Critics slam Mangano's $2.6B budget plan for Nassau
Quick ReadA crowd jammed the chambers of the Nassau County Legislature at a public hearing on the $2.6-billion budget for next year
Photo credit: Ed Betz | Demonstrators voice their support and disapproval of Nassau Executive Edward Mangano's $2.6-billion budget, Monday, in Mineola. (Oct. 18, 2010)
Nassau's $2.6B budget hearing filled to capacity
Edward Mangano
An overflow crowd jammed the chambers of the Nassau County Legislature in Mineola Monday morning to protest County Executive Edward Mangano's $2.6-billion budget even as a third financial watchdog warned that more than $200 million in the 2011 spending plan is risky and could tip the county into the red, if not realized.
"The county is going broke," presiding officer Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa)...
