Suozzi Can Lose

[Enter Sandman]

Don't be surprised if key factions of the Democratic Party (Teacher's Union, African Americans, Jews, Democrats who actually live in Nassau) sit Suozzi's election out this year. Levinson is a dead up loser for Town of Hempstead Supervisor, and is simply so offensive that people there will be a heavy anti-Levinson turnout. Kate Murray crushes Levinson like a grape, and Murray coattails will help Greg Peterson, who was popular in Hempstead Township.
Hempstead and TOBAY Republicans will be voting heavily to keep their jobs or maintain what they have. Others will be in rebellion because of high Tom Suozzi taxation. And think of all the police officers and trade unions who will be pulling for Peterson.

The Conservative Line will be a key, but it looks like there is a strong Peterson movement within that party, one which will ensure that the GOP retains Row D in the coming election. There are simply too many Conservative leaders at the Vice Chair and Assembly District leadership level opposed to Suozzi, and his platitudes in Albany only fool the simplest of minds. Jobs may be on the line, but hopefully, accommodations will be made, and folks will be taken care of.

Also one must wonder what revelations with respect to Tom Suozzi and his gang will be made in the coming months. Suozzi is wandering the state like a wounded animal. Crying about how his own lobbyist "fired him." Crying about how even the lowly John Kerry didn't want him at the Democratic Convention, but never admitting that he greased the palms of the DNC with a cool $100K to be afforded the luxury of the cheap seats.

My Prediction is that Thomas Richard Suozzi will be a bad memory by January, 2007, and that he will start the new year doing compliance conferences in Kings Supreme for an Insurance Defense Law Firm.

[of to never never land]

Never Never Land- Thats where you must have been when you typed that one up. You obviously are very confused.

[Enter Sandman]

You're right, Mr. Neverland, I did make a mistake. Suozzi doesn't make it to January 2007. Mr. Suozzi lives solely for his governmental ambitions, and will have no reason to live after they are crushed.

In the best case scenario for Mr. Suozzi, he blows his brains out in December, 2007 when he is left off the Spitzer transition team, and poor Mr. Suozzi has to face life as an obscure middle aged politician with a receding hairline and a dead dog.

[enter sandman]

errata:

blows his brains out in December 2006....


sorry

[Nero]

You people are hallucinating. Suozzi will win in another landslide. The fiscal revival, sheer fact of leadership will pay off. The Republican candidate is just another has-been hack who's unknown outside of Hempstead and hasn't run for office in years.

So many of the posters here clearly long-time timeservers, part of the problem that brought Nassau to near-collapse. Good riddance!

Suozzi isn't perfect -- far from it -- but reading the posts here from too many disgruntled Republican hacks and Fox News nut cases is like an echo chamber. There's plenty more to do in Mineola to keep Suozzi busy in his new term starting next Jan. 1...

[What fiscal revival?]

The fiscal revival newsday and it's fraudulent circulation department connived with tom suozzi? There is no fiscal revival. Any real economist and financial manager can tell you that. The bonds went up because the sales tax revenue, the gas tax revenue and the painful tax raises. They have nothing to do with the real financial deficit that exists in the county after the judgments are paid and off the books and you add in the future expenses and bond debts being accumulated against the spending that is going on in every agency and continuing in trifold. The books can only be doctored so far and Suozzi will be exposed and he will be exposed before november 8th. He's done nothing for this county and he will not be rewarded.

[Nero]

Give me a break. The independent rating agencies have made their judgments that the county is in better shape. Without Suozzi, Nassau would have gone into bankruptcy like Orange County, Calif.

This county was run like a Soviet Socialist Republic far too long. It will take years to bring it back, which will allow TS plenty of time to show how he can do it in Mineola. The people know this and will re-elect him easily. Just watch.

"Fix Albany" is also a smart way to show that Albany is part of the problem, too, with Medicaid problems and falling state aid to school districts leading to the higher property taxes. This may well explain why Pataki's ratings are deservedly low.

Everyone knows that the school tax is the majority of all property taxes, ex. Republican hacks. Go back to Rush and Talon News...

[Nero Fiddles]

Nice to see you dropped the Pharoah tag, Dude. It was amazing to see Suozzi cry like a b*tch in Newsday that his own lobbyist fired him, and that he is a pariah in his own party. Thomas Richard Suozzi is a fad that has run its course, much like pogo sticks, pet rocks, and roller disco.

Suozzi's problem is this: He is a forty-something year old suburban County Executive. In his thirties, he was a dynamic young mayor. In his forties, he is just another guy who is losing his hair and who once held so much promise. Unlike Spitzer, who has some substance, Tom will not survive the loss of his hair line, or a couple of extra pounds.

Tom is rapidly finding out that nobody in New York City finds him interesting anymore. Tom is just another pathetic suburban politician who tries to deal out some minor patronage, and has delusions of conquering the world. Tom is much like the GOP politicians of the 1980's and most of the 1990's who believed that they ruled the world because they ruled a little patch of land called Nassau County. These same GOPers never took a look at the old 110 Livingston Street, Brooklyn, NY or the headquarters of the great urban unions like DC 37, buildings that are dedicated to supporting vast urban political empires that can overwhelm a suburban political operation. If Suozzi thinks he can tweak the unions, campaign against public entitlement programs, and take on these powerful interests in his own party, he has got another thing coming.

Nobody is getting hot and bothered about Medicaid reform. Suozzi isn't moving hard enough to the right to get the grassroot conservative excited. The sheer irony is that his flirtation with the right will only engender mistrust in liberal communities. I simply do not picture teachers, trial lawyers, and minorities getting excited over this spoiled kid who lives in a McMansion in Glen Cove that he purchased with some interesting arrangements with his creditors, and the local land use planning board.

If there is a low turn out in 2005, and if the GOP gets its people out, and if the Conservatives give the GOP their line, Suozzi has a strong chance of losing.

[gothomas]

go after the teachers pay too much lower the taxes thanks