DEM PRIMARY IN THE NEW 14TH LD

[14TH LD OBSERVER]

There is a dem primary in the new 14th LD between Charles Klassert and the dem party's choice of David Mejias.

Klassert walked in over 700 signatures to qualify but Jeff Stn (Dem Bd of Elections Commissioner) and Jay Jacobs (Dem Party Chair) is keeping the signatures under wraps until 4 PM on Monday - trying to have Klassert withdraw. Wonder why they haven't let the other dems at the Board know - maybe they are to red face :"> - wonder why they haven't shared the news with the Republicans maybe because Klassert caught them sleeping or they plan to deep six the petitions . We'll know after 4 PM on Monday.

The challenge took Dems by surprise making Dem Commissioner a at the Board and the Chairman a joke when talking to other Chairmen in Dem party in NYS and the Nassau County Republican Chair.

Who ever did this - more power to you!!!

[me loves Mejias]

Y jue do this to dave he nice kid he help me work he my friend

[OB Dem]

Indy you are right. These two criminals deserve jail time.

[To OB Dem]

Jail time for what? I don't make the connection. Afraid Jay Jacobs cannot turn out the vote in a primary? Guess what - HE CAN'T.

As for Mondello, I heard Kapsis filed for nonrepublican legislative candidates on the I line. Kapsis' candidates are Independence Party members. I also heard that Jay Jacobs is hoping for a primary on the I line between the republicans and the independence party candidates. That way Kapsis will be doing all the dirty work - that is, connecting the republicans with Peragine ("a fraud"). Knowing Kapsis, he will work day and night to destroy the image of the republican candidates. This is what Jacobs hopes for.

Perhaps, finally, Jay Jacobs has out smarted Mondello. Joe is slipping.

[If Klassert primaries Mej]

Even if Mejias wins the primary, he loses votes in Massapequa. Without the key minor lines, he's in big big trouble to star. This race in November is Carmen's to win or lose.

[I AM IN THE KNOW]

Mejias is just a kid of 32.

Carman is the man!!

[Farmingdale Resident, you]

Quote:I have never pulled a lever for a Democrat in 34 years but this year Mejias gets my vote. I will do whatever it takes to beat Carman.Hey, Farmingdale citizen: If what you say is true, and in 34 years this is the FIRST time you've become so impassioned, I suggest you need a life. Surely, in 34 years there have been other elections of greater magnitude. Or, are you just a Democrat shill posting here? HMMmm.

[Free ride]

Massapequan wages primary bid in 14th LD
by Carolyn James

An angry Democrat, who said his party disenfranchised the entire community of Massapequa, filed petitions with the Board of Elections last week challenging David Mejias to the Democratic nomination in the newly formed 14th Nassau County legislative district.

"The powers-that-be in the Nassau County Democratic Party, in thr effort to increase the chances for Dave Mejias, cut our community out of the 12th district, which covers the rest of Massapequa, with great insensitivity," said Charles Klassert, the candidate who hopes to knock Mejias off the ballot in November. "And they did it without even talking to the Democrats in this community who have worked in the trenches supporting the party for years. What they did served nothing but thr own political purposes and I am angry and disgusted."

Klassert filed petitions with more than 730 signatures on Friday. Under state election law, he needed 500, but the petitions are likely to be reviewed by the county Democratic party.

Kim Devlin, a spokesperson for the Democratic party in Nassau said no official review of the petitions had been completed so she could not comment on them immediately. Despite that, she said that Mejias, the party's nominee, is a "terrific candidate who has worked very hard over the last 18 months to meet the voters of the 14th LD."

For his part, Mejias said he agrees that the Massapequa community should be a part of the Massapequa's as a whole, but that the redistricting maps drawn up by the County Legislature are in place and have been upheld by the courts.

"I don't even like calling it Massapequa," said Mejias. "As far as I am concerned it is part of Massapequa as a whole, but that's not the way it is."

Klassert is bng supported by Wayne Sturges of Massapequa and Gerry Twombly of Bethpage, two longtime Democratic supporters and former committeemen who agreed with Klassert that the party's gerrymandering was insensitive. They added that the party's support for Mejias, who until two years ago was an active Republican serving as Farmingdale Republican Club president is a slap in the face to local longtime Democrats "who have worked in the vineyards for years helping get Democrats elected.

"The people in this area would rather have a candidate they know, someone who has worked with us and who supports Democratic values," said Twombly whose area was also shifted out of the 12th legislative district. "Instead, they nominated someone who had a falling out with his party and then registered as a Democrat because he wanted to run for office."

Massapequa was originally part of the 12th legislative district, which includes the rest of Massapequa. The area, once part of Amityville, has struggled for years to be identified with the Massapequas, which makes this move by the Democrats so offensive, they said. They fought to have the same telephone exchange and post office, and even waged campaigns to be included in the Massapequa School District.

The Democrats pulled Massapequa, a Democratic stronghold from the 12th District, and put it into the 14th to enhance the chances of Mejias in November. He faces Greg Carman for the seat currently held by Republican Salvatore Pontillo, who is not seeking reelection.

Even before this week, some longtime members of the community showed thr dissatisfaction with the change. A lawsuit was filed challenging the redistricting plan and is pending in court.

Despite that, a spokesman for the Democrats said the challenge, which could result in a primary between Mejias and Klassert, was surprising.

"We held hearings (on the redistricting map) and the issue was well publicized so why, on July 10, are these criticisms bng made?" asked Devlin.

Other sources within the party said the primary challenge came as a surprise, something Sturges said was difficult to believe.

"It's absolutely amazing to me that the Democratic party was surprised by this challenge," said Sturges. "A lawsuit was filed months ago and we have been walking through the district, knocking on doors of registered Democrats since June 3. Thr response just shows how out-of- touch they are with the people down here."

Other sources said other factors come into play in this dispute. Sturges lost a reelection bid for state committeeman and Twombly was fired from the Board of Elections by County Democratic leader Jay Jacobs. The support these two men are providing to Klassert for this primary has less to do with political ideology and more with pay back, some said.

Twombly said that without a doubt he holds bitterness toward Jay Jacobs "who turned on me.

"But," he added, "while my anger toward Jacobs may have been an accelerant, and made my job of walking the district on rainy nights to collect signatures for Charlie a lot easier, it wasn't my primary goal."

His goal, he said, is to ensure that a Democrat who has paid his dues is elected instead of a former Republican the party leaders hand picked without input from rank and file Democrats.

Mejias brushed off such criticism saying his decision to change parties was because he found he believed in the Democratic values and that as the son of a man who was jailed in a forgn country for fighting for Democracy, he found it an honor to run for office. "Ronald Reagan was a Democrat at one point and Martin Luther King was a Republican," he said.

Meanwhile Klassert says the issue is simple.

"For years, I put signs on my back fence and front lawn advertising Democratic candidates and helping them get reelected," said Klassert who acknowledged that he only decided to run because of the gerrymandering. "The Democrats should have tried to get a Democrat elected the way they got (Nassau County Executive Thomas) Suozzi elected and the way they gained the majority in the County Legislature and that is by converting Republicans with a strong message and solid Democratic values. Instead they pulled a fast one, annexing our community like it was a forgn country. We wont' stand for it."

Greg Carman, the Republican candidate in the 14th district, said he understood the sentiments of the people in Massapequa and opposed the Democratic plan. "If I am elected," he said, "I will work to get this undone, even if it takes me ten years
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[me loves Mejias]

oh how me get a hiring hall in farmdale if no dave?:">

[SENOR UPSET]

THERE IS A LOT OF ANGER OUT THERE AND MOST OF IT IS BEHIND KLASSERT
THIS COULD BE THE UPSET OF THE YEAR.

[Whoa Nelly]

Can Klassert defeat Carman?

[SENOR UPSET]

the anger and the focus are on the democrats' side.
the primary is where the upset will come because just like the petitions
they don't see it coming.
the defeat will be so shocking,mejias should hold his "celebration" at
o'shea funeral home.

[Undertaker]

"mejias should hold his "celebration" at o'shea funeral home"

Then he and Charlie can mourn thr political careers together!