Suozzi - What he will be remembered for

[Legacy of the Last Stand]

Suozzi - what he will be remembered for.

Suozzi has been taking his salary and been an absentee, no show worker since last October. All the jerks that voted for him are getting exactly what they deserve. Unfortunately, the rest of us who saw through Newsday's ridiculous lies and cover-ups are also going to suffer with the expected $10 million deficit predicted for 2007. Please. We've been saying since 2002 that Suoz's budget was junk. That his spending was outta control and his so call balanced miracle was only because of the $10 million influx he inherited from Gulotta's work-out (bail out) with the State, NIFA, and his 20% property tax increase on top of rising assessments, rising gas prices and increasing sales taxes. Levy might be a jerk to, but at least he's trying to do his job. Suozzi never did anything but use the CE job to pad his resume. Much like he destroyed Glen Cove and used that to get to the CE job. Glen Covers were either too scared or too dumb to speak up. Newsday Editors should burn in hell.

Will Suozzi even be remembered? He's only a county executive. In the great scheme of things, its nothing.

Swazzi who?

[kent]

he's perfect!

Suozzi - what he will be remembered for.

Suozzi has been taking his salary and been an absentee, no show worker since last October. All the jerks that voted for him are getting exactly what they deserve. Unfortunately, the rest of us who saw through Newsday's ridiculous lies and cover-ups are also going to suffer with the expected $10 million deficit predicted for 2007. Please. We've been saying since 2002 that Suoz's budget was junk. That his spending was outta control and his so call balanced miracle was only because of the $10 million influx he inherited from Gulotta's work-out (bail out) with the State, NIFA, and his 20% property tax increase on top of rising assessments, rising gas prices and increasing sales taxes. Levy might be a jerk to, but at least he's trying to do his job. Suozzi never did anything but use the CE job to pad his resume. Much like he destroyed Glen Cove and used that to get to the CE job. Glen Covers were either too scared or too dumb to speak up. Newsday Editors should burn in hell.

Another crybaby republican takes a cheap shot. Suozzi has been disappointing, but Peterson would have been worse.

Where are the un-tainted republican candidates?

Suozzi - what he will be remembered for.

Suozzi has been taking his salary and been an absentee, no show worker since last October. All the jerks that voted for him are getting exactly what they deserve. Unfortunately, the rest of us who saw through Newsday's ridiculous lies and cover-ups are also going to suffer with the expected $10 million deficit predicted for 2007. Please. We've been saying since 2002 that Suoz's budget was junk. That his spending was outta control and his so call balanced miracle was only because of the $10 million influx he inherited from Gulotta's work-out (bail out) with the State, NIFA, and his 20% property tax increase on top of rising assessments, rising gas prices and increasing sales taxes. Levy might be a jerk to, but at least he's trying to do his job. Suozzi never did anything but use the CE job to pad his resume. Much like he destroyed Glen Cove and used that to get to the CE job. Glen Covers were either too scared or too dumb to speak up. Newsday Editors should burn in hell.

Another crybaby republican takes a cheap shot. Suozzi has been disappointing, but Peterson would have been worse.

Where are the un-tainted republican candidates?

Balboni, Fuschillo, Venditto, Murray, Alfano, Ambrosino, Macagnone, Maureen O...

He will be remembered for exhibiting his parents mistakes in raising him in a very public manner. Ego, ego, ego arrogance, delusions of adequacy.

He will be remembered for letting SMG (coliseum operators) short change the county to the tune of over $1 million over the five years (so far) he has been in office. Tom is busy running around the state while SMG rips off Nassau's taxpayers. Details, details, Mr. SUOZZI!!!

Audit finds Coliseum manager shortchanged county

From Newsday.com

August 9, 2006, 1:59 PM EDT

An audit released today by Comptroller Howard Weitzman has found that the manager of the Nassau Coliseum, Spectacor Management Group (SMG), has significantly underpaid Nassau County for concessions, parking and other items since at least 2002.

According to data in the audit, for the period of July 2002 though September 2005, the county contractor witheld nearly $900,000 in revenues, mostly from souvenir sales.

"Under a deal signed in 1979, SMG leases the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum from the county," Comptroller Weitzman said. "This arrangement puts the county at a disadvantage compared to other municipalities whose arenas are managed by SMG under straight operating agreements. For example, the lease agreement with Nassau requires the county to maintain the building but allows SMG to keep the bulk of the concession and parking revenues."

In the most serious finding, the audit found that SMG shortchanged the county on its share of revenues from the sale of souvenirs by $823,677 from July 2002 through December 2004 when a third-party company operated souvenir concessions for SMG. Since SMG operated its own souvenir concessions during the audit period, the county should have received 25 percent of total gross receipts for souvenirs, excluding permitted deductions, the audit said.

In addition to the underpayments on concession revenue, the audit found that SMG understated its commissions from Aramark, a food concessionaire, in some cases reporting commissions to the county that were less than the amounts Aramark reported to SMG. This resulted in an underpayment to the county of $12,330. SMG also excluded concession revenues from 18 events, and did not properly calculate and remit revenues from its parking fees.

"Moreover, SMG uses an outdated, manual system to collect parking fees, and its internal controls over the revenue collections are inadequate. In their examination of 51 events, our auditors found that, on average, 43 percent of the gates reported cash shortages when compared to the number of vehicles parking, an unacceptable error rate," Weitzman said.

In a third major finding, auditors found that SMG did not pay the entertainment tax of $1.50 per ticket on almost 14,000 complimentary tickets for a total underpayment of $20,886.

"We are asking SMG to review all the events held at the Nassau Coliseum in order to determine the number of complimentary tickets and the full extent of the underpayment, and to correct the tax returns SMG files with the county," Weitzman said.

The audit also reported that SMG was consistently late in making lease payments to the county, finding that:

concession revenues were paid nine to eleven months late; rental payments and expense reimbursements were paid an average of three to four months late; and parking revenues were paid two months late.

Nassau County entered into the Coliseum lease agreement with Spectacor Management Group in 1979. The original 30-year lease was extended in 1986 to July 31, 2015.

[macagnone]

a useless stuttering fool in Oyster Bay just like Saladino

[Ballyhoo]

HE will be remembered for causing a lot of hard feelings in the Democratic party when he upstaged Tom DiNapoli. He will be remembered for teaming up with the arrogant Jay Jacobs. He will be remembered for shaking down lawyers who do not want to be a victim to his shake down scheme for contributions.

a useless stuttering fool in Oyster Bay just like Saladino

Joe doesn't stutter. :lol:

[Benz Wirn]

Like me, he will little be remembered as a footnote to local history.

Giving a black man use of a County credit card to buy pizza and car washes is what Suozzi will be remembered for most.

If Paul Stuart makes a TV commercial, T.S. will star in it. He wears a suit well and he will do it to keep his face in front of the public. I will remember him for that but my nausia is starting to go away, as is my memory of him.