Excuse Me Mr. Mondello Please?

[Fire Starter]

Listen - I can't do all this by myself. I'm inviting people to join the republican club to help campaign against suozzi and telling them to call the headquarters to get information and get involved.
Why the hell isn't anybody there and why the hell doesn't anybody return phone calls?
Get somebody in there to return the freaking phone calls.:"> :"> :"> :"> :"> :">
Enough is enough.
Do your job or roll.

[See - open invitations po]

Organize already. Half the clubs don't even meet anymore. There is no time to waste.


pinto
Unregistered User
(11/9/04 6:15 pm)
Reply Ok - ill call those guys at the "club" in Westbury
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Ill give them one more chance. I have called several times in the past to see how I can help MY party and nobody (ABSOLUTELY NOBODY) would ever return my phone call. If I dont get a call this time, ill look to do something else.

Im sorry that its getting more and more obvious to me that the repub and dem party only works on the national level (and dem party not too good at that). In NY on the national level, my republican vote has always been meaningless!!!!!

But, Ill give it one more try.

Hang in there Pinto
Unregistered User
(11/9/04 7:46 pm)
Reply I had the same problem
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I called the clubhouse and nobody called me back ther so I had to find out where my club meets from a friend who found out from his own club. We're working headless right now - but hopefully - the ball will be back on track soon. Tell me the town you're in and I'll try and find out who your club leader is and post back here.
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And believe me --- you're doing the right thing !

[fixnassaucom]

I sympathize with your concerns. It is very sad to see what has happened to the Republican Party in Nassau. We saw months ago, that Westbury was not adequately addressing the concerns of its committeemen and was not adequately looking at the problems in Mineola. Therefore, fixnassaunow.com was born. It is time to confront the problems in our county government. We are not better off than we were four years ago. fixnassaunow.com ...Spring '05

[golly]

Jeff Forchelli must go.
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[western gop]

John DeGrace will replace old Joe soon....

[Not into it]

I'm not real into all that power stuff. I just want a damned intern to return phone calls so people know where the hell to go to pick up thr local meetings and feel like there's a real alternative to that Suozzi crew. Can't somebody, anybody see that the damned HQ is manned? I'd handle it, but nobody returns my freaking calls ther!

[RealityCheck]

They do NOT want you. It is a closed club. Harder to make headway in the NAssau GOP than it is to get into a rich white man's country club! Oh, wait, THAT IS the Nassau GOP. For all thr talk of inclusion, and they do have thr tokens, it is all a matter of connections. . . Save your quarters, stop calling.

[Happy Goper]

Hey reality check - you ever BEEN to a club meeting? I have. Most of the people at my club are middle class - and falling - not rich. Most are really struggling now under the wght of the latest round of increases. Oh and I'm BLACK - not white. Sure, I'm a minority - but my fellow GOPERS welcomed me with open arms - especially warming since I'm a converted DEM. The Dems are the ones that formed a closed circle secret society and stabbed each other in the back. Problem is not with the club. It's with the leadership not organizing well enough it's delegable duties. Anyway, I can tell you are a democrat because of HOSTILE tone.

[Levittownie]

Maloney the stelth prez
all day breaks from election board
totally ineffective

[Pollster]

Finally, the State GOP has come to realize what Nassau committeemembers have been clamoring for for years...Mondello must go. Had they acted sooner maybe there would be a committee left to inherit, but in the span of six years Boss JNM has succeeded in doing what no Democrat has been able to accomplish all alone, gutting what was frequently cited in government textbooks around the nation as the preeminent political organization in the country, right up there with the Chicago Dailey machine.

Now, there's nothing left to inherit, less than 50% of all offices in the County and a broad loss of judgeships from the highest (surrogate, to the lowest positions.) Who cares that JNM's "strong right arm" Santino dismisses those who realize the party's over, when he himself is living in Mondello-World, where the future is brighter and brighter. This is a fantasy land. And Joe Cairo, how could any law abiding Republican Committeemember who values truth, justice and the American way possibly believe the future of the GOP lies with him and his crew?

What to do? Here's what. Hold an election for the next chairman/woman, a good old fashioned election, with multiple candidates, not a selection! Roll in those antique voting machine and let committeemembers pull the curtain closed and vote in secret. What a breath of fresh air that would be.

My polling shows support for Reform is strong among committeemembers while the the 1% opposed are the top echelon of the status quo.

I know this for sure, the next leader is a consequential decision. The wrong choice and the party stays in the position JNM's glorious tenure has put it in...on the balls of its ass!

STILL THE POLLSTER!

PS, WHEN I FIRST STEPPED INTO MY LOCAL CLUB MEETING BACK WHEN AL D'AMATO WAS FIGHTING FOR THE FORGOTTEN MIDDLE CLASS IT WAS STANDING ROOM ONLY. NOW YOU CAN FIT THE MEETING IN A WALK IN CLOSET AND MY LOCAL LEADERSHIP GOES ABOUT SUPPORTING SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS WHO HAVE RAISED TAXES ON THE MIDDLE CLASS BY 100% IN JUST TEN YEARS. THAT'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE PARTY MY FRIENDS, DYSFUNCTIONAL LEADERSHIP FROM THE GRASSROOTS RIGHT UP THE CHAIN OF COMMAND. WE NEED A NEW LEADER WHO REALLY WILL FIGHT FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS, NOT SOME HACK SENATOR WHO CLAIMS FUNNELING A RECORD AMOUNT OF STATE AID FOR EDUCATION. IF THAT WAS TRUE THEN WHY HAVE MY SCHOOL TAXES DOUBLED IN FOUR YEARS?

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[school taxes enough]

Your taxes have gone up in bellmore because you school board doesn't stop spending and spendng. Look at the fact that more then 80% of our budget is all salaries, fringe benefits and administration perks. Why do we have some many assistants to all the assistants. Stop the speanding . Run again pollster you can win.

[TOTELLTHE TRUTH]

REPUBLICANS BROKE THR OWN FIRST RULE! -et too brute?

When the legislature was first formed, all the Republican candidates ran on a platform and parroted Tom Gulotta's campaign slogan:

We all heard "We Republicans with the help of the County Exeuctive froze or cut your taxes, six out of the past seven years" at every Republican club and public forum.

When the fiscal cat was out of the bag, and Tom Gulotta ran out of fat to cut and luck, Republican Legislative turn coats then decried and maligned Tom Gulotta, his staff and his economics at each and every opportunity they could.

These turncoats ran on Tom Gulotta's coattails and then later lost thr shirts for bng part of the problem instead of assisting him in getting out of the hole.

Did the Republican Legislative candidates think thr voting block was stupid. No wounder why they lost the majority.

Why did they overturn the county transfer tax in a lame duck session? Was there such a voter backlash that it would not survive this temporary tax?

Do the Republicans now think that it was a good idea to sink the tax and step on Gulotta ?

It seems that with the home prices doubling in three years and the number of home sales in Nassau County at its all time high, hindsight bng 20/20, the tax might now raise about $100 million a year.

In addition, with sales taxes at the highest point ever, the Suozzi campaign battering ram of a $300 million structural deficite would have been relegated to fire wood on a planet far far away, in another universe. (Science Fiction).

In three years, Republicans would have been out of this hole and many more, and still in power if they worked together instead of continuing the time honored tradition of vendettas!

First rule of Republican Supremacy for 100 years:

Do not raise your hand or your voice against your own in public!

Republicans on the old and new Legislature broke that rule and beat up on Gulotta. All that pent up anger at him for bng the most popular, powerful and best funded County Executive in history. Sure he was an S.O.B. but he was OUR S.O.B and he won every election he ran.

My family were Republicans on Long Island since Lincoln and I voted against you because you beat on him for doing the thing you ran your campaigns on!

And you all blew 100 years of success and let Suozzi piss on your graves! For what? Why? Because you didn't like him? Because he was powerful and now was the time to savage him? Et Too Brute? I mean Joe?

[SchoolSpending]

The schools can't stop spending because THR property taxes went up too, services the County USED TO provide are no longer provided and they need to take more responsibility with filling the kid's after school time up and providing for special needs kids themselves, and the people who work in the schools also needed cost of living increases since they too live in nassau county where thr taxes, fees and living expenses have skyrocketed in the past 3 years so that Suozzi can hire a top heavy verticle management team at tremendous salary's - most of whom had no prior experience doing what they are doing and many of whom ther spent thr careers working in or for NYC or currently live there and have never contributed, and don't now contribute, anything to surburban Nassau County.

[retslloP]

School Board members can't help themselves to other peoples' money,

Little unknown fact about these "selfless" community volunteers is that they exempt themselves from paying school taxes in the community they serve, forking thr bills onto other's homes!

Needless to say, you don't hear much about this corrupt practice, nor the fact that most board members are ethically conflicted (work for the district they serve, have relatives on the payroll, obtain no bid contract work from the SD, take kickbacks from contractors, and monitor thr own spending practices/reciepts/purchase orders and more, much more) they make Tom DeLay and the Congressional GOP look like alterboys.

[Freudian Analysis]

Stop blaming the leadership. You can't lead a meeting where nobody shows up and you can't pull a rabbit from a hat if nobody's wearing a hat. It's the lack of fire among the workers in the GOP who want and expect immediate rewards without doing the work, who got beaten in 2001 because they switched sides and now that they've been beaten - can't deal with it. They thought they were wise asses - voting for Suozzi to "prove" something to the leadership, but all they succeeded in doing was sticking it to themselves. They lost power, positions, face and they didn't know what they were getting themselves into - and now they don't know how to get out of it so they wallow in self pity and blame the leadership and watch TV instead of going to meetings to see how they can help. They are acting like the beaten democrats of years gone by and they are doing nothing but creating more friction in the party. Instead of doing all they can to beat Suozzi this year, and then, when power and positions have been resumed - having the next 4 years to do something about the leadership - people like you are taking the stupid path again. Fighting the leadership, letting a vulnerable Suozzi take an opposed election and then if that happens - the democrats and the city people settle in even deeper, more residents flock to the democrats and the conservatives led by the butt kissing Bostead start wiping Suozzi's butt with both hands, and in 2009 - the GOP is nothing but a memory. The GOP can't afford to let that happen. They can't afford to lose the County Executive race in 2005 and the workers must stand behind the leader - lame as he might be - and pull out all the stops to WIN this election. That's it. Or you can kiss the machine good bye because although the last 4 years was tuff - it wasn't long enough not to be able to take back what we lost - it was an anamoly - but if we lose again - than you'll feel the wrath of loss forever. DONT let that happen.

[rank and file]

Pompous, arrogant ranting of a GOP 'leader'. The rank and file were "wise asses" for voting for TS. UNBELIEVABLE!!! The leadership of this party, from JM to his deputy droop-a-longs have demonstrated nothing but CONTEMPT for those who donate thr time, energy and money for the party. EVER think that the fiscal mismanagement of the county was so egregious and so outrageous as to transcend party allegiance? And I'm not talking of the allegiance of the committeemen and committeewomen but the devout registered republicans who viewed the fiscal crisis as traitorous and a betrayal to thr loyalty. And who pays the price? The rank and file. Has JM paid the price? How about Skelos, Fuschillo, Balboni, Murray? NO they continue with thr high paying, boost my ego jobs, all the while kissing JM's ass . LOYALTY IS NOT A ONE WAY STREET!!!

WHY DON"T PEOPLE SHOW UP AT MEETINGS? Because of arrogant ranting like yours. Because of arrogant leaders who, just like JM see the committee as nothing more than a vehicle to inflate thr own egos and give jobs to thr own family or favorites. ATTITUDE REFLECTS LEADERSHIP. or lack thereof.

[guest needs valium]

you obviously need a little booster - it's time for your meds again.

[Skinny little kid]

It's not meds he needs - it's a life. He strikes me as one of those skinny little nerdy kids in HS who grew up to become a skinny little nerdy man. If he was a big beefy athletic type he'd be able to recognize the value of the cheerleaders and he wouldn't have misconcved a much needed pep talk for arrogance. The guy obviously has some pent up frustrations. What we need on this board is more pep talks and less guys like Guest. Incidentally - the Long Island Press has HOME DELIVERY NOW! Sign yourself up, sign up your friends and your nghbors. Make sure you tell the members at the next club meeting - maybe even deliver a complimentary copy in your nghborhood with a note telling them they can get it for free at home every day now. Then start feeding them stories. Your articles, your way. GO TEAM GO! Lets take back the house in NOVEMBER !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rank and file]

I guess when you can't counter valid criticisms little minds attack the person who raise them. Grow up and respond to the issues. And I repeat "arrogant, selfish, leadership".

Oh, I forgot , re: gop leadership: lazy.

[hedgehog]

Better get those meds in a hurry - the Press is a WEEKLY paper, not a daily.

[Rank and File]

What no more pep talks Freud? Its a great motiviational tactic: belittle those who you are supposed to lead and then try to scare them. Great leadership. How many county-wide positions have you won in the past 6 years?

[Rank and File]

You should change your screen name to Knute Rockne.

[Belittled than Scared]

Sounds like the formula the suozzi administration has been following - too bad campanelli called them on it huh?

I here that jm is going to pick a whole slate of dem candidates for judge in Nov. so that, after they win, he can claim that he picked winners.

Great Greg Peterson. An ok guy, but, once again, the same people. What , there's no more muscerellas or beckers to run? I can see the campaign pieces now: pictures of GPeterson as presiding supervisor with Gulotta Wasn't GP part of the problem?

Whats going to happen in Nov. after GPeterson losses? Will the executive committee finally come to its senses and get rid of that arrogant, lazy jack-ass jm?

Unfortunately, even if they do, word is he would be replaced with CFuscillo, another arrogant jack-ass.

Bravo for the ncgop.

[I am the Fire Starter]

Are the democrats already running so scared that they're already resorting to negative publicity and dirty pool? Gee - I thought they only played like that against thr own kind. Sorry sweatheart - try if you may - but you can't demotivate the GOP workers with this old guard crap. We know these postings about the overthow of Mondello are coming from Suozzi's PR people. We aren't dumb dems - we've been in control of this County for 30 years for a reason, and we're taking it back in November.

Suozzi has done nothing in this county but try and rule with intimidation and fear. When that doesn't work - he fires and lays off the people who won't give in to him and his administration of tryants and losers. He tried busting up CSEA - by cutting off thr head. He won that battle - but after the new CSEA election - the furious workers and former workers will revolt against him and he'll see thr wrath. He cut off the head of the union formations at the county attorney's office, and isolated the workers from the outside world. He'll see the wrath of those formerly loyal appointees, and the unhappy workers hired by Suozzi's own hand. He is attempting to plaster the board with negative impute against the PBA head - the only union so far he has not been able to buy off, and so far, the only group of County workers that hasn't been screwed by his administration.

Now he and his PR people are trying to plant spies and seeds into the GOP to cut of his head and start a civil war - to detract the party from the real work ahead in defeating the SOB so we can bring back what is left of the middle class, surburban sprawl we call Nassau County, before Suozzi squeezes it out of existence between NYC and Suffolk County. We are onto you baby. We're not stupid.

Behind Peterson will be united both the old guard and the new guard and the GOP will stand strong. Suozzi will face the full wrath of the Republican machine and it will bear down on him and his legislative majority like at no other time in the history of the County. It will stand like an impenatrable brick wall, and behind it will stand the cops, the firefighters, the EMT's, the county workers, the former county workers, the taxpayers and the pro-Dinapoli, pro-Sidikman, pro-silver Democrats furious at Suozzi and ready for revenge.

What goes around comes around honey - and we're coming.

The gop already has a brick wall, honey, its called Joe Mondello's head. The way things are going under his leadership, the only thing left to stand up to the dems will be jm's head. Lets see how many people continue to pay for tickets to see 'thr' chairman only to get scolded and bullied with the threat of bng cut off from the gravy train jm controls. Haven't you seen, oh, say the past 2 years, how jm trys with all his might at functions not to yell at those in attendence? why? because you can't threaten to cut people off when you no longer have the power to grant them patronage.

The only way the gop unites is when JM is finally gone.

If you wanna talk about someone who "has done nothing in this county but try and rule with intimidation and fear.", then start with Joe Mondello, sweetcheeks.

[What you mean to say]

What you impervious fools mean to say is that Joe Mondello has done nothing for YOU.

And I see why.

Just goes to show he's a good judge of character, and with airheads like you pretending to be republicans, screaming is probably the only way he can get your attention.

Like schoolchildren.

[What you mean to say]

What you impervious fools mean to say is that Joe Mondello has done nothing for YOU.

And I see why.

Just goes to show he's a good judge of character, and with airheads like you pretending to be republicans, screaming is probably the only way he can get your attention.

Like schoolchildren.

[Prostitute]

Not everyone who gets involved in politics is going to get a job through politics - there's not enough to go around. Not everyone NEEDS to get a job that way ther. Not everyone is looking for that. You shouldn't be working on a campaign solely because you want a job out of it. It's not like getting a paycheck at the end of the month. It that's what you're in it for - then you're a drag on the party because you become bitter and disgruntled and untrustworthy. That's the kind of stench a good leader tries to discourage from getting too close to the circle and the ability to pick out those smells is why the Republicans have kept in power so long. Too bad more people didn't have the courage to admit to themselves thr real reasons for "helping the community" - it would have prevented the Suozzi years from ever having happened in the first place. So don't be a downer.

[Pimp]

Ok - but just promise - that the jobs that do exist get filled with loyal Nassau County Republicans and not City folk ok?

Some judge of character.

[YOU WON'T BE LAUGHING]

The only fire you'll know when you're a Nassau Dem is the scorch and burn you'll experience when Jacobs and Suozzi want you out of thr way.
Bring your flac jacket as well to fend off Suozzi stabbing you in the back.
But please don't listen to only me, ask anyone who has ever worked for Suozzi these past three years how brutal he is.
Remember they don't call them "Former" Deputy County Executives for nothing. And there's plenty of them.
Turning Republican is not the answer, getting rid of Jacobs and Suozzi is.
AND WE WILL!

[Fired under Suoz & Pr]

FIRED UNDER THE SUOZZI ADMINISTRATION
AND PROUD OF IT

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bng fired by these people leaves a mark of integrity.


November 2005 :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Proud of being fired]

What the GOP needs to do is get buttons made-up

Fired under the Suozzi Administration and Proud of It.

3/4 of the population will be wearing them!

[Are they?]

Are they manning the HQ yet?

[????????]

?????????????

[quest]

Peterson for County Exec.

Here we go again with Mondello giving things to the good OLD Boys.

It time to see some of the young blood (ie: Balboni, Ciotti, Managno) move up for the betterment of the GOP... If not we are going to lose

[not winable]

None of those 3 want it!!!

[Suozzi Can Lose]

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

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

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

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

[A Real Journalist 10]

IT's going to come down to bng a media frenzy. The first fundraiser should be dedicated to money for a media blitz to storm the nghborhoods of all the clubs. The clubs should collect postings from here and member articles and bind it together in thr own publication - perhaps sponsored by the LI Press operations - and put out a supplement every couple months until the final blitz the first week in November. The members should go door to door with them and make sure every single household gets at l a copy. The voters deserve to have both sides of things and they deserve to have our side. They won't get it through Newsday. As voters start to see how much Newsday has withheld and failed to explain - they will come to rely less and less on what Newsday reports and we will win them over. It will take alot of hard work - dedicated workers and an organized leadership and money dedicated for this purpose. It will be though, guaranteed, the best spent money and the cheapest campaign strategy the GOP will use. We'll have to beat Suozzi at his own game. We have no local paper upon which to rely. It's going to have to be all us - all grassroots - all the way.

[A Fire Starting Journal]

I was glad to hear at the last club meeting alot of talk about grassroots, door knocking, pavement pounding and getting back to the re-building of the machine. I just hope it's more than talk. We'll see soon enough but the feeling I got is that the candidates in November are taking nothing for granted and are really aiming to win. It sounded like they finally understand that the only way to win is by using some old fashioned elbow grease because I think the realization is finally there - you can't just rely on getting the votes because you are who you are and the party is what it is. We have alot of misconceptions to clear up - thanks to Newsday - and alot of information to impart. It sounded to me like the things bng posted on this website are bng read seriously and notes are bng taken. It's all good.

[Fix Nassau News]

Greg Peterson can do it better.
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Suozzi is an idiot. We all see, hear and smell clearly. We know what's going on with Suozzi's audits on special districts. Why do you think DEMOCRATS are bailing and converting to republican?Because THEY SEE CLEARLY. Suozzi is killing us and ruining Nassau County.Wtzman 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. He'll have our money and we'll have no services. I rather pay my local district - at l I know I'm getting the services I'm paying for and I can see where my money is going.
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Suozzi thinks Government is like running a business. Some way to run a business. Suozzi is paying dozens of non-nassau county residents and unqualified department heads 6 figure salary's and creating verticle managment levels and imposing dress codes on lower level workers? His patronage jobs cost the county $16.1 million a year, up $3 million in the past 2 years. The average salary for the 422 patronage jobs in his administration is over $70,000. Yeah, things cost money. Patronage jobs cost money. He retroactively adjusted thr start dates too so they get the same benefit package that senior civil service workers were entitled to because of thr longevity and dedication to working for low salarys over the years. He's cut services. He's wiped out whole organizations that serve the general public. He raised taxes 19.4% in 2002 and he's been raising them ever since and claims he'll need to have 2 more increases before he's done. He's decreased the police staff by 522 jobs while the gang presence on long island is rapidly gaining, and while he denied salary raises to low level civil service workers, he gave 5% increases for the 3rd year in a row to his patronage workers, whose average salary is over $70,000 for a no show job. Because of the cuts in police overtime was $28 million last year and expected to be over $35 million this year while the overtime at the jail is over $25 million. This is what tom suozzi and his democratic majority legislature has accomplished in thr first term in office. God help us if there's a second term. There damn well better not be.
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Gulotta's last two years in office he made his appointed workers all take pay cuts - that's where the give backs were coming from. He went after the patronage workers instead of raising taxes first. Suozzi raised taxes and then gave raises to his patronage workers with them. Suozzi is anything but special. Our kids are going to have nowhere to play and they are going to get run out of school by gang violence. Greg Peterson is the one Tom Suozzi is up against. He is a Gulotta friend OF COURSE. They were both active Republicans. So what? Greg Peterson spent the last 6 years outside of the government limelight running a very successful law firm and practising law. In fact, his law firm where he was a founding partner is one of the top 5 largest law firms in Nassau County. He knows how to work hard and he knows how to make a profitable business work. Before that he ran the town of hempstead for 5 years without raising taxes or decreasing services and he didn't have the luck suozzi had in reaping a sales tax windfall from explosive gas prices, which suozzi also surcharged incidentally - and now is threatening to add an energy tax too as well. Peterson also managed to merge 4 town departments and completely eliminated 2 others in order to keep essential services running smoothly without raising taxes. Suozzi sees tax increases as dividends owed to him, not as a last resort like Peterson. Go ahead wise guy - vote for Suozzi again. You'll be raising your family on the coast of Georgia soon because Suozzi is chasing the middle class out of nassau county.
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Good night Irene - Good night Tom Suozzi. AND GOOD RIDDANCE.

[Donna, thank her or not]

Someone clogged up the toilets at GPO HQ and all the s---- is backing up a half block away in the Assembly District Office.


Hay Uncle Joe, how is Councilman Tony S. doing...?

[Who is Barry Gross]

Who is Barry Gross ?

[Don't Mess With Donna]

Uncle Joe how is Tony S. doing?

[Not wasting my time]

I'm staying out of the 2005 elections because I can clearly see the GOP is going down in flames. The old guard already have thr jobs in what's left of the County's GOP strongholds, and thr pensions and thr health insurance and they're cutting deals to keep them. Meanwhile to hell with the new GOPERS and the young republicans. We'll have to sit this one out and in another 4 years after the Democrats completely destroy the County and the old guard republicans retire to Florida - we'll get our chance.

[Disgruntled Taxpayer I]

I'm staying out of the 2005 elections because I can clearly see the GOP is going down in flames. The old guard already have thr jobs in what's left of the County's GOP strongholds, and thr pensions and thr health insurance and they're cutting deals to keep them. Meanwhile to hell with the new GOPERS and the young republicans. We'll have to sit this one out and in another 4 years after the Democrats completely destroy the County and the old guard republicans retire to Florida - we'll get our chance.

That is the voice of a coward. 2005 is a very important election for Republicans to participate in.... and to win....

[I tried to]

Look - I tried once to volunteer, I tried twice. I gave a telephone number. I gave an email address. I called. I emailed. Nobody called me back. I got it. They don't want me. It's an old boys gang and no matter what these guys say they are offering newcomers - the deal is that they wont lift a hand to help anybody outside the old party guard out, and they don't even want anybody else joining in. So be it.

[Unreturned Telephone Call]

Yeah, I don't get that. Are you sure you called the right number?

[Peterson's committee]

Did Peterson form his committees yet or what's going on with that? It seems like the old boys are hanging out smoking cigars reminising about the old days but nobody seems to be doing anything about getting Peterson elected. I'm almost scared to ask but anybody know if there is a committee and who is running it?

[Postave]

Yeah the committee's name is the Nassau COunty Republican Committee - - your help or opinion is not wanted or needed - - thats why Peterson will lose in a landslide

[THE POLLSTER]

Since little has changed over the years, 75% of all monies raised by the Nassau GOP funds overhead expenses associated with staff salaries, building taxes and office expenses.

And of what's left over for campaigns, Mondello squirrels away for another day. Only about 10 cents on every dollar makes into a campaign expense. That's pathetic. Peterson's campaign is structured using the GOP HQ model.

Why any contributor forks over thr hard earned money to this group is beyond me.

[Republican Judges]

Well the republican judges have thr own committees and organize thr own volunteer groups so why wouldn't somebody running for county executive - especially since the whole idea is to separate himself from the old hazbeen crowd ?

[Fodder Food]

Re: court jobs there are a few good discussions elsewhere - one of which is at 516politics on a thread called something like whatever happened to Lawrence Brennan.

[POLLSTERiii]

Pat, if your polling data is so accurate, why didn't you win last year. Bng such a great pollster, it should have been easy for you to win.

What are some possible reasons Pat Hoey lost the election?

[GOPpolls]

not sure why we are getting a wrong read?

[mystery man]

that's the thing about politics - nobody is sure about the turnout until after the turnout.

[POLLITTHIS]

"Pat, if your polling data is so accurate, why didn't you win last year."


Who says it wasn't accurate? Maybe it accurately predicted he would lose. Good poll, outcome in conformance with poll means accurate poll.

Now we might like to have seen a better outcome, but hey....the great thing about democracy is there is always another election coming up...unless you are a committeemember of the Nassau GOP, where your checks are accepted but not your opinion.

[Polling error]

What a joke. Pat, the great pollster ran knowing he would lose. Doubt it with his ego. Now this year, right after Bellmore makes a huge tax mistake pissing of voters, he decides not to run.

So, he decided not to run in the next election even though there was a better percentage at winning. Why? Because he got crushed teh first time round.

[POLLTHISNOW]

"Now this year, right after Bellmore makes a huge tax mistake pissing of voters, he decides not to run."


Once again, we have a Machine Republican who displays a fundamental misunderstanding of the democratic process. In a pluralist political system one does not have to be a candidate themself in order to exert an influence over the outcome of votes.

Nassau GOP Machine members can't grasp this because the leadership of thr so-called "organization" rules by decree in a undemocratic process that even the Coalition Administrators in Iraq find objectionable and seeking to replace.

If Paul Bremer would not even bestow the model used by Nassau Republicans upon a people without any prior experience with democracy, why should you or I trust Boss Joe Mondello to show us the way toward a brighter political future?

And to read between the lines, Pat "the fired employee hack" lost bigtime and had no chance this year because the voters don't trust him.


If you want change, run for office. If you loose bigtime like Pat, realize the voters don't trust you or your message.


Wimp, you should have run against Breakstone.....that is unless your polling data showed you would have been crushed by him
too. And I'm not referring to his heafty wght.

Pat was once an inside hack, now a hack with no support.

You should start your own blog so I can laugh each day. How long ago were you fired?

[Getting off Target here]

You guys should just roll up your shirtsleeves and fistfight out in the school parking lot after the late bus comes. Hoey has nothing to do with this thread. The definition of HACK means - if you were ever somebody in a political party or you present a problem or a concern to another political party and refuse to kiss thr ass - you get fired, eventually, when the new players realize they can't buy your love or snow you. Hacks get fired when the politics change and when the politics change - new hacks get substituted for old hacks. That's called - rncarnation. Same old Same old but different colors of red or blue.

[Sad but true hacker]

I thought this was so true - but so sad. The author once gave permission to share this article so permission to share bng granted ---------------------------------what's a hack?

By Darren Johnson

Are you a political hack?

I know it sounds like a dirty term, but if you are honest with yourself, you should know the answer. There's nothing to be ashamed of, and the situation can be overcome.

Let's define the term first. A political hack is someone who got a job because they did some unrelated work for a politician or political party, or they know someone, or know something damaging about someone, and the person was given a job to keep him or her happy.

But, if that definition fits you, you've probably found that there's little satisfaction in hackwork. You are what you do -- work is life -- so hollow hackwork rots the soul. It can even screw up your family life -- more on that later.

First off, before you get confused or start feeling unnecessary guilt, note that there are two types of political jobs, and one type is better than the other.

The first type is where someone truly qualified for a job, with a proven track record in that field, goes from a non-political job to a political one. For example, if someone is a computer pro, helps Joe Republicrat get elected, then Joe Republicrat hires the computer pro to be his IT director, at a fair market wage, that seems reasonable. People like to hire people they know and trust. It's human nature and done everywhere, private and public sectors.

The second type of political employee -- the hack -- is more worrisome. For example, Nassau's former IT director, Craig Love, recently resigned from a six-figure job, admitting that he really knew nothing about computers. He was an accountant, after all. He did the right thing and his self-honesty will take a wght off his shoulders and add years to his life. Good for him.

You see, the political hack could be someone who is not qualified for the job. Or, the reverse: It could be a job that's so easy, practically anyone could do it. Some are even no-show jobs.

If you find yourself sitting at a desk a lot at work with little of importance to do, you're a hack. And this is not good for you. As people, we need to be challenged in our jobs to give us a sense of self-worth. If what we do is not important, then what does that say about ourselves? We will start to look like hacks; grayer, older than our real age. Our moral compass will be askew and we'll start to act like hacks, looking for shortcuts in life and easy deals. We'll step on people.

You do take your work home with you, whether you realize it or not. It's that third of a day that shapes adult personality. You can't turn it off when you punch out at 4 or 5 p.m.

One of the most egregious recent examples of political hackism was Steve Baranello's appointment to Director of Internal Marketing (what's that?!) at Suffolk County OTB, despite that Baranello had no training or degree in the field of marketing.

What he had been was Steve Levy's chief advisor during Levy's winning bid for county executive last fall and landed the OTB plum soon after election day.

In his short tenure, he had to resign his six-figure job after a District Attorney investigation found him guilty of accepting bribes; and Baranello was far from a model employee at OTB -- even allegedly running an illegal Democratic Party printing press there.

However, if not for bng caught, Baranello could have had that worthless job for life, and earned millions of tax dollars. How many other employees are there out there like him?

It's worth noting that Baranello's father was once a Democratic boss and no stranger to patronage -- and here's the part about family values bng affected by such a system:

The younger Baranello grew up in a house learning that connections were more important than qualifications. He never learned fairness and justice -- and justice caught him.

If you are a political hack, do you want your kids to believe in justice and fairness? Or do you want them to behave less civilized, taking whatever they believe they can get? Your kids are watching you. They may copy your example, or, if they don't, they may someday look down upon your choices.

I can relate to this problem. I had many jobs as a teen, and the ones I look back at with the most disdain were the political ones. They make me feel cheap even imagining doing again.

These were the Reagan years. The Gipper was keeping minimum wage at a disgusting $3.35 (and I lived in Utica, N.Y., where employers usually paid as low as they could get away with) and cutting financial aid (I'm still paying these loans Reagan substituted for federal aid).

During the school year, I would work the $3.35 jobs -- Burger King, whatever (they once gave me a nickel raise, however, to be honest, so make it $3.40). But in the summer, probably because my parents were GOP committee people and did work for the party, helping elect a Republican mayor for the first time in decades, I'd get summer jobs that paid about $4.50 to $5.50. The amount is a joke now, but was a huge raise from $3.35!

The first year, when I was 16, I just showed up like any other job and some boss worked me hard around the city hall, which had a park around it. Picking weeds all day, planting stuff, cleanup. Real work. But soon things shifted and I was inside City Hall and would get crazy assignments.

I'd usually be sitting around with some old guys in a dingy basement, but I'd sometimes get calls to fix things like air conditioners, even though I had no such training, and somehow I'd fix them. I also had to wash the mayor's car every day. It was just a Chrysler New Yorker, too.

By the third summer, I was working for the water board and that was a waste. My first day, someone asked me who got me the job, I said the mayor and everyone was hands-off all summer. None of the bosses ever wanted to take me on thr crews. I guess they didn't trust me because they got thr jobs through the previous administration, or because I was a college guy. I did flag duty a few times. Very little important work.

Every morning, I'd buy two or three newspapers, because I knew no crew would pick me up, and just sit and read them cover to cover all day, in between breaks or busywork. I'd read every little article. It was great background for my future journalism training. I maybe had a half hour of work around the building to do, which I'd stretch out over ght hours. Guys would wander in and out, and we'd play cards. Some people punched in in the morning, left in thr own vehicles, then came back only to punch out.

By 18, I moved to ern Long Island for college and by 19 just stayed there for good because the jobs paid better and the lifestyle was better. But I could see, if I didn't have the option of moving or college, getting stuck in a job like the water board. It paid better than the local private sector, it was tremendously easy, and I could be there for life.

But what kind of life would that be?

I'd have always wondered what could have been. Regret and the feeling of lost potential are strong emotions that can make you bitter in the end. I've spoken with a lot of older people, and many have regrets that haunt them. They coulda been! It's very sad.

I have little doubt, and I'm sure that there have been studies that prove this, that such regret does take years off your life. It could cause you to make bad lifestyle decisions, like taking up smoking; it could add tension into your family life. Who wants to be around a sour puss? And tension causes many biological problems, like high blood pressure, which leads to strokes and heart attacks.

Old texts used to refer to people dying of melancholia -- and I believe that this still today is a very serious killer.

So bng a political hack can destroy you as a person, as well as your family life. But, if you change directions now, you can right the ship, live longer and benefit your family and generations to come by showing them that standing up for one's ideals -- having dreams -- is more important than some lousy job.

It's going to take some work. When you quit your hack job and look for a job that's more interesting, you'll realize that in the real world the pay's not as good.

You've probably gotten used to having name brands and bigger-than-average cars. These things will have to go (unless you were really good at saving your money over the years -- most hacks aren't because of thr live-now, low-self-esteem situation).

Is it really that big a deal if you have to move from a five-bedroom house to a three-bedroom? If the pool's above ground instead of inground? If the car's a Ford Focus instead of an Explorer? So you get bunk beds for the kids. You eat home a little more instead of going out. That's better for family harmony anyway. Get a pizza instead of dinner entrees. Have hamburgers instead of steaks.

These are practical compromises -- considering that it's your soul is on the line.


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Take the political hack quiz!

--Did you get your job by knowing someone political?

--Do you find your job boring and/or merely busywork?

--Did you get your job without a formal application/resume/interview process (perhap you were the only candidate and the job wasn't well advertised)?

--Are you unqualified or over-qualified for your job title?

--Could practically anyone do your job?

--Do you earn more and/or have more job security than you would have in the private sector?

--Is your paycheck more important to you than your daily work tasks?

--Have people noticed your personality has changed, or do you feel more sour or depressed, since taking your job?

If you answered "yes" to five or more of the above questions, you are probably a hack.

[pollthisnow2]

"Guest" may be just a wee bit distraught over the failure of the two school districts in Bellmore to obtain support for thr respective 7% and 10% tax increase budgets.

Especially considering how this might impact his and his nghbors summer vacation plans.

Mr. Mondello liked to talk Republican about taxes, but ngh do anything about it. Mr. Suozzi had to come in and balance the books.

Ms. Murray likes to talk Republican about taxes, well only those taxes she deems to be in her control - al the rest are someone elses concern. Mr. Levinson is soon going to tell the other side of the story I hear.

Mr. Fuschoolio likes to talk Republican about taxes, but feeds himself fully at the taxpayer provided trough of pork barrel spending, lavisihing millions of your money down toilet bowls across his district. Someone no doubt will come along to take care of him too.

Excuse me Mr. Mondello, some of your dwinddling rolodex still posts on this board under the pseudonym "guest". One of the last of the group.

[Get a job pollster]

10 o'clock in the morning - shouldn't you be doing some kind of gainful work activity that actually contributes something to society instead of venting on a thread about nonsense nobody but you really cares about? And since you are apparently unable to figure out "guest" by yourself - I'll save you the embarassment in future posts. If somebody posts a comment, and doesn't bother to - or forgets to - put in a username - and then hits submit - the username always comes up "guest" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Guest is not a registered person, and it's not even someone using that word as thr name - it's a multitude of people ther too lazy or too forgetful to type in a word in the username box. Sign me - laughing out loud ---- at you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[The Chairman]

Hard worker

[Pulling out all the stops]

After the republicans boycott Newsday , then the GOP clubs must give up money to the LIPRESS for home delivery or get permission to reprint and distribute news articles and do it themselves -- packages of the truth must get out to the public. www.pcli.org -- this is a media guide the Repulicans need to use to every venue available to them.

[Playing it cool]

Seems to me like they're laying low and hoping Suozzi just hangs himself.

[Joe Must Go]

What you impervious fools mean to say is that Joe Mondello has done nothing for YOU.

And I see why.

Just goes to show he's a good judge of character, and with airheads like you pretending to be republicans, screaming is probably the only way he can get your attention.

Like schoolchildren.

Joe has still done nothing for ME. OR for any of the other NC Rep Committeepeople. Joe couldn't even be bothered to have the class or respect to address us election night. On the bright side, I guess we were spared yet another scolding from that Fat Lazy Pervert.

[Joe Must Go]

The only way Joe goes is if he is pushed. He is too selfish and self-centered to 'gracefully' step down (as if he can do anything gracefully).

STOP buying TOH and County tickets. When the money dries up, the executive "leaders" might finally come to thier senses.

Buy the way, of the 70 or so executive "leaders", are there any that don't have a municipal job?