing gang and illegal alien problems and that overtime did not approach numbers nearly as high as the salary and fringe benefits being spent under Suozzi's budget. How dare he? Knowing full well that is precisely and exactly the nonsense rhetoric Newsday and the Dems used in 2001 and expect to use in 2005 in connecting Greg Peterson to Tom Gullotta. Dennis Dillon is an old man who hasn't gone after a corrupt politician or county-wide fraud in all the years he was District Attorney. It explains now how the turncoat politician all of a sudden decided to feign an interest in illegal housing and illegal aliens just in time to rescue his own former Democratic Deputy from a stupid policy of raising taxes by joining with him in a press release and converting another one of Suozzi's stupid tax raising plans into a law enforcement plan. Did Dillon know then that Levinson was boning up to challenge Kate Murray in a TOH race, or was Dillon just trying to preserve his own job by joining with Levinson and Suozzi to try and fend off an attack by Levinson against Dillon's own job? Dennis Dillon does not deserve any financial assistance or support from the Republicans in his pathetic attempt to save his own job at the expense of the entire Republican party. He is ripe for retirement and that's where he belongs. Retired.

[hedgehog]

Another republican with no memory. NIFA was instituted under and because of GULOTTA.

[Election Year]

And it had to do with the re-assessment of property values used as a bases for property tax which was brought on by a handful of Democrats basically alleging racism.
I read Dillon's article. First he said he started working on illegal abortion cases and that changed him forever and made him much more religious than he had been and then later on he says but religion has nothing to do with abortion. Which is it?
I also think it's fiscally irresponsible that an entire office of well paid attorneys has to recuse themselves and pay outside attorneys every time a case involving an abortion issue comes up because of the personal beliefs of the old man.

[hedgehog]

Yet another repub with a faulty memory. NIFA predates reassessment.

And it had to do with the re-assessment of property values used as a bases for property tax which was brought on by a handful of Democrats basically alleging racism.
I read Dillon's article. First he said he started working on illegal abortion cases and that changed him forever and made him much more religious than he had been and then later on he says but religion has nothing to do with abortion. Which is it?
I also think it's fiscally irresponsible that an entire office of well paid attorneys has to recuse themselves and pay outside attorneys every time a case involving an abortion issue comes up because of the personal beliefs of the old man.

[Nope - technically NIFA]

Nifa was created because of the court cases already battling the reassessment which if you actually had a good memory, you'd remember was not actually a case decided by a judge but a case that was settled. The county settled on the case after the judge ruled the old system was not a constitutional system - that judge isn't still in office is he? - and the judge gave the county time to come up with a plan to implement the reassessment or the judge threatened he would do it. This was all the last year or so at the end of Gulotta's reign and Nifa was not even a memory beyond that. Nifa came in before the reassessment judgment came out of court because the county got stuck including anticipated costs of a structured settlement as part of their year end budget and for that they had to float bonds to cover the early years of reassessment judgments. Those bonds were were also included in the budget so the reality is that Gulotta got squeezed in two directions - all because of the court cases revolving around the reassessments - hope those plaintiffs and their lawyers got hit good too - which led to the falling bond values. Suozzi is not in any better shape except that the bonds floated to pay for the anticipated and accumulated judgments were already included in Gulotta's budget and are set to expire the end of the year so Suozzi didn't have to include them as debt in his own budgets. Meanwhile, though - he hasn't used the bond floats to pay for the judgments and they are not only still sitting their, but accumulating interest and at the end of the year when the bond floats Gulotta set up expire, Suozzi will be left with his pants down - three times the debt we had before and no way to pay it off and he can't even use the last resort weapon Gulotta was saving which was to raise taxes/fees because Suozzi used it as a first resort to meet his regular and ordinary budget expenditures including soaring managment and staff level salaries. Suozzi also got the benefit of , unlike what Gulotta was stuck with, of not having to even include the judgments themselves in his budget as further debt because the assessments were being appealed - a nice strategy to keep them off his books because until there's a settlement or a court verdict - they aren't technically to be considered a debt. But it doesn't mean they don't exist and there isn't a chance in hell they won't have to eventually be paid back. That's the only reason Weitzman can say with a straight face that the finances look better on paper - suozzi is even claiming a surplus. But the real facts, and here's where Newsday is doing such a tremendous disservice to the people of nassau county by permitting such a tragic cover up to be maintained - the real facts are that suozzi hasn't done a damn thing to shore up the county's financial position. He's got the same debt load Gulotta had, but it's growing and expounding and getting worse with the last 2 reassessments which the county made a mess out of with their arbitrary market values - but it's not included in his budget. Gulotta's budget accounted for it, Suozzi's budget is hiding it and it will eventually explode on the taxpayers. NIFA approved the budget because from an accounting point of view, the debt isn't a debt until it's so declared and Suozzi has made sure it didn't get declared. Moreover, there has been no more NIFA oversite now for a year or so and the smoke is getting denser and denser.

[hedgehog]

NIFA was created because Nassau's bonds were continually downgraded and in a downward spiral because Gulotta's budgets were out of whack. He kept increasing spending and trying to balance it with one-shot revenues. The state had to step in and bail him out.

[Dennis Going Down]

The old man should have retired gracefully. Now I'm convinced he's fighting fights with the Democrats. Maybe he wants Suozzi's little friend in waiting, Timothy Drisocoll, to beat him in November. I can't believe the guy is giving press releases dissing Governor Pataki's budget. Is he giving money to Eliot Spitzer now? Or is he just starting to get alittle senile?

[Driscoll]

Timothy Driscoll - Suozzi's guy. Any relation to Katherine Driscoll Hopkins - the Chief Clerk over in Nassau County Supreme Court?

Downward spiral - not going on that long. Was a recent thing. Last couple years of a very long GOP leadership and still could have done the easy thing and hurt taxpayers by pulling a Suozzi. Whatever dude. It's history. NOW its try the new lawyer or stick with Suozzi. I go with the new guy. Suozzi did too much damage in too short a period of time. But I might vote for a Democrat as the DA.

[3 PM snoozer]

Now Dillon is attacking the minority legislative leader? Is he crazy? Suozzi cut the cops and anybody with eyes, ears and a nose can SEE the increased gang activity in Nassau County and the violence and drugs that follow it. Maybe Dillon really is just a old, senile man who falls asleep in his chair behind his closed door in the early afternoon and has nothing to look forward to in retirement so he figures he'll rather just drop dead in his boots in the saddle. Maybe the statistics show a drop in crime because his office refuses to prosecute anything that isn't an easy win and so people have given up complaining, arresting and begging his office to do some work and handle a few cases. Anyway, attacking Peter Schmidt is crazy. Oh how Suozzi and the Democrats must have laughed at that. Suozzi doesn't have to do a thing but let Newsday and Dillon campaign for him. DILLON SWEETIE - you are probably the only republican I am not voting for and who I will actively campaign against and I would strongly advise Mondello to start looking at a candidate to primary you. Rest well Dennis.

[Disgruntled Taxpayer I]

District Attorney Dillon views his role in the District Attorney's Office as being "quasi judicial." Dillon is a committed christian and abortion foe who began his career as a Democrat in the RFK Justice Department. His opposition to abortion compelled him to switch to the GOP. Dillon does not permit his assistants to serve as political party committee people, and strives to run his office as "non-partisan."

As a quasi judicial official Dillon does not feel beholden or obligated to parrot a party line, and takes sharp exception to a pronouncement by a politician which makes it sound like "crime increased" under Dillon's watch, since Dillon and Suozzi's "watches" happen to coincide. Even in 1997, when Gulotta linked substantial decreases in crime to his tenure as County Executive, Dillon politely dissented (even in public) when such assertions were made. In the Dillon universe, there is no permissible link between the political and law enforcement spheres.

Mr. Mondello has nominated individuals from Mr. Dillon's office for judicial candidacy ahead of many of the hopefuls pushed by Republican Executive Leaders. Some tensions between the District Attorney and GOP leaders like Schmitt must therefore be anticipated.

Dillon ultimately stays on board with the Peterson team because his social positions on faith and abortion have been rejected by the Democratic Party. But the latest incidents, be it the disagreement with Schmitt or the friendliness towards his former chief deputy, must be construed in the light of Mr. Dillon just being Mr. Dillon. Unless there is some major changes in how the Democrats view abortion, Mr. Dillon should be a continued lock as a GOP offical.

[Overboard]

Dennis Dillon is a religious fanatic who kept his job by ignoring political fraud and corruption and letting both parties get away with things. It looks like the old man has lost that impulse control and he's going after Republicans. And he's doing it publically. First Gulotta, then Pataki, now Schmidt - who next? Maybe Peterson. Maybe King. Maybe the entire Town of Hempstead boys. He's not trustworthy anymore. Any public display like the one he gave is totally inexcusable. Newsday finally writes an article trying to be fair and bi-partisan by quoting another version of the truth and Dillon single handedly destroys it. I am also a republican and an active one and I want Dillon's head. I'll say it again. I want him to roll. He's no judge - he'll never be one and I say - thank god for that.

[Dark Justice]

Peter Sylver robs a million dollars in federal money geared to providing low income housing for the poor, and because he's a politician and one of Suozzi's administration, Dennis Dillon lets him off with merely a slap on the wrist.

The poor people who the Nassau County Department of Social Services corralled in a motel instead of finding them low income housing used their housing checks to buy food with, and Dennis Dillon arrests them and wants to burn them in the electric chair.

The priests and the illegal aliens get away with sexual abuse of children in Nassau County, but the abortion rights advocates and the joke telling radicals get attacked by Dennis Dillon's office.

This is not a man who is enforcing the law equally. This is a man who is using his office to enforce his own, personal bias and prosecuting cases he thinks will make him and the Suozzi administration look good in the public's eye.

This is a man who is finished as district attorney. He should be sent Catterson's way. It's enough. He's making me sick.

[I told you so]

This newcomer outsider who you didn't want interfering in your club business tried to warn you about this old man and about letting him run another term but could you see the ass in front of your face or listen to a fresh voice? NOOOOOOO - so now goodbe club. Thanks' for a wonderful night.

[oldtime rep]

As a long time Republican, I will not vote for Dillon. He has proven time and time again he is still a liberal Democrat. He should retire. The only reason he ever became a Republican is because of Mondello and the wierd religious beliefs they both have.

[hedgehog]

Well, I'm a democrat and I don't want him either. The way he has turned a blind eye to abusive priests is disgusting. And the dems cross-endorsing him is no less disgusting.

[floral park]

More than a blind eye to abuse, he's participated in the coverup and tried to intimidate the investigaion.

[Dawning of a new age]

Dear Lord Hedgehog - I'm using fighting with you on here but I gotta say - that's the first thing I ever saw you post that I agree with! No more DD !

[Dawning of a new ages]

Dear Lord Hedgehog - I'm usually fighting with you on here but I gotta say - that's the first thing I ever saw you post that I agree with! No more DD !

[hedgehog]

DD condones child rape - what's there to like?

[So What I Get]

So - you're saying DD is against abortion but after an unwanted kid is born, it's ok to abuse her/him?

[Dumpdillon.com]

The bottom line he stood by while preists abused children.

Tim Driscoll for D.A.

[Driscoll]

Im not running., Ms. Rice is;. Done deal.

[So which is it?]

Did Suozzi pull back his promise to Driscoll to run him for DA if Driscoll gave up the Feds for Suozzi or did Driscoll get too used to a high paid, no show, do nothing job for which he is sorely underqualified to handle? Is the egg or the chicken?

[Suozzi screws Dillon Now]

Nice. Dillon runs to Levinson's rescue with his re-classification of illegal rentals into commercial properties by pretending to get tuff on illegal aliens renting rooms in slumlord buildings, then Dillon publically disses Gulotta - gives NEWSDAY PR statements no less - and tries to break free of Peterson's whole crowd by attacking yet another of his own kind - thinking he's got the Dems support so he figures he afford to lose the Reps support.

Crash and Burn baby ? Suozzi pulls another fast one and the rug is out from Dillon's legs.

Gee - do we pick Cindi with her Suozzi ties or Rice from Philadelphia? Tuff one.

[Harry 99]

We will always support him.

[Dillon 2]

Let him lead.

[HE DOES THE JOB]

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quote="Dillon 2"]Let him lead.[/quote]GET A GRIP GUY...REP. OR DEM. DILLON RUNS A GREAT OFFICE AND WILL ONCE AGAIN BE THE LEADING VOTE GETTER COME ELECTION DAY

[Dillon55]

GOP still supports Dillon.

[Dillon Support]

GOP still supporting Dillon.

[NotLost]

We support Dillon.

What's the difference from Catterson?

[Laughing in Suffolk]

At least Catterson did not get vice chairs of the Suffolk Democratic Party to do his dirty work. Catterson's corruption was his own. Dillon's has infected both parties. Thank heaven for Tom Spota. A guy who got cross endorsed because he is fair toall.

Laughing in Suffolk: Will Dillon win?

[A DILLON GUY]

WE LIVE IN THE VERY SAFE COUNTY, AND HE RUNS A CLEAN OFFICE, THERE IS NO REASON FOR HIM NOT TO WIN....

HE WINS BECAUSE HE DOES A GOOD JOB....NOT BECAUSE OF BUMPER STICKERS.....WE DON'T GIVE PEOPLE ENOUGH CREDIT...

[what clean office?]

Did you read today's Long Island Press? He's sitting on yet another corruption case! PULLEAZE