I could have handled it better

[A Real Journalist]

Suozzi thinks the County handled things appropriately because they didn't tell the district attorney, and he believes, they shouldn't have. Maybe not. But let's look at how Suozzi's legal advisors did handle things. Here's their recipee for handling things: A) try firing the victim who has the nerve of complaining. When that doesn't work, go to plan B). B) offer to hire the victim back, but force her to sign an unconstitutional agreement forcing her to waive her first amendment rights to speak about the grievance. When A) and B) both fail - tell the victim it's all her fault anyway, that she's obviously got psychological problems, and she needs to go for counselling because she should get over it since they fired the perp. Then send Peter Schmitt to take an anger management class because of the way he lost it during the hearings. This is the part Suozzi seems to be missing. It's the cover-up that was scary. There's your story.

[Billable Hours and Timesh]

I'm sure he must have gotten one of those bonus raises since he evaluated himself as an A-. The rest of money all went to unqualified managers who do nothing all day long and get paid alot of money to supervise those of us tying to do the job 4 people used to do so Newsday can print that government is shrinking. Except for the fact that the work the 4 people were doing is critical to keep operations going and the 2 upper rung imbeciles they hired to supervise the 1 worker now doing the work alone make more money than the 4 worker's earned altogether. Then the top heavy management team writes on the workers' evaluation that the worker lacks motivation, has a piss poor attitude and doesn't play well with "team Suozzi" and for that, they won't be getting raise. That money instead, is re-labelled "merit increase" and the top heavy layers of the unqualified management team splits it among themselves. So if Suozzi doesn't pay himself enough, he should just give himself a better evaluation. No sense in being modest.

[Need a raise]

You want to see waste, fraud, corruption and a top heavy bunch of enormously paid stooges running in all directions but forward? Take a look at his legal advisors over in the County Attorney's office. It's about time somebody did. There's more imbeciles over there at 6 figure salary's - or close too - who just gave themselves wonderful evaluations and raises then in any one group in the County anywhere. I've seen the ledgers folks. It's disgusting.

[He Still Sees The Forest]

spill the beans as it were - do you mean that managers once again got raises while the working stiffs got nothing or something else??

[Listen to your mother]

TBecause if I was his pimp, I could get $500 an hour for his white suburban political *ss.

But I'd have to slap that little rich ho' upside his head if he don't pay me my money.

[Looking to Hire]

I can't imagine how Suozzi thinks things were handled appropriately. Maybe if someone says I don't want to report a crime - the victim has a right not to have a complaint filed. But you don't keep confidential a complaint. If someone complains about something, the person they are complaining about has a right to confront the person complaining. It's not a chilling effect. It's due process of law. Otherwise, you encourage false claims and accusations without repercussions. You can keep the victim's name out of the media, but you can't keep the specifics of the complaint quiet - and you shouldn't. You expose it, you investigate it, you state your policy, you take a position on it. You give the accused a chance to present a defense to the complaint. You let the employees and the public know about what is going on, and what is being done about it. When people see how things are handled, they will feel more comfortable coming forward and making complaints - but only then will they be legitimate and truthful complaints because they know it will be investigated, and both sides will be listened to. The chilling effect happens by refusing to address the specifics of the alleged misconduct, with the victim and the accused having an opportunity to confront each other, and by refusing to acknowledge the harm. Next, Suozzi sees nothing wrong with a legal office who tries to bully a complainer into signing an obviously fraudulent statement, then advising her to keep quiet while at the same time advising potential witnesses and other county employees on what to say when they testify against the accused, who happens to also be accused of a whole mess of other, potentially criminal matters, all the while supposidly representing the legislature that is actually conducting the tribunal and the county executive who is ultimately responsible? Smell a conflict? I'd say there's something wrong with how that was handled.

[Department of Investigati]

The Department of Investigations should also be the appropriate venue for appealing those evaluations. Right now, the way the process is set-up is ridiculous. It's a hostile environment where the appealing employee is made to feel belittled and harassed by higher ups who are covering for the supervisors who did the evaluation. I think all the appeals should go to the Department of Investigations to talk to the employees and investigate the allegations. I mean, do a real investigation because you'd be amazed at the cover-ups that would otherwise be well, covered-up until you know -- remember that Sylver thing? Disgruntled employees usually have alot of interesting information ---- and the employees that don't get paid enough --- are the most disgruntled.

[The Economist]

Suozzi says he missed the whole economic development agencies' problem because he was - let me make sure I get this right - too focused on "the big picture, the financial crisis and developing an economic plan"? NOW I understand. ????????????????????????????? So the very thing he was most focused on, is the thing that completely escaped him?

[This is How they Make the]

Suozzi: 'I could have handled it better'
In an interview with Newsday's Monte R. Young, County Executive Thomas Suozzi talks about the Peter Sylver scandal, the county's fiscal problems and other issues.

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Since November, Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi has been dealing with a scandal in his economic development office involving allegations that former Deputy County Executive Peter Sylver misspent federal money and sexually assaulted a co-worker. At the same time, Suozzi has tried to maintain a focus on Nassau's daunting fiscal problems. In the following interview with staff writer Monte R. Young, Suozzi, who took office in 2002, talks about those and other issues facing the county.

Q: When the problems in the economic development agencies first surfaced, you said you were surprised about what was going on because you pride yourself on having an administration that runs smoothly. How did you not know what was going on?











A: My focus in the county has been on the big picture, the financial crisis and developing an economic plan. As much as I would like to be involved in the details of everything that goes on in the county, I'm just not able to.

Q: When you got that first hit on the chin, with the economic development scandal, do you think you handled it well?

A: No, I think I could have handled that whole thing better, the whole issue better. It was right after the election. I didn't realize how big of a problem it was until much later on. I was exhausted, quite frankly, after two years of fixing the finances and going through the election campaigns for the legislators. I was not as focused as I should have been and I didn't get personally involved in all the issues related to the economic development vertical until 20 or 30 days into it. I didn't get nearly as involved as I should have been and it got away from me.

Q: Do you think the recent hearings into the scandal in the Nassau County Legislature were turned into a political attack against you?

A: There is no question the Republicans are against me, no question they don't want me to succeed, and that has become pretty obvious throughout this process. But it has been a productive process as far as the hearings and shining a light on this area. We are not going to be judged by the fact that we had a problem, but how we deal with the problem. And we are fixing it.

Q: Why didn't you testify?

A: I wasn't called to. I offered to in the very beginning. I was never called to testify by Democrats or the Republicans.

Q: If you had, what would you have said?

A: I would have said it is important to put things in perspective. One is the issue related to sexual misconduct claims. Well, the reality is the county acted entirely appropriately in that matter. Whether there was actual sexual misconduct, or whether it took place or not, that's a question regarding the individual employees that were involved and that's before the district attorney. As far as the administration goes, we acted entirely appropriately. The employees involved - one left the county and one is in another position.

The second issue is Peter Sylver himself. And, there are different opinions out there, but the reality is Peter Sylver hasn't worked for the county for three months, so that issue is resolved.

The third issue is related to the money. Some say millions of dollars are involved, but nobody has ever enumerated what those dollars are.

The fourth issue is procedures and processes, and there the county failed. We should have had background checks [when hiring Sylver and other top employees]. We should have required competitive bidding for every contract, and employee time sheets should have been properly filled out.

Q: Regarding the alleged sexual assault, was it settled more according to what the alleged victim wanted, or more the way the county wanted it handled?

A: It was a combination. The paramount concern in sexual misconduct claims is the confidentiality of the alleged victim. I know most people's gut reaction is, when you hear about an alleged crime, you have to tell the district attorney or the police. I understand that. But you have to look at the law and the public policy that is involved here. You are not required to report a crime in any instance unless there is a specific statutory requirement to do so. There certainly is no statutory requirement to do so in this instance.

The second part is the public policy. If a person comes in to allege some kind of misconduct in the workplace and you say to the person, 'I'm going to the police and tell them about this,' the person says, 'No, I want this to be confidential.' If you go against the person's wishes, you would be double-crossing them. Then in the future people would not feel comfortable coming forward. There would be a chilling effect. The county handled this absolutely appropriately regarding both the public policy, the law, the morals and regarding the alleged victim's personal wishes.

Nobody knows what actually transpired between the two employees involved. There was an investigation done. I can't comment further, but the bottom line is nobody really knows what happened. I certainly don't know.

Q: There's also the question about a suite at the Garden City Hotel that was charged to Peter Sylver's county credit card. County officials said the room was never used and that's why they sought a credit of the charges. But someone charged breakfast to Peter Sylver's credit card. Who used the room? Do you know?

A: No.

Q: Do you care?

A: I would like to know if Peter used the room or not because of the fact that he told everybody he didn't use the room.

Q: Following the hearings, especially, there has been no love lost between you and Legislative Minority Leader Peter Schmitt. Can you work together?

A: Mr. Schmitt is fond of saying that with Tom Suozzi, 'It's my way or the highway.' That's his big line these days. The reality is, if he would just tell me what his way is, we could look at other alternatives. He's never made a proposal as to what to do differently. He just wants to say no to what I propose. But I can still work with Mr. Schmitt.

Q: If you had to give yourself a grade for your first two years in office, what would it be?

A: I would give myself an A-minus. The main reason I was hired for this job was to correct the fiscal crisis in Nassau County. And there is no question in my mind we have exceeded peoples' expectations. We balanced every budget, we have a surplus, multiple bond upgrades, no tax increase for 2004 and I won't increase taxes in 2005. We are in better fiscal condition than Suffolk County is right now.

The only reason we don't have a top score of an A or A-plus is because of the problem that we've undergone in the past three months in the economic development agencies. We need to do a better job regarding the everyday procedures and processes regarding the county, because we really want to hold ourselves to a higher standard.

Q: Did you underestimate the difficulty of your job as county executive?

A: I don't think I underestimated the job. This is a hard job and there is no question about it. And I don't get paid enough.

Q: Are you going to run for re-election?

A: I can't imagine that I wouldn't run for re-election. I'm not going to make a formal announcement yet, but right now I plan on running for re-election.

Q: If you win would you run for governor?

A: There are different people who say I should run for county executive and then run for county executive again. Some people say I should run for the U.S. Senate someday. Some people say I should run for governor. One woman says I should run for the president of the United States. And I always tell her the same thing, 'Cut it out, Mom.'

Q: What do you say?

A: I say I don't know. That's a lifetime away. Things could change dramatically from day to day, week to week.

Q: Your relationship with some Albany politicians has been strained. Do you feel your announcement that you would...[back candidates running against] state lawmakers who do not make Medicaid reforms has been effective?

A: My relationship with Albany legislators here in Nassau County has been strained from my first day in office. Republicans had decided that they were not going to work with me, as we saw during the effort to create a sewer stormwater authority. And the Assembly Democrats have not always been necessarily supportive of my agenda either.

Q: Why?

A: It could be personalities, or the county executive's primary between myself and Assemb. Tom DiNapoli. But it has not been productive. Personal relationships are irrelevant. What matters is that there are 72 Empire Zones [designated areas offering tax incentives to encourage economic development] in New York State in 55 different counties. Suffolk County has three. New York City has 10. Nassau County has zero. If we get Medicaid reform, I have no reason to fight . . . If we get an Empire Zone here in Nassau County, I have no reason to fight. But if they don't deliver, then I've got to fight for the people of Nassau County [i]

[NC should have had a pers]

Sexual Harrassment in any workplace, whether it be a political arena or otherwise, is completely unacceptable. An employee handbook should not be necessary to espouse that belief. The problem was less that it ocurred, and more that it was covered-up and that the target of the harrassment was made to feel like she had been wrong. Sylver is syptomatic of the entire top tier administration in that he believed he is untouchable, that he has to account to noone and that arrogance is what perpetrated the fraud that was the economic development agency. The crimes went deeper than harrassment. Besides, ASIP was too busy drawing diagrams to show how the model slim employee should dress to impress on their miserly salaries -- remember the dress code? These people really know what's important.

[Post Trial Comment]

So, Suozzi wants a do over does he? I think it's time he takes a long, hard look at how he's managing things. I think it's time the legislature takes a look too - at the people they are confirming to be in charge, at the resume's of the chiefs in all departments and within all the units of the departments - and start asking questions about what are the real qualifications needed for the jobs and how many supervisors are really needed to supervise professionals working around the county. That's what there should be - a person or a bipartisan committee to take a look at every person appointed to every job in the county and really look at what they claims is their experience and check it out and then check it against the job they are doing and the salary they get and know what else is out there to fill that job in nassau county. So forget the do-over. Try an extreme makeover -- and do it now --- before it's too late.

[Admission against interes]

Except she sued schmitt too, which was a pretty stupid strategy on her lawyer's part. It makes it look like that if it wasn't for schmitt basically asking her if the rumors he heard were true, she would have been content with her cushy job. She's hiding behind the confidentiality agreement crying that schmitt violated it, yet she wants the court to rescind that part of it which technically prevents her from talking about it. What makes that especially scary is that if it didn't happen to be that the guy who assaulted her happened to be involved in other criminal issues at the time, which issues were reported by another employee who got fired after revealing what happened, the county would have been successful in covering up the assault. The real problem now is - how the hell many other cover-ups are there, how many confidentiality agreements are floating around ? Maybe this explains why the administration has so very many highly paid, highly placed jerks running around. Schmitt did the public - and especially other county employees - a favor - in fact - it was his duty to try and separate out fact from fiction.

[PicturePerfect]

Thanks for the Picture Perfect Suozzi Family Portrait and Holiday Greetings. It's nice to see how well the Suozzi's are doing. Unfortunately, thanks to the current administration's policies, my family could not afford to have holiday Christmas Card portraits taken this year. In fact, we couldn't afford Christmas this year. We were all busy working our second jobs at Walgreens, so we could get a discount on the prescription medications we need and can't afford because we had to drop our health insurance coverage to pay the additional property tax we owed. But it's nice to know the Suozzi's, sitting in their million dollar home with their interest free $650,000 mortgage, are putting my money to such good use. Happy New Election Year to you all. And to all - vote Republican.

[empty Promisee]

Suozzi was going to revamp Parking & Traffic Violations Bureau? Well, he took it over - made it worse.

He was going to revamp Worker's Compensation Bureau? Well, he put Peter Reinharz in charge as the managing attorney - made it worse.

He was going to pay up all the outstanding tax assessment refunds and make it a fairer process. There's a huge, unpaid debt out there - and worse yet - the County is approaching is bond floating deadline so soon - there will be no leveraging and no source to pay them with. The County will go bankrupt - and at a time when the Suozz has increased taxes so high most residents are already bleeding to death, and new ones can't afford to move in - (unless they can get an interest free loan like Suozzi bargained for). Fairness? Ask the guy in charge of Small Claims Assessment Review over in the Supreme Court if you can sit in on a few of the hearings. You'll see the County unable to defend itself - the increases in assessments were virtually made-up, the only criteria used was to see how high they could give a home's pretend market value to use as a basis for jacking up the taxes as high as possible. That's why the refunds are piling higher with this second reassessment under Levinson, than before, and Suozzi still hasn't cleaned up the pile left by the initial re-assessment because of a Court's order.

The Jail? The Cops? The County Attorney's office? Parks and Recreation? Poor managment led to increased spending in all 3 agencies more than tripled what it was under the GOP reign.

The Civil Service is a Disgrace, as is the County Personnel Agency - all you have to do is look at the employee lawsuits flying through - and being settled by - or lost by - the County.

The Hub? Gulotta's blueprint that Suozzi swore he'd develop - along with all his real estate re-development plans to move and consolidate County buildings and agency's - like the police headquarters, family court, Dss - and restore the Old Courthouse?
He got nothing done. Nothing is even close to being done and no money is laid aside for completing those projects either. In fact, all he's managed to do is to get the State Court System involved as another one of his many opposing factions rapidly piling up.

Of course, you won't see any of this in Newsday - but maybe the Times will pull his promises, his criticisms of past administrations and compare the agency's budgets - successess and failures - before the election so that the taxpayers can see what they voted for.

Or maybe we should just print this out and distribute it or e-mail the link around. Before it gets deleted.

[Fluffy Monty Young]

Another stupid Fluff piece by Monty. So what was the point? Suozzi had an hour long meeting with Bruno and Sylver. So what? How did that command a page two storyline? The article said absolutely nothing. Nothing. We don't know what they discussed, we don't know how their meeting relates to Nassau County or Suffolk County - what benefit was it to us? Did Suozzi and Levy take vacation days to have their little meeting - job interviews maybe - or did it happen on County time? If the taxpayers paid for the time, don't we have the right to know the content of the meeting? Or isn't Newsday having a right to know moment.

Worse, it quotes Suozzi as saying back on Nov. 5 - his now infamous belief that he's got to "educate" taxpayers that Albany is to blame for their property tax increases. What he means, and what Newsday should be reporting on - is that he has to cram down the throats of the voters that someone other than him is to blame for his decision to raise taxes because despite the fact that Albany has absolutely nothing to do with the trouble this County is in - he'll never get re-elected again if they place the blame squarely where it belongs - on him. So what he means to say - is that he thinks the residents of Nassau County are stupid enough that if he keeps saying it, and Newsday keeps printing it - they'll believe it.

Maybe they'll believe the $30 Nassau County Surcharge Suozzi had added to the DMV registration renewal fees is Albany's fault too?
How about the energy surcharge he wants to implement - or the income tax he wants to implement - or the continued property tax increases he plans on using over the next few years, the telephone tax surcharges, the increased surcharges on parking tickets, and fee raises for parks, golfing, recreational activities, swimming -- all Albany's fault too?

[Knowledge is Powerful]

http://p204.ezboard.com/f631politicsfrm8.showMessage?topicID=94.topic

Check it out. 516politics.com See the thread on Mondello.

It's Called: Mondello's days are numbered

Not quite what you think though :lol:

[Short skirt no underwear]

Like the Suozzi administration.

Good publicity - but no substance.

[Politics631]

Mostly Suffolk East Enders that have no clout and are losers.

[Suozzola GC]

It will keep you up-to-date on everything done in NAssaU!

[crotchless underwear]

Something unbiased and censor free.

Lord knows you can't rely on Newsday -

[2 MILLION DOLLARS]

MAYBE SUOZZI WILL USE THE 2 MILLION DOLLARS HE RAISED AT THE TONY BENNETT CONCERT TO BAIL OUT GLEN COVE SO THE SHIT DOESN'T HIT THE FAN BEFORE HIS RE-ELECTION BID.

IS IT TRUE THAT CARLE PLACE ATTORNEY LEEDS, MORELLI AND LEEDS WAS THE INTRO SINGER FOR TONY BENNETT? NO WONDER THEIR OFFICES ARE AT 1 OLD COUNTRY ROAD.

[First things First]

First he has to pay off Peter Sylver's victim, then he has to pay back HUD, then he has to give me my tax assessment refund the judge awarded me last year, then he has to fix my car he wrecked while he was illegally holding it, then he has pay off the rest of the county's hush fund settlements and make sure his personal sevice contractors from IDA get paid, then he has to .....


hey Tony


you busy next week?

Suozzi needs another 2 million ---- and fast

[Got my Breasts Enlarged]

This is for the guy who thinks Monty's lastest Suozzi Fluffernutter has any bite to it.

Sorry charlie. Medicaid is a FEDERAL- STATE program. Suozzi is an idiot. Look up the Medicaid law. The FIRST thing it says is that it's a FEDERAL - STATE program. The Feds administer it, the State monitors it, the County implements it. The taxes are collected through your INCOME tax. Property tax has ZERO to do with it.

What I think? Suozzi is complaining so that stupid people believe his rhetoric about how ALBANY is to blame for HIS tax and spend decisions to tax us out of house and home and medicaid is such a confusing area that he figures everyone will believe his nonsense because nobody really understands it anyway. He is counting on voter's ignorance.

What he is complaining about is that the County's portion of what they DON"T GET REIMBURSED FOR is getting larger because more people are getting and using the medicaid system - so it's costing Nassau more - but the State and the Feds aren't necessarily giving Nassau more money out of their budgets that they've collected from OUR INCOME TAXES. He wants to threaten Albany to reimburse NEW YORK METRO for a higher proportion of the money spent, but that actually HURTS Nassau County because the Suozzi plan protects NYC (thus his delusion that if he can protect NYC and gain their vote he can win at statewide office) and is actually at the Expense of the residents of Nassau County. NYC has a much higher proportion of people on medicaid so their medicaid bills are alot higher - what Suozzi is doing is forcing Nassau to subsidize NYC with his whinining.

And with his conduct in Albany and in Washington, he's made so many enemies, that Nassau will be lucky if the dog gets a bone. Certainly, we'll get something or else the pols will look petty - god forbid- but we won't do near as well as we would if there was a uniter instead of a fighter on board.

Get rid of the fighter.
What Nassau needs is a UNITER - and I don't mean merging with Suffolk so Levy can run all over us.

Oh yeah - and no, medicaid does NOT cover breast enlargements.

[Boobjob]

Oh yeah - and no, medicaid does NOT cover breast enlargements.[/quote]

But I do believe they cover reductions and lifts.

[Penis Extension]

You are correct. If your doctor will give you a note that says your big boobs are causing medical problems - like backaches - then medicaid will cover reductions, but I don't think lifts.

Will it cover penis extensions?

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Suozzi is trying to confuse the issue by the way he relates property taxes to medicaid and now he's even got Pataki on channel 11 news putting the two together in the same sentence.

Suozzi pretends that medicaid is why property taxes got raised.

In other words, the state will only give X dollars toward county medicaid costs of Y (because the feds only allocate so much to the states for medicaid) and the difference between Y and X Suozzi claims, has to be paid out of property tax.

Part true, mostly a manipulative lie.

He can cut his bloated staffing levels and high salary's down, stop throwing money away on frivolous task forces and fancy consultants, hire civil service workers instead of using personal service contracts and do stuff like that instead of raising property taxes. Watch his spending in other places.

He never PRAISES Albany for the fact that the sales taxes were so strong over the past 3 years, adding tons of money into the county's revenues, or for the tax cuts Pataki and Bush gave us on our income tax - so we had more disposable income to buy stuff with, the tax on which went to the County.

And he fails to take the blame for the 200 plus employees, consultants and contractors he hired (like the team that led the error filled housing re-assessment process) who are all based or living out of nassau county, taking hundreds of thousands of dollars out of nassau's revenue base, and spending it all out of the county where they are based.

How come you don't see this explained in Newsday?

[not 1]

Pen extensions aren't covered unless you're Mr. Bobbit.
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So now that Suozzi convinced the county legislature to buy all that property from Grumman in Bethpage for millions of dollars - what's he gonna do with it? I thought the idea was SELL COUNTY property to bring money INTO the county?

I figure the county legislators were drunk that day since they even confirmed the district court judgeship of artie's girlfriend sharon. I guess you never know with Suozzi. One day he fires you, the next day he makes you a Judge.

What does she know?

[Benched]

Many Gopers benched for the season will be coming out in support of Peterson in November. All the old GOP cronies that made the Gulotta team a success will be there, all the new friends he made over the past few years while he's been out of business and all the enemies Suozzi has made these past 3 years whilst he's been displacing his own in favor of outsiders. Good by Tommy. Maybe Corporate Counsel will hire you next year.

[Breach Birthed]

Suozzi must have been a breach birth because he thinks with his @@@ !

He calls himself a uniter - of what? NYC with Suffolk County, losing Nassau County in the mix?

First he exempts 200 people from having Nassau County residency before he appoints them, at the same time, he hires another 200 people who, although they might live here, have never worked in the County of Nassau so obviously - have not the County's best interests at heart, nor any knowlege about the County, the Courts or it's Governance.

Most of these appointed jobs, and personal service contractors, have displaced civil service workers, and have circumvented civil service rules. These are jobs that already have civil service titles - if you look at the description of what they actually do - and are within certain salary ranges, based on actual experience. Instead, Suozzi pays his outsiders four times what a civil servant would have gotten, and hires 3 more than is needed to do the job. Why?

Because he starts inexperienced people at the top instead of the bottom, so we fund their ignorance with high salarys while they learn what they should have already known. It takes 3 of them to "brainstorm" solutions to problems because of their stupidity, and then they evaluate the more senior workers (who are actually training them, doing their job, and keeping the County afloat in its day to day operations) - giving them no raises - but giving themselves 20% increases. As if that's not enough, these commuters retroactively adjusted their Nassau County start dates to incorporate the 10 plus years they worked for the City of New York or New York County - pretending they were at Nassau County all that time - and taking all the County benefits their newfound "seniority" affords them.

Then Suozzi triumphantly declares he's going to work with Suffolk County in consolidating departments to downsize government. Now that he's just actually inflated government, with all these outsiders, he wants to further downside the senior civil servants he can't fire or force out - by consolidating their jobs with Suffolk County, so he can eliminate whole lines and fire all the most loyal workers in Nassau County, replacing them now with Suffolk County people. The idea is to make room for packing in as many patronage jobs as he can, busting up the unions, and creating a brain drain of experienced, capable workers out of Nassau County jobs. This in turn, becomes twice as expensive to the taxpayers because the bubbling idiots he hires, make "mistake" after "mistake" after "mistake" and the rejects he filled the County Attorney's office with (picking them up just before Mayor Bloomberg fired them) keep losing cases in court, or paying huge settlements to keep the "mistakes" behind closed doors and away from the public's knowledge.

He claims of being a uniter are only squeezing Nassau County into a vise, which will eventually destroy the County.

Then the uniter turns around and picks fights which stem from his personal vendettas and scores he wants to settle - isolating Albany, and then Washington, from Nassau County too.

The man must go while we still have a County left to defend.

Of course this is my opinion, which you will never see in Newsday.

And that's the problem and the reason we got burdened with this administration in the first place.

[Computers & Gasoline]

What a joke! A riot! I'm still laughing! Newsday doesn't see the humor in it - but of course, Newsday doesn't see much of anything being clouded in a swirl of Suozzi love. He's joing forces with Suffolk County to buy - are you ready - computers, paper and gasoline!

COMPUTERS !! If the county is getting NEW computers again - this will be the FOURTH set of new computers some agencies got already this year.


PAPER ! Yeah, I'm sure with Suozzi's new verticle system where everyone reports to everyone and then evaluates everyone reporting to everyone else about everything they discussed behind closed doors meetings with outside advisors that have personal service contracts through IDA arrangements - the County probably needs a discount on PAPER !!!!!!!!!!!!! Here's a thought - try recycling to save money.

GASOLINE ! Another thought - try hiring employees and contractors who actually live in Nassau County instead of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan and Suffolk County and you won't have to gas up their cars so often! And maybe trade in those luxury vehicles and SUV's for, I don't know, something economical like - telling them to use their own vehicles for work and letting them take it as a write off on their personal income taxes.

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Computers! What a laugh -
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So many computer stories from Suozzi Administration? The head who admitted not knowing anything about computers. Agency's that got 2 or 3 brand new computers, would just download their stuff, and the County would come and take it away and give them another one. No, I'm sorry. Not the County. The outside contractor the County hired. Different outside contractors that they hired to migrate data when they changed the email system. 3 times. It still doesn't work. After spending how much money on consultants that picked out all three different systems? And then sent all the employees, including their own computer employees, to outside teaching facilities to learn how to use programs they later scraped?

[Suozzi gives Levy our doe]

So it looks like Levy pulled one over on us again. Apparently Levy's people need computers so Suozzi agreed to give him half the money to buy what he needs in exchange for what? Helping deflect the bullets the Albany Democrats aim at him whenever he goes to Albany on one of his job interviews?

And now the firefighters have to play Tony Bennett tapes to keep their patients calm while they wait for the EMT's to get here from Queens and the helicopters to arrive from Patchogue.

Between the NYC employee staff, and all the attention he's giving to Suffolk County, by the time the man gets done with his term, we won't have much of Nassau County left. He's trying to squeeze it out of existence.

[Poof-the vanishing county]

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 sterling 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

[Poof-the county that was]

THE COUNTY THAT WAS

MORE OF THE SUZZIOLA'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS - HERE'S A "FICTIONAL" RENDITION OF WHAT THE SUOZZIOLA HAS DONE WITH HIS TERM IN OFFICE.

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.

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 read Newsday on the way.

You smile.

Life is so rosy ain't it?

[CRAIG?]

Do you work as a janitor in the old court house late at night?

Is that you? CRAIG? Is that you? Are you still on the payroll? I've seen you around mineola but I thought you were gone?

Please, Craigie my love, don't go breakin my heart. Feel the Suozzi love again. He'll hire you back, just kiss butt.

[The vanishing county]

Just a fun tidbit - since POOF- the vanishing county appeared, there were 106 views in the last 20 hours. Send the link around my friends and we can beat Newsday at it's own game yet.

[Suozzi has lost his mind]

Newsday headlines - Suozzi envisions development of hub. Well, first of all, that was Gulotta's vision, and second of all the only reasonably specific plan in the whole article seemed to be that which is being conceived by, paid for by and managed by Charles Wang.

Has Suozzi completely cracked? He's talking about spending tens of millions of dollars to build a ZOO - a freaking ZOO - when he couldn't even manage to restore the old courthouse - his campaign promise back in 2001.

Has the pressure gotten to him? He's talking about building an aquarium when there is no affordable housing, property taxes are skyrocketing, medical insurance is out of reach for thousands of Nassau County taxpayers, county buildings have become fire hazzards, the parks are falling apart, the olympic sized swimming facility is losing money, the museum just suffered a loss of more than 60% of inventory and hasn't been renovated in years - and the man is going to build a Zoo and an Aquarium.

He floats a bond to save his budget, lays off county workers, cheats them out of their benefits, threatens to close down the only public hospital and nursing home the county has, pulls back funds for youth organizations and after school services - but wants to spend millions of dollars on a Zoo and an Aquarium.
It's just too sad too be funny.
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And I'm sure Hofstra isn't laughing either.

Hempstead is going to become a college town. Hempstead. The center of gang activity, only second to Westbury and New Cassell - where drug deals blossom in the projects and guns go off at all hours of the day and night, where every other bar fight results in a fatal stabbing - and this is where he wants the college kids to hang out? Notice - he's not offering to clean up the crime, the violence, the deplorable slummy apartment buildings, or go after all the illegals that breed there.

He's just going to stick a bunch of college kids right in the center of the town - I could just see the faces on the out of state kids who get lured there with attractive flyers.

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This "ambitious plan" is so typically Suozzi though that I suppose his mind is fully intake. He's always been delusional - with Newsday' encouragement (where is the PROOF that Nassau has rebounded financially?). He was going to fixalbany before he fixednassau - and failing in that - he's now going to build Zoos and Acuariums before as Bruce Piel put it ever so perfectly - he gets the bathrooms in the existing facilities to work.

That's Suozzi.

That's why he's got to go.

[Suoz is sane but desperat]

He must have woken up with a panic attack and let lose with this zoo business. I mean, Gulotta was talking about building a Hub before he ran into trouble with the tax assessment refunds, Suozzi has just dug the tax assessment hole deeper and counting on the bonds Gulotta floated to help bail him out just before the end of the year closes - but unlike Gulotta, Suozzi has exhausted the taxpayer's pockets and already taxed everything he could find with high fees while spending buckets of money - he's backed the county into a corner and his plan? Build a ZOO. If the county's finances look better to Newsday - it's only a temporary picture - I know my finances look worse.

[Spoof - he means it!]

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.

[Just a reprint]

This whole thread should just be reprinted in the long island press. Who gets the copyright - the posters or ?

[Suoz leaves county naked]

Hevesi warns of future problems - threatens that property taxes will have to increase to pay anticipated medicaid expenses, but Suozzi left us with our pants down - completely defenseless and unable to withstand any future crisis.
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Suozzi raised the property taxes to pay the salary's of his bloated NYC management team, stuffed money into task forces and consultants and study groups to take a look at nassau county and figure out what to do (that should have been what suozzi and his management team did), and then did nothing, they drained money by giving it to personal service contractors who did nothing and gave money to illegal immigrants and their support groups and to the druggies, their lack of management led to overtime bloats and useless seasonal help and lost legal cases and bogus appraisals - the county is bleeding money. That's why property taxes were increased in nassau county. And now if there is a legitimate future need to increase property taxes to cover a gap in medicaid - or to fend off some other national or statewide crisis - thanks to suozzi who FIRST took that route for other reasons, there's no place else to go and nothing else to drain. Suozzi has boxed the county and the taxpayers up against a wall and we need to get him out of the way and put in Peterson to trim the budget and get rid of these overpriced administrators, consultants and seasonals and put back the civil service system to save our county before it's too late.

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It's suozzi's payroll fraud not medicaid that got us where we are today. His poor managment - this is the reason the property taxes in nassau county were raised by suozzi over 40% if you include all the fee increases. He didn't do it because of medicaid. He did it because he did nothing but spend spend spend but yet he fixed nothing, improved nothing, gave us nothing, did nothing. He took our money and gave it to his friends who took it home to nyc and suffolk county and spent it there. He took our money and gave it to the illegals who sent it on to Mexico and Cuba and El salvador. Now if there becomes a statewide crisis or a national crisis involving medicaid or anything else, we are left with our pockets empty and our pants down because he already took everything there was to take and raised everything there was to raise and gave us nothing. He's killed us and he's killed this county and he left us with one big red X on our head. Don't blame medicaid for what has already happened. Blame suozzi. And then blame suozzi again.

[Suozzi's Popularity]

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. 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 than to fall for the trap of a so called Journalist who has seen better days and resorts to stealing ideas from websites, misquoting their authorship and doing a piss poor job of trying to influence the minds of voters before either of the candidates even gets an opportunity to wage their own campaign rhetoric. Maybe Levy knows Newsday's days are numbered - and with Newsday go he. Who else would let him "write" for them?

[Suozzi is on the run]

So now the Suozzi's are turning conservative - we've said that all along and the Suoz swore up and down that he's a good Democrat. What is he sending his wife in to do his dirty work now? What name does she go under anyway - she doesn't use the name Suozzi for business. Maybe he had nothing to do with her conversion. Maybe she's just striking out on her own, making her own friends. Maybe she figures she'll need friends to help her find a job after the divorce comes through and lord knows the Suozzi's can't rely on the major parties to help them out anymore.

[Peterson announced today]

I read the Daily News now. Today there was an article about how Suozzi stole the idea Newsday claimed was his from Nickerson who the Daily News pointed out was the only other Democrat in the Nassau County Executive job and that was 40 years ago. The Daily News remembered the basic concepts Suozzi is spewing about (not the Zoo - the Zoo can't be blamed on anybody else) was the same campaign rhetoric Nickerson spewed about 40 years ago and neither he nor Suozzi had any real plans. The Daily News also stated that Suozzi has now hired some outside consultants (what else is new?) to look at the issue and of course they are a Manhattan Planning Company. Suozzi is trying to take our surburbia away and make it look like NYC.

Greg Peterson for Nassau County Executive - our knight in shinning armour!

[Peterson to win]

Peterson to win in 2005. Suozzi made too many mistakes, too many enemies.

[Baldrick]

Guest, your comments about Suozzi are dead on accurate. He is a monstrosity. He is every middle-income Nassau County residents worst nightmare.

I will vote for Peterson just because I hate Suozzi

I do have some poblems with some of your comments.

Medicad is a very serious problem. Illegal aliens are heavily dependent on medicaid. Legal immigrants right off the boat abuse th system. One of th first things they do is put their parents on medicaid. There are guides for doing this in places such as china and india.

So to say that medicaid use by immigrants is not contributing to t0 high Nassau County taxes is dishonest.

If you want to shill for the repeublican Peterson, go right ahead. Your free to do it.

Much of what you put forth as a solution is the typical bs put forth by the pro-rich republican party.:trim goverment and make it more efficient. This is what they always say. Taxes skyraocketed under gulotta forcing many peple out of Nassau County.

It is very clear from what you have written that Medicaid is off the table. Both the Wealthy Republicans and wealthy democrats have forced middle-income Nassau County residents to subsidize the wage slaves that the greedy rich rely upon.

Reassessment is the number one problem right now. It has caused an exponential and unsustainable increase in property taxes. Reassessment has lbrought about a system where middl-incoime Nassau residents are taxed based upon propperty values instead of income. This system gives both Democratic and Republican administrations the pwer to steal middle-income Nassau County residents homes. A tax system based upon property values is one that destroys families and communities. And it is being done to subsidize the welfare state for the immigrant wage slaves.


You and your Republican friends will do nothing about this because you are all on the take from the super-rich(the same can be said about suaozzi and his rich friends such as wang))

The only solution is to tax Nassau County residents based upon wealth not property values. Taxing Nassau County residents based upon their propery valuess is regressive. Get rid of the property tax.

The wealthy should pay more in taxes as a percentage of their income than middle-income nassau county residents.

The rest of us are being destroyed to pay for wealthy's wage slave.

Middle-income nassau county residents need their taxes to go down. If they don't they will leave. It taxes don't go down, young couples will never never be able to afford to raise a family in Nassau County.

I will vote for Peterson. However I have no illusions. On the campaign trail Peterson will no doubt be blathering on about efficient g

[Baldrick]

On the campaign trail I expect Peterson to blather on and on about about goverment waste and making goverment more efficient.

I expect Peterson not to say a word about the number about how reassessment is destroying middle-income Nassau families.

The problem in Nassau County is the interaction of property taxes and reasseessment.

If middle-income Nassau County do not a reduction in their property taxes, they will eventually all leave. his should be obvious. Fixed income seniors will hqve their homes stolen from them by both suaozzi or Peterson;young couples will not be able to afford to raise a family on Long Island.

The only solution is to abolish the property tax. Instead tax based upon wealth. The welathy should pay more as a percentage of income than middle-income Nassau County residents. It's the civilized thing to do. The wealthy have been forcing nassau county middle income residents to subsidize central American wage slaves for years.

niether Peterson nor suozzi will represent the intersts of nassau county middle income residents. They are both on the take from the wealthy. The wealthy want their wage slaves and they will force the rest of us to subsodize them with property taxes so high that we will loose our homes.

The solution is a progresive tax and not the pro-rich-pig regressive tax system in place in now.

[That's not true]

The republicans never raised taxes.
They never raised taxes.
Repeat - the republicans never raised taxes.

[Baldrick]

BS. When gulotta left office, Nassau County taxes were among the highest in the nation. During his tenure in office thousands of Nassau County residents fled for lower tax areas such as NC.

In a few years, taxes in NC will triple because of the the massive influx of refugees from hightax area of the country. The pattern will repeat itself.

Both the republican and democratic parties are the enemey of middl-income Nasau County residents.

I doubt Peterson has a program to roll back taxes to the pre-assessment level.

The only solution is to get rid of the regressive property tax( I'm not opposed to cutting the social welfare state for illegal immigrants. Geting rid of the property tax andslashing the social welfarwe state for illegals will force nassau county to live within its means).

If taxes are not rolled back, Nassau County is finished. It will be a place of super-rich and their central american wage slaves.

[Black Adder]

I cannot endorse the cyncism of my charge. I hope and pray for a strong and united Peterson Administration in the County in 2006, and a Republican Legislature.

[Baldrick]

Mr. Blackadder, I have a cunning plan. Us our vote to negate suozzis political career.

[Baldrick]

Mr. Blackadder, I have a cunning plan. Us our vote to negate suozzis political career.

[You don't want to compare]

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

[Should have planned]

Suozzi should have planned for the future of Nassau County instead of planning only for his own future. If he had, he would have started a special fund for future expected medicaid expenditures from some of the sales tax and fee increases imposed on Nassau County Taxpayers. Instead of trying to protect Nassau County, he tried to elevate himself. Instead of planning and doing something about the medicaid crisis, he held press conferences and wrote press releases which Newsday in it's unabashedly biased way, was more concerned with printing than it was concerned about doing the responsible thing for the few readers it still has left.
The only reason the county pays anything for medicaid is because it uses more than what the state and feds reimburse it for, and the only reason Suozzi uses the property taxes to pay for it is because he can't figure out another pool of resources to use. If fees charged for medical use in the clinics or even for the parking fees at the hospital and surcharges, or how about the revenue from parking and traffic tickets or sales tax were pooled and used wisely they could be used to offset expected future rising costs of medicaid. Instead he spends, spends, spends on bloated salaries for NYC appointees, buy real estate we've no use for and creates task forces to investigate crazy ideas and then raises property taxes to pay for that, not leaving any cushion from any other revenue - like maybe even nassau county sales tax to use to fall back on.

[Expenses Tripled]

How can Newsday possibly say the county is in better financial shape now then it was before Suozzi? If it bothered taking a look at the expenditure for each county agency - the costs and fringe benefits, the salary's and equipment & supplies - it will find spending has gone up drastically in every single, solitary agency. It will see that all of the fees - first implemented by Suozzi - then increased by him, all of the tax increases implemented by hims - are just sweating to keep up with his increased expenditures and that none of the revenue has been spent for any capital projects, major renovations or improvements, and that the maintainence programs for the parks and highways and other common areas throughout the county have been ignored or put on hold. That ARC judgments remain unpaid, as well as multi-million dollar legal budgets and that vehicles wrongly held by the county in failed asset forfeiture heists still haven't been returned. All of these DEBTS will have to be paid in the future. When the medicaid crisis finally hits the County, Suozzi has left no financial cushion to meet it. Suozzi ran out of money to accomplish basic maintainance and preservation projects, expected to be done in the ordinary course of running a surburban county, and floated a 30 million dollar bond allegedly to be used for that purpose. He included in his budget the sale of certain real estate that has not yet been sold. He has benefitted by the economy, without having to do anything, got lucky so to speak, by the increase in sales tax revenue led especially by the increase in gasoline prices. The county is absolutely not better off financially now than it was before. In fact, a real economic analysis of the county's condition can lead to no other conclusion than the county is worse off - it's financial situation is more precarious and there no longer exists the option of raising taxes or fees because Suozzi has already done both to the max that the taxpayers can withstand. How about some truth Newsday?

[The County is in Debt]

IN addition to the previous posts, I'd even go so far as to say, not only are Nassau's finances not any better than they were before, but Suozzi is in reality leaving the County in worse shape. How come the bonds got raised probably has to do more with Suozzi family connections to the person at S & P's who decided to raise the bonds, than anything the economy of Nassau County has to show.
You can get the info from NIFA. Suozzi's people tried to hide it, but after NIFA was tipped off by the companies that file tax grievances for Nassau homeowners, Team Suozzi was forced to put it their last report to NIFA. The debt is actually around Three hundred and twenty six ($326,000,000.00) million, and it is accruing interest. It represents monies owed on tax grievances. In an effort to create the appearance that Suozzi had balanced the countys budget, Suozzi's people froze settlements on the tax grievances cases, because they wouldn't show on the books as debts until they were settled. The problem is, the debts not only remain there, but they collect interest. Suozzi's plan now is to "Bond" the debt, but there is no question that he has planted a financial time bomb which could bankrupt the county in 2006-2007. Suozzi's plan to be be out of here before then, but we, the taxpayers, are going to be in real trouble.

Suozzi thinks the County handled things appropriately because they didn't tell the district attorney, and he believes, they shouldn't have. Maybe not. But let's look at how Suozzi's legal advisors did handle things.

This one incident alone underscores Mr. Suozzi's corrupt character.

Hopefully voters will recognize it as such.

[The average voter]

The average voter doesn't recognize anything. I talk to neighbors and friends and they are blinded to this administration's failures, corruptions, and irresponsible financial policies because of Newsday. The only ones who recognize anything either worked for the county or read this website. Untill or unless the republicans start getting a foothold on some media aspects in this county, even if they have to write, edit and publish their own newsletters and have their committee people distribute them by foot, or give out free copies of the long island press or daily news or ny times articles in a portfolio closer to election time - the voters will remain mislead and misinformed.

[Fair Reporting]

It's true - if the GOP hired NYC workers who were running just a step ahead of the fraud and the corruption they left behind in the city it would be all over newsday for weeks at a time. Suozzi hired a top management team at the county attorney's office and every one of them escaped scathing reports from inept trial skills as the NYPD claimed, to ineffective managment as the Human Rights Commission complained, to miscarriage of juvenile justice as the legal aid society and NYC media identified to the criminal indictments in the NYC tax assessor's office. Klein brought his own special brand of inepitude with him, the jail is racking up overtime in excess of $20 million and the NYC commissioner for the traffice and parking violations bureau suozzi insisted on taking over, as well as his insistence in taking back financial control of NUMC has led to nothing but bigger problems than ever existed at any time during the GOP's 30 year reign. When is the GOP going to do their own public relations newsletters and get the truth out to each and every resident living in nassau county?

[Be patient dude]

Suozzi didn't clean house fast enough when he first came to town - he did it in a slow, gradual way. Those of us that got the ax later on learned plenty early on and have no problems sending the info on to reputable news publications (read - not newsday). It'll all be in the public eye in time for the election decisions. Don't worry. It all evens out in the end my friend.

[ARC]

Baldrick writes : The problem in Nassau County is the interaction of property taxes and reasseessment.

That may be - but the immediate problem is the arbitrary way the county has been reassessing property. All you have to do is sit with some of these services that oppose the new rates for a living. They'll tell you that they almost never lose. Why? Because the county can't defend itself. All the county did was run around town, raising the pretend market value of homes beyond anything reasonable, even in today's high priced market. They used comparisons from homes blocks or miles away if they couldn't get a high enough price based on sales of more similar or closer homes. My own house was first described by the county in one assessment as a single floor dwelling with attic, later they decided it was a full attic and this last assessment, which I appealed and won, they decided my house was a 2 floor home! It's the same house - we didn't build any additions - there's a window in the crawl space facing out the street. This is the kind of tax happy people we are dealing with in the Suozzi administration and these are the kinds of stories that need to reach our voting neighbors.

[Baldrick]

ARC, what you are saying is true. but fighting reassessment will only by you a bit of time. Communities across the nation are having serious discussions about abolishing the regressive property tax. These property tax revolts were also preceeded by complaints about the unfairness of the way reassessment was carriedout.

There was a sucessfull property tax revolt in wisconsin. The Democrats foolishly defended the property tax. They played the shell game that suozzi iwith his fix albany campaign. The people retailiated against the democrats in wisconsin.

suozzi is a ruthless bastard. He will destroy families that go bacl several generations in nassau county to advance his political career.

[another $1.7 mil fed loan]

I just am having alot of confusion.

Newsday says the county finances are just terrific, yet Tom Suozzi and his newest sidekick, Timothy Driscoll, with their newest Economic Development Czar, Patrick Duggan are bearing down to borrow yet another $1.7 million to build a life sciences center in Lake Success - read -- QUEENS !!!! Or as close to the border as you can get without actually being there.
This is some kind of private-public partnership between the county, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Trustee Daddy Suozzi's LIJ - (read QUEENS) North Shore group. In fact, it's exactly 16 niles to Manhattan, and both major airports.
The property being developed is owned by a private party who is going to lease space to this private-public concern.
The architect is the same Manhattan company Suozzi is giving business to - to play around with Nickerson's HUB idea - which has an office in Suffolk County.

Why are bells sounding off ??????????????????

he's got a death wish for NYC.

[Our $ supports NYC]

I don't see that he's got a death wish for NYC. He's obviously catering to both ends of the island - NYC and Suffolk County and squeezing out Nassau County. He gives work to architects and consultants and contractors with offices in Suffolk County, hires people who live in NYC and the one project he might actually begin before he leaves office is really a project that benefits the owner's of private property near the Queens border, even considered Queens by most people which will reap the most benefit to the people in Queens. Now forget about whether he's taking a private kickback or how much all these private concerns he's benefitting exclusively by this deal are contributing to his war chest, but the most disgusting part is that he's further burdening the taxpayer's of Nassau County by increasing our debt load. He's borrowing $1.7 million dollars from the feds which we will have to pay off and the benefit to the county is nominal, to say the least. It's the same thing with his "let's all work together with Suffolk County" thing. I mean it's clear what he's doing to me - too bad Newsday doesn't swing that way. He's basically giving Levy the go ahead and buy whatever he needs - new computers for instance (County agencies have gotten at least 3 new computers since Suozzi took over) and telling him that he'll use Nassau County Taxpayer money to fund half of Levy's purchases if what? If Levy helps to back him with his fix albany rhetoric and helps him mend the fences that Suozzi blew holes into?

[LIJ thanks Nassau County]

This $1.7 million loan Suozzi wants to take out to partner with these private concerns is ridiculous. That's the space on Lakeville Road that North Shore - LIJ Health System is building it's first major outpatient facility at the I-Park Complex in Lake Success. That's exactly where the Daily News said Suozzi is planning to build a science center. Of course, Newsday neglected to tell it's readers about that. So in reality, instead of spending that money fixing up Nassau's OWN medical center or clinics - Suozzi is entering the county into a private deal to benefit a private hospital near the Queens border and he's doing it by increasing the taxpayer's debt burden. I mean - what the hell?

This $1.7 million loan Suozzi wants to take out to partner with these private concerns is ridiculous. That's the space on Lakeville Road that North Shore - LIJ Health System is building it's first major outpatient facility at the I-Park Complex in Lake Success. That's exactly where the Daily News said Suozzi is planning to build a science center. Of course, Newsday neglected to tell it's readers about that. So in reality, instead of spending that money fixing up Nassau's OWN medical center or clinics - Suozzi is entering the county into a private deal to benefit a private hospital near the Queens border and he's doing it by increasing the taxpayer's debt burden. I mean - what the hell?

He is scamming the taxpayers

[Building Levy a JD Center]

Of course he's scamming the taxpayers - so is Newsday. Did you see the Daily News - Suozzi & Levy are still "combining efforts". Now it looks like not only is Suozzi going to use our money to buy MORE computers for Suffolk County, but now they want to use our money to build Suffolk County a new JD center. Originally, Nassau was going to make money renting our JD center to Suffolk - but since Suozzi put the team of Reinharz/Hublebank together - one got run out of NYC for his inability to collaborate with alternative sentencing and his racist book "killer kids" and the other without any family law experience and a prosecutorial mentality - have been filling the Nassau JD center with youths - not violent gang members mind you - those are prosecuted by the DA in criminal court - but delinquents, which can be anybody's kid at some point in their teen years - and placing them in detention now even PRIOR to getting petitions filed in family court against them - something that has NEVER been done before. Suozzi is also apparently now touting "youth and aggressiveness" as though inexperience and impulsitivity were selling features. Nassau County needs Albany and Washington - Suozzi has ruined our relationship their. We have no need of Suffolk County - why is he offering our money to them? He's "merging" social services ? Why ? Because he wants to sell the land the building is on but the stupid original plan he has to cram them into a building half the size of what they need won't work? Maybe he'll fire half of our civil service workers and let Suffolk County pick up the slack - or force our workers to commute back and forth. Or maybe he'll just have the Nassau Taxpayers pay for transportation back and forth between Nassau and Suffolk County for the poor people in Nassau County using services being provided for somewhere in Hauppauge. That'll save money huh? Merging Homeland Security is another great idea - almost as brilliant as using our money to buy a helicopter that will be stationed somewhere in Riverhead. Lord knows, if there's a terrorist attack on Nassau's HUB - I'll feel much more secure knowing there's a crack team of anti-terrorist trained as part of the Nassau-Suffolk Homeland Security team - it's just that they're stuck on the LIE in bumper to bumper traffic because they are coming from Mattituck or someplace. WHAT IS WRONG WITH TOM SUOZZI AND ARE WE REALLY AS STUPID AS HE THINKS WE ARE ??????????

[Suozzi is a liar]

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.

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.

[Baldrick]

Legal immgrants are driving up our property taxes also. The children of legal immgrants are causing the school population of LI to explode. As the legal immigrant population of LI has increased so have property taxes. Property taxes paid is tied to the market value of homes in Nassau County. Housing is scarce. Legal immigrants are allowed to compete in the Nassau County hosing market thereby driving up the market value of Nassau County homes, and as a consequence property taxes go up and up and up......this is too difficult to understand is it allyou Republican pinheads?

[Tom buys Levy a Jail]

Hey did you hear Tom Suozzi's latest press release which Newsday will print with great accolades? Tom Suozzi told Steve Levy not to sweat the huge cost of building his prison. He agreed to give Levy Nassau County Taxpayer money if Levy helps Suozzi mend fences in Albany. Newsday will call it a great feat of cooperation and brotherhood and say It's About Time. Suozzi and Levy will call it the Nassau-Suffolk County Jail. It will be built in Suffolk County, of course, and house Suffolk County inmates, of course. And Nassau County will cooperate by paying half. If Nassau Jail has an overflow of inmates, however, Levy agreed to let Nassau house their inmates at the Nassau-Suffolk County Jail - and has promised to charge only a "reasonable" rate. Suozzi will also contribute a decorative horsey to the front yard as a symbol of unity.

[It's Nickerson all over]

Suozzi is just re-hashing old ideas from Nickerson. Nickerson was only a one term County Executive because he tried to take our surburban Nassau County and make it look like some inner city dump. Tom Suozzi is doing the same thing. He won't be satisfied until every neighborhood is taking over by high rise rentals. He wants to build skyscrapers everywhere. He won't be happy until we're living like they do in Queens and Manhattan - riding up and down and all around the neighborhood when we get home from work to look for parking spaces, walking a mile to get to the supermarket because we're afraid to move our cars (like they already are during the summers in Long Beach) and losing the close community feeling that many of the towns, villages and neighborhoods have been struggling hard to develope and maintain. Tom Suozzi must be stopped before he revitalizes Nassau County to it's death. Enough economic development. It's time for enforcement of illegal aliens and getting control of taxes instead. It's time for Greg Peterson.

[outofmoney]

What "The Average voter" wrote on feb 8th is so right. The average voter thinks Suozzi is cleaning up a huge mess. It will be a cold day in hell when they will be ready to put the GOP in office again. Gulotta has left a bad taste in their mouths that they will not soon forget. You all need to stop fooling yourselves! The Dems will not lose unless you expose the crap they are pulling that only we insiders know about. And Newsday is not going to help. Newsday thinks like the average voter.[/b]

[I like surburban sprawl]

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 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.

[disgruntled taxpayer I]

I try to avoid the so called "Nassau Hub" like the plague. There in nothing quaint, tranquil or peaceful about the so called Hub. It is an abomination as it is already. The last thing we need are zoos, nature preserves, aquariums, sixty two story towers, and the like in central nassau. Most of us on Long Island like to retreat to those quaint places which remind us of the small town life which is now rapidly vanishing. We are losing open spaces. We are becoming more metropolitan, urbanized, and boring. In short, we are losing our cultural and regional identity, and we're not preserving what is unique and wonderful about our heritage, and culture. This is sad. We have destroyed the Hempstead Plain, and replaced "East Egg" with Forest Hills.

[Bravo DT 1]

Mr Suozzi says:

Charlie says we need a HUB in the center of Nassau County! So do I! The Dolan's say we need more green space in Locust Valley and Oyster Bay Cove, so do I !

Oh heck! I'm up for election, what do you expect me to do?

[Another Hub avoider]

Yes, I also avoid the old country road area during mid-days on weekends and roosevelt field too - especially during holidays. I try and shop off hours and in out of the way places. But when I have to get there, I'm glad to have a car to come and go when I want without having to wait for trolley cars. I definitely agree that the last think I want is a consolidation of everything dumped in one place surrounded by illegal aliens on public transportation because they can't get drivers licenses. Suozzi's vision does more for them than it does for the rest of it and I'm sick of him and the way he caters to these criminals.

[The Hub & The Terrori]

All over the world smart cities are planning on smaller buildings, and smart governments and businesses are planning on spreading out the concentrations of people, court and public officials and large concentrations of public shopping sites. They are aware of the dangers of terrorism and know that no location, no locale is safe. Tom Suozzi is building targets. He wants big, tall buildings that can crumble with great might and he wants all the government and court personnel huddled together and attached by a great railway to the one, huge shopping emporium he thinks everyone should rush toward, surrounded by zoos filled with youngsters and college towns nearby. Tom Suozzi is building a great, big, red X on Nassau County's Hub and leaving no place for escape.

[the bottom line]

Tom Suozzi is building a ghetto in central Nassau. He wants to destroy Garden City privilege, and create a miniature Los Angeles on the former Hempstead Plain.

[He just needs more money]

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. How stupid are the average voters and when is the GOP going to put out real flyers telling them about all this stuff instead of those stupid black and white fix nassau flyers they have been circulating that even I can't believe - no detail, no specific, no explaination. Where's the anger? That's what we need. Anger enough to take down Suozzi and his people before they literally KILL us. Suozzi has done NOTHING for the county and he's not going to. If you take away the power of the individual towns and special districts to provide services and collect taxes to do, we are left with SUOZZI. He'll take over the tax collections and double them, and provide no services instead. He'll get rid of the volunteer firefighters too. And leave us with the SUFFOLK/NASSAU brigade of water buckets.

[Fired U but support me]

Is Tom Suozzi already pissing in his pants?

It can't be true can it, then he's actually making telephone calls to people his administration has FIRED and begging them to now help HIM win party support ???

He's not using the same old line - stick with me and you'll go places is he?

Hey Tom - they are called DEPENDS and they're available at drugstores everywhere. Good luck with that.

[Sewing Saffron Curtains]

Rumor has it Tom Suozzi and Helene Suozzi (or whatever name she goes by) are home in front of their million dollar fireplace furiously sewing saffron colored curtains. If Mayor Blumberg could raise $150 million with them, so could Tom and he's hoping, he can do it before all hell breaks lose and his "surplus" caves in as he knows it will when the debts come due and the county roads and parks start to cave in.

[Baldrick]

The HUB is a local manifestation of a larger national problem:The US population is growing very rapidly because of the importation of high fertility hispanic,asian and muslim immigrants.

Trying to accomodate immigrant driven population growth is a loosing strategy. Shut all immigration down-legal and illegal.

The US population is projected to increase to one billion in our grandchildren" lifetime. If the traitors in the republican and democratic parties such George W Bush and Hillary the skank Clinton have theri way, the US population will hit one billion in 25 years!!!!

Suozzi and no doubt Peterson, are both whores for corporates ceos who want to keep driving the US population uo and up fro bigger domestic markets and to keep wages down for native-born middle-income American workers.

You can run to NC, but the problem of expensive and amenity destrtoying growth will follow you there also. It's already happening.

If you are serious about protecting open space in Nassau County and acrooss the nation, you must be in favor of slamming the door shut tight-very tight -on legal immgration and illegal immgration.

It would be much better if America was largely labor. self sufficient like it it was in the past.

Suozzi and Peterson's solution to the problem of growth is...............................more growth!!!!!!!! All being done to accomodate high fertility immigrants from asia,mexico, el salvador and the middle east..

The greed of corporate ceos drives it all. The population of America is exploding because of the greed of corprate ceos who want a low wage economy. All for them,none for us.

This is the context in which the propblem of the HUB and the loss of open space on LI should be understood.

I can not overemphasize the following. running away to NC or the caverns upstate will only buy you a few years of breathing room.

If you are not in favior of slaming the door shut on legal and illegal immgration, then your not being very serious about dealing with the problem of sprawl/ you have been warned!!!!!!!!!!!

[Not Karl Hungus]

Baldrick,

Come to pollute anothe thread with your "save America for the euro-americans" propaganda? Whassamatter, have the NumbersUSA people disowned you because of your rants?

Karl

PS. In case the dear readers aren't familiar with Baldrick, be prepared for his onslaught. He's killed other threads as he carries on so.

[Get the word out NOW]

Newsday is still campaigning for Tom Suozzi and Tom Suozzi is still pretending medicaid is the reason he raised property taxes and can't balance the budget if he gets a chance to go into another year. There's plenty on this thread to disprove his lies and show the Nassau County voters the truth about Tom Suozzi's fiscal lies. It's got to get into the Fix Nassau News and distributed the old fashioned way. My club is distributing - is yours? Whoever is doing the PR newsletters has to step up the flame and hit the heart of Tom Suozzi's campaign. Medicaid is not the reason for the property tax increases and not the reason for the expected deficit next year. Tom Suozzi's bloated management filled with NYC outsiders and increased spending without paying debts or repairing things as they go along, his failed campaign promises and visions that go nowhere and floating bonds to build up LIJ-North Shore instead of his own NUMC. These are the reasons. His budget? Newsday printed a cute little article about all the accounting tricks used by the Bush administration and companies like Encron - too bad they didn't apply it to the Suozzi administration too. The GOP should do it for them and show the public what a fraud this man really is.

[GlenCoveOldie]

That's right, folks, Tom Suozzi learned from the best, AA himself. He's followed the same accounting tactics, and what happended to Enron is happening to Nassau. DUMP SUOZZI IN 2005.

[Wang's Bang]

Celeste & Monty did a good job. Where's the piece about how this has been Suozzi's MO since day 1 and how he never learns? He runs ass first into these visions he keeps having without actually planning out any of the details. That's why the Jail and the Cops are spending OT like crazy, the other Agency have spending budgets four times what they were in 1999 and 2000, the Old Courthouse remains in disrepair, DSS is not sold, Family Court is not sold, The Police Headquarters is not moved, there has been no consolidation of any County buildings or Agencies, I don't see any ZOO and neither the streets now the parks have been repaired. Isn't this Wang deal just a more expensive day care center deal? No bidding no worries - like the IDA contracts that went out to all Suozzi's political contributors. And what makes the Republican legislature think the money they allocated Suozzi to use in the last budget to fix streets and parks hasn't been used? I think it has been used. My opinion is that it's all gone - pissed away on some incompetent NYC appointee's salary. And Suozzi can't fix anything because his non-existent surplus exists only in his non-existent balanced books which soon, everyone should learn - is and always was - running at a huge deficit despite the tremendous Suozzi implemented tax increases and lucky sales tax revenues. The budget should not pass and the Republican Legislator should not be bullied into submission because Suozzi tied the security of Nassau County in a capital expenditures project. The budget should fail. Then Suozzi should be forced to submit the police radio acquisitions as a homeland security special request - that's what it is. And DelRaba should insist on it too.

[Not Karl Hungus]

Rick James,

Come to pollute anothe thread with your "save America for the euro-americans" propaganda? Whassamatter, have the NumbersUSA people disowned you because of your rants?

Karl

PS. In case the dear readers aren't familiar with Rick James, be prepared for his onslaught. He's killed other threads as he carries on so.

Just curious how "Baldrick" gets turned into "Rick James". I typed Baldrick.

[Not Karl Hungus]

B-A-L-D-R-I-C-K becomes Rick James. Que?

B_A_L_D_R_I_C_K?

Baldrick?

[Police Radios]

Suozzi is desperate for the money so he can start all these visible projects just in time for November - even though he's done nothing in over 3 years. The budget should not pass and the Republican Legislator should not be bullied into submission because Suozzi tied the security of Nassau County in a capital expenditures project. The budget should fail. Then Suozzi should be forced to submit the police radio acquisitions as a homeland security special request - that's what it is. It's not a capital expenditure and it shouldn't be used as carrot. And DelRaba should insist on it being a separate submission too - instead of ranking on the Republican GOP and supporting Suozzi's plan.

[Red Alert-Homested Safety]

He doesn't give a damn about whether or not the police get radios. He wants money to run all over the County starting projects so he can campaign on the platform - Rome can't be built in a day - I need 4 more years to finish what I started - look at all the great stuff I'm doing. That's the BS line he wants to sell. He's done nothing in all this time but raise taxes and fees and spend the money on who knows what and now he wants to pretend he's fixing stuff. The legislature should give him sqat. Let him sit on his hands. Then he'll campaign about how it's the republican minority's fault nothing got done because they won't let him spend the money. Watch. So easy to refute though - if Newsday wasn't around that is. So now he ties in the police radio expenditures because he knows that looks bad to turn down - that's a safety issue. Forget the part where Suozzi is putting a big, red X on the "HUB" for the terrorists. Where most places are spreading out important buildings and such, just incase of a strike - Suozzi is bringing it all together and wants to surround it with high rise buildings to boot. He's basically saying - here's where we are - come cripple us. Yet he pulls another stunt to bury the police radios in a budget package primarily formulated around his campaign plans. I can't believe even DelaRaba is becoming puddy in his hands. He oughta put out a joint statement with the Republican Minority Legislators exposing this con artist for what he is. A terrible danger to the Nassau County People.

[Fed up Nass Res.]

DUMP THE SOB. SUOZZI WANTS NASSAU TO BECOME AN EXTENSION OF QUEENS. HE MUST BE STOPPED. VOTE HIM OUT!! GO PETERSON!

[Levinson's great plan]

Levinson's first plan - commercialize illegal housing, increase property taxes
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Levinson's scam won't do anything but make money for Tom Suozzi to spend on his patronage jobs. Market rates for the illegal apartments will just be raised to cover the costs of higher taxes. More apartments will be made in the houses to accomodate more renters. More renters will pile into the rooms and apartments now split off to be able to pay the higher rents. They will start pitching tents in the backyard. That's what Levinson's plan will accomplish. So go ahead and call big brother. It'll only backfire in your face like everything else the Suozzi administration does on the pretext that it's for your own good.


Levinson's second plan - forget the property taxes, impose income taxes instead
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So Levinson's first plan Levinson will make sure the illegal aliens get more housing. And then he'll eliminate the property tax altogether so the slumlords won't have to pay any tax at all and neither will the illegals. Only us poor working class will have to support all of them with a very high income tax. The slumlords getting cash for the rentals that don't declare the rental income, and the illegals getting cash for their labors that don't declare their income will not be paying income tax either. They don't declare their income. So for them, no school tax, no property tax, no income tax. Thanks Levinson. Another fine plan you have there.

[Peter got it right]

Suozzi is totally off base. He has mis managed everything except those areas that Art G. managed.

Mis Management is centered on his need for a__ kissers who are the dregs of society. DWI commisioners impersonating police officers who are not fired!!!! The flower child of the county administration.

The cover up is key and Suozzi has raised that to a very very high level.

[Sharon Comm]

Art's got plenty of asskissers. Ask his staff.

[Where the workers went]

REPOSTS

An income tax would never replace your property and school taxes. It doesn't in Queens - that lovely little surburb Suozzi apparently aspires toward. Income tax hurts the poorest people the worse. The ones who can't afford real property - who don't now pay property tax or school tax because they can barely hang on to their rentals - would now have to pay an income tax, while the folks living in the north shore mansions - would get a tax break on their property tax. When you earn $30,000 - a 5% income tax will cut into your disposable income, but when you earn $100,000 - you might not feel that 5% coming out of your paycheck. The only people who benefit are the rich people - and they aren't the ones you have to worry about keeping here on Long Island.
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Gee, how about all the people living four families in a single family home. They could now pay their share of the burden, instead of a single Landlord. Everyone should pay their fair share. If middle class me can pay with no children in the system then low income six kids in the schools can pay something too. And it should go to education. Extra curricular? Let those participating pay. I dont use the system and dont mind paying for education. Most of those in sports in my district dont even live in my town.

Now this ought to be good.
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Won't work

Except those 4 families probably aren't registered in the system or are all working off the books - maybe making thousands of dollars selling on ebay - but they won't be paying the income tax or the property tax or the school tax and that's just going to be one more bigger slice of the pie you are going to have to pay to carry them. And the more they get through an income tax, they more they are going to want and the more tax increases you are going to realize. While a honest, hard working middle class Joe is getting poorer, they will be getting richer as will the rich folk with their tax deferred salaries and all that.

[Where the single went]

Why in the world would any single people, any young people, any chldless people, any propertyless people, any paycheck to paycheck living people ever stay in nassau county where they have to pay an income tax to support all the wealthier homeowners and multiple child bearing families who live in the homes and use the public schools and pay no proportionate fees to do so? They won't. They could never get ahead. Eventually the children will all go away to school and noone will come back. Nassau county will dry up and blow away and then Suozzi will have succeeded in getting rid of a county he apparently has nothing but great disdain for. Then maybe he could move one border east and one border west and sell 1/2 to the city and 1/2 to suffolk and Newsday will publish a great editorial about how Suozzi has brought great revenues into the land that is no more and had succeeded in balancing a budget nobody needs anymore.

[Suozzi supports Peterson]

Suozzi's state of the county address
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Suozzi says taxes are too high and need to be lowered
Suozzi raised taxes
Peterson will hold the line

Suozzi says the parks are in disrepair and need to be fixed
Suozzi tried to tell the towns that the parks are their problem
Suozzi wants to sell county land to private developers
Suozzi wants to build a science center on private land owned by LIJ
Suozzi ran out of money to repair the parks and had to float a bond
Peterson will fix the parks


Suozzi says that we have to ease congestion and traffic
Suozzi will build high rise apartment buildings everywhere
Peterson won't do that and will preserve surburbia without urbanity

It sounds to me like Tom Suozzi wants to support Greg Peterson

[This is what we know]

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.

[Where our money went]

Suozzi's appointees are living outside Nassau County and working here maybe a year - 3 years can get free medical insurance for their lifetime if they are 55 years old. Suozzi hired alot of older workers and they all get retroactive start dates adjusted back to when they first started working their other government jobs - like for NYC or NY county or NYS. That means, someone who lives in Queens and was hired at 53, and worked (a relative term) for Nassau County just 2 years - then he turns 55 - and NOW because of the retroactive adjustments the Comptroller's Office approved- NOW they get LIFETIME FREE HEALTH INSURANCE FROM EMPIRE BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD WHICH THE NASSAU COUNTY TAXPAYERS WILL BE PAYING FOR FOR THE REST OF THE APPOINTEES LIFE - and they don't even have to live in Nassau County. Is this a sick joke or what? That benefit was suppose to compensate long standing employees who worked for decades for Nassau County (lived here) at relatively low salaries compared to the public sector pay scale and retired from their jobs here - like the State stops taking the 3% contribution from state pension participants after they paid into the system for 10 years. Suozzi's people (200 or more of them and counting) are taking advantage of a system not designed to include them. Not only that, but many of them are not only getting salaries that are competitve with the private sector - but they are getting salaries higher than anything they would qualify for IN the private sector. Suozzi must be stopped. This, evidentally, is where he's spending our tax raise - it sure isn't going toward quality of life county improvements.

[Newsdays Balance Ledger]

Newsday - March 18.
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Short article - Republicans hold back budget approval unless 1) Suozzi removes a request to spend $170 million over 4 years in a "consolidation" project because Schmidt correctly says that amounts to a $170 million slush fund Suozzi can spend whichever way he wants and that the legislature should have what to say about that kind of money 2) they want $2.5 million for NCC technology so students can register online and which amount would then be matched dollar for dollar by the state and 3) $1 million spent rehabilitating the existing police precincts instead of on yet another one of Suozzi's "gonna do it" studies to determine whether or not to relocate the buildings and 4) $500K toward relocating the emergency communications center away from Mineola Police HQ to Westbury so if the terrorists strike Suozzi's "hub", emergency communications will still be able to operate. Suozzi said he was generally in agreement with that but had a few concerns that he was unable to detail - saying instead he didn't want to negotiate through Newsday. Jacobs said she was pleased the republicans didn't have a very long list.

That's a pretty good thing and the republican requests were reasonable and proper and protecting the public from $170 million just being pissed away.

But instead of seeing an encouraging editorial about the fact that the parties are getting closer to budget passage Newsday just couldn't let the public get one story that shed a fairly decent light on something that involved the word republican.

Instead, that same day, they choose to do yet another chafing editorial about how the big bad republicans shouldn't be dragging NIFA into the business between Suozzi & Wang.

Now, I don't know anybody who reads Newsday and gives it's editorial the least bit of credibility anymore. But this editorial was just so funny that I laughed out loud. It reeked of a little boy stomping his foot because he wanted his mom to believe a lie but she just wasn't believing his invisible friend story anymore. Wasn't it Newsday that was just praising Suozzi for wanting to dig into the towns, villages and special districts because the public has a right to have financial oversight? But now when we're talking about 77 acres of very expensive real estate, exceedingly rare in Nassau County - Newsday thinks a deal like that requires no oversight? So government should have oversight, but only if Suozzi is the one doing the monitoring, and nobody should have oversight over anything Suozzi does, even if it involves a deal with a private land developer for land that hasn't yet even been appraised, and without any other plans, bids or ideas being solicited? It took 2 years of solicitations and public hearings before NYC decided what to do with the re-building of ground zero - but when Suozzi is involved - Newsday thinks a handshake and behind the closed door "negotiations" is A OK.

Aren't the Newsday employees getting embarassed to be a part of this yet?

[The Unbalanced Ledger]

Newsday must have forgot to mention the $98 million dollars in State aid that Suozzi got to help his budget out, alongside the tax and fee increases and unspent agency budgets leftover from Gulotta's term - which I happen to know - existed. Yet despite this, Newsday goes on to urge Suozzi to tell the State to kiss off and decline the state aid Pataki has on reserve for the County just so Suozzi doesn't have to admit the truth - he needs that money to avoid an election year deficit.

[Cty Atty Defends Gulotta]

What a twisted case huh? The county attorney's office is now defending those policies that suozzi called smoke and mirror budget tricks because suozzi is using the same ones - and then some! Apparently, the industrial development agency (IDA) was set up by gulotta to attract business to long island and one of those businesses - goya - set up on the grumman property (which I believe, didn't suozzi claim he sold for $50 million to a private party and then went to Washington - why did he go - why didn't he send the legislative liaison? - to get $2 million dollars to clean up the grumman property (what the hell?).
ANYWAY - the deal under gulotta to get goya to move there was that instead of getting a tax refund for successfully challenging the real property tax - they could take the "refund" in terms of tax credits. The county wouldn't have to pay now - but wouldn't collect anything later. A wash. Suozzi liked this part. And he kept it. He also then used IDA - according to the NY Times - to give these credits only to political contributors and local cronies (which was not done - to such extremes - under Gulotta). So suozzi kept it and expanded it - making what he termed an already corrupt system
even more corrupt.
Now it seems, the Bethpage school district is challenge the payment in lieu of taxes pact claiming that the school district has to pay more taxes because it doesn't have goya picking up the slack -
Forchelli (who else) represents goya and the county attorney is now arguing that gulotta's system is
"beneficial for the community". NYLJ March 22 !
Meanwhile suozzi says - he ended the part of the program that allowed giving credits in lieu of payments.
Meaning - now when they pay and then challenge and inevitably win their tax assessments - the county MUST pay the refunds. BUT the county HASN"T been paying them - since suozzi - they have just been multiplying - big refunds - and accumulating and the time is ticking for the bond clearances to expire.
I guess it's only bad and bringing the county toward bankruptcy during a democrat's campaign speach - or if you read newsday
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[cunty aty defends gulotta]

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Let me start off by laughing.

That article said there are 30 PILOT companies out there now (IE: under the credit for refund pact) and HALF of them are Suozzi companies - HALF of them got their deals AFTER Suozzi took office.

So basically - Suozzi campaigned on the premise that this was dirty politics, bad economic budgeting, leading toward bankruptcy

got elected

used the same system and set-up 15 companies with this same system - companies that all made political contributions to him-

THEN he got rid of the system (or claims he has, maybe it's like his Nassau County residency requirement - it's a requirement UNLESS he exempts someone from it)

Now he's being sued on it and his County Attorney is defending it saying it's "beneficial for the community" AND the Gulotta system has so far been upheld in court against the school system.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

And isn't it true - that to take the heat off himself for causing the tax & fee increase disaster without giving anybody a chance to breath or first straighten out the assessment problems - he tried to put all the blame on the towns and schools thinking the residents would start fighting with them BUT

apparently this has backfired because (are you reading this TOM?)
WE AREN'T SO STUPID AS YOU THINK WE ARE AND YOU ARE ESPECIALLY STUPID TO MESS WITH OUR SCHOOLS

So now it appears - one at a time - the schools are taking revenge and going after the COUNTY

and IF they win - these paper "credits" may become actual dollars owed as tax refunds to businesses who will now start to pay actual taxes - in theory - in reality - Suozzi will only succeed in watching MORE businesses move out of Nassau County because they WONT pay these high taxes and all we'll have left are high rise apartment tenament buildings filled with illegal aliens and welfare recipients, Suozzi's $1.5 million dollar subdivided home and the zoo he's building in Charles Wang Town.


Yeah - I'm gonna vote for the guy in 2005!

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[CTY ATTY Defends gulotta]

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Either he is damned.

He has to either admit this system is necessary and important enough to defend and keep in place because it's saving the county -- beneficial to the community ----


OR they throw in the towel or LOSE and then the assessment refunds pile on so high it'll force more bonding to pay it off - and he can't even pay off the ones he's got (why do you think he wanted a $170 million slush fund?) AND the long range VISION turns to dust as business after business RUNS from the county.


:idea: we shudda stuck with what we had - at least the schools wouldn't be going to war with the county and we might actually get some help from albany too.

[ribbitOH]

If IDA was investigated, Suozzi would be gone. What ever happened to the big $$$ flat screen TV the IDA purchased for his conference room? Who's living room is in now????

[Heat On]

8) So - how do you put the heat on?

[Nassau County is at risk]

I'm sick of hearing the republicans had 40 years to get it right and didn't. The truth is for 35 or more years they had it right. They ran into some problems the last few years. Like Macys, Orbachs, Alexanders, Gimbels, Abraham & Straus, you know - all the big guys who ran a damn good and profitable company for years. Then stuff happens. The problem you suozzi supporters all seem to be missing is that Suozzi is not fixing the problem. He's throwing money onto it and then he's stepping off and in 2006 when more than $300M in tax assessment refunds comes due - he won't have the money to pay for it because despite his campaign promises and newsday rhetoric - he increased staffing and salary and imploded the patronage staff. His spending went to pay his staff, buy prettily colored horses and ugly painted dome roofs and 4 different computer systems in 3 years and $7000 conference room tv sets. His people don't live in Nasau and don't contribute anything to us. We pay their salary, their cars, their gas and give them lifetime free medical insurance when they hit 55 years old. He hasn't spend money on capital expenditures - he's asking the towns and villages to repair the county roads and sidewalks first and then telling them he'll pay them back later. Yeah -right. SO nothing is repaired. The parks are filled with spanish seasonal workers from Queens who come in on the weekends with hundreds of family members and use our resources because although he raised the cost of leisure passes, he neglects to have anyone posted at the parks to check for them. He's built day laborer huts and has done nothing else about the illegal immigrants, illegal hiring of them, illegal housing. He ignores the gang problem and cut the police force by 522 cops and for awhile, he dismantled the special units that went after gangs and handled sex crimes. Look at the police department link. Sure crime on an overall level went down - petty theft and misdemeanors. But sex assaults, sex crimes & commercial level thefts increased in some districts by 400%. All we did was trade insignificant crime for violent crime as a direct result of Suozzi's mismanagement. You people that extoll his virtues ignore everything. He has failed. His administration failed. Peter Sylver, Campanelli, Janitzen, Dennenberg, Abrahams, Tolback, IDA, HUD, Glen Cove, The County Attorney's office, asset forfeitures, no smoking bills, PVB, the jail, the parks, the hospital - there is nothing he has done right and there is nothing he has done period. He raised taxes, he raised fees, he implemented fees and surcharges where none existed before, he made out like a bandit with the sales tax revenues and refused to give us a tax free week, he just raised the county portion again, he surcharged tickets at the nassau colliseum, he surcharged our telephone tax bill, he wanted his own water & sewer district and when that failed to pass albany he decided to go after the towns so he could find some trumped up charges to consolidate them and form one special district that he can control even though albany and our own legislative representatives told him no - he can't handle it. He wants to consolidate and control the fire districts and the school districts and get rid of the school teacher tenure system. His people violate civil service rules and regulations left and right and he gives away personal service contracts without going throught the bidding programs and gives away 99 year leases on 77 acreas of prime county real estate without even appraising the land and with having county buildings that are falling apart and hazardous to the health of the employees and the visitors. He's running Levinson -the guy who wants an income tax which will be the last thing to chase the youth, the workers, the propertyless and childess off Long Island - for TOH supervisor and Suozzi himself already incorporated 2 more property tax increases over the next two years. We have no place for more people yet he wants to let wang build a 60 story skyscraper, and Suozzi wants low income high rise apartment buildings which is written right into his last economic development plan if you bother to look at it and get the real facts. He wants to build apartments over storefronts along major avenues like Jericho & Hempstead turnpike all over nassau county, which is also in his plan and also what he talks about, although depending on his audience, he denies it. The Feds are even critical of his spending federal tax dollars to run around giving economic development talks to all his economic development zones which are merely federally funded campaign stops in which he tells the people what he thinks they want to hear, and then sends his people back later to fundraise and collect political contributions to his CE/Governor races. He floated a $50M bond to preserve parkland despite also establishing a fundraising conservancy for this purpose and despite this purpose being expected to be rendered from the general tax funds. Moreover, nothing has been done to repair or maintain the parkland we have and all he talks about and all the consultants on his payroll and all the task forces he puts together from manhattan companies are all about developing and building high rise apartment buildings. He' floating another $2M in bonds to build a science center on private property on LIJ-North Shore grounds near Queens where that hospital is building an outpatient facility yet he wants to close down our nursing home and get rid of the publically funded hospital. He tripled the staff at the county attorney's office yet they no longer represent the hospital which now has to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to outside counsel to represent them when he's overstaffed high paid, do nothing county attorneys on the payroll anyway. Legal judgments in 6 figure and 7 figure amounts are sitting around unpaid. He fixed nothing and took advantage of everything. He talks about getting the State to fund Medicaid 100% which means that our State Income Tax will go up and Long Island will then be subsidizing NYC which has 70% of the Medicaid bill. He's done nothing for all his talking and all Newsdays BS "reporting" and all he does is talk about his delusional visions of grandeur without doing anything about maintaining or preserving the basic infrastructure. The county is crumbling all around him as he talks about building sky trams and zoos and raising Hempstead Turnpike into the sky. Please. Don't dare tell me you think this guy is better than the republicans. Dont' dare tell me this is a party thing. The Republicans got what Nassau County life was about and they got what Nassau County taxpayers needed and they took care of the basics. Maybe the budget got away from them because they refused to raise taxes as soon as they should have and maybe they tried everything else first. Maybe they were like the Schiavo parents while Suozzi is the guy who walked in the day after she awoke from the coma, pulled the plug and then took her money, his new girlfriend, his 2 new kids and gambled it away in los vegas leaving the rest of the world to ponder the very complex and unnerving problems of right to die - right to live issues. He's not someone I trust with my life, or my families life and my way of life, our surburban way of life - is in jeapardy because of him this very day. We can not afford another 4 years of Tom Suozzi. We can not. Maybe I should be publishing this in every media outlet I can get to publish this. Tom Suozzi is simply reverting back to the old days of Nicholson and taking his play book, but trying to cover-up more subtly. It's not working. We aren't stupid. We see you Tom. We see you for what you really are.

[You got it right]

To: Nassau is at risk.

Excellent.

Keep writing through the election.

One little point. put in a few paragrahs. I kept losing my place in your excellent piece.

[Suozzi protects the Rich]

Paragraphing is not one of my strong points - but I'll work on it.
Today's rave -----MEDICAID PLAN
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When you ask Suozzi supporters for specifics on what he's done - they can't give you any. Because there aren't any. He's raised taxes and made bonds cheaper to float. That's it. He's nothing in the county's best interests.

The only one idea he actually has any details for, is one of the most hurtful things he can do to Nassau County. Suozzi wants to pay nothing local toward medicaid and have the state pick up 100% of the medicaid tab. If the state does this, it'll have to raise state income taxes enough to do this. That means, Nassau County will have to subsidize the local portion of the Nassau County part, as well as, the local portion of the NYC part. The problem with that is that NYC now constitutes 70% of the cost of medicaid. Meaning, we will be picking up an unproportionate share of medicaid costs under Suozzi's plan and our state income taxes will go up by a huge percentage as a result. This will hit the lowest paid residents hardest.

Why? So the idiot can run around town spending our property tax money on patronage deals and by giving it away to his real estate developer and construction company friends and then Newsday can do PR articles about how we can now borrow more money at lower interest rates because our bonds are worth more? Then he floats bonds to build on private lands near Queens on LIJ property, and to preserve our parks which he then sells to the North Shore. He's sold 9 Nassau County parks to the North Shore already, meaning, everyone else in Nassau County loses the right to use them.

So although he pretends he's opening up Nassau County to everyone, (perhaps by raising the fees for leisure passes and then failing to post anyone in the parks to check for them), he's merely looking out for his wealthy friends and throwing the rest of the people under the bus.

Then he runs Levinson for TOH supervisor - the guy who thinks the way to solve illegal immigrant housing is to charge the landlords higher property taxes and then campaigns to implement an across the board income tax when the problem in keeping desirable people from leaving here is that they can't afford to buy homes as it is, now he's going to take away the disposible income they had to save to buy homes.

No thanks. Suozzi is an idiot and he's sure not looking out for the interests of Nassau County.

[you got it right1]

I like the paragraphs!

One thing though. He is paying $3 million to the TONH for them to take the parks. NC is not getting a dime for hundreds of acres of land!

[do as I say not as I do]

In a press release Suozzi said:

"With the warm weather here, I want to encourage all our residents to get out to our newly renovated parks in the months ahead to run, play ball, walk, swim, and take part in all the other activities the County Parks system provides for its citizens," added County Executive Suozzi.

What renovated parks? He has blead the staff dry. He can't manage his way out of a paper bag no less a group of NYC morons in charge of suburban parks.

[$3 million to TONH?]

Was that payment included in this year's budget with legislative approval? What's the TONH doing with that money - using it for campaigning or when Suozzi is facing the inevitable deficit in November is he going to then "buy back" the parks to use the paper money as a stop gap filler? Is the county still liable for the lawsuits that happen in the parks? I say - not only get rid of suozzi - but get rid of the A -hole county legislators that let this happen.

[2 words]

the 2 words are "public knew"
If the public knew about the parks ,they would put tom to the curb in a flash
go greg

[It's Tom's Way]

The news has to get out somehow, despite Newsday. This is what Suozzi does. I remember in Glen Cove when the animal shelter was disgusting, a pig sty. The animals had fleas, diseases, they laid in filth, their water bowls were disgusting. The animal people protested and complained. This is when Suozzi was Mayor. His "solution" was he told them - you do it then. AND he gave away the munipical animal shelter to the animal rights people and to this day, Ms. Phillips runs it on contributions. That's his way. He let's things get completely run down, ruins everything, and when you complain he just tells you - then handle it. Even though he's the one responsible. He doesn't actually want the responsibility - he doesn't actually want to work. He doesn't want to do anything except smile for the cameras, give Newsday press releases and use that vivid imagination of his. So now apparently, he graduated from giving animal shelters away as Glen Cove Mayor (and that's all I know about - maybe he did this to many other munipal owned entities too) to giving away Nassau County parkland because he's too damned lazy, and too damned broke - to take care of them himself. Not even giving it away. PAYING them to take it - like he was junking an old car for scrap metal. I wish he'd offer himself to Suffolk County. I'd gladly chip in for his dowry. Let them deal with him.

[Newsday Hypocrisy]

What a hypocritical campaign rag that Newsday has become. I guess it's just tailoring it's rhetoric according to Democratic whim. Suozzi does nothing about the parks and hires incompetent fools for high level, high paid jobs who do nothing, know nothing and screw up whatever they do. Then it's election year. So he floats a $50 million bond on the pretense of parks maintainance and preservation to fix the aquatic center at Eisenhower Park and gives it over to an outside management team to actually manage (nobody on his team apparently competent) and yet, Newsday prints an article with Tom's picture about how TOM turned the aquatic center into a profit making revenue grabber. THEN the democrats in the legislator call for the firing of Sheriff Reilly blaming HIM for the failure to make appropriate repairs to the jail, which repairs the County knew about and ignored for 3 years because, in Driscoll's words - SUOZZI couldn't find a million dollars to repair the leaky roof and so forth, leading to piles of fines and penalties and jeopardizing State intervention. So apparently, when things go well, it's Suozzi's leadership that does it, yet when things go bad - that becomes the fault of everyone else. So things like county maintainence of jails is insignificant to this administration - but opening up our taxpayer funding county parks to NYC residents to increase Tom's revenue stream at the expense of the taxpayers - that's a Suozzi priority. It's sickening.

[Jail/PVB - Suozzi's Fault]

Reposts
=======Suozzi is to blame for both the Jail and the Parking Violations Bureau
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How he handled the jail
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Yes - the county attorney lost case after case in court - cases where people sued the jail for roughage and the like and cases where their own employees sued the county for mismanagement and unfairness and civil service violations and what have you. In unprecedented numbers. And the attorneys lost or settled or hired outside counsel to help them out or got free advice from Schlissel or whoever or whatever they did. The county attorney even put her own lawyer in there - liz - one of the many supervisory level administrators - who most people who work there - and I know many - complain it is really HER and goodman running the jail and setting the policy because Goodman has Suozzi by the suspenders and everything Goodman wants - Suozzi complies with.
And the jail got audited - as did the JD center - and the recommendations came from the state and then there were deadlines set and plans laid out. Suozzi didn't have to think or injure himself in any way except to release the funds to make the repairs necessary and to get the staffing levels up to the proper levels to keep the guards and the prisoners safe. But somehow, despite his wonderful financial skills that Newsday keeps boasting about, he could never quite get the money together to pay for things like court judgments and leaky roofs and state ordered compliance regulation repairs. So everything piled and interest climbed and penalites piled until he flipped. He took the people's cars over in parking & traffic violations burea but all he could manage at the jail was to blame someone else. So he and newsday will print article after article about how Reilly should be fired when once again - the blame should be put where it really belongs. Right on Suozzi's shoulders
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How he handled parking violations
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But that goes back to saying that Suozzi is in charge and his dummy defense, Dan Rather type - I didn't know what was going on because I was too busy doing other things and that's not "my job" - it just doesn't hold water. First of all, he hired another NYC imbecile to put in charge. Then, he spent all his energy massaging his ego and taking the PTVB out of independent rule and changing all the bylaws and nomination committees and putting it under his rule - County rule. So from an independent agency to a County operated facility. And then SUOZZI stepped out. I know the traffic prosecutors there. Under Suozzi, in fact, under Reilly, nothing changed. Not a blessed thing. Except the staff became extremely de-motivated, extremely unhappy. The management appointees started coming on board at crazy salaries - but the labor intensive jobs went unreplaced. The people coming on were prima donnas not workers. Next thing they know - it's more than 3 years later and Suozzi is up for re-election. So now Reilly gets interested. Now there is MANDATORY OVERTIME and instead of giving people hearings and doing things the right way - they start sending out threatening letters that people defaulted. Not really true. Some did but they have a right to ask to reopen a default. Others didnt', in fact, they got dismissals. But the paperwork got lost, or not inputed into the new, new, new computer systems or not properly converted when Suozzi's outside management team came in and converted the data over. There were alot of problems. Basically, the whole system was set-up ONLY to collect money - as though it was a collection agency. If you wanted to contest the charges or get a plea bargain or have a trial - you couldn't get through by phone and your court dates were all messed up or even after you won or pleaded your case, there would be no record of it and you'd just get another summons. Then you couldn't get through to anyone to straighten that out OR to get another court date - or to adjorn an old court date - which accounted for alot of the so-called defaults too. People were waiting for new court dates after they requested adjornments and they just didn't get them. The whole place is a disaster. Complete and utter chaos. The ONLY thing they managed to figure out how to do is let people pay. So now you got alot of innocent people, or people who could have gotten pleas - paying when they shouldn't be paying just because Suozzi's system frustrated them so they couldn't afford the time off from work to straighten their tickets out. It's worse then the old DMV used to be. NOW he's taking cars, houses and bank accounts from these very same people. The guy is an imbecile and NEWSDAY is a disgrace. Monty is a jerk. They guy is a sad excuse for a reporter. 3 days and counting he's reporting on this - but never once does he go to the statistics, the workers (who would only talk if complete anonymity was guaranteed) and the many affected people. Never does he go undercover and pretend to be someone who wants to fight a ticket to see what he's faced with. He is a superficial, idiot and his editors are even worse. So Yes, the managment there did nothing but No, you can't relieve Suozzi from that liability either.
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This is the fearful conclusion
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See - here's the fear. The guy doesn't want to manage. He doesn't want responsibility. He wants only power and control. So he'll take everything and consolidate it under his control - like he did with the parking & traffic violations bureau and do one of two things. Either he won't do anything and give up entirely and then just disown responsibility and force the towns to manage, pay for and repair things themselves anyway. Like he did to the Nassau County parks on the North Shore. It's like he's paying the Town as though it's an outside vendor to manage the parks for him. OR he'll come on like a damned crazy man and sledghammer everybody to death at the eleventh hour when things don't seem to working after he spent years ignoring them - like he's doing to the people who have outstanding parking tickets. This is no way to run a County and this is no way to be governed. The guys true colors are coming out despite Newsdays spin and the more he shows them, the more troubled we're becoming
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[Even Newsday admits]

Gulotta appointed Reilly to head the jail and under Reilly there have been far fewer employee and inmate complaints and lawsuits brought against the county for incidents emanating from the jail. The jail was one of the largest lawsuit contigencies the county had to deal with. So if the caseload has been virtually reduced threefold, why are there four times as many county attorneys on the payroll now as there were before?

Tax and spend
Spend and tax

Hire good for nothing prima donnas and put them on the verticle

[Kessel &the Naked Emp]

The naked emperor is gonna have to start buying clothes because even Kessel can see through the Newsday PR blitz. The bottom line is that Suozzi did nothing. The State put in place over $100 million in state aid for Nassau County (thanks to Gulotta) which started off Suozzi's so-called budget fix and Suozzi also had the benefit of starting off with money unspent in many county coffers - like the County Attorney's office which had hundreds of thousands of unspent reserves and the introduction of new computers were already purchased and previously budgeted in the Gulotta budget so didn't have to be included in Suozzi's budget. Suozzi had merely to get on his horse and sit there as NIFA lead it around the square, making "advisory" decisions that Suozzi followed as he ran back and forth to Albany, upstate NY, Washington and Queens doing who the hell knows what. Interest rates remained depressed so spending kept climbing and oil prices rose and the housing market boomed. Suozzi only had to take advantage of the economic circumstances he had nothing to do with, let NIFA do it's job and take hand outs from the State. Even then, his spending policies were so crazily out of line, he still hasn't gotten rid of the tax assessment refunds which was the whole problem that caused the GOP to crash, and he's STILL warning us there will be a multi-million dollar deficit by the end of 2006. This is what we've been saying on here all along. Who does he think he's kidding?

[Kessel Kessel]

he will do as he is told by Mondello Pataki and Tommy D.

[Smart people ask HOW COME]

Who gives Suozzi the right to use my money to campaign with? Why is using taxpayer dollars to prepare and mail out colorful flyers filled with lies and taking advantage of opportunities that others created for him?

Why doesn't he doesn't mention the tax assessment refunds that caused the fall of the GOP empire, which he hasn't addressed yet and the fact that he keeps changing the numbers - first it's $400K, then it's $380K then he says he paid $77K then he says he didn't.

How come he doesn't tell the millions of dollars left in the budgets for the agencies under the GOP - the money they had budgeted to spend but never spent and which he inherited without having to include that money is his own budget - and the fact that he SPENT every penny of it -- like the new computers he takes credit for getting the County Employees? THOSE were ALREADY budgeted in the GOP budget before he took office.

How come he doesn't mention the $100 million he got as a GIFT from the State when he first started office, which GIFT was arranged by the GOP before he took office. The fact is - even if Gulotta had STAYED in office, the County never would have gone into bankruptcy because the same money that was given to bail out Suozzi, would have bailed out Gulotta too? The DIFFERENCE is that Gulotta wouldn't have KILLED the taxpayers with his tax increase in order to fund $16 million in salary for a patronage staff that swelled 54% and includes more than 1/2 Non-Nassau county Residents.

How come he doesn't tell that ALL he did was sit back and let NIFA make recommendations on how to improve things - and then let NIFA improve them? Geesh - when the State came in and told him how to fix the jail and the medical center, after NIFA backed off - the guy couldn't even find a million dollars to give to them to make the state mandated repairs to bring the facilities into compliance. How come he doesn't tell us that?

Why was the DAILY NEWS the only source of a story about how his new economic development czar is floating a $1.7 million bond to build a health science center on Lakeville Road near Queens, on privately owned property where LIJ-North Shore also happens to be building an outpatient clinic on?

How come Newsday isn't printing the excerpts of his economic development brochure-plan from the Peter Sylver days about how Suozzi's goal was to build "low income rental apartment buildings" all over Nassau County and then compare his "over store apartment rentals" plan to the new campaign rhetoric he's printing in his "new" economic development plan that he intends on putting out this summer? Why isn't there an investigation as to the implication that he was using the federal HUD money to run all over Nassau County and give economic development talks to all the communities when in reality - he was doing no more than campaigning and gauging what "the people" - which he has absolutely no relationship with - want the "hear him say"? Whatever he thinks they want to hear him say, he'll say in his NEW ED plan - just to garner votes. But the real Suozzi is in the old plan - that no news source has yet to publish.

A tale of two cities - Suozzi is a rich, political kid who had everything handed to him from the day he was born. He is incapable of viewing surburban life through the eyes and ears and working hands of the less affluent residents of our community. As long as he can live in a gated community on a hill away from the general population, and continue to afford to send his kids to private school - he cares not a fig for the rest of us. And neither does the people he hired to run our County because THEY don't EVEN live here.

:69 It's up to you in 2005 but we need to get him out of office. :69

[TS caused hi school taxes]

Suozzi has everything to do with high school taxes.

Failing to curve the illegal housing, illegal day laborers and illegal immigrants has alot to do with the cost of educations these days.

Failing to continue to fund youth groups and services that the county used to provide, including pal and community centers, forces the schools to take on those additional burdens.

Suing the parents of special needs kids to recover the local share of medicaid costs forces the schools to pick up 100% of the costs of the special needs kids because medicaid also gets state and federal reimbursements which this county's brilliant legal strategies now lost.

Failing to put in place alternative sentencing courts for youths at risk and juveniles and hiring criminal lawyers to handle youth cases in family court forces the schools to pay for their residential placements, sometimes out of state, and over extended periods of time, as do the schools have to provide home tutoring for others.

Failing to properly fund and support the special victims unit of the police department which addresses the problems of gangs in the school forces more burdens on the schools - whose teachers and administrators and clerical personnel also have to pay the high county property taxes, as does the school itself, all of which adds to the high costs of schools.

There is a whole thread dedicated to how Tom Suozzi is behind the high cost of school taxes and how is hiding behind the schools and blaming them and the town - who is he also withholding necessary county money and services from - hoping to force them also to raise their taxes so he has yet another group to blame for his inadequacies and failures.

His war cry of "decades old problems' is all dried up now so he has to look for other sources to blame. Pataki's budget bailed nassau county out of trouble in 2001, and Suozzi put us right back in. Pataki will have to fund us more than $90 million again at the end of this year to keep us afloat for next year. It's not pataki - it's Suozzi. And maybe the federal immigration laws and lack of enforcement by the feds - but Suozzi - if he's worth anything - should be taking a pro-active stance and cooperating with the feds to protect the County from absorbing further invasions of immigrants we can't afford to keep supporting.

See the school's forum

[Baseball Steroid Hearings]

Can you imagine if Nassau County was holding hearings on how the baseball players use steroids to improve their performance? Lorna Goodman and John Donnelly would first have tried to trade them back to the minors. Then they'd be hired back on the team and given management level positions with million dollar bonuses. Peter Reinharz and Meredith Feinman would then convince the players to sign confidential agreements and embarass them into thinking they should just keep the whole thing to themselves and pretend it never happened. When the steroid use finally leaked out, Peter Schmidt playing the roll of the baseball commissioner, would be labelled an unstable personality type with impulse control problems who needed anger management classes and the players would sue him for breach of confidential information. Lorna Goodman would go to the Bahamas and leave her staff to intimidate witnesses, then prepare them for the hearings by instructing them to take the fifth amendment, then sitting next to them during the hearings all the while legally representing the baseball commissioner, and then later, Lorna goodman would agree to pay the players $475 thousand dollars because they were forced to testify at a hearing after they signed confidentiality agreements with the county. Dennis Dillon would lecture the players severely, then buy seasons tickets for all their baseball games. Tom Suozzi would float by and say he doesn't know anything about what's going on and nobody ever told him what was happening, and then he'd compliment the players on how big their muscles were and how well they performed - encourage them to continue doing whatever it is they're doing, give them all good evaluations and merit bonus pay raises and kick Peter Schmidt on the way into his police driven SUV.

[Tom's Abortion Farce]

Our legal community is dying under Suozzi. In fact, didn't he just cut so much funding to the Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee that they had to fire almost 20 attorneys? So much for free legal services to the needy. Funniest part is - NSLS had a contract with the Department of Social Services to represent women in Nassau County who used went through their Support Collections Unit and were trying to collect child support. Tom Suozzi is pro-choice - but I guess - once the kid is born - you're on your own. Thanks Tom.


Go Greg in 2005 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[this sounds like revenge]

Our legal community is dying under Suozzi. In fact, didn't he just cut so much funding to the Nassau Suffolk Law Services Committee that they had to fire almost 20 attorneys? So much for free legal services to the needy. Funniest part is - NSLS had a contract with the Department of Social Services to represent women in Nassau County who used went through their Support Collections Unit and were trying to collect child support. Tom Suozzi is pro-choice - but I guess - once the kid is born - you're on your own. Thanks Tom.


Go Greg in 2005 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Funny. Tom and Lorna Doone fired Karen Pismeny, a young Deputy county Attorney... Now they take away funding from the organization which employed Karen's mom..... All this to support Lorna Goodman and her incompetent cronies in the lap of luxury.

[Goodman fires everyone]

KP was a great attorney who took after her mother who is one of the most respected women attorney's in the bar - and has befriended many women Judges before they became Judges - and the P's are DEMOCRATS. Suozzi just gave an award to the very organization whose funding he cut, and all Reinharz and Feinman could do was Suozzi found out what they did was stand there gaping saying she "smoked". Which, is a nice lawsuit against the county. Meanwhile, one of the biggest complaints about their handpicked lawyer that they sent over to work at the jail from the other people that work at the jail - is that this woman does nothing but stand outside in her short skirts smoking like a fiend, illegally at that, right in the buildings foyer. It just goes to prove - the Suozzi administration is completely clueless. One hand doesn't know what the other hand is doing, nobody has any loyalty to anyone within their own party, or within the County of Nassau, and favoritism is alive and well. If they want to cut you, they will manufacture a reason, and then lie about it when questioned - if they think they can get away with it - and they'll hire you and keep you if you have ties to NYC Government - because the only thing that interests them is how Suozzi's run for Governor can be best served. The interests of the County come last. And the interest of their own party doesn't even rate. Why anybody would lift a figure to help Suozzi in his re-election bid is beyond me. Are they that deluded to think that he'll carry them to Albany with him - rather than stab them in the back as he obviously, repeatedly does. Right Sidikman?

[The Tale of Two Cities]

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

[Suozzi On Abortion]

I am pro- choice.
Women should have a right to choose.
But they should choose NOT to have an abortion.
I think there should be less abortions.
Because I am really against abortions.
Therefore, I am actually, a Right To Lifer.
Actually, I don't know what I am.

Oh what the hell does it matter - Newsday gave me 4 days of coverage and that idiot Reverend Murphy is endorsing me too so it looks like I got the whole damned catholic church behind me now. And I didn't actually say anything meaningful!

Suzzi on logic : I love me
Therefore: everyone must love me
Or I'll get them. I'll get them good.

[It's YOU not ME ???]

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.

[I'm Voting For Peterson]

I'm voting for Greg Peterson - too much has gone downhill too fast because of Suozz's malfeasance and inattention to the important things Nassau County needs a County Executive to pay attention too. The quality of our life here is more important to some economic fluke Suozzi takes credit for. I'm hearing in 2006 the County will be in such financial debt because all Suozzi did was tax and spend and fail to take care of debt that the County will again be approaching bankruptcy - and if the economy tanks and the sales revenue takes a nose dive - Bye Bye bond rating. Suozzi did nothing but ride the NIFA wave for 3 years and spend the bailout money Pataki gave him.

[How Peterson Can Help]

Peterson will Help Nassau County get back on track.
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Peterson can send Suozzi's 200 NYC patronage staffers back to NYC. That's $16 million (and climbing) in salary alone - plus benefits - plus their SUV's, gas and mileage. Before Peterson founded and ran one of Long Island's top 5 law firms in terms of size and profits, he ran the Town of Hempstead, Nassau County's largest, populated Township. It ran with a surplus every year, services were provided and paid for, and taxes were held down. It's too bad Tom Suozzi got away with a 20% property tax increase, and was allowed to ignore to accumulating legal judgments and tax assessment refunds - and was too busy running for Governor to pay much attention to anything else going on in the county until miraculously - this year. But Peterson will put into action a plan for reduction of the debt, will send back to NYC the assessement review people Suozzi hired from the NYC office just fresh from running from a criminal fraud, embezzlement and bribery scam in their NYC assessment review office, and will replace the county attorney's office with competent legal counsel who can actually read and interpret the constitution and try cases in court and win them. Starting there is a fine point. The county has nothing to do with teacher's salary, but Peterson will put back the services provided to youth that will help reduce the school's budget drain, will work with social services and Martha Offerman in establishing community courts and alternative programs instead of throwing every rambunctious youth into family court prisons and out of state placements- which cost the schools hundreds of thousands of dollars, and will work closer with the police and the DA's office, and will use his federal connections to work with INS to bring down the problem of gang violence and drug deals, and the increase in sex crimes and high volume, commercial buglaries - which will all in the long run add to the economy, prosperity and quality of life with surburanites should be enjoying - instead of worrying about the building of concentrated terrorists sites with low income high rise apartment buildings stuck everywhere and towns and schools and albany and washington all at war with the nassau county leadership - which we have now.

===============================================HOW SUOZZI AND LEVINSON WILL DESTROY NASSAU COUNTY, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY SEEM TO REALLY HATE THE TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD - THE LARGEST POPULATED TOWNSHIP IN NASSAU COUNTY.


For the imbecile who said the Town of Hempstead looks like Queens - you really need to get out more. When was the last time you were down by the waterfront in Bellmore, Wantagh, Merrick, East Rockaway or visited the 5 towns or Garden City? You idiot. Those are some of the most beautiful, middle class and upper middle class areas in Nassau County - where real people live as compared to the trust fund babies in Locust Valley that Tom Suozzi caters too. The problem is that thanks to TOM, we are having problems with border control - because his NYC seasonal parks employees keep coming in with their extended "famililes" and illegals are trying to sneak into our schools because some of them border Queens and our police staff was cut by more than 500 officers. TOM and his betrothed ACORN and his supporter FRED BREWINGTON keep bringing "civil rights" lawsuits from the people who destroyed Hempstead, Roosevelt and parts of Valley Stream and that caused the reassessments and now they want low income housing to be built in Garden City because (bo hoo hoo) they can't afford to otherwise live there. LEVINSON wants to add to this A FREAKING INCOME TAX JUST LIKE QUEENS HAS and he wants to LEGALIZE ILLEGAL HOUSING BY MAKING THE LANDLORD GIVE HIM MORE TAX MONEY (I'll close my eyes to what's going on if you let me call you a commercial property). This is their "solution" to the problem that TOM created with his day laborer camps that he sets up and his support of Reverend Reverez and his illegal latino gangs and sex abuser immigrants - who keep falling down over the streets of Nassau County and suing or crashing their SUV's into people and getting "injured" which costs the taxpayers even more money to keep them here, more than the increased housing price and school taxes does. People like you who hold on to the past and REFUSE to see what Suozzi's policies are really doing to this County are the real problem - and it has nothing to do with jobs. It has to do with the quality of life in Nassau County being destroyed by a do nothing but talk Nickerson protege --- who can't get out of Nassau County and leave behind his County Executive job fast enough.


and personally, I can't get rid of him fast enough.

[SUOZZI & THE ROCKAWAY]

Read the following excerpt and you tell me if this is sounding strangely familiar. Is this who Suozzi got the idea from to run all over Nassau County on the economic development tour, (which is currently under criticism by the Feds who believe it is AGAIN an improper way to spend HUD money), talking about breaking down Nassau County into economic development zones to build up their "downtown" areas? I mean, is Suozzi actually suggesting the same type of re-development plans that Reinharz suggested for the ROCKAWAYS, (which even QUEENS rejected) for our SUBurburan Towns and Villages in Nassau County? It sure sounds like Suozzi is committed to Reinharz's proposal of making our Nassau County into the City's 6th borough doesn't it?
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Peter Reinharz, the author of " Still A Ghost Town" published in the "City Journal" suggested that Rockaway be rezoned to "encourage private development" and that the city should "send its economic development officials across the country beating the drums about the potential commercial opportunities." In the very same paragraph the author suggests that Rockaway "would give the Hamptons a run for their money." He goes on to suggest that an oceanfront mall might get shoppers from the "affluent" Five Towns. He adds that tearing down the public housing in Rockaway would be "necessary."

A responding editorial printed in The Wave Publishing Co. on August 28, 1999 blasted Reinharz, (who holds an unused undergraduate degree in economics - much like his unused law degree), saying: "with money from the Hope VI grant pouring into the projects that won’t happen.

So, our point? There’s no point in making suggestions that don’t have a prayer.

And sadly, Reinharz says things look promising because Mayor Giuliani has an "Arverne plan." He does? Well, Reinharz pointed to the $7 million the city was "chipping in" for new sewers and sidewalks in the Arverne Renewal Area.

That’s a plan?

Charles Gargano, the State’s economic czar said, 'in order for this project to come to fruition, it would require a very significant amount of public subsidy from both the State and City of New York for infrastructure and other off-site improvements.'

He went on to question whether the "return" on such an investment would be worth it.

As we’ve said for months and months, Technodome will not happen.

The editorial continues "we would like to see "economic officials beat the drums" about the potential of the area. Perhaps the drums should be beat in Silicon Valley. With the vast amounts of money being made in high-tech maybe some venture capitalists will hear the drums and want to build a high-tech center close the ocean and within shouting distance of

Manhattan and Wall Street...

That’s less of a pipe dream than Technodome and tearing down housing projects."

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Now I ask you - shouldn't Newsday have written a similar editorial about Suozzi's recent proposals - the Zoo, the Acquarium, the Preserve, the raising of Hempstead Turnpike for a sky tram, Wang's 60 story tower, low-income high rise apartment buildings, residential apartments over storefronts on main avenues like Jericho Turnpikes, Hempstead village as "a college town" before cleaning up the gang and drug problems and the run-down welfare projects .................................................. ...............?


It seems like our friend Suozzi is doing more than destroying the legal department no?

[Suozzi on gangs- too late]

How transparent. Suozzi finally gives money to youth groups in front of a media extravaganza he organizes during an election campaign, when he starved them during his reign and contributed to the increase in the gang problem and the increase in certain related crimes like sexual assaults, commercial bribery and violent crimes. Sure the overall crime rate is down, but the worse crimes are being committed more frequently.

Suozzi started out his reign by dismantling the unit of the police called special ops - which is that part of the Juvenile Aid Bureau, that is also consolidated with the Special Victims Unit, that handles juvenile problems and gang activity - for which another specialized unit was formed.

Suozzi then stopped funding on these units and complained that there shouldn't be specialized cops running around, that they should all be patrol cops and all cops should handle all things. Suozzi felt that there was no specialists needed and no money needed to be alloted for that.

When the gang population over the last couple years exploded, the related crimes soared, the cops became completely frustrated because of Suozzi's new policies - they started lobbying and with the help of a strong union - and an even more frustated District Attorney's office, and finally got Suozzi to once again, flip flop backwards, tripping again over his own feet to correct yet another one of his stupid detailess visions.

They forced him to reinstate the funding, and the special operatives. But then the units had to start all over again putting together another team, getting back on the streets and getting known and trusted again. Thanks to Suozzi, the Special Victims Unit and the gang related task forces started under the GOP reign, now lost so much time, and money, that years of work was lost and projects had to be started up again almost from scratch.

Thanks to Suozzi's administration, instead of giving the DA something to work with, he created bigger problems for law enforcement, instead, feeding the non-gang juveniles who actually deserved a break, to the wolves in family court - so he could keep espousing his tuff on crime policies, that in reality, he didn't have.

As if that wasn't bad enough, Suozzi cut to the bone all youth groups and organizations, contributing nothing toward them and ignoring the problems that the schools were having. Instead of admitting he was the cause of the problem, Suozzi then turns around and insults the schools trying to wage a war between the residents and the schools, blaming the schools for increased taxes when all the while, the schools burdens increased tremendously under the Suozzi regime because they had to make up what aid and support Suozzi failed to provide.

Now, all of a sudden, during an election year, Suozzi throws himself a press release extravaganza and finally throws some money to the youth groups that he destroyed, and ignored, for all these years. Of course, he invites the cops too, because just like he burped on the abortion issue while trying to garner the Conservative party endorsement, he's now trying to garner the support of the PBA.

He's getting so transparent that it's becoming clear that Suozzi is nothing more than a metrosexual in love with himself and the attention this job gets him, but incapable of being worth anything aside from having "visions - more like hallucinations" without any substance.

The Peterson people will make an issue out of the fact he's done nothing all this time. He doesn't care. He never did. And he never will.

[suozzi's deceit]

if suozzi or any politician doesn't bring into the gang equation illegal immigration, then all they are doing is smoke and mirrors

[Half Truths and Lies]

Weitzman gave another press release claiming that his audit of shops in Nassau County are charging too much in sales tax because the sales tax has been lowered.
First of all, why is the Comptroller auditing private businesses? That isn't his job. Roger Bogsted in his Consumer Affairs job should remove his head from Suozzi's butt long enough to get out there and look at that issue.
The Comptroller should be looking at why the overtime at the Jail is skyrocketing, and at the County-wide salary structure being paid to underqualified managers and supervisors who should have been hired at entry level positions - if they would have even qualified for those jobs.
Moreover - why didn't Weitzman tell the whole truth about the sales tax decrease? It was not the County's portion of the sales tax that was lowered, it was the State's portion. The County not only failed to lower it's portion of the sales tax, but it refused to rescind it during tax free week and has added sales tax surcharges on items not before taxed by the County - like Nassau Coliseum tickets.
The Democrats want to get re-elected - even if they have to run a campaign on lies and half truths - twisted in such a deformed manner as though to make their bungling inepitudes appear beneficial to the typical Nassau County resident.
It won't be until the Peterson campaign takes each "media selling point" and shows the public how they are being duped. The longer they wait, the harder it will be because the Suozzi administration are brainwashing the public every, single day.
The Suozzi cult must be voted down in November. They are a dangerous group who have resorted to public lies and deceptions and are operating without any conscious regard for morality.

[Suozzi is Broke Again]

The fool can't finish a 4 year old memorial to the people who died in the WTC unless he forces the firefighters from 3 different Counties to give him $100,000? Why? And why should NYC and Suffolk County firefighters give Suozzi any money for a memorial being put into Nassau County? And how come Bloomberg could clean up and start rebuilding the entire downtown NYC while Suozzi couldn't manage to build a couple of lego block memorials on a pile of dirt in Eisenhower Park in the same amount of time? And what did he do with the Canadian Geese?

Maybe they flew West with our tax money.

[Ghetto Classrooms]

Actually, it's not funny that these idiots rooting for Suozzi and team are just so stupid that they don't even know what they are rooting for. Levinson actually said in black and white when he came to Franklyn Square & area that he advocated less teachers and bigger classrooms. Suozzi is against teacher tenure so the most experienced and highest paid teachers can be fired and replaced with patronage dolls who couldn't even handle a small classroom, let alone Levinson's larger ones. As the State pushes up the pressure on these kids - Levinson and Suozzi want to dump them in systems like inner city Ghetto's have. If you people even had any clue about what the current administration actually has in mind for Nassau County, you wouldn't be spending so much of your time trying to defend that which the rest of us know - is not defendable.

Although I have to admit it was hard to hear Levinson over all the ruckas the sanitation guys were making in the background - seems they think they have pretty important jobs - keeping the trash and smells from piling up like some city street. Funny thing too - the residents think so too because the sanitation guys were getting more thumbs up than Levinson got - the putz.

[Suoz & tax assess cir]

Suozzi's tax assessment - led by NYC Borin of the NYC Tax Assessors office (aka - "I runs so fast away to Nassau County from the criminal indictments coming out of my NYC office that me pants felled down") & accompanied by NYC Corp. Counsel Botwin - head of NYC Tax assessments/certs during the same period- (aka - "I runned so fast I outpassed Borin and my skirts flung up and blinded me").

The new fellows are ass backwards.

Tax Assessment Grievances can be filed on a yealy bases, But NC took this one step farther - just to really load down Suozzi's coffeurs so HE LOOKS GOOD to ALBANY - at the Nassau taxpayer's expense.

If you won your 2003/2004 tax grievance, they don't adjust your 2004/2005 assessment amount accordingly, and if you won both your 2003/2204 & 2004/2005, they make no adjustments to the approved and signed off 2006/2007 amounts.

In fact, people who won decreases in assessments, saw their tax RATES increase, and realized no comensurate property tax bill difference. Suozzi & staff's plan is obviously to beat down the grieving taxpayer so they'll give up, defeated and forlorn - and stop complaining.

In addition - Nassau County requires that if one wants one's taxes reduced in 2006/2007, one must file a grievance.
They are not adjusting any assessment amounts to refelect past tax challenge reductions.
And since now they figure re-assessment amounts two years ahead, and the deadline for grieving your 2006/2007 taxes has passed.

Why? Why is the County so stupid then it can't figure out that if a home is overassessed in a previous year, OF COURSE, the following years forecasted assessments MUST BE wrong - because it has a wrong starting point?

AND round and round we all go.

One hearing for a prior year should result in lower re-assessments for the future years which would alleviate future hearings, future refunds and the accumulating interest debt on those refunds which the County has made absolutely no road gain in reducing. In fact, Suozzi & accompanying are making the problem bigger and bigger.

The taxpayers once again are the loosers.

Bring on Greg Peterson. November 2005. We'll be there.

[1998-WhenDemsRuinedNassau]

It wasn't the Republicans that ruined Nassau County 8 years ago - it was Democrat Fred Brewington and his allegations of racism that ruined it when he and his mottly crew from Roosevelt went to Court and begged them to increase the tax assessments annually on every house in Nassau County - thinking those people who trashed their homes, drank all day and spent their time on the welfare line - would pay less than the others who worked for a living, maintained their homes and saw their investments increase instead of deteriorate. The fools got themselves just as hefty a tax increase as they got everyone else and THAT you idiot - is what led to the downfall of Nassau County. The high cost of living combined with Suozzi's 20% tax hikes and his circular tax assessment "hearings" - you win one year and instead of his people making progressive changes into the future - he makes you ask for hearings again every year - causing more refunds WITH INTEREST and debt - that he's not paying off.
That's what led to the destruction of Nassau County. The Republicans fought it. The Democrats ruined it.

[DemsruinedNassauin1998]

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.

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[The SouthShore Rockaways]

Newsday had this small article buried in the back of the paper - I guess Knight's new (consumer advocate) forced the editors to print it. Or maybe, they weren't sure if they could spin it positively.
Suozzi's plans for an empire development zone sound suspiciously like another IDA scam.

It affects only the minority comunities - south shore residents and his beloved Glen Cove - the City Being Pushed into the Sea by Suozzi boy. Goes to show you - he's so arrogant not only does he think he as the CE race wrapped up - but the Glen Covers in his pocket too.

Specifically - Glen Cove, New Castle (where Kaiman kicked the old lady out of her home - the home she ran a community church from), Freeport, THE COLISEUM AREA - THAT'S WANG'S WORLD- , Hempstead (where his BOE workers unlawfully campaigned on County Time for Mayor Hall), Roosevelt, Elmont (they want to run the Pakistani community activist from there for Legislator), Inwood (part of Inwood is Queens) and Bethpage.

There's a picture of him with the Freeport Mayor - the Mayor is pulling away from him and looking at him with a look that if looks could kill - Suozzi would be dead. Suozzi is, of course, oblivious to all things.

There are other Empire Zones in the State of New York.

According to Newsday - these special patronage mills - where industrial factories crop up and bring in cheap labor (just the type of people you want more of - hanging around your neighborhood) and overpopulate an already unwelcoming housing market -

they already exist.

IN SOUTH JAMAICA AND FAR ROCKAWAY.

Yes people it's true - Suozzi isn't wasting any time in bringing the Rockaways to Nassau County. Even Queens protested what Suozzi is going to do to us.

And he says the GOPERS want Nassau to be the 6th Borough.

Suozzi is walking poison.

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Oh yeah - and the best part is those residents get to pay even HIGHER taxes, thanks to Suozzi because the deal for these Suozzi selected businesses is that they get sizable tax breaks. Up to $250,000 in fully refundable annual tax credits if they have up to $20 million in non-taxable income (foreign based tech companies perhaps )? and doubles existing tax credits from 9 to 18 percent - already included in next year's state tax budget. That's why it is VITAL get rid of Suozzi NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The South Jamaica Mambo]

8)

[Mother's Against Suozzi]

Tuesday, June 27, 2005
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All women who are working, have spouses working two jobs to cover your recent tax increases, supplimentig programs eliminated in your childrens school's due to budget issues, women who have to find more and more creative solutions to tell your children, no honey , not this year, women who have to worry about elevated aceptable bacteria levels set by Nassau County for our beaches; women who will need pepper spay to ward off rabid animals in Nassau County parks! all the women who watch this summer as the entitlement children from the broughs of NYC use the resourses, their spouses and themselves pay to provide, The current provision of Suozzi's "Fresh Air Fund" provides for others and not our own. Women who think their teenage children should be given the same opportunity as citizens of Zambia
( another democratic hack hired by Suozzi) at $65.00 per hour. Crap my kid's would be greatful for minimum wage!

Please join us in protest June 27th, 2005 at the Harrison House on Woolsy Lane, Glen Cove and help Tom Suozzi and his wife celebrate "The Women in Tom Suozzi's Life"!

Other then the select few on his North Shore "A" list , (even his hired political mouth peice lives in a spactacular waterfront Villa) us the majority who do not live in multi-milloin dollars homes like Mrs.Souzzi,financed by special developer friends, can present to these very special women how the other half live's.

Bring your tax bill, bring your reassesment papers! Demand that the special place for the North Shore elite take a voucher so your child too can enjoy the privlage of private camp facilities, while other non residents use our parks & pool's.

Let's help the Suozzi Family celebrate " The Women in his Life" along with the overburdened women who suffer under his damage and abuse.

[Rant & Rave]

How many County employees attended this ON COUNTY TIME?

Hmmmm.

[Suozzi sold NCMC]

Who is Newsday kidding?

What Suozzi just did was sell our hospital
- with no details again mind you -
he actually sold the County's only public medical center - it's nursing home (he's always wanted that land for his developer friends) and all their clinics to his father's North Shore Hospital.

Daddy is a trustee and NS-LIJ and Suozzi already floated a $2 million loan to build a health science center on LIJ property in Lake Success where they will be building an outpatient facility.

This isn't an "affiliation" - not when you're talking about a management and labor takeover.

It is what it is.
Suozzi just quietly and unilaterally sold our hospital out from under us.

6 more months - I hope there's something left of Nassau County before we can get rid of this creep.

[Suozzi sells NUMC]

Here's why I'm voting for Greg Peterson.
Suozzi hires people involved in the Anti-Semite Nation of Islam, and imports them from NYC to pay them $65 an hour to do a $12 an hour job that should of gone to a Nassau County resident - instead it goes to someone from Nazaria, then the Suozzi people run a muslim from Pakistan for Nassau County Legislator - who is a Director in a Pakistani group with direct ties to Pakistan and which states in its mission that it supports Pakistan's Islamic policies - including the capitulazation of India's Hindu population while at the same time - while at the same time - selling off our County Parks and our County Hospital, Nursing Home and satellight medical facilities, closing down our Animal shelters and rescue organizations without a plan to re-open them or support them in any way, spent the 20% tax increase on I don't know what - because he only made superficial "improvements" in the parks and the roadways, failed to pay the tax assessement refunds which was the problem that led to Gulotta being voted out of office because that was the financial concern, and Suozzi has made no plans to fix that same problem when the bond floats cease to exist in December of this year, he forces County employees to illegally fundraise and campaign on County time with taxpayer money - which seems to be the only thing he has done himself for the past 4 years, and I believe he only wants the County Executive job as a cover to operate as a candidate for higher office while getting paid to do his campaigning. I believe he will do whatever he thinks will elevate him in a statewide election, even if that means hurting the Nassau County community by helping NYC and Upstate NY - which we have already seen him do with his support of the re-allocation of Medicaid money shifting more of the burden of the NYC population unto Nassau County, and agreeing to pay 1/2 of Suffolk County's supplies when Nassau receives no benefit whatsoever. I also believe the Whistleblower story in the Long Island Press is very typical of the fear and intimidation and great divide his administration has created between the laborers and their unqualified, overpriced and excessive management staff because I know many County workers, both current and former, who have experienced the very same atmosphere as Ms. Morganstern alleged she was forced to endure. For all those reasons, as well as his plans to crowd in as many more people as he can possible squeeze in here to aid his real estate developer friends in making as much money as they can make - probably why Charles Wang contributed so much money to him and Suozzi's own million and a half dollar North Shore home was gotten with an interest free, collateral free, $650,000 "loan" - I have decided that Suozzi has wrecked all he should be permitted to wreck, that his policies and the people he associates with and hires, and that his higher ambitions are NOT what I want for myself, my family, my friends, my neighbors or my County and that he needs to be shown the door before he sells everything else right out from under us - including foreclosing and condemning our very homes as his people have done already - to make room for luxury rentals on the North Shore, and other developments in Central Nassau -- even when it meant condemning the house of an old woman who ran a well attended community church on her property. Suozzi must go. I'm voting for Peterson and I think any fair minded, right minded, normal and intelligent person will do the same thing.

[Fed up Nassau Res.]

I second the motion of the previous poster. How well put. Please, do a public service, and send this reply to the Long Island Press letters dept. They will print it and it will be read by many who do not visit this website. Thank you!

[No more public hospital]

I believe once something gets posted on here the copyright belongs to the website administrator - he can feel free to send whatever he wants to the LI Press - in fact - I think anybody can forward it and they're interested in printing it - they can seek permission from the website owner. But I don't think the LI press gets much coverage either. Unfortunately, it's gotta get into Newsday or distributed door to door by party members. This is a grassroots campaign.

Tuesday, June 27, 2005
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All women who are working, have spouses working two jobs to cover your recent tax increases, supplimentig programs eliminated in your childrens school's due to budget issues, women who have to find more and more creative solutions to tell your children, no honey , not this year, women who have to worry about elevated aceptable bacteria levels set by Nassau County for our beaches; women who will need pepper spay to ward off rabid animals in Nassau County parks! all the women who watch this summer as the entitlement children from the broughs of NYC use the resourses, their spouses and themselves pay to provide, The current provision of Suozzi's "Fresh Air Fund" provides for others and not our own. Women who think their teenage children should be given the same opportunity as citizens of Zambia
( another democratic hack hired by Suozzi) at $65.00 per hour. Crap my kid's would be greatful for minimum wage!

Please join us in protest June 27th, 2005 at the Harrison House on Woolsy Lane, Glen Cove and help Tom Suozzi and his wife celebrate "The Women in Tom Suozzi's Life"!

Other then the select few on his North Shore "A" list , (even his hired political mouth peice lives in a spactacular waterfront Villa) us the majority who do not live in multi-milloin dollars homes like Mrs.Souzzi,financed by special developer friends, can present to these very special women how the other half live's.

Bring your tax bill, bring your reassesment papers! Demand that the special place for the North Shore elite take a voucher so your child too can enjoy the privlage of private camp facilities, while other non residents use our parks & pool's.

Let's help the Suozzi Family celebrate " The Women in his Life" along with the overburdened women who suffer under his damage and abuse.

[Broken Wall]

SO Tom broke through the wall at the old courthouse - 4 months before election time and 4 years after he promised to renovate it.

Now what Tom - there's a broken wall.

Now what?

[The criminals mount]

Ah - can you count the criminals in the Suozzi Administration? Let's not forget how the Nassau County Comptroller hired a Newsday accountant for our Comptroller's office who was arrested on fraud over Newsday's criminal activities regarding false circulation numbers and cheating advertisers or Suozzi's hiring of the bankrupt Peter Sylver who stole and sexually assaulted during his reign or how they are still running Dave Dennenberg after he was convicted of petition fraud - and the Nation of Islam guy who submitted fraudulent timesheets authorized by his boss who Suozzi refused to fire when he had the chance. Suozzi's close crony from Glen Cove also got caught by the Feds - doctoring books too and isn't there still an ongoing fed investigation over the child support eforcement reimbursements for fraudulently submitting false case counts a couple years ago - when Suozzi's team first took office? How much more will come out before November? If the Long Island Press did one article reminding the people of all the scandals Suozzi's people had in the course of a short three years, I think it'll become clear how he managed to patch a false bottom in the County's so-called fiscal recovery - just in time for the patch to start leaking and the 50 million dollar deficient to rebound next year.

[No Doz]

:?
Now if we could just get Gregg PePeson to wake up
But it's too late isn't it ?
You can't win, if you don't fight
Oh, eventually you'll hear from Greg Pee

Too late
Let's move on

[Where is NIFA ?]

NIFA is responsible for any fiscally responsibility planning that had been done in the County over the past 4 years - why have they dropped out now?

How many 4 page, color brochures have you gotten from Tom Suozzi using the County Taxpayer's money? I got 4 in the past year, not to mention the family christmas cards he sent using my money. My family cut out our family portrait last Christmas because we had to tighten our belts thanks to all Suozzi's tax and fee increases. Guess how "joyful" we were to get HIS family's portrait in the mail - with our money. Nice to see he's spending it well.

And don't forget how he used the federal HUD money to "tour" Nassau County and lecture about his economic zones and re-development plans. Everyone knows that had nothing to do with running the County and everything to do with campaigning. In fact, what is the fed doing about that? I heard they disapproved of the way he was spending the grant money. No wonder the Republican Legislators fought tooth and nail to keep him from getting that $18 million dollar slush fund he wanted in the budget this year.

It's the little things that will pile on top of the big things in his administration that will weigh Suozzi down. He'll destroy himself and nobody has to lay a glove on him. All that need to be done is that the people "in the know" come out and talk. And they are. One at a time.

[Annual Tax Increase]

Suozzi and Newsday can go ahead and boast about not raising the County portion of the property tax - but that's only because they no longer have to. Property taxes go up automatically every year now as each year the assessments go up - generating more revenue for the County from the County Property Tax without Suozzi having to do it. The result is the same. Suozzi gets more and more money out of the taxpayers from property taxes every year, and spends it faster than he gets it on campaigning, retroactive benefits and perks for employees who formally worked in NYC and those that live there now.

And where does Newsday's stupid editorial come off saying the Old Courthouse is restored? There's a damned broken wall is all. Maybe Mr. Knight should move the Editorial Staff offices in the Old Courthouse and we'll see how they like working in such a wonderfully restored building then.

And were you laughing so hard that you peed everytime you read the phrase "to be fair" in that useless 3 part proganda piece? To be fair. Who did they think they were kidding? Maybe the publisher told them they need to be "fair" so they thought by repeatedly using the phrase, they could brainwash their readers into believing it.

By the way, if you decided to cancel your subscription, write to Paul Barbetto, this week's Vice President of Circulation, and tell him why. At least the paper should know why it's losing customers.

"Property taxes go up automatically every year now as each year the assessments go up - generating more revenue for the County from the County Property Tax without Suozzi having to do it. "


Absolutely, positively, 100% false. The County has not collected a single dime more from property tax payers in 3 years, since the last increase. Individual assessments may go up, but in the end the total collected has remained the same because other individual taxes went down.

[Kimmy is a laugh]

HO HO HO - thanks for the laugh fella. Taxes went DOWN ???? HO HO HO - you must be one of those high paid, do nothing, NYC rejects Suozzi hired to garner him votes in the NYC political arena when he runs his delusional bid for Governor next year. We all get our tax bills idiot - we can see what's going on and we can also all FOIL copies of the budget and see all the money pouring into Suozzi's greedy little hands from the way his assessment office overvalues every home in Nassau County, treading carefully only Suozzi & Judy Jacobs home grown support bases. If the money isn't going into the County's coffers - then it's being siphened off and used for more London vacations - maybe to send their Democratic Legislative Nominee and Muslim Leader - Ali Mirza - to go "investigate" all these muslim initiated bombings there. Maybe he'll even catch up to Peter Sylver and his family - I hear that's his HUD paid for favorite vacation spot too. If the tax increases we've all been paying every, single year since Suozzi took office isn't going on the books and into the County revenue - then I think the Feds oughta take a long, hard look at where it IS going and start asking some really tuff questions - like why, with the increase in taxes - is Suozzi added a energy tax into the mix - which like the tax assessments that are going up fastest for property at the lower value end of the spectrum - will hurt most those same people at the lower end of the income scale. You Suozzi people and those Newsday Editors have been lying so long that you can't even face the truth when it smacks you right upside the head. LIARS LIARS LIARS - and we are on to you.

[The mafia guy]

Ah - can you count the criminals in the Suozzi Administration? ... blah blah blah - yada yada yada. Go back and read the quote - it's too long to paste and copy.

But when you read it - Don't forget Borin and Botwin - who went running out of NYC tax assessments and tax cert departments into Nassau County's assessment department and county attorney's office just ahead of the all the criminal indictments coming down in NYC for bribery and kickbacks?

Sounds like the Mafia guy who runs a business staffed with recently released felons - sure buys loyalty huh? They know nobody else will take them. Those unqualified slobs that nobody else wants - that summarizes Suozzi's team.

"we can also all FOIL copies of the budget and see all the money pouring in..."

When and if you actually FOIL the County budget (not necessary -- it's already posted on the web), you will see that the budgeted revenue from County property taxes has remained unchanged at $738.7 million since Suozzi's first year. THERE HAS BEEN NO COUNTY PROPERTY TAX INCREASE DURING THAT TIME!

You can blame your schools, towns, cities and villages for any rising taxes over the last few years.

"we can also all FOIL copies of the budget and see all the money pouring in..."

When and if you actually FOIL the County budget (not necessary -- it's already posted on the web), you will see that the budgeted revenue from County property taxes has remained unchanged at $738.7 million since Suozzi's first year. THERE HAS BEEN NO COUNTY PROPERTY TAX INCREASE DURING THAT TIME!

You can blame your schools, towns, cities and villages for any rising taxes over the last few years.

More lies from camo Suozzi, since Suozzi took office the County portion of the real property taxes have gone up over 37%, Ide call that a real tax increase.

Stop changing you story. You said county property taxes have gone up every year and I just proved to you that you were wrong.
Bye bye.

[NCPVB Lacks Jurisdiction]

Well, surprise surprise.

Deputy County Attorney David Goldin loses another appeal.

Goldin, hired as Appeals Bureau Chief despite his lack of experience and only because he is another unqualilfied NYC loser who was hand selected by Peter Reinharz, the overpaid office manager and author of the "Killer Kids" - pro- racial profiling book that superficially blames race and ethnic background for juvenile delinquency, responded that the 2nd department Appellate Division "was completely wrong about this".

Do you think Lorna fed him that line? That's usually what she says.

A laugh a minute.

The Appellate Division ruled that the Nassau County Traffic and Parking Violations Agency does not have jurisdiction over traffic tickets issued in the incorporated villages BECAUSE IT IS A NASSAU COUNTY AGENCY.

BECAUSE IT IS A NASSAU COUNTY AGENCY.

Goldin stupidly and unsuccessfully argued that in 1990, when the Agency was first created, it's purpose was to assist the Nassau County District Court in the disposition and administration of infractions of traffic and parking laws, and therefore, the intent of the Agency was to handle all tickets - including those issued in incorporated villages and towns.

The former NYC Corporate Counsel apparently did not know that in 1990 - the NC TPV was set-up as an independently functioning Agency whereby it's prosecutors were selected by a panel consisting of District Court employees, including Judges. It was set-up that way in order to carry out it's mission.

It was Goldin's boss, Tom Suozzi who, hungry for power and loving the idea of using a whole Agency to collect money - the one thing he's actually good at - (unfortunately Tom's Agency functions miserably for people who actually want to exercise their constitutional rights and claim their innocence) reorganized the independent Agency and made it part of Nassau County.

Tom's decision, no doubt after relying on the inept County Attorney's office for advice, is what now cost the Agency it's jurisdictional powers within the Villages and Towns, and will now prevent it from carrying out the very mission under which it was first established.

Goldin argued himself right into that corner ey?

And the bungling idiots blunder through yet another embarassing escapade.

Congratulations fools - and thanks for yet another laugh.

[Attention DEFICIT]

Tom's decision, no doubt after relying on the inept County Attorney's office for advice, is what now cost the Agency it's jurisdictional powers within the Villages and Towns, and will now prevent it from carrying out the very mission under which it was first established.

Goldin argued himself right into that corner ey?

And the bungling idiots blunder through yet another embarassing escapade.

Congratulations fools - and thanks for yet another laugh.

What's your point? Are you implying that the ruling will negatively impact the revenue the agency receives? Check the numbers again.

You think you'd have learned by now to distinguish revenue enhancement and operational improvement from mismanagement. Greater control of the agency has led to better results.

Please, keep your nose out of business management. You've already demonstrated your lack of business acumen, so don't try to screw this up by confusing esoteric legal crap with bottom-line business results.

[Hit a sore spot again?]

Gee - someone has a temper - wonder who that could be? Poor managment leads to poor hiring and poor decision making. They made a stupid error in re-organization and the bottom line is that everything in Nassau County isn't about the god almighty dollar. This agency is a collection agency. It's about due process of law. That's the first thing. The second thing is the purpose was to streamline these cases from all over the County into one place so taxpayers don't have to run all over dealing with idiosyncracy's of village and town courts and the district court doesn't get clogged with handling those cases when there is an Agency running - very expensively - that is suppose to be handling those cases. The third thing is that if we have to keep explaining to you what is obvious to everyone else, maybe you should give it up because the only fool is you !!!!! Suozzi has no idea what he is doing and neither do the people they hire. They just wasted thousands of dollars and time in getting embroiled in a lawsuit, and an appeal, for a problem they caused by their failure to use "business acumen" - actually - a failure to understand the mission, purpose and organizational significance of the agency - and arguing against themselves in a cyclical fashion. And yes - the bottom line, since you and Suozzi understand nothing else but the collection of money - is affected when all these cases can now be dismissed because they have been lingering so long in the PVB, which has just been found not to have jurisdiction, and can't now be transferred back. The paperwork nightmare alone, not to mention the data and the computer work in dismissing these tickets and transferring out the new ones, will cost time and money --- incidentally - talking about the bottom line - Suozzi's pvb is still $600,000 in uncollected debts and 4 years behind in scheduling hearings, and still screws up taxpayers who get their tickets dismissed because it's not entered into the system, and they still get notices to pay with surcharges - even though - they already took care of things and didn't default. Now Suozzi's solution is to threaten and intimidate by warning that he's going to take your car away !!!!!!!!!! He's a real piece of work. Lucky he has stupid people that still support him. By the way - did you look up that big word - acumen - all by yourself or did you call Kimmy's office and ask her to give you that statement?

[Suozzi's Gang]

Ah - can you count the criminals in the Suozzi Administration? ... blah blah blah - yada yada yada. Go back and read the quote - it's too long to paste and copy.

But when you read it - Don't forget Borin and Botwin - who went running out of NYC tax assessments and tax cert departments into Nassau County's assessment department and county attorney's office just ahead of the all the criminal indictments coming down in NYC for bribery and kickbacks?

Sounds like the Mafia guy who runs a business staffed with recently released felons - sure buys loyalty huh? They know nobody else will take them. Those unqualified slobs that nobody else wants - that summarizes Suozzi's team.

AND don't forget -
The press conference Suozzi had when he was just about to award money that he got from a legal suit based on accounting fraud ------------- right back to one of the partners of the accounting firm that was convicted of fraud? His newly appointed Deputy County Executive almost fainted and kinda poked him on the shoulder to tell him that the guy he was giving the money to, the same money the County was given back for fraud - was the very guy Driscoll had prosecuted when he was an Assistant US Attorney General !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You just can't make this stuff up. Like the time Suozzi's boy Abrahams gave a press conference complaining about landlord abandoned homes - allegedly an early propaganda piece for Suozzi's pro-condemnation, industrial development crap - and in the middle of him ranting and raving about these abandoned homes, the hard working woman who owned came home, after working like a 14 hour shift for minimum wage - and almost crowned him with her umbrella. Suozzi's clowns are real good for a laugh - better than early morning Tom and Jerry cartoons.

Suozzi has no clue what he is doing

You think he knows the comptroller hired the accountant from Newsday who was in the middle of the circulation fraud - in fact - wasn't he arrested for fraud and cheating advertisers and doctoring up the books? This is the guy now working in our comptroller's office. That's as good as hiring a bankrupt Peter Sylver to run the Economic Development Agency and hiring his cousin to work in the County Attorney's office !!!!

[Pot holes and Sewer Caps]

On the problems of County wide potholes and sewer caps that are a few inches higher than the ground and streets that dangerously flood during rainstorms ----
Maybe Suozzi will hire some NYC consultants to form a task force and investigate the problem of potholes and sewer caps, while paying a Nazarian Resident $65 an hour to run around and take pictures of himself standing in potholes and measuring sewer caps and then do a press release about how great he is tackling these quality of life issues and get at least 5 days of positive coverage in Newsday for it. Then he'll pay all his city folk, who'll take their money and their benefits into their own Countries, States and Boroughs and spend it in their own local economies, and Suozzi will bounce over to his next press release and we will drive on getting our damaging our cars in the potholes and popping our tires on sewer grates and rolling carefully through all the flooded streets that need a serious revisiting because for all the hype and songs and dances and all the money spent - Suozzi will have done what he always does - absolutely not a thing.

:evil:

[No Self Respect]

Is Lorna Goodman that desperate for a job that she doesn't even try to cover-up the fact that the ONLY reason Goodman & Company are employed is because of their monetary contributions to the Suozzi camp?
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Is Tom Suozzi that money hungry that he is willing to take contributions from his own political appointees and continue to permit them to campaign for him at the taxpayer's expense?
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EVENT: LAWYERS FOR TOM SUOZZI COCKTAIL RECEPTION

HONORARY CHAIRMAN: "HONORABLE" JOSEPH A. SUOZZI

DATE: TIME: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2005

LOCATION: THE OMNI BUILDING (AT LEAST IT'S NOT AT BOE)

CONTRIBUTION LEVELS: FIRM SPONSOR PACKAGE (10 TICKETS) $2,000 (IS LORNA BRINGING HER INCOMPETENT BUREAU CHIEFS? WE KNOW THEY LIKE THEIR WINE AND CHEESE)

OR INDIVIDUAL TICKETS - $250 PER PERSON


SPONSORS:

ALBANESE & ALBANESE LLP
BLANK ROME LLP
CERTILMAN BALIN ADLER & HYMAN LLP
CONGDON, FLAHERTY, O'CALLAGHAN, REID,
DONLON, TRAVIS & FISHLINGER CRONIN, CRONIN & HARRIS, P.C. CROWE DEEGAN LLP
CULLEN AND DYKMAN LLP
FARELL FRITZ, P.C.
HARRAS BLOOM & ARCHER LLP
LORNA B. GOODMAN, ESQ
JASPAN SCHLESINGER HOFFMAN LLP
KOEPPEL MARTONE & LEISTMAN, L.L.P.
LONDON & WORTH LLP
MCCABE, COLLINS, McGEOUGH & FOWLER LLP
MEYER, Suozzi, ENGLISH & KLEIN, P.C.
PHILLIPS LYTLE LLP
RIVKIN RADLER LLP
RUSKIN Moscou FALTISCHEK, P.C.
SANDBACK, BIRNBAUM & MICHELEN
SCARCELLA ROSEN & SLOME LLP
SCHLISSEL, OSTROW, KARABATOS & POEPPLEIN PLLC
TEITLER & TEITLER
VECCHIONE, VECCHIONE & CONNORS, LLP
WESTERMAN BALL EDERER MILLER & SHARFSTEIN, LLP
WOLF POPPER LLP


WHAT GIVES WITH THIS?
RIVKIN RADLER ????????
MCCABE COLLINS ?????????

AND WHERE DID JOE SUOZZI GET THE ATTORNEY LIST FROM TO MAIL OUT ALL THESE "INVITATIONS" TOO? THE NASSAU COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION - THE BAR ASSOCIATION THAT TOMMY DOESN'T EVEN BELONG TO?

HOW MANY LAW FIRMS ON THAT LIST HAVE GOTTEN WORK THROUGH THE COUNTY ??

[It's up to Clavin now]

Weitzman should have caught, and revealed the IT problems.
And an unbiased Newsday should have chastized him for missing it.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Clavin was able to catch the Deputy Commissioner of the IT department who was signing off on timesheets before she was a DC when she was apparently without authority, without even having the resources of the Comptroller's office and without having a duty or obligation to the people of the Nassau County, which Weitzman has and failed in.
Newsday barely even really reported this - although it should have been a big deal.
IT was being investigated by Clavin, ie: he's already doing Weitzman's auditing job, and the DC resigned under pressure. This was an Agency already scandalized first by LOVE admitted he was hired without having any experience for the job, and then after wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars on unused computer equipment, computer equipment first installed - then removed - then new equipment installed - then removed again. Software packages installed, removed, new packages installed, reinstalled, removed. Hardware that had to be replaced because nothing was compatible. Email addresses that changed at least 3 times in 3 years because of new programs. All of this the taxpayers paid for - and paid their money to outside contractors hired by the Suozzi administration. Not to mention all the wasted time and energy and frustrations it caused ordinary civil service employees trying to do their jobs - just learning a program and getting their data migrated - and then losing their data and having to start all over and then just as that is getting up and running - being told they were going to have to learn yet a new program. Of course, the training was all provided by outside consultants too.
Not to mention all of the very real problems the social workers are having at the Department of Social Services with the scanning of files - which is not working - and the fact they are working in overcrowded and dangerous conditions without proper tools or case records because, in part, of the failure of Suozzi's outside consultants to properly have scanned in files and migrated over data.
This otherwise newsworthy latest event was a tiny mention in the back of Newsday. If this had been a Republican administration, or something that happened in the TOH, it would have been 4 days of 1st page news.

Clavin should now take a look at the timesheets as reported elsewhere in this and OTHER websites regarding the Family Court Bureau and if the County Attorney's timesheets for all the lawyers in the Bureau there were truly were all filled out by the Bureau Chief or one of the Supervisors every day to make her staff look good, like they had perfect attendance when they were all really only working 1/2 days or not coming in at all, or disappearing for 3 or 4 hours at a time, as alleged, especially after they just were hand selected by Reinharz, Feinman & Goodman & first came into their job roles in 2001-2002, then they would become an even bigger deal than IT or Parks since Goodman and her people have obviously bought their jobs and continue to hold on to them, despite blunder after blunder, because Goodman keeps reaching into her pockets and her "administrative" staff pays more attention fundraising and hiring NYC political operatives (ala Klein's way) then they spend doing the job they are getting way overpaid to do. It would show where Suozzi's loyalties lie - either with his State campaign or with the people of Nassau County
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Actually, we already know where they lie because he seems proud of the fact that Klein's actions were deemed "merely inappropriate" and not quite "illegal". It seems this administration will push the envelope of decency as far as they can, whenever they can - their mantra being - as long as we don't get caught and if we do, as long as Dillon keeps drawing subtle lines between inappropriate and illegal.
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Inappropriate got President Clinton impeached though, didn't it?
Hymnn - I think Newsday mentioned that somewhere in the sports pages at some point.
================================================== =====
The Nassau County taxpayers will have to rely on an unelected Clavin to do this investigation since they clearly can not rely on their elected Comptroller to do his job. When all the timesheets for a long period of time are in the Bureau Chief's handwriting for the first year or so after she was called up and offered an unposted, unadvertised job - before the current Bureau Chief with 30 years of experience was even told he had to retire because he had already been replaced by a kid with no family or civil court experience or any management experience - that's indicative of a very wide spread problem in the County Attorney's "administrative" team - a team where those highly paid "administrators" stand at TEN times that of the "administrative" staff that had previously been designated by any Republican administration over the past 30 or 40 years. Although Goodman is probably contributing to Suozzi an amount of money equal to her over-inflated staff's budget, it is not money that is being used to benefit the people of Nassau County, who are paying the tab.

[Lawyers For Ralph Suozzi]

Now that is an organization I can get behind. I wouldn't even give Tom Suozzi a dime.

[Botwin and RVC]

Count on me for loads of tix!

[Where the money goes]

Sorry Tom - you'll have to find another way to make some money. Maybe Lorna & company can write you out another fat check.

Well, it appears the county attorney's office lost another car forfeiture case to none other than former outside counsel, Andrew Campanelli who estimates that this time, it'll cost the county the dismissal of well over another 1000 cases, plus damages. The appeals unit, headed by former corporate counsel David Goldin, (I wonder if Feinman & Reinharz wish they hired a appellate bureau chief with actual appellate court experience now), lost to the innocent owner defense. Lorna Goodman was quoted as saying she "was not surprised by the ruling". Of course not. This is the woman who keeps settling cases for multi-million dollar judgments and giving out awards in the 5 and 6 figure range because, as she is constantly quoted as saying, she is afraid of losing even more at trial. Of course she is. She's the lawyer who the NYPD lobbied to get out of the courtroom when she worked at the corporate counsel's office because they were sick and tired of her losing cases she should have won, and then who as administrator, was lobbied against by the NYC Human Rights Commission to permit them to handle their own lawsuits because they were sick and tired of the constant backlogs under her administration. Goodman refused to carve out an innocent owner exception to the car forfeiture law because she believes there exists a link between an owner who does not authorize the use of, or the intoxicated use of, his vehicle by another driver who is subsequently arrested for drunk driving if the owner HAD EVER been arrested for driving drunk himself!

HUH? No kidding. Lorna says since the owners had prior drunken-driving convictions "so there's a chain from the original owner to the person who actually drove the car while intoxicated.". Too many wine and cheese parties I guess.

After Judge Lally explained to the county there still exists in Nassau a thing called the United States Constitution, which prevents even Tom Suozzi from the taking of private property, the office was reminded by Campanelli that the appellate division already warned them not to try and fix the poorly worded piece of legislation (for the third time now) in a piecemeal fashion because there was too much wrong with it to fix it that way, and yet, that's exactly what the lazy (or stupid?) lawyers did.

That's what happens when you put a bureau chief for legislative affairs in charge when her only prior experience was working as a lawyer in NYC mental health administration.

===============================================

Another recent loss against the civil service employees association whereupon the county attempted to vacate a recent award by an arbitrator claiming that the arbitrator made insensitve remarks causing the award to be totally irrational and violative of public policy. Well, another supreme court justice again shot down the office by explaining that they can not now take a position that the arbitrator is biased when it was the county's decision in the first place to appoint him as a panelist to resolve the very grievance now at issue.

They needed a judge to tell them that? I guess, since they needed Judy Jacobs to explain to them that it was an ethical conflict of interest to represent both the legislative body conducting the Peter Sylver hearings while at the same time trying to silence the very witnesses being called upon by the lesislators to testify.

===========================
Between timesheet fraud, an administrative staff that is 10 times what it was in 2000 and a budget that has more than tripled - plus the use of outside counsel - is it any wonder that Suozzi needed to raise taxes by 20% right out of the box?

[Suozzi's Patronage Staff]

Suozzi's Non-Resident Patronage Staff - salary & primary residence

Office Manager, County Attorney $150,000, Little Neck, Queens
¾ of the County Attorney's Office Varies, NYC region/Suffolk
Commissioner of Health $150,758, Brooklyn
Counsel to the County Executive $143,000, Bay Shore
Deputy County Executive $131,250, Northport
Deputy County Executive (2 of them) $131,250, Manhattan
Director of the Budget $127,234, Brooklyn
Director, Office of Labor Relations $119,068, Miller Place
Sheriff, $117,875, Sufolk (No wonder the Co's got such a sweet contract)
Deputy Director of the Budget, $117,600, Center Moriches
Commissioner of Emergency Mgmt, $114,510, Setauket
Deputy Commissioner of Public Works, $113,400, Northport
Deputy Commissioner of Information Technology (4 of them), $112,772, Hauppauge
Undersheriff, $112,772, Queens
Labor Relations Commissioner, $111,239, Amity Harbor
Commissioner of Mental Health, $105,000, Flushing
Deputy Commisioner of Parks, $105,000, Hillcrest
Deputy Commissioner of Information Technology (4 of them) $103,606, Miller Place
Assistant Commissioner of Public Works, $100,630, Manhattan
Assistant Commissioner of Data Systems, $100,000, Bronx
Deputy Director of Housing & Intergovernmental Affairs (2 of them) $100,000, Hauppauge
Director of Electorate Data Mgmt, $97,650, Kings Park
Chief Real Estate Negotiator, $93,000, Miller Place
Deputy Commissioner of Information Technology (4 of them) $92,251, East Northport
Commissioner of Senior Citizens Affairs, $91, 350, East Patchogue
Deputy Director of Government & Community, $89,250, N. Babylon
Deputy Director - Budget Department, $88,493, Staten Island
Deputy Director of Minority Affairs, $76,125, Hauppauge
Deputy Director of Housing & Intergovernmental Affairs (2 of them) $68,250, W. Babylon
Assistant to the Commissioner of Mental Health, $68, 102, Kings Park
Deputy County Treasurer, $67,275, Bayside
Assistant Director, Labor Relations, $59,982, Commack
Assistant to the Police Commissioner, $58,800, Flushing
Deputy Commisioner of Information Technology (4 of them) $57,750, Hauppauge (no wonder Suozzi wants to "share" computer expenses with Suffolk County).


Almost three and half million dollars of nassau county tax dollars, plus benefits and lifelong health care benefits that we pay for non-resident workers who turn and retire at 55 years old while working for nassau county, regardless of their number of years of "service" !!!!!

And let's not forget that with the quadruple budget given to Lorna Goodman, a/k/a deep pocket Goodman, with the HUGE staff of "lawyers" she hired, Comptroller Levinson STILL hired an OUTSIDE agency to represent Nassau County at the small claims tax assessment hearings - and that agency has offices only in Suffolk and NYC region. !!!!!!!!!!

[sad aint it]

sad

[Suozzi's Evacuation Plan]

Suozzi just released his evacuation plan for nassau county in the event of a natural disaster.

He'll send all the Nassau County workers home.


:wink:

[Suoz's School Tax Plan]

I heard after Suozzi does away with teacher tenure he is going to fire all the experienced teachers, hire cheap rookies from the South Bronx school district and then enlarge classses. Phase two of his plan is that he's going to require all teachers to earn their keep by doing garbage pick-up on alternate weekends and if a resident has more garbage then his planned bimonthly pickups will allow, he'll have Levinson re-classify their home as being "piggy" and raise their tax rates accordingly.

[Reality clouds theMiracle]

Suozzi's miracle is a farce and the public has a right to know.

Even that liberal loving rag that calls itself "news"day had to admit in it's editorial that the reason the County fell into financial trouble in the last couple of years of GOP rule was because they couldn't pay back the judgments on the tax refund cases after the Democrats, headed by lawyer Fred Brewington, forced an all out tax reassessment.

What they failed to stress was that it was the GOPs in that last year who actually negotiated and arranged for the State to bail out the county over the last 4 years with Nifa advising them.

All Suozzi did was get elected. He followed the plan set out by the GOP, took the money from the State and the advice from Nifa and started campaigning for Governor.

He raised taxes a whopping 20% and they went up every year automatically with each increased tax assessment which his NYC run assessor's office failed to prospectively adjust after a taxpayer won a SCAR hearing, forcing them to file for hearings and refunds every year and either getting them so frustrated and confused that they gave up, or adding to the accumulated wealth of judgments waiting for refunds, with the interest thereon mounting every day.

Suozzi never paid the tax refund cases off with the money the State gave him and the bond arrangements the GOP made to help pay the debt off ends in December. Suozzi's "revitalized" waterfront is a farce and the "come back" of the parks system is a joke that anyone who actually used the parks before, and use them now, can certainly attest to. There are no improvements except for superficial bandaids like cardboard facades covering up a rundown front.

Suozzi spent all the money on a huge, incompetent, patronage staff filled with the arrogance that led them to commit criminal acts because they believed they were above the law, or hiring people with criminal or very questionable pasts and presents because Suozzi believes he is invincible.

We still have the same debt that pushed Nassau under in 2000 and that debt will break lose and become due in 2007 after all the State aid, Nifa assistance and the bond floating period is over.

SInce Suozzi already raised taxes, fees and surcharges on everything and put taxes, fees and surcharges on things that never were taxed or charged before - he has left us with our pants down. How many more for sale signs will we see?

Suozzi thinks low income, towering high rise apartments with all the consumant traffic, noise and congestion that will bring is an answer. Our resources are already drained and our infrastructure is crashing down, yet Suozzi can't see that. He wants to build, build, build and create more day labor camps for the illegal immigrants that he welcomes with open arms. More people to support. While Levinson wants to re-classify slumlord homes into commercial housing, fire school teachers, enlarge classes and reduce garbage pick-up.

This is a miracle?

Maybe if you've lived in a third world nation.
But not if you remember the old Nassau County.

Please Lord - bring it BACK !!!!!

Dump Suozzi before he makes Nassau County a dump.

:?

[Got a problem with me?]

Hey - you gotta problem with me?

So Newsday says the Suozz remained cool after being chastised by fellow Democrats in a meeting of the legislators.

Cool - when he got up and stood behind his fellow Democratic legislator asking him - you gotta problem with me?

Cool huh?

Sounds like a spoiled brat picking a school yard fight to me. It's not the first time the CE almost got into a knock down fist fight with another politician.

He's just the wrong breed to be running the County.

[Disgrunted WishList]

Hey - you gotta problem with me?

So Newsday says the Suozz remained cool after being chastised by fellow Democrats in a meeting of the legislators.

Cool - when he got up and stood behind his fellow Democratic legislator asking him - you gotta problem with me?

Cool huh?

Sounds like a spoiled brat picking a school yard fight to me. It's not the first time the CE almost got into a knock down fist fight with another politician.


I want to See Suozzi try to pull the "You Got a Problem with Me" move on Pete Schmitt. Pete would wipe the floor with him!
He's just the wrong breed to be running the County.

[hedgehog]

Pete Schmitt can't get off his barstool fast enough.

[hedge hog slayer]

Pete Schmitt can't get off his barstool fast enough.

Schmitty can down 10 LI Island Ice Teas in ten minutes and still kick Kamikaze Tommy Suozzi's lame ass. Just call Tom Suozzi "Schmitty's Little B*tch." That's Suozzi's new name.

[hedgehog]

You've got it backwards. Schmitty is just a fat old drunk.

[you don't go out much]

You've got it backwards. Schmitty is just a fat old drunk.

ever see your hero TRS and a fundraiser. He's been known to have a couple. And again, Schmitty would kick his ass in a fight. Suozzi only gets into altercation with smallish women at the Oysterfest, and ectomorphic County Legislators. Suozzi is the quintessential girlie man.

[hedgehog]

The only thing your hero Petey fights is the urge to attend Happy Hour - and he loses, every time.

[hog tied hedgehog]

The only thing your hero Petey fights is the urge to attend Happy Hour - and he loses, every time.


But he can still kick Suozzi's ass. Even after a round of Guiness.

[hedgehog]

Sadly, that's the only way Petey knows how to fight, but he couldn't even kick Altman's butt.

[again wrong hedgie]

Sadly, that's the only way Petey knows how to fight, but he couldn't even kick Altman's butt.

Suozzi is the one challenging people to fist fights in Mineola, not Schmitt. Get your facts straight. And yes, Suozzi does not pick fist fights with men who are larger than he is, and who could kick his ass. Suozzi is just a big man when challenging the Joe Scannells of the world.

[Suozzi is bad for Nassau]

Suozzi's miracle is a farce and the public has a right to know.

Even that liberal loving rag that calls itself "news"day had to admit in it's editorial that the reason the County fell into financial trouble in the last couple of years of GOP rule was because they couldn't pay back the judgments on the tax refund cases after the Democrats, headed by lawyer Fred Brewington, forced an all out tax reassessment.

What they failed to stress was that it was the GOPs in that last year who actually negotiated and arranged for the State to bail out the county over the last 4 years with Nifa advising them.

All Suozzi did was get elected. He followed the plan set out by the GOP, took the money from the State and the advice from Nifa and started campaigning for Governor.

He raised taxes a whopping 20% and they went up every year automatically with each increased tax assessment which his NYC run assessor's office failed to prospectively adjust after a taxpayer won a SCAR hearing, forcing them to file for hearings and refunds every year and either getting them so frustrated and confused that they gave up, or adding to the accumulated wealth of judgments waiting for refunds, with the interest thereon mounting every day.

Suozzi never paid the tax refund cases off with the money the State gave him and the bond arrangements the GOP made to help pay the debt off ends in December. Suozzi's "revitalized" waterfront is a farce and the "come back" of the parks system is a joke that anyone who actually used the parks before, and use them now, can certainly attest to. There are no improvements except for superficial bandaids like cardboard facades covering up a rundown front.

Suozzi spent all the money on a huge, incompetent, patronage staff filled with the arrogance that led them to commit criminal acts because they believed they were above the law, or hiring people with criminal or very questionable pasts and presents because Suozzi believes he is invincible.

We still have the same debt that pushed Nassau under in 2000 and that debt will break lose and become due in 2007 after all the State aid, Nifa assistance and the bond floating period is over.

SInce Suozzi already raised taxes, fees and surcharges on everything and put taxes, fees and surcharges on things that never were taxed or charged before - he has left us with our pants down. How many more for sale signs will we see?

Suozzi thinks low income, towering high rise apartments with all the consumant traffic, noise and congestion that will bring is an answer. Our resources are already drained and our infrastructure is crashing down, yet Suozzi can't see that. He wants to build, build, build and create more day labor camps for the illegal immigrants that he welcomes with open arms. More people to support. While Levinson wants to re-classify slumlord homes into commercial housing, fire school teachers, enlarge classes and reduce garbage pick-up.

This is a miracle?

Maybe if you've lived in a third world nation.
But not if you remember the old Nassau County.

Please Lord - bring it BACK !!!!!

Dump Suozzi before he makes Nassau County a dump.



READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH THIS THREAD. Even if you're one of Suozzi's 6 figure management types, you have to agree, deep down inside, there's alot of truth posted here and the spin is not good for Nassau County. Tom Suozzi is not good for Nassau County.

READ THE NYPOST TODAY AND SEE WHAT SUOZZI IS UP TO WITH THE KING OF SLEAZE, GOLIZANO

[I don't get the Post- YET]

Sunday's Newsday made me sick so I don't get Newsday anymore.
If I want to read it - I'll pull a copy from the trash at work.
What'd the Post have to say? Maybe I'll start having that delivered.
================Nice Repost==============

Issue 1: Gangs - Why is Nassau a gang magnet

Issue 2: Immigration - Why is Nassau an illegal immigration magnet

Issue 3: Taxes - Where does our money go?

Issue 4: Schools - Would you send your kid to schools in Roosevelt, Uniondale, Hempstead (have you seen their school board? Most of them can't string a coherent sentance together...no wonder the kids are in trouble), Baldwin, Freeport, Glen Cove...

Issue 5: Affordability - Why are our younger professionals getting the heck out of Nassau?

Issue 6: Police - Do we have enough?

Issue 7: Development - Do we really need more high density development? Do we really want more "affordable" housing?

Issue 8: What's more important...a good bond rating, or what you had to give up to get there?

I could go on. If Suozzi wins, I am moving out of Nassau.

====================Well Said ==================

:idea:

[hedgehog]

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[It's catching up to Suozz]

How transparent. Suozzi finally gives money to youth groups in front of a media extravaganza he organizes during an election campaign, when he starved them during his reign and contributed to the increase in the gang problem and the increase in certain related crimes like sexual assaults, commercial bribery and violent crimes. Sure the overall crime rate is down, but the worse crimes are being committed more frequently.

Suozzi started out his reign by dismantling the unit of the police called special ops - which is that part of the Juvenile Aid Bureau, that is also consolidated with the Special Victims Unit, that handles juvenile problems and gang activity - for which another specialized unit was formed.

Suozzi then stopped funding on these units and complained that there shouldn't be specialized cops running around, that they should all be patrol cops and all cops should handle all things. Suozzi felt that there was no specialists needed and no money needed to be alloted for that.

When the gang population over the last couple years exploded, the related crimes soared, the cops became completely frustrated because of Suozzi's new policies - they started lobbying and with the help of a strong union - and an even more frustated District Attorney's office, and finally got Suozzi to once again, flip flop backwards, tripping again over his own feet to correct yet another one of his stupid detailess visions.

They forced him to reinstate the funding, and the special operatives. But then the units had to start all over again putting together another team, getting back on the streets and getting known and trusted again. Thanks to Suozzi, the Special Victims Unit and the gang related task forces started under the GOP reign, now lost so much time, and money, that years of work was lost and projects had to be started up again almost from scratch.

Thanks to Suozzi's administration, instead of giving the DA something to work with, he created bigger problems for law enforcement, instead, feeding the non-gang juveniles who actually deserved a break, to the wolves in family court - so he could keep espousing his tuff on crime policies, that in reality, he didn't have.

As if that wasn't bad enough, Suozzi cut to the bone all youth groups and organizations, contributing nothing toward them and ignoring the problems that the schools were having. Instead of admitting he was the cause of the problem, Suozzi then turns around and insults the schools trying to wage a war between the residents and the schools, blaming the schools for increased taxes when all the while, the schools burdens increased tremendously under the Suozzi regime because they had to make up what aid and support Suozzi failed to provide.

Now, all of a sudden, during an election year, Suozzi throws himself a press release extravaganza and finally throws some money to the youth groups that he destroyed, and ignored, for all these years. Of course, he invites the cops too, because just like he burped on the abortion issue while trying to garner the Conservative party endorsement, he's now trying to garner the support of the PBA.

He's getting so transparent that it's becoming clear that Suozzi is nothing more than a metrosexual in love with himself and the attention this job gets him, but incapable of being worth anything aside from having "visions - more like hallucinations" without any substance.

The Peterson people will make an issue out of the fact he's done nothing all this time. He doesn't care. He never did. And he never will.

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We told you. It's catching up to Suozzi. Now homeowners have to baracade themselves in at night. Re-elect Suozzi and next thing you'll see are concrete gates and bars on the windows all throughout Nassau County - with rampant gangs and illegals harassing women and girls as they try to go about their daily business.

Peterson 2005 - save Nassau County.

The only reason suozzi can say his budget balances is because he's putting everything of till he thinks he'll be gone and in albany. Like the 21% salary increase he just gave the jail which is already millions of dollars of overtime. The give back is what - they can work 151 hours of overtime each every month - but no more? Come on. The salary peak in 2007. We pay later when he thinks he'll be gone.

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Is that why?

Is that why he failed to pay the tax assessment refunds and there remains a huge deficit with the loss of the bonding in December?

It's also why they won't adjust your future tax assessments when you win a hearing that the judge says your current tax assessment should be changed, which is really your past assessment by the time you get your hearing. The past is the basis for the future so obviously if the past is wrong, the future should change, but Levinson's people are too stupid to figure that out and Suozzi is hoping people eventually just get disgusted and give up.

It's also why the parks "comeback" consisted of planting some half dead plants and slapping a few coats of free paint left over from the state on park benches and how come he hasn't paid the taxes Nassau owes to the Cities who run their own transporation and repair their own streets for 4 years.

It's especially funny that with all the highly paid civil servants on Suozzi's payroll, with his importation of Borin and Botwin from NYC Assessors/Corp Counsel right before the indictments for bribery and kickback of their assessors went down - that he still went ahead and used an outside consultant to represent Nassau County's tax assessments at those hearings - and the consultant has an office in NYC and an office in Suffolk and none in Nassau County. Typical Suozzi mismanagement. Get him out in 2005.

If Suozzi did balance the budget he did it at the expense of the kids - he axed so much money from youth programs and juvenile cops that they are suffering so he can pay his bloated, top heavy appointees much more money than they'd ever qualify to earn in the private sector - hell - half of them wouldn't have even been interviewed for the jobs if it was anybody but Suozzi's people doing the hiring. Get Suozzi out and send his people packing.

[Why is signal 10 for Greg]

Signal10.org is for Greg Peterson because they are the guys and gals who care so much about their communities and the people who live in them that they volunteer their time to risk their life to preserve and save all that we hold dear. They want a like minded individual in charge of Nassau County and they know that Suozzi could give a fig newton less about anything that goes on within our borders. Peterson cares. Suozzi doesn't. That's why signal 10 is supporting Greg Peterson at the polls on November 8th. If you care -- so will you.

[nassau boy]

The only reason suozzi can say his budget balances is because he's putting everything of till he thinks he'll be gone and in albany. Like the 21% salary increase he just gave the jail which is already millions of dollars of overtime. The give back is what - they can work 151 hours of overtime each every month - but no more? Come on. The salary peak in 2007. We pay later when he thinks he'll be gone.

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Is that why?

Is that why he failed to pay the tax assessment refunds and there remains a huge deficit with the loss of the bonding in December?

It's also why they won't adjust your future tax assessments when you win a hearing that the judge says your current tax assessment should be changed, which is really your past assessment by the time you get your hearing. The past is the basis for the future so obviously if the past is wrong, the future should change, but Levinson's people are too stupid to figure that out and Suozzi is hoping people eventually just get disgusted and give up.

It's also why the parks "comeback" consisted of planting some half dead plants and slapping a few coats of free paint left over from the state on park benches and how come he hasn't paid the taxes Nassau owes to the Cities who run their own transporation and repair their own streets for 4 years.

It's especially funny that with all the highly paid civil servants on Suozzi's payroll, with his importation of Borin and Botwin from NYC Assessors/Corp Counsel right before the indictments for bribery and kickback of their assessors went down - that he still went ahead and used an outside consultant to represent Nassau County's tax assessments at those hearings - and the consultant has an office in NYC and an office in Suffolk and none in Nassau County. Typical Suozzi mismanagement. Get him out in 2005.

If Suozzi did balance the budget he did it at the expense of the kids - he axed so much money from youth programs and juvenile cops that they are suffering so he can pay his bloated, top heavy appointees much more money than they'd ever qualify to earn in the private sector - hell - half of them wouldn't have even been interviewed for the jobs if it was anybody but Suozzi's people doing the hiring. Get Suozzi out and send his people packing.
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I don't even know where to begin to correct all the lies and mistakes in this post. It is literally one huge lie. There is not a single thing correct in the above post. It belongs in a bird cage.

[Suozzi Cheats]

Fight annual tax assessments and Suozzi's trick of refusing to fix the assessments for the future projected taxes based upon winning your tax assessment of a previous year. The court says you were overassessed and lowers it, and your taxes are suppose to go down, but Suozzi and Levinson and Weitzman cirvumvent the law by refusing to adjust the assessments for the future years. Those assessment are built on top of the ones you just appealed, but now by the time you get your day in court, the deadline to appeal the next year's tax is gone - just like the Suozzi team planned. So you never get the benefit of the Court's ruling and the Suozzi people wind up raising your taxes more than the 6% per year, 20% overall that the law prohibits.

http://gregpeterson2005.com/content/protest.html

Sign up today and vote for Peterson on November 8th.

[The best of Suozzi]

And let's not forget how the Nassau County Comptroller hired a Newsday Accountant for our Comptroller's office who was arrested on fraud over Newsday's criminal activities or Suozzi's hiring of the bankrupt Peter Sylver who stole and sexually assaulted during his reign or how they are still running Dave Dennenberg after he was convicted because of petition fraud - and the Nation of Islam guy who submitted fraudulent timesheets authorized by his boss who Suozzi refused to fire. Please. These are all Democrats and close to home brother ....
The press conference Suozzi had when he was just about to award money that he got from a legal suit based on accounting fraud ------------- right back to one of the partners of the accounting firm that was convicted of fraud? His newly appointed Deputy County Executive almost fainted and kinda poked him on the shoulder to tell him that the guy he was giving the money to, the same money the County was given back for fraud - was the very guy Driscoll had prosecuted when he was an Assistant US Attorney General !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You just can't make this stuff up. Like the time Suozzi's boy Abrahams gave a press conference complaining about landlord abandoned homes - allegedly an early propaganda piece for Suozzi's pro-condemnation, industrial development crap - and in the middle of him ranting and raving about these abandoned homes, the hard working woman who owned came home, after working like a 14 hour shift for minimum wage - and almost crowned him with her umbrella. Suozzi's clowns are real good for a laugh - better than early morning Tom and Jerry cartoons....
And the best part - Tom Suozzi saying that he's no longer attracted to his own ideas to build low income, 60 story skyscrapers! Good thing he took that out of Peter Sylver's economic development plan huh?

[The best of Suozzi]

Remember these:

Jantzen

Suozzi's close crony from Glen Cove who got caught by the Feds - doctoring books too and isn't there still an ongoing fed investigation over the child support eforcement reimbursements for fraudulently submitting false case counts from the county attorney's office in 2000-2003 - when Suozzi's team first took office and didn't know what they were doing so just made up numbers and claimed they "extrapolated" from previous years?

Suozzi's plans for an empire development zone that sounded suspiciously like another IDA scam. There are other Empire Zones in the State of New York, according to Newsday - these special patronage mills - where industrial factories crop up and bring in cheap labor (just the type of people you want more of hanging around your neighborhood to add to an already overpopulated housing market - and exist now only in Jamaica and the Rockaways (that's Suozzi's model for us)

Suozzi's economic development zones: New Castle (where Kaiman kicked the old lady out of her home in the name of "revitalization" - the home she ran a community church from), Freeport, THE COLISEUM AREA - THAT'S WANG'S WORLD- , Hempstead (where his BOE workers unlawfully campaigned on County Time for Mayor Hall), Roosevelt, Elmont (they want to run the Pakistani community activist from there for Legislator, I guess to balance out Suozzi's Nation of Islam workers), Inwood (part of Inwood is Queens) and Bethpage.

Renting space in Mitchell Field (owned by Reckson which contributed over $15,000 to Suozzi for his pre-governatorial race) to move DSS there when there isn't enough room to fit all the employees and visitors, and picking up the cost of paving over a well used ballfield to build a parking lot for DSS workers, while keeping the Probation Dept. in the old, unsafe DSS building that the County already owns anyway.

Newsday prints an article with Tom's picture about how TOM turned the aquatic center into a profit making revenue grabber. THEN the democrats in the legislator call for the firing of Sheriff Reilly blaming HIM for the failure to make appropriate repairs to the jail, which repairs the County knew about and ignored for 3 years because, in DCE Driscoll's words - SUOZZI couldn't find a million dollars to repair the leaky roof and so forth, leading to piles of fines and penalties and jeopardizing State intervention. So apparently, when things go well, it's Suozzi's leadership that does it, yet when things go bad - that becomes the fault of everyone else. So things like county maintainence of jails is insignificant to this administration - but opening up our taxpayer funding county parks to NYC residents to increase Tom's revenue stream at the expense of the taxpayers - that's a Suozzi priority.

Suozzi spent all his energy massaging his ego and taking the Parking & Traffic Violations Bureau out of independent rule and changing all the bylaws and nomination committees and putting it under his rule - County rule. So it went from an independent agency to a County operated facility. And then SUOZZI stepped out & hired a NYC lackie - another Reilly clan member to run it into the ground.
Now there is MANDATORY OVERTIME (like at the Jail and with the cops - see a Suozzi mis-management pattern coming on here?) and instead of giving people hearings and doing things the right way - they start sending out threatening letters that people defaulted. Not really true. Some did but they have a right to ask to reopen a default. Others didnt', in fact, they got dismissals. But the paperwork got lost, or not inputed into the new, new, new computer systems or not properly converted when Suozzi's outside management team came in and converted the data over. There were alot of problems. Basically, the whole system was set-up ONLY to collect money - as though it was a collection agency. If you wanted to contest the charges or get a plea bargain or have a trial - you couldn't get through by phone and your court dates were all messed up or even after you won or pleaded your case, there would be no record of it and you'd just get another summons. Then you couldn't get through to anyone to straighten that out OR to get another court date - or to adjorn an old court date - which accounted for alot of the so-called defaults too. People were waiting for new court dates after they requested adjornments and they just didn't get them. The whole place is a disaster. Complete and utter chaos. The ONLY thing they managed to figure out how to do is let people pay. So now you got alot of innocent people, or people who could have gotten pleas - paying when they shouldn't be paying just because Suozzi's system frustrated them so they couldn't afford the time off from work to straighten their tickets out. It's worse then the old DMV used to be. NOW he's taking cars, houses and bank accounts from these very same people.

Failing to put in place alternative sentencing courts for youths at risk and juveniles and hiring criminal lawyers to handle youth cases in family court forces the schools to pay for their residential placements, sometimes out of state, and over extended periods of time, as the schools have to provide home tutoring for them, hiring a county attorney who got chased out NYC who sued to require medicaid reimbursements from parents of children who had special needs because she didn't know that the law required the county to then pick up 100% of the costs, all leading to increases in your school property taxes.

The county attorney's office is now defending those policies that suozzi called smoke and mirror budget tricks because suozzi is using the same ones - and then some! Apparently, the industrial development agency (IDA) was set up by gulotta to attract business to long island and one of those businesses - GoYa - set up on the grumman property (which I believe, didn't suozzi claim he sold for $50 million to a private party and then went to Washington - why did he go - why didn't he send the legislative liaison? - to get $2 million dollars to clean up the Grumman property (which he included in his budget like he included in his budget the sale of the DSS building that he never actually sold, and failed to account for how he was going to pay the tax assessment refund judgments piling up and all the lost legal judgments from the failed DWI asset forfeiture program).

There are 30 PILOT companies out there now (IE: under the credit for refund pact) and HALF of them are Suozzi companies - HALF of them got their deals AFTER Suozzi took office. So basically - Suozzi campaigned on the premise that this was dirty politics, bad economic budgeting, leading toward bankruptcy
got elected
used the same system and set-up 15 companies with this same system - companies that all made political contributions to him-
THEN he got rid of the system (or claims he has, maybe it's like his Nassau County residency requirement - it's a requirement UNLESS he exempts someone from it) - sounds like how he campaigned saying Gulotta wasted the taxpayer's money by getting driven around by a cop - and now Suozzi has not one but two police drivers for himself.

How Suozzi claimed, and than backed off, and now went back to blaming the Republicans instead, that Medicaid the reason for the property tax increases and the reason for the expected budget deficit next year - and all his Fix Albany talk that he apparently, is no longer attracted to since nothing much ever got accomplished there.

Tom Suozzi's bloated management filled with NYC outsiders and increased spending without paying debts or repairing things as they go along, his failed campaign promises and visions that go nowhere and floating bonds to build up LIJ-North Shore instead of his own NUMC.

His budget? Newsday printed a cute little article about all the accounting tricks used by the Bush administration and companies like Encron - too bad they didn't apply it to the Suozzi administration too. The GOP should do it for them and show the public what a fraud this man really is.

That the Old Courthouse remains in disrepair and all he did was knock down a wall, that DSS not sold, Family Court is not sold, The Police Headquarters is not moved, there has been no consolidation of any County buildings or Agencies. I don't see any ZOO and there sure is no acquarium. Glen Cove is still an empty wasteland which he just now got cleaned up - after the Suozzi family has done nothing after being in charge for 30 years except watch Holzberg get indicted, neither the streets now the parks have been repaired - just a few slaps of paint and funeral parlor plants planted by $65 an hour seasonal workers who live in NYC - although fees for everything were raised and the only food concession stand permitted to have food in the parks was given to a Democratic Leader.

Isn't this Wang deal just a more expensive day care center deal? No bidding no worries - like the IDA contracts that went out to all Suozzi's political contributors - and only behind the doors, secret deals that now Suozzi has lost interest in. How long before he loses interest in Nassau County if he's re-elected? Did he actually ever have an interest?

The way he bullied the Republican Legislators into submission because he tied the security of Nassau County in a capital expenditures project by submitting the police radio acquisitions as a capital expense instead of what it really was - a homeland security special request - jeapardizing the safety of Nassau's residents for his own personal greedy agenda.
The legislature should give him sqat. Let him

The part where Suozzi is putting a big, red X on the "HUB" for the terrorists. Where most places are spreading out important buildings and such, just incase of a strike - Suozzi is bringing it all together and wants to surround it with high rise buildings to boot. He's basically saying - here's where we are - come cripple us.

Tom Suozzi and his newest sidekick, Timothy Driscoll, with their newest Economic Development Czar, Patrick Duggan are bearing down to borrow yet another $1.7 million to build a life sciences center in Lake Success - read -- QUEENS !!!! Or as close to the border as you can get without actually being there in exchange for what? Giving them control over NUMC after he wrested financial control from the independent operators there by threatening to withhold the County's portion of the money the County owed - like he did by failing to pay Long Beach what he owed them and like what he did by failing to pay the Towns and Cities what they deserved for road and street repairs.
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This is some kind of private-public partnership between the county, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Trustee Daddy Suozzi's LIJ - (read QUEENS) North Shore group. In fact, it's exactly 16 niles to Manhattan, and both major airports.
The property being developed is owned by a private party who is going to lease space to this private-public concern.
The architect is the same Manhattan company Suozzi is giving business to - to play around with Nickerson's HUB idea - which has an office in Suffolk County.

It sounds suspicious especially with Suozzi's support of building an additional LIRR train track from Queens right through the south shore and the heart of Garden City into Mineola so all his NYC residents can more easily commute to their Nassau County Government jobs while the Nassau County residents pick up the tab, and the inconvenience.

But it looks for Suozzi in his Governor's race and that's all he cares about. Looks and his future - at the expense of the Nassau County residents. He spent the last 4 years laying the groundwork for these use, and largely unwanted and useless projects for Nassau citizens - to show the NYC & soon upstate people what he can do FOR THEM if elected Governor. If re-elected, he'll destroy Nassau in his quest for higher ground. We are in his way.

It's true - if the GOP hired NYC workers who were running just a step ahead of the fraud and the corruption they left behind in the city it would be all over newsday for weeks at a time. yet Suozzi hired a top management team at the county attorney's office and every one of them escaped scathing reports from inept trial skills as the NYPD claimed, to ineffective managment as the Human Rights Commission complained, to miscarriage of juvenile justice as the legal aid society and NYC media identified to the criminal indictments in the NYC tax assessor's office. Klein brought his own special brand of inepitude with him, the jail is racking up overtime in excess of $20 million. Reilly is making a mess of things over in PVB, we have Bogsted laying low in Consumer Affairs while cheats and frauds run rampant - there's Borin in the Assessors office and on and on.

Suozzi's administration reads more like the godfather's hit parade of crooks and felons and we, the residents, suffer accordingly.

Stop the nonsense. Save yourself before you become a stepford spouse.

Vote for Peterson.

[Suozzi says crime is down]

Crime is down. The statistics say so. But LOOK at the police department's website and SEE the data behind the statistics. PETITE larceny is down. GRAND larceny is up. Soft crime is down. VIOLENT crime is up. Would you swap a high crime rate consisting of shoplifting for a low crime rate consisting of sexual assault, murders and home burgularies? 'Cos that's what happened under the Suozzi administration. He and Newsday didn't lie, exactly. They just didn't tell the truth - the very important truth they hope the public is stupid too find out about on their own.
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Suozzi claims he is hiring a new, huge police force. So what? After he dismantled the special crimes task forces that took decades to perfect, and fired the most experienced, senior detectives on the force - what are a bunch of bungling, 19 year old rookies going to do in the face of the ever growing gangs that keep growing, invading and spreading out here in Nassau County? It will take years before they become seasoned enough to be effective. Nassau will be destroyed by then, unless Peterson is elected County Executive on November 8th.
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But don't take it from me - look at the cop's own postings on their own forum - This is what they are saying:
Don't forget Suozzi who wants to cut the patrol force down by doing away with minimum manning and decreasing the number of car posts out there. For you Nassau County tax paying civilians who do not understand - minimum manning is a binding contract between the county and the police department which designates the staffing levels for the number of police on patrol. It says there must be a certain "minimum" number of cops on the street. Maintaining this minimum level is what keeps you safe and ensures that all cops have sufficient back up. Without it ... instead of having 20 something officers riding within your precinct, there is nothing that will prevent the "powers to be" to attempt to save money and staff just 50% of those officers, hence risking your lives as well as the officers lives. Minimum manning is what your tax dollars pays for - the most cops per square mile than any other department in the nation!!! Suozzi's way around this is to try to cut the number of posts out there, by decreasing them and either doubling or tripling their respective size. He can spin this and say all posts are manned 100%, yet you will still have 50% of the cops out there. Be heard, election day is around the corner - vote for your safety, vote for change, vote for the cure, vote for Peterson for your kids' sake!

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IF YOU LEAVE THIS COUNTY UP TO TOM SUOZZI TO RUN AND A COMMISSIONER THAT DOESNT CARE AND IS JUST ANOTHER PUPPET OF SUOZZI YOU MAY AS WELL CONSIDER YOURSELF LIVING IN THE CITY ALREADY. THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 175 CARS NOT INCLUDING SPECIAL UNITS IN NASSAU COUNTY. NOW TAKE AWAY AT LEAST 5 CARS IN EACH PRECINCT AT NIGHT BECAUSE SOUZZI DOESNT WANT THE PAY TO GO UP IN NUMBERS.(IT WAS A PROMISE BTWN CHIEFS AND SUOZZI DURING ELECTION YEAR) EACH CAR ONLY HAS ONE OFFICER IN IT. NOW IF THERE IS A MAJOR THING LIKE AN ACCIDENT WHICH USUALLY HAPPENS AT NIGHT DUE TO DRIVERS DRINKING OR OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES,THATS TWO CARS AT LEAST GONE FOR QUITE A FEW HOURS DUE TO AN ARREST.NOW IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE ARREST A NIGHT THINK ABOUT ALL THE CARS THAT ARE NOT ON THE ROAD. ****THAN YOU HAVE A PERSON WHO IS SICK THEYCALL AN AMBULANCE SO NOW YOU HAVE TO SEND TWO COPS AND AN AMBULANCE. THEY ARE OUT FOR AT LEAST 45 MINS OR MORE NOT INCLUDING IF THERE NEEDS TO BE AN ARREST MADE.BETWEEN THE TOP BRASS LAYING UP CARS,AND CARS THAT ARE OUT ON ARRESTS AND WE ARE TALKING A QUIET NIGHT. YOU WILL HAVE MAYBE 6 CARS LEFT IN EACH PRECINCT TO COVER THE WHOLE PRECINCT. WHICH IS ALOT OF TERRITORY. IF ALL THE CARS IN ONE PRECINCT ARE OUT ON CALLS NOW THE OFFICERS IN OTHER PRECINCTS HAVE TO GO TO YOUR TOWN. SAY YOU LIVE IN MASSAPEQUA AND YOU HAVE SOMEONE BREAKING INTO YOUR HOUSE,IF THERE ARE NO CARS LEFT IN YOUR PRECINCT ***THEY WILL BORROW EITHER FROM BELLMORE OR FARMINGDALE OR HICKSVILLE THINK ABOUT HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE THAT OFFICER TO GET TO YOUR HOUSE. SCARY ISNT IT????? THAN SUOZZI HAS THE NERVE TO SAY GARY DELARABA IS A BLOWHARD!!!!! NOT AT ALL. SO IF I WERE YOU AND SOMETHING HAPPENS ASK FROM WHERE THE CAR CAME FROM AND HOW LONG IT TOOK THEM TO GET THERE THE NUMBERS WILL SHOW THAT SUOZZI IS A LYING FOOL THAT DONT CARE A DAMN ABOUT HIS CITIZENS OF NASSAU COUNTY
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Today’s Newsday just posted this article. Pataki offered manpower to Nassau County to assist in catching the home Invaders, and Suozzi puppet Lawrence refuses...He should step down immediately

If he is not in favor of catching the criminals because it affects the election, he is not a cop, he is a political hack...

Read the article here

http://www.nassaupba.org/public/PBA_in_the_news/commissioner-lawrence-ref.shtml


Watch this if you haven't already..... Real player file..

http://www.nassaupba.org/public/bm~doc/you-lose-with-souzzi.rm

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It's scary what Suozzi is trying to get away with and the scariest part is - I don't think the guy even has a clue as to what consequences his policies are having. He just doesn't care.

[quote=Anonymous]The only reason suozzi can say his budget balances is because he's putting everything of till he thinks he'll be gone and in albany.

If that's true then why did the Independent Budget Review office, the Comptroller and NIFA all say they were ok with the multi year plan and only had minor concerns?

Sorry to inject some truth in to your bullshit stew.

[What a jerk]

All the things posted and this imbecile tries to use THAT in defense of everything wrong in the suozzi adminstration. the fact that an "independent" review board and comptroller both of which were hand picked by and front loaded by suozzi with suozzi yes men is as bad as thinking the fact that newsday endorses anybody is worth the paper that rag is written on. how many got arrested for lying at newsday - at least 6 were arrested for fraud and 1 of them was hired by suozzi's comptroller. wow. the comptroller sure doesn't lie. as to nifa - first of all - they are the ones who drafted the budgets and recommended the course that the county took in 2001 - suozzi just sat along for the ride. and guess what idiot? nifa was the gop idea - it was one of gulottas last acts in office to get pataki to influx the 100 million dollars into the county because of the tax assessments which is the money that pulled the county out of fiscal problems, notwithstanding that suozzi took the credit because he happened to be standing in office at the time. don't shoot it off before you understand what you're talking about next time. that's the problem with you suozzites - you're so stupid that its almost painful to have to try and communicate with you.

[I can get to like J.Brown]

Suozzi really feel apart in the first Newsday interview he ever had where the reporter wasn't simultaneously lighting his pipe and wiping his ass. Apparently, Suozzi has no good reason for wanting the County Executive job except for his blind ambition, and he had to steal from the Republican's campaign literature and appeared to say that he's trying to maintain the Republican's original plans for Nassau County because they fell off course for awhile, despite the fact that all Suozzi's written economic development plans and economic development zone talks indicate that Suozzi's approach is directly opposite the continuation of how he depicted Surburbia to be - instead - he's trying to overdevelop and invite more and more people into a community where there is clearly - neither the room nor a welcome mat. Suozzi practically admitted that he micromanaged the County when he first got into office (then how do you explain his comments in the newsday article upon which this thread is named - when he claimed not be aware that his economic development agency was stealing a million dollars of federal government money from the poor of Nassau County), but now it seems, he's almost admitted that's he's lost interest in managing the County and I guess, he's leaving it to all those 400 appointees from the Bronx and Little Neck and thereabouts - who seem to think it's perfectly ok to drain us of our money as long as as their pockets are full, and then drive their County paid SUV's back home to their own boroughs to spend our money there. The only thing Suozzi should be fighting is his own desire to stay in public office. He should have listened to his father who probably knows the real Suozzi better than almost anyone - he should have stayed out of politics and go back to working as a bean counter for some law firm.

[Soul Finder]

Joye Brown of Newsday has done a masterful job in not only her writing of the Suozzi/Peterson piece, but getting to the core of both men (well one we know is a boy).
In a purposefull offbeat way it seems she got the real Suozzi to come out. Simple and petulent.
Peterson. straightforward and decent.
I love the two styles of managing.
Suozzi - "get on board or get out of the way".
Peterson - "I want to bring out the best in people".
Hey we know that Suozzi is going to win this thing, but I can only wish for his kids that when they head to the workplace, they never have to answer to such a egomanical simpleton as he.

[Peterson to Win]

Don't place your bets yet. So far, every election prediction on this board has been wrong. Remember Carolyn McCarthy, Zapson & Sidikman? Peterson has more supporters than you think - and half the people holding Suozzi signs are doing it only because it's forced servitude and they're afraid of him. When the curtains are closed, the levers will go down in Peterson's favor because the voters aren't stupid. They can tell the difference between someone who doesn't care and fights for his own agenda and someone who has a deep committment for the community he lives in - with 3 grown children he wants to continue living here in the same safe, peaceful, surburban community it was pre-Suozzi. People like Greg - they don't particularly care for Suozzi - oh he's charming but like Greg said - when the lights go off - enough people have seen Suozzi's dark side to know - he's the man Newsday portrays him to be.

[Defeated?]

If Soul Finder can see it all, why be defeated and assume that the King gets another 4 years and leaves in 6 months. Look if voting GOP is equivilant to hitting your thumb with a hammer, then dont vote!If your a dem that feel's used and abused then take the plung and vote for Greg.

I will take a person who has been through it all and has to look into his childrens eyes and possibly his grand childrens eyes and will do the right thing, simply because we are at a breaking point much worse the when the Sleeze took office. i would have perfered the county go bankrupt, which if you look at the condition of the roads, parks and school's today, and quality of life is not much differnent if it did!We have less now with crushing taxes then we ever did before!

Personally I am not interested in mapping someone stage debut!

Suozzi really feel apart in the first Newsday interview he ever had where the reporter wasn't simultaneously lighting his pipe and wiping his ass. Apparently, Suozzi has no good reason for wanting the County Executive job except for his blind ambition, and he had to steal from the Republican's campaign literature and appeared to say that he's trying to maintain the Republican's original plans for Nassau County because they fell off course for awhile, despite the fact that all Suozzi's written economic development plans and economic development zone talks indicate that Suozzi's approach is directly opposite the continuation of how he depicted Surburbia to be - instead - he's trying to overdevelop and invite more and more people into a community where there is clearly - neither the room nor a welcome mat. Suozzi practically admitted that he micromanaged the County when he first got into office (then how do you explain his comments in the newsday article upon which this thread is named - when he claimed not be aware that his economic development agency was stealing a million dollars of federal government money from the poor of Nassau County), but now it seems, he's almost admitted that's he's lost interest in managing the County and I guess, he's leaving it to all those 400 appointees from the Bronx and Little Neck and thereabouts - who seem to think it's perfectly ok to drain us of our money as long as as their pockets are full, and then drive their County paid SUV's back home to their own boroughs to spend our money there. The only thing Suozzi should be fighting is his own desire to stay in public office. He should have listened to his father who probably knows the real Suozzi better than almost anyone - he should have stayed out of politics and go back to working as a bean counter for some law firm.


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Suozzi should have been paying more attention to what's going on then he did to his campaigning - who's paying for that?

The statistics show that crime is down but what the statistics don't show are that the crimes that are down are lower level crimes - shoplifiting and the like. Sex crimes, assaults, home burgularies - grand larceny as opposed to petite larceny - those are up. Check the cop's site - they post the actual numbers. So what Suozzi exchanged because of the way he dismantled special police tasc forces - gang units, juvenile aid bureau, sex crimes for example - is that he exchanged less crime for more violent, higher grade crime. And by inviting so many NYC people into Nassau - he's shown them the way.

The Daily News posted an article showing that Hempstead cops arrested 117 people - 6 gang members from the bloods and the crips - between January and October of this year. The arrests weren't paid through County funds - Suozzi was too broke to fund the Hempstead Cops undercover operations. Instead, the money - $136,000 for cop's salaries - came from cash and other good seized in forfeitures funds through a program run by Dillon's office. $136,000 and 117 thugs off the street. I'd say that's well worth it. Too bad Suozzi can't see it.

All the things posted and this imbecile tries to use THAT in defense of everything wrong in the suozzi adminstration. the fact that an "independent" review board and comptroller both of which were hand picked by and front loaded by suozzi with suozzi yes men is as bad as thinking the fact that newsday endorses anybody is worth the paper that rag is written on. how many got arrested for lying at newsday - at least 6 were arrested for fraud and 1 of them was hired by suozzi's comptroller. wow. the comptroller sure doesn't lie. as to nifa - first of all - they are the ones who drafted the budgets and recommended the course that the county took in 2001 - suozzi just sat along for the ride. and guess what idiot? nifa was the gop idea - it was one of gulottas last acts in office to get pataki to influx the 100 million dollars into the county because of the tax assessments which is the money that pulled the county out of fiscal problems, notwithstanding that suozzi took the credit because he happened to be standing in office at the time. don't shoot it off before you understand what you're talking about next time. that's the problem with you suozzites - you're so stupid that its almost painful to have to try and communicate with you.


First of all, I love a tough guy on the computer. This guy is probably some wimpy piece of crap quivering in his mother's basement.

The only thing worse are his lies, which are more embarrassing than anything else. So now the comptroller is biased, the newpapers are biased and the oversight board is no good either, huh? What a laugh. So essentially anyone disagreeing with YOU is proof of ignorance or bias, is that how it works?

None of you even answer questions when they are put to you, like the one about the 42% tax increase figure and where it came from. Go ahead and answer that one for me before you bitch about anything else, you cowardly little turd.

Since the county was 3 BILLION in debt I don't see how 100 million pulled it out of debt. You're like a child. You make a mess, don't take responsibility and then blame others for it. Your BS is so bad its amazing your fingers don't explode. If it was so easy for Suozzi to just stand there and watch as the problems solved themselves, its amazing that the county got into the crappy bankrupt shape it was in in the first place, or was that Suozzi's fault, too?

And I notice you mention the people getting arrested at NEWSDAY but no mention of one of your own legislators who got in a car while under the influence of alcohol, not once but twice. Go ahead and blame Suozzi for that one, too, you moron. Don't even TRY to defend that.

I still find it amazing that apparently Suozzi has fooled all the players who are supposed to watch over the county, including the ratings agencies and Governing Magazine, but he hasn't fooled the anonymous economic scholars who visit THIS site.

Here are some facts:

-YOU and your ilk caused the problems.
-The other party fixed them.
-They got SOME help from NIFA, which was only needed because YOU dragged the county into the toilet, and you made it SO bad that no one could fix it without help.
-EVERY independent entity gives him credit for the turnaround.
-The ads on TV are full of lies that have either been exposed as lies, or have been asked about on this site without a single explanation as to how they were determined.
-There was no tax increase in the budget.
-There was no delay in signing the budget as Peterson hoped there would be.
-Nassau is the safest county in the country for its size.
-There was no 500 million increase in spending in the budget.
-He raised taxes ONE time as promised, and not again.

Stop being a little boy wetting his pants and accept the truth. Asshole.

Joye Brown of Newsday has done a masterful job in not only her writing of the Suozzi/Peterson piece, but getting to the core of both men (well one we know is a boy).
In a purposefull offbeat way it seems she got the real Suozzi to come out. Simple and petulent.
Peterson. straightforward and decent.
I love the two styles of managing.
Suozzi - "get on board or get out of the way".
Peterson - "I want to bring out the best in people".


Isn't it funny how one minute you people claim that NEWSDAY is a rag that kisses Suozzi's ass, and the next minute when they praise your guy you compliment them on their quality journailsm. You people are so transparent its a riot.

[Tale of Two Papers]

Editorial Board - Kluerfeld and Pappa Suozzi
News Side - Independent writers (all of them) Suozzi is a joke.
Joye Brown - Queen of Truth
Thats why the different opinions!

[go brownie]

Editorial Board - Kluerfeld and Pappa Suozzi
News Side - Independent writers (all of them) Suozzi is a joke.
Joye Brown - Queen of Truth
Thats why the different opinions!

This Joye Brown published all the ummmms... likes, and you knows.... that means she didn't like Suozzi. Most writers clean those up.

[In Greg's Own Words]

This off Greg Peterson's website - the Truth about the Issues
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Residents:

As I have traveled throughout Nassau these last few months, many residents have asked me, "Why are you running?" The answer is easy:

Simply put, Nassau County is going in the wrong direction.

Over the last four years, we have watched county government fall out of touch with the people it is supposed to serve. The current administration - known for engaging in near fisticuffs with legislators who don't support its agenda completely - is not responsive to our needs. Unlike the present County Executive, I will do everything possible to build a meaningful, working relationship with all members of the County Legislature, regardless of party. Republicans and Democrats must work together if Nassau is to be placed back on the right track.

Moreover, I will actively seek - not ignore - the input of our residents.

Our county is at a crossroads. The outcome of this year's election will determine whether Nassau remains a suburban community of which we can be proud or whether overbuilding, skyrocketing taxes and a shrinking police force will make our neighborhoods less desirable places in which to live.

You know it and I know it: Spiraling property taxes are breaking our budgets. While taxes rise out of control, our police department gets smaller and smaller, allowing gangs to get a foothold in Nassau County. Traffic gets worse and worse while the county pushes for additional development - including a massive, 60 story complex in our already congested hub area near the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

It doesn't have to be this way. Who you vote for does make a difference.

Here are some facts you should consider before casting your vote for County Executive:

On taxes:

As a candidate, Tom Suozzi promised to find creative solutions to Nassau's fiscal problems but, once elected, he took the easy way out. He didn't cut costs; he dug deeper into our wallets. Tom Suozzi increased our real property taxes nearly 20% his first year in office.

To add insult to injury, the county also began a practice of reassessing homes every year. As a result, and as demonstrated by the school tax bills which were mailed earlier this month, property taxes for homeowners are out of control and continue to skyrocket.

This increased tax burden places hardships on taxpayers. Many have moved or are giving thought to leaving Nassau County. Our children cannot afford to purchase homes in the communities where they grew up. The American Dream is a reality for fewer and fewer young families in Nassau.

As your County Executive,
I will go to court, if necessary, to freeze assessments for five years at a time.

This will help provide stability for Nassau County taxpayers. Spiraling home assessments, and the higher taxes they bring, are killing us.
On the safety of our communities:

Despite paying the highest taxes in Nassau's history, Nassau residents are being short-changed in terms of the police protection that government provides to them. Politicians - many from outside our area and unfamiliar with the needs of a suburban community - have ineffectively micromanaged the police department and compromised its effectiveness.

Fact: Under the Suozzi administration, more than 500 experienced law enforcement officers have left police service. Every division has been affected.

The gang task force - created in 2003 to combat the growing infiltration of Nassau by members of urban gangs - has been dissolved because there weren't enough police officers to staff it. Understaffing has also led to the county's inability to monitor convicted child molesters, as required under Megan's Law. The time it takes police to respond to emergency calls is not what it should be.

Police levels matter. As size of the police force declines, crime goes up. In the first six months of this year, sex crimes in Nassau rose by 20 percent, robberies were up 23 percent, and the number of murders doubled when compared to the same period last year. At this time, home-invasion robberies are up a terrifying 75 percent over all of last year and gang activity is more prevalent than ever.

As your County Executive, I will appoint a law enforcement administration with suburban experience: one that understands the need for community policing and that will not tolerate gang activity. I will work to reduce overtime expenses by hiring more police officers. This will increase the presence of law enforcement personnel in our neighborhoods and prevent crime.

On congestion and overdevelopment:

Nassau County is rapidly becoming overbuilt. Our infrastructure can't handle the continued overdevelopment of real estate.

Traffic is becoming unbearable. Many of our schools are overcrowded.

How residents vote for County Executive next month will largely determine whether Nassau remains a suburban environment or if the county continues to take on urban characteristics.

The current administration favors the urbanization of Nassau County, as demonstrated by its support for a 60-story skyscraper, surrounded by other superstructures, near the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. So enamored of this project is County Executive Tom Suozzi that he privately negotiated an agreement with a developer to permit its construction without competition. Fortunately, members of the County Legislature slowed the process to give competing developers an opportunity to make proposals for the land although the time for competition was extremely limited.

Here's where I stand on the development of the so-called "coliseum property:"

The development of this prime 77 acre county owned real estate will have a direct impact on our lives and the lives of many future generations. I am opposed to the development of skyscrapers - and the traffic they bring - in our suburban community. But my personal opinion regarding the development of this property is not the issue here. The issue is that the Suozzi administration attempted to leave the residents and County Legislature out of the decision-making process.

As your County Executive, I will maintain an "open door" policy for all residents and all the county legislators. Unlike Mr. Suozzi, I will seek an appraisal to determine the property's fair market value, keeping the public and county legislators informed and seeking their input. Then, with a value in mind, I would give developers three months to submit their innovative ideas for development of this valued site. Nothing would move forward until the public had an opportunity to comment on the proposals that were offered.

On maintaining Nassau's valuable parks:

Government land is held in trust for the resident taxpayers. This is something that the Suozzi administration simply doesn't understand.

Case in point: Between 2002 and 2004, the maintenance of county parks was ignored. The park's administrative staff increased (including eleven high-salaried deputy commissioners). During the same time, the number of labor-class employees plummeted.

Visit a county park and you'll find plantings that are dead or dying due to neglect. Broken park benches and apparatus have been painted over but not fixed. Children are now being charged to use a pool slide. Because sufficient laborers do not exist to maintain our parks, volunteers are being sought for this purpose.

Taxpayers and their families should be able to visit a well-kept, safe county park for pleasure and not be "invited" to clean-up the park as volunteers. As your County Executive, I would reduce the number of administrative personnel and increase the labor force needed to properly maintain the park system. Unlike the flagrant window-dressing attempt of the present administration, my administration will respect and maintain the parks infrastructure so our facilities can be safely enjoyed by taxpayers.

On the need for integrity in government:

These have been disappointing days for taxpayers. Newspapers have been filled with stories about corruption and scandal.

Perhaps the biggest issue in this campaign involves integrity. The people who pay the bills - our hard-working taxpayers - are entitled to elected officials of whom they can be proud.

Consider this:

Appointments made under the Suozzi administration have repeatedly embarrassed Nassau County. In one situation, a deputy county executive was arrested and another resigned in a scandal involving falsified timesheets. Two non-resident, highly paid "consulting" employees were appointed, one arrested the other fired. A "whistleblower" has alleged - and an investigation is underway into charges - that taxpayer funded employees were forced to do political campaign work when they should have been performing the governmental functions that they were being paid for.

There is no room in local government for the ethically challenged.

Nassau residents should not be subjected to a government of mismanagement and scandals. As County Executive, I will change the direction of county government by appointing a concerned, professional administrative staff that will get the job done with integrity.

I am looking forward to working with you to achieve these goals by structuring a county government of which we can all be proud.

Thank you for your vote on November 8th.

Sincerely

Greg Peterson

[$3 mil can of paint]

Don't forget about the bond Suozzi floated last election to raise money for the can of paint and dead flowers he planted in the parks so Newsday could claim he "turned the parks around". First of all, they aren't much different now than they were 4 years ago. We have eyes and ears if not brains and can easily see that bit of brainwashing for the lie that it is. Second of all, Suozzi didn't use the high taxes and increased fees for regular maintainance and repairs. He floated a $3 million bond - allegedly for that purpose - and probably used it to break a wall at the Old Courthouse (and leave it like that) to get yet another Newsday photo op - among others. We'll be paying for that re-painted park bench for years and years to come. And now he and Newsday want you to vote yes for the State to float yet another bond to repair the roadways. Why should we? We pay more than enough taxes and if the politicians in charge can't figure out how to cut spending to carry ordinary repairs with our tax money - they need to be voted down. Suozzi is incapable of cutting spending. He needs to be voted down on November 8th. Vote no to Suozzi and vote no to proposition 2. Let's give them a message - we're fed-up with high taxes and the high cost of living here and we are putting our foot down. Tell them to cut patronage, cut port, cut special interests and learn how to use our money in a fiscally responsible way.

[The mafia staff]

Dennenberg Tobak Abrams Goodman - let's talk about lying shall we?

The problem for Suozzi is that he's become so much of a showman - he's developed the ability to convince even himself that he's telling the truth even when he's lying. The lines for him are all blurred - so blurred that he plucked from Philadelphia a DA candidate who herself is a defendant in a serious case whereby she is alleged to have surborned perjury by threatening a witness with jail time, if the witness didn't testify against the defendant, even after the witness told her that the defendant is an innocent man. That's how far she'll stoop - you don't want a DA who is more concerned with getting a conviction than getting the truth. Well, normal people don't. Suozzi doesn't care and Newsday refused to give the readers the information. But then again, Suozzi's comptroller hired a Newsday accountant who was convicted of defrauding advertisers by doctoring up the books. One would think you wouldn't want a character like working in the County's alleged watchdog agency, alongside the SEC specialist they also hired - but apparently Weitzman and Suozzi do. Why not? They hired a bankrupt Peter Sylver to handle a multi-million dollar economic development agency, hired Nation of Islam activistis and took them to Albany with them to campaign for Suozzi on County time - then lied about it, or tried to and hired Borin from the NYC assessors office to run Nassau County's Assessment Review Office after all his NYC Assessors got indicted for taking bribes. His hiring of Peter Reinharz from Little Neck Queens who wrote a book on juvenile delinquency that says all black, hispanic and italian kids are predisposed to criminal actions and should be locked up until their 21 years old. This is Suozzi and these are his people. He is not sure of the difference between the truth and a lie - and to him, it doesn't seem to matter. Vote for Peterson in 2005.

* Nice post, but Reinharz wants even the non-violent white kids to get locked up until they are thirty, and made allusions to "genetic" predisposition to criminality when discussing a case involving an Italian American youth from Baychester, New York. According in newspaper accounts, Reinharz encouraged drug experiments on little kiddies with mind altering substances that were banned by the FDA when he released confidential information about family court charges and their siblings to medical clinics performing such drug trials. Apparently, Suozzi has alot of sickos working for him.



Dennenberg Tobak Abrams Goodman - let's talk about lying shall we?

The problem for Suozzi is that he's become so much of a showman - he's developed the ability to convince even himself that he's telling the truth even when he's lying. The lines for him are all blurred - so blurred that he plucked from Philadelphia a DA candidate who herself is a defendant in a serious case whereby she is alleged to have surborned perjury by threatening a witness with jail time, if the witness didn't testify against the defendant, even after the witness told her that the defendant is an innocent man. That's how far she'll stoop - you don't want a DA who is more concerned with getting a conviction than getting the truth. Well, normal people don't. Suozzi doesn't care and Newsday refused to give the readers the information. But then again, Suozzi's comptroller hired a Newsday accountant who was convicted of defrauding advertisers by doctoring up the books. One would think you wouldn't want a character like working in the County's alleged watchdog agency, alongside the SEC specialist they also hired - but apparently Weitzman and Suozzi do. Why not? They hired a bankrupt Peter Sylver to handle a multi-million dollar economic development agency, hired Nation of Islam activistis and took them to Albany with them to campaign for Suozzi on County time - then lied about it, or tried to and hired Borin from the NYC assessors office to run Nassau County's Assessment Review Office after all his NYC Assessors got indicted for taking bribes. His hiring of Peter Reinharz from Little Neck Queens who wrote a book on juvenile delinquency that says all black, hispanic and italian kids are predisposed to criminal actions and should be locked up until their 21 years old. This is Suozzi and these are his people. He is not sure of the difference between the truth and a lie - and to him, it doesn't seem to matter. Vote for Peterson in 2005.

:P

[Dragging him Down]

Suozzi rustled up enough votes to pull up as CE - but then again, 58,000 of his voters also voted for David Gross for Judge - you know, the Suspended Judge who was indicted for laudering mob money? The Spitzer primary will be a whole other story because Suozzi won't have Newsday brainwashing an unthinking and woefully uniformed populace in order to help him get votes. If he doesn't clean-up the County mess - Spitzer will have his own media gods behind him and all of Suozzi's baggage - his actual track record as opposed to the one skewed by Newsday - will get out - far and wide and bring down the almighty Thomas. Unfortunately, Nassau County will still be saddled with him for the full term. But we'll see if he's smartened up or not but how he handles his re-appointments in January.

[Spitzer's Split]

Suozzi also benefitted from the Conservative parties' traitorous act actions against Peterson. You can't blame the Consumer Affairs Commissioner, Roger Bogsted - Conservative party leader - for filling all the Consumer Affairs jobs with voting members of the party now can you? After all - who else would hire him? On the state level, Suozzi has been trying to woo Michael Long all along, but he won't get the 10,000 lead votes on that level. Long doesn't owe Suozzi for his bread and better. No Newsday, no Klurfeld, No Bogsted. Just the truth and Suozzi's record. The real record - not the facts portrayed by Newsday and it's newfound Klurfeld disciple - JOY with an E. We'll be watching. And posting. And providing what infor Spitzer needs to trash the white knight. Maybe with enough luggage being filled - the new NYS Governor will even move to impeach the Glen Cover for Endangering the Welfare of Nassau Residents.

[Fodder for Faso]

Suozzis mistakes and misdeeds are documented and they aren't going away. He and Newsday could spread what fiction they want throughout Nassau & County - but noone reads in it in the rest of the State so the only thing left is -- eee gads --- the TRUTH!

Now what?

[The year is 2008]

Reassessment - a democrat lawyer brings a lawsuit for a handful of Roosevelt homeowners which eventually causes a flood of outgoing residents from Nassau County and a foreclosure crisis - which is defended by a democrat lawyer from Nassau County who enters into a settlement that killed us which settlement was sanctioned by a democrat Judge who should have known better which led to annual reassessments that appeared to circumvent statutory caps which is led by a democrat and judgments piled high high high that still haven't been paid. Could have handled that better ya think?

Where's my ZOO by the way?

[county res]

souzzi's a slug in disguise Suozzi thinks the County handled things appropriately because they didn't tell the district attorney, and he believes, they shouldn't have. Maybe not. But let's look at how Suozzi's legal advisors did handle things. Here's their recipee for handling things: A) try firing the victim who has the nerve of complaining. When that doesn't work, go to plan B). B) offer to hire the victim back, but force her to sign an unconstitutional agreement forcing her to waive her first amendment rights to speak about the grievance. When A) and B) both fail - tell the victim it's all her fault anyway, that she's obviously got psychological problems, and she needs to go for counselling because she should get over it since they fired the perp. Then send Peter Schmitt to take an anger management class because of the way he lost it during the hearings. This is the part Suozzi seems to be missing. It's the cover-up that was scary. There's your story.

[stskoptksokt[po]

yeah!

[Pants peeing FUNNY]

Posts # 31 - 33 are HYSTERICAL !

[kent]

There are whores and greedy creeps in every party but swazzi is a guy that
you can't trust. will the pubs be better? They need to control taxes, corrupt and harmful development. The wise guys need to know that unlawful behavior
is there ticket to jail or deportation. as for illegals, no paperwork --you're out of here after paying a hefty fine! Play by the rules!

[Pants Pissing True]

Posts # 31 - 33 are HYSTERICAL !


Very funny - or sad depending ....

I read all the posts and although entertaining - it is really tragic that nothing got cleaned up, so much got covered up with the Newsday reading public (whats left of them) being left in the dark about so much for so long and without anyone really looking deep. It seems amazing Suoz beat the second election. If a Republican did any ONE thing detailed through this post - Newsday would have spent a week of first page covers dragging it out in big, thick type.

Since 2005 - whats been going on?

[Accomplished since 2005]

The old courthouse is finished - underutilized but finished. Otherwise - pretty much nothing else except that a shitload of bonds have been floated, a shitload of debts have been mounting, a boxfull of lawsuits have been lost, a stinkhole full of useless people have been given raises and fancy job titles for doing nothing and pretty much we paid a county executive to job hunt in albany, campaign for all sorts of other losers - except for whatshisname in the assembly - chuckie something - lotta good thats done Nassau County - and pretty much sold a pot full of Nassau assets and helped NYC and Suffolk County out by infusing their renovation projects and splitting costs.

[Eybrowraise]

I just am having alot of confusion.

Newsday says the county finances are just terrific, yet Tom Suozzi and his newest sidekick, Timothy Driscoll, with their newest Economic Development Czar, Patrick Duggan are bearing down to borrow yet another $1.7 million to build a life sciences center in Lake Success - read -- QUEENS !!!! Or as close to the border as you can get without actually being there.
This is some kind of private-public partnership between the county, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Trustee Daddy Suozzi's LIJ - (read QUEENS) North Shore group. In fact, it's exactly 16 niles to Manhattan, and both major airports.
The property being developed is owned by a private party who is going to lease space to this private-public concern.
The architect is the same Manhattan company Suozzi is giving business to - to play around with Nickerson's HUB idea - which has an office in Suffolk County.

Why are bells sounding off ??????????????????


I too have worked in the media for some time and I always get a kick out the paranoid freaks like yourself.

The reason the media doesn’t cover stories like that is most average people don’t care about county insider baseball!

It doesn’t get ratings, it doesn’t sell ad revenue. When we cover a story I always ask myself “why do I care?”

I agree, they all effect people through their taxed, but the average joe would move on to the next story or change the channel after hearing the first sentence.

No one cares about union fighting besides the people in the union.

THERE IS NO NEWSDAY/SUOZZI?DOLAN conspiracy!!!!!
I'm just average and my eyes bugged out when I saw how many unpaid bills Nassau has - if that's true - how come they keep saying the budget is balanced? That's like me saying my budget is balanced but I didn't pay any bills this month. And if Nassau is in so much debt - shouldn't they be laying off, freezing salaries, asking for give backs and cutting costs? And shouldn't Suozzi like - be running the local government instead of skipping around all over the place on the taxpayers dime or I don't know - like give back his salary and benefits for the time he spent campaigning for himself and then campaigning for Clinton instead of doing County business?

No haters pal just voters looking forward to next year's election. Newsday actually did print an article about how NIFA is complaining that Nassau is in a mess. It was only about 10 lines written by Celeste Hadrick - god bless the woman for trying - but it was there - stuffed in the back just before the advertisments. Check out June 19. They buried local news but put the MTA chair on the front page and spent inordinately huge time to show that Mack is a Republican.

Of course, even trying to let her print the truth, you could clearly see the Editors HAD to compare Suozzi's mess to 2001 - 7 years ago. So embarassing.

2001 was a bad economic period all around, and most of the problems arose from the unpaid tax assessment judgments - yet if they actually averaged all of Gulottas years and compared spending and revenue by percentages - they'd see that the average of Suozzi's years WAy OUTSPENT the Gulotta years and aside from a few smoke and mirror revenue tricks under Suozzi - had much worse average percentages with many, many more unpaid debts on the books.

The really funny part is that Suozzi is still insisting he's got a surplus. Its like taking my monthly paycheck - spending 95% of it and putting the other 5% in my savings account and then running around boosting I have a surplus. Meanwhile, my credit cards are all maxed out and accumulating tons of interest every month.

On top of that - they fail to mention that the culmination of 2001 was a result of running the government for 30 years, the culmination of 2008 was the mess created in just 6 years - IF the Democrats and their political running mate Newsday - want to stick to their rumor that in 2001 Suozzi actually miraculously fixed Nassau County.

I'd like to know why precisely - what exact factors - the bond ratings were increased for. Was in actually confidence in the Republican appointed NIFA and not anything Suozzi did? I much think so.

[Unregisteredppp]

I'm sick of hearing the republicans had 40 years to get it right and didn't. The truth is for 35 or more years they had it right. They ran into some problems the last few years. Like Macys, Orbachs, Alexanders, Gimbels, Abraham & Straus, you know - all the big guys who ran a damn good and profitable company for years. Then stuff happens. The problem you suozzi supporters all seem to be missing is that Suozzi is not fixing the problem. He's throwing money onto it and then he's stepping off and in 2006 when more than $300M in tax assessment refunds comes due - he won't have the money to pay for it because despite his campaign promises and newsday rhetoric - he increased staffing and salary and imploded the patronage staff. His spending went to pay his staff, buy prettily colored horses and ugly painted dome roofs and 4 different computer systems in 3 years and $7000 conference room tv sets. His people don't live in Nasau and don't contribute anything to us. We pay their salary, their cars, their gas and give them lifetime free medical insurance when they hit 55 years old. He hasn't spend money on capital expenditures - he's asking the towns and villages to repair the county roads and sidewalks first and then telling them he'll pay them back later. Yeah -right. SO nothing is repaired. The parks are filled with spanish seasonal workers from Queens who come in on the weekends with hundreds of family members and use our resources because although he raised the cost of leisure passes, he neglects to have anyone posted at the parks to check for them. He's built day laborer huts and has done nothing else about the illegal immigrants, illegal hiring of them, illegal housing. He ignores the gang problem and cut the police force by 522 cops and for awhile, he dismantled the special units that went after gangs and handled sex crimes. Look at the police department link. Sure crime on an overall level went down - petty theft and misdemeanors. But sex assaults, sex crimes & commercial level thefts increased in some districts by 400%. All we did was trade insignificant crime for violent crime as a direct result of Suozzi's mismanagement. You people that extoll his virtues ignore everything. He has failed. His administration failed. Peter Sylver, Campanelli, Janitzen, Dennenberg, Abrahams, Tolback, IDA, HUD, Glen Cove, The County Attorney's office, asset forfeitures, no smoking bills, PVB, the jail, the parks, the hospital - there is nothing he has done right and there is nothing he has done period. He raised taxes, he raised fees, he implemented fees and surcharges where none existed before, he made out like a bandit with the sales tax revenues and refused to give us a tax free week, he just raised the county portion again, he surcharged tickets at the nassau colliseum, he surcharged our telephone tax bill, he wanted his own water & sewer district and when that failed to pass albany he decided to go after the towns so he could find some trumped up charges to consolidate them and form one special district that he can control even though albany and our own legislative representatives told him no - he can't handle it. He wants to consolidate and control the fire districts and the school districts and get rid of the school teacher tenure system. His people violate civil service rules and regulations left and right and he gives away personal service contracts without going throught the bidding programs and gives away 99 year leases on 77 acreas of prime county real estate without even appraising the land and with having county buildings that are falling apart and hazardous to the health of the employees and the visitors. He's running Levinson -the guy who wants an income tax which will be the last thing to chase the youth, the workers, the propertyless and childess off Long Island - for TOH supervisor and Suozzi himself already incorporated 2 more property tax increases over the next two years. We have no place for more people yet he wants to let wang build a 60 story skyscraper, and Suozzi wants low income high rise apartment buildings which is written right into his last economic development plan if you bother to look at it and get the real facts. He wants to build apartments over storefronts along major avenues like Jericho & Hempstead turnpike all over nassau county, which is also in his plan and also what he talks about, although depending on his audience, he denies it. The Feds are even critical of his spending federal tax dollars to run around giving economic development talks to all his economic development zones which are merely federally funded campaign stops in which he tells the people what he thinks they want to hear, and then sends his people back later to fundraise and collect political contributions to his CE/Governor races. He floated a $50M bond to preserve parkland despite also establishing a fundraising conservancy for this purpose and despite this purpose being expected to be rendered from the general tax funds. Moreover, nothing has been done to repair or maintain the parkland we have and all he talks about and all the consultants on his payroll and all the task forces he puts together from manhattan companies are all about developing and building high rise apartment buildings. He' floating another $2M in bonds to build a science center on private property on LIJ-North Shore grounds near Queens where that hospital is building an outpatient facility yet he wants to close down our nursing home and get rid of the publically funded hospital. He tripled the staff at the county attorney's office yet they no longer represent the hospital which now has to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to outside counsel to represent them when he's overstaffed high paid, do nothing county attorneys on the payroll anyway. Legal judgments in 6 figure and 7 figure amounts are sitting around unpaid. He fixed nothing and took advantage of everything. He talks about getting the State to fund Medicaid 100% which means that our State Income Tax will go up and Long Island will then be subsidizing NYC which has 70% of the Medicaid bill. He's done nothing for all his talking and all Newsdays BS "reporting" and all he does is talk about his delusional visions of grandeur without doing anything about maintaining or preserving the basic infrastructure. The county is crumbling all around him as he talks about building sky trams and zoos and raising Hempstead Turnpike into the sky. Please. Don't dare tell me you think this guy is better than the republicans. Dont' dare tell me this is a party thing. The Republicans got what Nassau County life was about and they got what Nassau County taxpayers needed and they took care of the basics. Maybe the budget got away from them because they refused to raise taxes as soon as they should have and maybe they tried everything else first. Maybe they were like the Schiavo parents while Suozzi is the guy who walked in the day after she awoke from the coma, pulled the plug and then took her money, his new girlfriend, his 2 new kids and gambled it away in los vegas leaving the rest of the world to ponder the very complex and unnerving problems of right to die - right to live issues. He's not someone I trust with my life, or my families life and my way of life, our surburban way of life - is in jeapardy because of him this very day. We can not afford another 4 years of Tom Suozzi. We can not. Maybe I should be publishing this in every media outlet I can get to publish this. Tom Suozzi is simply reverting back to the old days of Nicholson and taking his play book, but trying to cover-up more subtly. It's not working. We aren't stupid. We see you Tom. We see you for what you really are.


Some things never change. Suozzi made money off outrageous property valuations and the resultant tax assessments - used the money to buy friends and support them - never paid the bills - and now when he's up for re-election he's trying to get a cap - which if his administration didn't enter into the stupid annual reassessment settlement agreement they entered into, or appealed, or didn't circumvent the law to increase the tax rates as much as they did, or took an interest in capping assessmments 6 years ago - we wouldn't be in the mess we're in now that the bottom dropped out of the economy. He's doing it just in time to pull a media blitz so the idiots think he's a hero again. Lets hope this time people are smarter.

[bottom fell out]

The naked emperor is gonna have to start buying clothes because even Kessel can see through the Newsday PR blitz. The bottom line is that Suozzi did nothing. The State put in place over $100 million in state aid for Nassau County (thanks to Gulotta) which started off Suozzi's so-called budget fix and Suozzi also had the benefit of starting off with money unspent in many county coffers - like the County Attorney's office which had hundreds of thousands of unspent reserves and the introduction of new computers were already purchased and previously budgeted in the Gulotta budget so didn't have to be included in Suozzi's budget. Suozzi had merely to get on his horse and sit there as NIFA lead it around the square, making "advisory" decisions that Suozzi followed as he ran back and forth to Albany, upstate NY, Washington and Queens doing who the hell knows what. Interest rates remained depressed so spending kept climbing and oil prices rose and the housing market boomed. Suozzi only had to take advantage of the economic circumstances he had nothing to do with, let NIFA do it's job and take hand outs from the State. Even then, his spending policies were so crazily out of line, he still hasn't gotten rid of the tax assessment refunds which was the whole problem that caused the GOP to crash, and he's STILL warning us there will be a multi-million dollar deficit by the end of 2006. This is what we've been saying on here all along. Who does he think he's kidding?


Now that the bottom of the economy fell out - he's got nothing holding himself up - but now he'll blame the economy for all the poor management and the public will buy it with Patterson crying poverty right behind him.

[Fed HUD Tour]

NIFA is responsible for any fiscally responsibility planning that had been done in the County over the past 4 years - why have they dropped out now?

How many 4 page, color brochures have you gotten from Tom Suozzi using the County Taxpayer's money? I got 4 in the past year, not to mention the family christmas cards he sent using my money. My family cut out our family portrait last Christmas because we had to tighten our belts thanks to all Suozzi's tax and fee increases. Guess how "joyful" we were to get HIS family's portrait in the mail - with our money. Nice to see he's spending it well.

And don't forget how he used the federal HUD money to "tour" Nassau County and lecture about his economic zones and re-development plans. Everyone knows that had nothing to do with running the County and everything to do with campaigning. In fact, what is the fed doing about that? I heard they disapproved of the way he was spending the grant money. No wonder the Republican Legislators fought tooth and nail to keep him from getting that $18 million dollar slush fund he wanted in the budget this year.

It's the little things that will pile on top of the big things in his administration that will weigh Suozzi down. He'll destroy himself and nobody has to lay a glove on him. All that need to be done is that the people "in the know" come out and talk. And they are. One at a time.

At least he did SOMETHING in Nassau County. Now he' s using IDA money to "tour" NYC and drag back the rejects with him. We could have predicted this. Oh yeah - we did.

[Pants fell down]

Suozzi's miracle is a farce and the public has a right to know.

Even that liberal loving rag that calls itself "news"day had to admit in it's editorial that the reason the County fell into financial trouble in the last couple of years of GOP rule was because they couldn't pay back the judgments on the tax refund cases after the Democrats, headed by lawyer Fred Brewington, forced an all out tax reassessment.

What they failed to stress was that it was the GOPs in that last year who actually negotiated and arranged for the State to bail out the county over the last 4 years with Nifa advising them.

All Suozzi did was get elected. He followed the plan set out by the GOP, took the money from the State and the advice from Nifa and started campaigning for Governor.

He raised taxes a whopping 20% and they went up every year automatically with each increased tax assessment which his NYC run assessor's office failed to prospectively adjust after a taxpayer won a SCAR hearing, forcing them to file for hearings and refunds every year and either getting them so frustrated and confused that they gave up, or adding to the accumulated wealth of judgments waiting for refunds, with the interest thereon mounting every day.

Suozzi never paid the tax refund cases off with the money the State gave him and the bond arrangements the GOP made to help pay the debt off ends in December. Suozzi's "revitalized" waterfront is a farce and the "come back" of the parks system is a joke that anyone who actually used the parks before, and use them now, can certainly attest to. There are no improvements except for superficial bandaids like cardboard facades covering up a rundown front.

Suozzi spent all the money on a huge, incompetent, patronage staff filled with the arrogance that led them to commit criminal acts because they believed they were above the law, or hiring people with criminal or very questionable pasts and presents because Suozzi believes he is invincible.

We still have the same debt that pushed Nassau under in 2000 and that debt will break lose and become due in 2007 after all the State aid, Nifa assistance and the bond floating period is over.

SInce Suozzi already raised taxes, fees and surcharges on everything and put taxes, fees and surcharges on things that never were taxed or charged before - he has left us with our pants down. How many more for sale signs will we see?

Suozzi thinks low income, towering high rise apartments with all the consumant traffic, noise and congestion that will bring is an answer. Our resources are already drained and our infrastructure is crashing down, yet Suozzi can't see that. He wants to build, build, build and create more day labor camps for the illegal immigrants that he welcomes with open arms. More people to support. While Levinson wants to re-classify slumlord homes into commercial housing, fire school teachers, enlarge classes and reduce garbage pick-up.

This is a miracle?

Maybe if you've lived in a third world nation.
But not if you remember the old Nassau County.

Please Lord - bring it BACK !!!!!

Dump Suozzi before he makes Nassau County a dump.

Talk about predictions. He did leave us with our pants down and Newsday mislead everyone by their tabloid political writings. The worst has happened - just what we were afraid of and warning again. Suozzi used every trick in the book during a great economy, but failed to leave us with any hedge against tuff economic times. Now we have tuff economic times PLUS poor suozzieconomics = disaster.

[First amendment]

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I don't even know where to begin to correct all the lies and mistakes in this post. It is literally one huge lie. There is not a single thing correct in the above post. It belongs in a bird cage.


Cant' correct someone's opinion baby.
Perception is everything.
Fact is meaningless - ask any Newsday Editor.

[cho cho cho cho]

Fight annual tax assessments and Suozzi's trick of refusing to fix the assessments for the future projected taxes based upon winning your tax assessment of a previous year. The court says you were overassessed and lowers it, and your taxes are suppose to go down, but Suozzi and Levinson and Weitzman cirvumvent the law by refusing to adjust the assessments for the future years. Those assessment are built on top of the ones you just appealed, but now by the time you get your day in court, the deadline to appeal the next year's tax is gone - just like the Suozzi team planned. So you never get the benefit of the Court's ruling and the Suozzi people wind up raising your taxes more than the 6% per year, 20% overall that the law prohibits.

http://gregpeterson2005.com/content/protest.html

Sign up today and vote for Peterson on November 8th.


We wrote about this back in 2003. Newsday ignored it and in fact continued to blame the "old" administration. Now all of a sudden Levinson is "concerned" and wants to stop the train he and suozzi perpetuated because they got away with it and figured they'd be hanging in albany by now. Cho cho cho goes the train - and its bearing down bearing bearing bearing down.

[A real journalist.]

Suozzi's miracle is a farce and the public has a right to know.

Even that liberal loving rag that calls itself "news"day had to admit in it's editorial that the reason the County fell into financial trouble in the last couple of years of GOP rule was because they couldn't pay back the judgments on the tax refund cases after the Democrats, headed by lawyer Fred Brewington, forced an all out tax reassessment.

What they failed to stress was that it was the GOPs in that last year who actually negotiated and arranged for the State to bail out the county over the last 4 years with Nifa advising them.

All Suozzi did was get elected. He followed the plan set out by the GOP, took the money from the State and the advice from Nifa and started campaigning for Governor.

He raised taxes a whopping 20% and they went up every year automatically with each increased tax assessment which his NYC run assessor's office failed to prospectively adjust after a taxpayer won a SCAR hearing, forcing them to file for hearings and refunds every year and either getting them so frustrated and confused that they gave up, or adding to the accumulated wealth of judgments waiting for refunds, with the interest thereon mounting every day.

Suozzi never paid the tax refund cases off with the money the State gave him and the bond arrangements the GOP made to help pay the debt off ends in December. Suozzi's "revitalized" waterfront is a farce and the "come back" of the parks system is a joke that anyone who actually used the parks before, and use them now, can certainly attest to. There are no improvements except for superficial bandaids like cardboard facades covering up a rundown front.

Suozzi spent all the money on a huge, incompetent, patronage staff filled with the arrogance that led them to commit criminal acts because they believed they were above the law, or hiring people with criminal or very questionable pasts and presents because Suozzi believes he is invincible.

We still have the same debt that pushed Nassau under in 2000 and that debt will break lose and become due in 2007 after all the State aid, Nifa assistance and the bond floating period is over.

SInce Suozzi already raised taxes, fees and surcharges on everything and put taxes, fees and surcharges on things that never were taxed or charged before - he has left us with our pants down. How many more for sale signs will we see?

Suozzi thinks low income, towering high rise apartments with all the consumant traffic, noise and congestion that will bring is an answer. Our resources are already drained and our infrastructure is crashing down, yet Suozzi can't see that. He wants to build, build, build and create more day labor camps for the illegal immigrants that he welcomes with open arms. More people to support. While Levinson wants to re-classify slumlord homes into commercial housing, fire school teachers, enlarge classes and reduce garbage pick-up.

This is a miracle?

Maybe if you've lived in a third world nation.
But not if you remember the old Nassau County.

Please Lord - bring it BACK !!!!!

Dump Suozzi before he makes Nassau County a dump.

I posted this 3 years ago. Too bad I wasn't running Newsday back then huh? 2004 would have been a different election and the 2008 crisis we predicted back then would have might have been averted. Now we all pay.

[HUD - ever pay em ???]

First he has to pay off Peter Sylver's victim, then he has to pay back HUD, then he has to give me my tax assessment refund the judge awarded me last year, then he has to fix my car he wrecked while he was illegally holding it, then he has pay off the rest of the county's hush fund settlements and make sure his personal sevice contractors from IDA get paid, then he has to .....


hey Tony


you busy next week?

Suozzi needs another 2 million ---- and fast


Never paid HUD - still spending IDA money to tour NYC and invite the trash to camp out here - what did we expect? We called it several years ago - but media lies and rumor trumped truth.
Originally Posted by Newsday Mis-step
NEWSDAY EDITORIAL:
Warning to Glen Cove - It's past time to get finances in order

May 23, 2008

A recent warning letter from New York State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to the City of Glen Cove is typically bureaucratic in tone, but its message is quite clear: Glen Cove's finances are in pretty bad shape.

These gloomy assessments have been coming from the comptroller for several years and are not exactly stunning news. The state is critical of the city's borrowing to pay for tax certoriari refunds, noting this practice, "saddles future taxpayers" with ever-mounting debt.

DiNapoli points out that Glen Cove is spending 15 percent of its revenue to pay debt interest, while similar-sized cities in the state pay 8 percent. In Glen Cove, outstanding debt per resident is $2,000 - 70 percent higher than in comparable cities.

Mayor Ralph Suozzi, who says he inherited the tax refund problem from the prior administration, plans to start putting the cost of some of the refunds in next year's operating budget, meaning the city would borrow less. That's a start, but it's still just tinkering on the edges of good fiscal policy. The city has to confront its underlying problem: Expenses are greater than its income.

Suozzi got some help this year when Nassau County, run by his cousin Tom, took over the city's sewers, relieving him of a $3 million annual cost. The consolidation was the right move and made sense for the county, even if the motivation might have been a tad parochial. Still, Mayor Suozzi has to get moving on the stalled waterfront housing project, the most obvious salve for the city's money woes. What Glen Cove reaps from the sale of the land would be a good start toward balancing the books, and would soon produce a steady revenue stream.

Sometimes it pays to stop sweating the small details and start addressing the big picture.

THERE IS THE SMOKING GUN - "when Nassau County, run by his cousin Tom, took over the city's sewers, relieving him of a $3 million annual cost. The consolidation might have been a tad parochial."

Here is the example! The real costs Glen Cove was relieved of was said to be approximately $6 million a year in additional Operating costs to Nassau County which over 15 years (length of agreement) comes to over $90 million.
Do you think the MTA would accept $90 million and go away?
Do you think National Grid / Keyspan would accept $90 million and go away?
Not to mention the structural deficits going from 2009 through 2012!

Of course they would!

Newsday appears to be very generous with other people's money such as the Nassau County Taxpayers. Shame on the Editorial Board for getting this one so wrong!

Nassau County should not have bailed out Glen Cove! Nassau County taxpayers cannot afford it!


Excuse me but when the current Glen Cove Mayor blames the financial mess on the "prior administration" - wasn't that Tom Suozzi? And didn't Tom Suozzi get elected on the basis that he "cleaned-up" Glen Cove and now needed to "clean up" the mess from the county's prior administration and now Tom Suozzi is the prior administration there too. Seems rather circular. Funny if it wasn't my tax dollars being shredded and my quality of life being eroded. Funnier still is that the same Newspaper we all complain about not reporting the truth and skewing the truth they do report to such a length that it resembles garbage actually won first and second place awards at the Associated Press awards in the area of - are you ready - business and finance journalism of all things! The world is a crazy place.

[Forfeiture Again?]

Even when they win - they don't know why. In today's Law Journal the County is apparently still struggling with the cars seized under its oft maligned forfeiture law. The County partially defended a summary judgment motion but agreed that the movant was "an innocent owner" under the definition of its own Nassau County Administrative Code. The Court denied the summary judgment motion finding the movant was NOT an innocent owner under the code, but also that the movant failed to establish its burden otherwise. Even when the County wins - they're wrong. Oh my. Lions and tigers and bears - where's my zoo?

[Bloomberg Salted It]

I posted this 3 years ago. Too bad I wasn't running Newsday back then huh? 2004 would have been a different election and the 2008 crisis we predicted back then would have might have been averted. Now we all pay.

Like Bloomberg said in today's AM free Tribune newspaper- we knew the good economy couldn't last so what Bloomberg did is he salted it. He SAVED money putting it away for the rainy season. Now the City of NY is doing OK and can weather the poor economy. That's fiscal responsibility. Not spending every last penny and then borrowing more to spend above your means without giving a thought to the future and its effect on taxpayers after the miracle wears its welcome. That's fiscal irresponsibility. Unless of course you thought you'd be running the State by the time the economic downturn hit and people started wondering what you did with all the money all that time when things were good.

[Mangano Supporter]

Do the Suozzi think we've forgotten? Granted, most people don't know because Newsday has become a Suozzi loving political rag & Suozzi's campaign - again - runs on unchallenged lies. Lets see what Mangano can use for the debates - facts, numbers, truths - over an 8 year long career - the miracle happened 4 years ago according to Newsday - so nothing that happened since that "clean slate" can be blamed on any other prior administration. Suozz is the prior administration. Mangano can't be a nice guy in this one.

[Unregisteredrucrazy???]

Like Bloomberg said in today's AM free Tribune newspaper- we knew the good economy couldn't last so what Bloomberg did is he salted it. He SAVED money putting it away for the rainy season. Now the City of NY is doing OK and can weather the poor economy. That's fiscal responsibility. Not spending every last penny and then borrowing more to spend above your means without giving a thought to the future and its effect on taxpayers after the miracle wears its welcome. That's fiscal irresponsibility. Unless of course you thought you'd be running the State by the time the economic downturn hit and people started wondering what you did with all the money all that time when things were good.

NYC is MOST DEFINITELY NOT doing ok. They are slashing budgets right and left. Ask anyone who lives there or works for the city.

[Lets all remember]

Lets all remember the actual Suozzi administration years shall we?

[77777]

That was good bringing that info back out.

And yes, remember us bailing out the City of Glen Cove? That has put a serious financial strain on Nassau County's finances.

[Glen Cover5]

That was good bringing that info back out.

And yes, remember us bailing out the City of Glen Cove? That has put a serious financial strain on Nassau County's finances.

I remember that & then everyone voted for Tom anyway. I remember Newsday failing to report Glen Cove & most of the things that happened in Nassau over the past 8 years & now News 12 and Newsday are pretending like none of it ever happened.

Oh - and I don't earn any money from working for Nassau County. I probably should be though. But then, I lived here the past 8 years and paid attention.